French Sculptors

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French Sculptors

• Justin Fortier
• Brittany Martin
• Zan Wong

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François Rude

• François Rude avais beaucoup de talent comme
  sculpture.
• Born in Dijon on January 4, 1784 and died on
  November 3, 1855.
• Worked for his father as a stove maker until he
  was sixteen years old.
• In 1809 he went to Paris for the Dijon school of
  art.
• There, he became a pupil of Pierre Cartellier.
• He married Sophie Freiniet At Brussels.

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Larc de Triomphe

• Larc de Triomphe est le plus renommé oeuvre
  d'art de François Rude.
• Located in Paris, France.
• It is the second largest triumphal arc in
  existence.
• The monument stands 162 ft in height, 150 ft in
  width and 72 ft in depth.
• It honors those who fought for France, especially
  during the Napoleonic Wars.
• Its design was inspired by the Roman Arch of
  Titus.

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Louvre

• The Louvre is one of the most famous museums in
  the world.
• François Rude has ten sculptures in the Louvre.
• In 1833, he received the cross of the Legion of
  Honour for the statue of a Neapolitan Fisher Boy
  playing with a Tortoise
• Une autre œuvre d'art crée par François Rude Le
  Lutteur déposant son ceste.

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More Art

• Another famous sculpture made in 1852 in the
  gardens of the Luxembourg.
• It was made out of marble.
• Currently placed in the Louvre.
• Titled Jeanne d'Arc écoutant ses voix (Joan of
  Arc listening to her voices).
• On her left, is a suit of armor, because she is a
  French martyr who fought as a man for her
  religion and country.
• Cette sculpture montre Jeanne dArc qui écoute
  pour le voix de dieu.
• She listens for the voice of God to tell her what
  to do.

Jeanne d'Arc
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Frederic Auguste Bartholdi

• Frederic August Bartholdi, la sculpteur, était né
  le 2 de Août dans le ville Cohnar.
• In his earlier years he studied the art of
  painting in Paris.
• He studied painting with Ary Scheffer, a dutch
  artist.
• Although using paint was the medium he started
  with, he found that sculpture was more enjoyable,
  and turned to that for the rest of his career.

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Statue of Liberty

• Le sculpture que tout le monde connait, est la
  statue de liberté.
• This statue was meant to serve as a symbol of
  friendliness between France and America.
• The sculpture, interestingly enough, was created
  using two models, his mother (the face of the
  statue) and his wife (the arms and torso.)
• On the plaque that the woman holds, states July
  4th, 1776 in roman numerals, the date that the
  Declaration of Independence was signed.
• In October of 1886, the Statue of Liberty was
  placed on Bedlows Island (now known as liberty
  island) on a pedestal that cost three hundred
  thousand dollars to make.
• Il a debuit là aujourdhui. La monde le sapplle
   La statue de Libertie 

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The Lion of Belfort

• Un autre accomplishment de Bartholdi est le Lion
  de Belfort.
• The Lion of Belfort was a sculpture that
  Bartholdi made of red sandstone blocks that were
  sculpted and then put together in 1880.
• The lion is a symbol of how the French at
  Belfort held of a Prussian attack lasting 103
  days.
• A copy of it sits in Paris while the actual copy
  is located in Belfort, France.

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Frederic Auguste Bartholdi

• Malheuresment, la vie de cette homme viens de la
  fin.
• Frederic Bartholdi passed away on October 4,
  1904 in Paris, France off tuberculosis.
• Yet, he lives on through his many works, which
  proudly stand today.

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Auguste Rodin

• The artist and sculptor Auguste Rodin was born in
  Paris, France on November 12, 1840.
• Despite his extreme nearsightedness (later to get
  him discharged from the National Guard during the
  Franco-Prussian war), he began to draw at the
  early age of 10, and attended La Petite École (an
  art school where an uncle of his taught) for 3-4
  years. During this time he also realized his
  skill and love for sculpting.
• L École des Beaux-Arts la rejeté troisième fois.

François-Auguste-René Rodin
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Auguste Rodin

• Dans la commençant de sa carrière, il était très
  difficile pour Rodin.
• In 1862, Rodins beloved sister passed away. In
  his grief, Rodin joined a Catholic Order, but
  later returned to normal society to pursue his
  artistic passion.
• In the next several years he suffered many
  rejections of his work, including rejections from
  the Paris Salon in 1864.
• Finally, things began looking up for him after he
  met Rose Beuret, who was to become his lifetime
  companion and inspire much of his work, which
  soon became popular.
• He had his first exhibition in Brussels, Belgium,
  in the 1870s.

Hands
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Auguste Rodin

• La sculpture la plus renommé de Rodin est Le
  Penseur.
• It was originally meant to be part of a much
  larger work, a monumental door inspired by the
  poem The Divine Comedy of Dante, where each
  figure in the sculpture represented a different
  character from the poem.
• This particular figure is of the poet himself,
  and was therefore originally to be called The
  Poet.

The Thinker
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Auguste Rodin

• Beaucoup des créations de Rodin étaient inspirer
  par lamour.
• Rodins sculpture, The Kiss, was publicly said
  to be inspired by the story of Francesca da
  Rimini from Dantes Inferno.
• It is rumored, however, that it was actually
  inspired by Rodins then lover, Camille Claudel.
• It is said that Camille wanted Rodin to leave his
  companion, Beuret, but he refused and so they
  stopped seeing each other.
• Rodin remained with Beuret until her death in
  1917, not long after their marriage. His own
  death followed shortly, on November 17, 1917.
• The Thinker was placed at the base of his tomb.

The Kiss
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Cumulative Information

• François Rude was born in Dijon January 4, 1784.
• He helped create Larc de Triomphe
• He has ten sculptures in the Louvre.
• In 1809 he went to Paris for the Dijon school of
  art where he worked under Pierre Cartellier.
• Rude died on November 3, 1855.
• Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was born on August
  2nd, 1834.
• He was the sculptor that created the Lion of
  Belfort.
• Bartholdi had a pseudonym of Amilcar Hasenfratz
  for his paintings.
• Bartholdi was the creator of the Statue of
  Liberty.
• He passed away on October 4th, 1904 of
  tuberculosis in Paris, France.
• Auguste Rodin was born in 1840 in Paris, France.
• He was extremely nearsighted.
• His most famous sculpture is The Thinker.
• He married Rose Beuret in January of 1917.
• Rodin died in November of 1917.