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The statue is a figure of a winged woman, hands moving high above her head (the model has been said to be Audrey Munson but recent Daniel Chester French scholarship shows that Hettie Anderson posed). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The figure represents Hygieia , the giver of health, who usually appeared in Greek and Roman art accompanying her father, Asklepios ...
The major stylistic innovation in French sculpture was the introduction of the equestrian statue of the King on horseback, designed for placement in central city squares. The first example was the bronze equestrian statue of Henry IV of France , with the horse by Jean de Boulougne, a French sculptor employed in Florence by the Medicis, and the ...
Daniel Chester French in 1902. Daniel Chester French (1850–1931) was an American sculptor who was active in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, to Anne Richardson French and Henry Flagg French on April 20, 1850. [1] His father, a polymath, was a judge and college president who popularized the French ...
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Louis was born around 1081 in Paris, the son of Philip I of France and Bertha of Holland. [a]Abbot Suger of Saint Denis, who wrote a biography of Louis VI, tells us: "In his youth, growing courage matured his spirit with youthful vigour, making him bored with hunting and the boyish games with which others of his age used to enjoy themselves and forget the pursuit of arms."