Philippe Magnier
Philippe Magnier was a French sculptor (Paris, 1647 - Paris, 1715) in the service of the Sun King's court painter Charles Le Brun when many works of art were required for the new, enormous Versailles castle complex.[1]
Works
- Les Lutteurs ('the Wrestlers'), a 1684–1685 copy of the classical Uffizi wrestlers, made for Versailles park (now in the Louvre museum)
- L'Aurore 'Dawn' (Louvre)
- Saint Jude (Louvre)
- Nymphe (park of Versailles castle)
- L'aurore (park of Versailles)
- Circé (park of Versailles)
- Le Printemps 'Spring' (park of Versailles)
- Ulysse 'Ulysses' (park of Versailles)
References
- ^ Martha Mel Stumberg Edmunds (2002). Piety and Politics: Imaging Divine Kingship in Louis XIV's Chapel at Versailles. University of Delaware Press. ISBN 0874136938.
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1647 |
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1715 |
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