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. Click on the first letter of the sculptor's last name previous page . 1137 Lemoyne, Jean-Louis French, 1665-1755 The Fear of Love 1742 Terracotta 36. 111 South Michicagn Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 60603-6110 All rights reserved. .

com is a registered trademark of the ArtNet Worldwide Corporation, New York, NY. . Term applied particularly to mid-19th-century French sculpture with animal subject-matter. The beginnings of this genre as a significant phenomenon may be located in 1831, when three sculptors, ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE, C. Antecedents are numerous, but a comparable degree of concentration on animal subjects in sculpture is found only at the end of the 18th century, in the work of the English painter and sculptor George Garrard.

The performances on this recording are very good, yet I hesitate to give them five stars because I've heard better. Specifically, I'm referring to the wonderful disc of Du Mont's vocal and instrumental pieces recorded by Christophe Rousset (Virgin Veritas 5 61531 2). Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), Rousset's selection of pieces is very different from the pieces collected on this disc (only Dialogus de Anima is present on both recordings) - that's why, if you're interested in French baroque, it's important to own both the Rousset and the Herreweghe. The most noticeable, although not necessarily the most important, difference between the two approaches is their treatment of the haute-contre line. People continue to disagree about what haute-contre means, and there may be more than one way to do it, but French baroque specialists such as William Christie seem to have concluded that hautes-contre were high tenors rather than falsettists. Find great deals on Books, CDs, DVDs Video Games at Half. . died May 8, 1954, Paris principal French sculptor of the Cubist movement in art. Laurens worked as a stonemason and decorator before he became a sculptor. He was influenced by Auguste Rodin and became a friend of Georges Braque in 1911.
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