Slodtz Michel-angel

Rene-Michel Slodtz known as Michel-Angel Slodtz is a French sculptor born with Paris in 1705 and died in this same city in 1764.

Biography

Brother of Paul-Ambroise Slodtz and Sebastien Slodtz, also sculptors, and regarded as more endowed with the three, it spent seventeen years to Rome where it accepted the nickname of Michel-Angel . He carried out many monuments and the religious works influenced by the Baroque.

With his brother Sebastien Slodtz, he works, about 1750-1760, with the chorus of style baroque, of the church Saint-Merri in Paris.

Works

Holy Bruno (1744), statue, Rome, Basilica Saint-Pierre
Mausoleum of the archbishops Armand de Montmorin and Henri-Oswald of the Tower of Auvergne in the Saint-Maurice cathedral of Vienna, 1740-1747.
Tomb of Jean-Joseph Languet de Gergy (1757), Paris, church Saint-Sulpice
With the collaboration of his/her brother Sebastien Slodtz, Glory gilded surrounded by Cherub S (1758), Paris, church Saint-Merri
Portrait of Iphigénie , bust, terra cotta, Paris, Museum of Louvre: Living room of 1759
Portrait of Chrysès , bust, terra cotta, Paris, museum of Louvre

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