François Duquesnoy
François Duquesnoy (born January 12, 1597 in Brussels , † July 12, 1643 in Livorno ) was a Flemish sculptor .
His father Jérôme Duquesnoy was also a sculptor and created the famous Manneken Pis fountain in Brussels in 1619 .
François Duquesnoy lived in Rome from 1618 and represented a moderate classicist direction of the baroque . Important works are St. Andreas in St. Peter's Basilica (1629 to 1640) and St. Susanna in Santa Maria di Loreto (1629 to 1633). A frequently recurring motif in Duquesnoy's pictorial works are the autonomous representations of putti , which he repeatedly used as allegories (e.g. in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj ) or in the form of multi-view free sculptures (e.g. as the Christ boy with the Passion tools and on the memorial by the painter Jacobus de Hase († 1634) in the cemetery of Campo Santo Teutonico ) in marble or bronze, and which had a lasting impact on the fashion of the baroque putto. A 78 cm high ivory body on a Baroque cross that is attributed to him has been in the possession of the Münster diocese since 2016.
literature
- Estelle Lingo: François Duquesnoy and the Greek Ideal. Yale University Press, New Haven et al. a. 2007.
- Marion Boudon-Machuel: Francois du Quesnoy: 1597-1643. Arthena, Paris 2005.
- Charles Dempsey: Inventing the Renaissance Putto. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill et al. a. 2001.
Web links
- Bacchus Italy around 1630s bronze. H. 64 cm
- Children's bacchanal
- Apollo and Cupid
- Mercury
- Christiaan Janssens Frans Duquesnoy's Saint Susanna (Dutch)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Duquesnoy, François |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Flemish sculptor, active in Rome |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1597 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brussels |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 12, 1643 |
| Place of death | Livorno |