biography
| name: |
Francheville or Franqueville, Pierre
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pronunciation:
[frãshveel]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1548–1616)
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| biography:
| Sculptor, painter, and architect, born in Cambrai, N France. He studied in Italy under Bologna. He executed the two colossal statues of Jupiter and Janus in the courtyard of the Grimaldi palace, Genoa, and five statues in the Nicolini Chapel in Florence. Recalled to France by Henry IV in 1604, he made the marble statue of David in the Louvre, Paris, and ‘Saturn carrying off Cybele’ in the Tuileries Gardens. |
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