ARTH 3312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, Madame De Pompadour, Cupid
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Relatively few famous sculptors compared to painters. Hierarchy of media in arts (sculpture below) Painting was elevated to fine art level - sculptor = craft/ manual labor. Marble / bronze expensive - more dependent on patronage. Could not afford to go against grain. No sculptor as director of cademy of the arts. Pompadour helped to popularize mini figurine sculpture - intimate. Edme bouchardon: cupid making his bow from the club of hercules. Son of sculptor and architect - trained by his father. Won 1st prize at academy - prix de rome. Gained reputation and success - competed against italian sculptors/designers. Leader of the return to the noble taste of the antique - antithetical to rococo. Loved the baroque: milo of cortona. Academy considered it to be plagiarism of puget"s version. Pompadour began to patronize him - career immensely benefitted: amour menacant (menacing cupid) 1st real success, made for pompadour for one of her retreats.
