Louis-François Roubiliac

Louis-François Roubiliac (ispravnije Roubillac) (1702/1705[1] – 11. januar 1762) bio je francuski kipar koji je radio u Engleskoj, poznat kao jedan od najistaknutijih kipara rokloko stila,[2] "najvjerojatnije najbolji kipar koji je ikada radio Engleskoj", prwma Margaret Whinney.[3]

Portret Roubiliaca kako dovršava svojeg Shakespearea, autor: Adrien Carpentiers, 1762
Dr Richard Bentley (1756), jedna od Roubiliacovih mramornih bisti za Trinity College na Cambridgeu

Izvori uredi

  1. Dates in Margaret Whinney, Sculpture in Britain, 1530 to 1830, 1981:198.
  2. Ostali su Michael Rysbrack, Peter Scheemakers i Henry Cheere.
  3. Whinney 1981:198.

Literatura uredi

  • Katherine A.M. Esdaile, Roubiliac's Work at Trinity College Cambridge. Cambridge University Press (1924. reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009) ISBN 978-1-108-00231-8)
  • Allan Cunningham, The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, vol. 3, pp. 31–67 (London, 1830) the fount of information of later biographies.
  • Dutton Cook, Art in England ("A Sculptor's Life in the Past Century") (London, 1869)
  • Austin Dobson, "Little Roubiliac," The Magazine of Art 17 (1894:202, 231)
  • entry in DNB
  • J.T. Smith, Nollekens and his Times (London, 1829 passim); Smith's father was an assistant in Roubiliac's studio.
  • Henry B. Wheatley has also devoted research to the work and life of Roubiliac.
  • Rupert Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 rev. ed. 1968.
  • William T. Whitley, Artists and Their Friends in England, 1700-1799, 1928.

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