Bust after the Borghese Moor Probably 18th century In emulation of Nicolas Cordier Trained in Saint-Mihiel in the workshop of the Richier family, Nicolas Cordier (1567-1612, called "il Franciosino") traveled to Rome in 1592, where he lived and worked until his death in 1612. By 1600, Cordier had garnered significant attention for his talent as a marble carver and restorer of antique sculpture. Between 1607 and 1612, he created a polychrome statue, called Il Moro (Louvre, Paris), using an antique torso as a base, for Scipione Borghese, the Cardinal Nephew of Pope Paul V. The black marble head of Cordiers figure was evidently modeled after a bust of an African Man now in the Museo Nazionale Romano, tentatively dated to the second century CE. This bust was carved after Cordiers Il Moro. As such, it exemplifies the tradition of taking busts from full-length figures that was popularized in France in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The European taste for sets, or pairs, of decorat

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Bust after the Borghese Moor Probably 18th century In emulation of Nicolas Cordier Trained in Saint-Mihiel in the workshop of the Richier family, Nicolas Cordier (1567-1612, called "il Franciosino") traveled to Rome in 1592, where he lived and worked until his death in 1612. By 1600, Cordier had garnered significant attention for his talent as a marble carver and restorer of antique sculpture. Between 1607 and 1612, he created a polychrome statue, called Il Moro (Louvre, Paris), using an antique torso as a base, for Scipione Borghese, the Cardinal Nephew of Pope Paul V. The black marble head of Cordiers figure was evidently modeled after a bust of an African Man now in the Museo Nazionale Romano, tentatively dated to the second century CE. This bust was carved after Cordiers Il Moro. As such, it exemplifies the tradition of taking busts from full-length figures that was popularized in France in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The European taste for sets, or pairs, of decorat

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