Charles-Louis de Secondat (1689-1755), baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu ca. 1784 Sèvres Manufactory French One of the most remarkable sculptural projects of the eighteenth century was conceived by Charles Claude de Flahaut (1730-1809), comte dAngiviller, in 1776. DAngiviller, minister of buildings and the head of the royal manufactories, as well as the head of the academies of art and architecture to King Louis XVI (1754-1793), expressed his desire in a letter dated March 14, 1776, to Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre (French, 1714-1789), the first painter to the king, to commission a series of lifesize marble sculptures representing the illustrious men of French history. Instead of choosing military heroes as the focus of this project, the series was intended to celebrate men distinguished by “their virtues, talents, and genius.”[1 While there was already a long tradition in sculpture of venerating great men, the selection of figures renowned primarily for their intellect and civic vir

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Charles-Louis de Secondat (1689-1755), baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu ca. 1784 Sèvres Manufactory French One of the most remarkable sculptural projects of the eighteenth century was conceived by Charles Claude de Flahaut (1730-1809), comte dAngiviller, in 1776. DAngiviller, minister of buildings and the head of the royal manufactories, as well as the head of the academies of art and architecture to King Louis XVI (1754-1793), expressed his desire in a letter dated March 14, 1776, to Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre (French, 1714-1789), the first painter to the king, to commission a series of lifesize marble sculptures representing the illustrious men of French history. Instead of choosing military heroes as the focus of this project, the series was intended to celebrate men distinguished by “their virtues, talents, and genius.”[1 While there was already a long tradition in sculpture of venerating great men, the selection of figures renowned primarily for their intellect and civic vir

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