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See also:JULIEN See also:DILLENS (1849-1904)
, Belgian sculptor, was See also:born at See also:Antwerp on the 8th of See also:June 1849, son of a painter, He studied under See also:Eugene Simonis at the See also:Brussels See also:Academy of See also:Fine Arts
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In 1877 he received.the prix de See also:Rome for " A Gaulish See also:Chief taken Prisoner by the See also:Romans." At Brussels, in 1881, he executed the See also:groups entitled " See also:justice " and " Herkenbald, the Brussels See also:Brutus." For the See also:pediment of the orphanage at Uccle, " Figure Kneeling" (Brussels GalIery), and the statue of the lawyer Metdepenningen in front of the Palais de Justice at See also:Ghent, he was awarded the See also:medal of See also:honour in 1889 at the See also:Paris Universal See also:Exhibition, where, in 1900, his " Two Statues of the Anspach See also:Monument" gained him a similar distinction
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For the See also:town of Brussels he executed "The Four Continents " (Maison du See also:Renard, See also:Grand' See also:Place), " The Lansquenets " crowning the lucarnes of the Maison de Roi, and the " Monument t' Serclaes " under the arcades of the Maison de 1'Etoile, and, for the Belgian See also:government, " Flemish See also:Art," " See also:German Art," " Classic Art " and " Art applied to See also:Industry " (all in the Palais See also:des See also:Beaux Arts, Brussels), " The See also:Laurel " (Botanic See also:Garden, Brussels), and the statue of " See also:Bernard See also:van See also:Orley" (Place du See also:petit Sablon, Brussels)
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Mention must also be made of " An See also:Enigma " (1876), the See also:bronze busts of " See also:Rogier de la Pasture" and " P
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See also:Rubens " (1879), " See also:Etruria " (188o), " The Painter See also:Leon See also:Frederic " (1888), " Madame Leon Herbo," " See also:Hermes," a See also:scheme of decoration for the ogival See also:facade of the hotel de ville at Ghent (1893), " The See also:Genius of the Funeral Monument of the Moselli See also:Family," " The Silence of See also:Death " (for the entrance of the See also:cemetery of St Gilles), two See also:caryatides for the town See also: |
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