TIENNE See also:

• MAURICE (1521–1553)
• MAURICE (MAURICIUS FLAVIUS TIBERIUS) (c. 539–602)
• MAURICE [or MAURITIUS], ST (d. c. 286)
• MAURICE, JOHN FREDERICK DENISON (1805-1872)

MAURICE See also:

• TIENNE MAURICE FALCONET (1716-1791)

FALCONET (1716-1791)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French sculptor, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris . His parents were poor, and he was at first apprenticed to a See also:

• CARPENTER, LANT (1780-1840)
• CARPENTER, MIRY (1807-1877)
• CARPENTER, WILLIAM BENJAMIN (1813-1885)

carpenter, but some of his See also:

• CLAY (from O. Eng. claeg, a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Klei)
• CLAY, CASSIUS MARCELLUS (1810-1903)
• CLAY, CHARLES (1801–1893)
• CLAY, FREDERIC (1838–1889)
• CLAY, HENRY (1777–1852)

clay-figures, with the making of which he occupied his leisure See also:

• HOURS, CANONICAL

hours, attracted the See also:

• NOTICE

notice of the sculptor Lemoine, who made him his See also:

• PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil . He found See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time to study See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek and Latin, and also wrote several brochures on See also:

• ART

art . His See also:

• ARTISTIC

artistic productions are characterized by the same defects as his writings, for though manifesting consider-able cleverness and some See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of See also:

• IMAGINATION

imagination, they display in many cases a false and fantastic See also:

• TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

taste, the result, most probably, of an excessive striving after originality . One of his most successful statues was one of See also:

• MILO
• MILO, TITUS ANNIUS

Milo of See also:

• CROTONA, CROTO

Crotona, which secured his See also:

• ADMISSION

admission to the membership of the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy of See also:

• FINE

Fine Arts in 1754 . AE the invitation of the empress See also:

• CATHERINE
• CATHERINE, SAINT

Catherine he went in 1766 to St See also:

• PETERSBURG

Petersburg, where he executed a See also:

• COLOSSAL

colossal statue of See also:

• PETER
• PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
• PETER (PEDRO)
• PETER, EPISTLES OF
• PETER, ST

Peter the See also:

• GREAT

Great in See also:

• BRONZE

bronze . In 1788 he became director of the French Academy of See also:

• PAINTING

Painting . Many of See also:

• FALCONET, TIENNE MAURICE (1716-1791)

Falconet's See also:

• WORKS

works, being placed in churches, were destroyed at the time of the French Revolution . His " Nymphe descendant au See also:

• BAIN, ALEXANDER (1818-1903)
• BAIN, ANDREW GEDDES (1797-1864)

bain " is in the Louvre . Among his writings are Reflexions sur la See also:

• SCULPTURE
• SCULPTURE (Lat. sculptura, from sculpere, to carve, cognate with Gr. yXb4ew)

sculpture (Paris, 1768), and Observations sur la statue de Marc-Aurele (Paris, 1771) . The whole were collected under the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of Euvres litteraires (6 vols., See also:

• LAUSANNE

Lausanne, 1781–1782 ; 3 vols., Paris, 1787) .