Pierre Puget
See also: Puget (homonymy)
Pierre Puget is a Sculpteur, Dessinateur, painter and Architecte French of the 17th century, born with Marseilles (1620) and died in Marseilles (1694).
Biography
Is 14 years old, he learns the trade near the wood-carver Jean Roman, and he creates in his workshop of many parts of decoration for the ships. Later he worked in Rome with Pietro da Cortona. He returned to Marseilles in 1643 and accepted several orders, in particular for the Cathédrale of the city phocéenne. After a stay with Genoa of 1660 with 1668, he became director of constructions of the Arsenal of Toulon.
Works
- the Old people's home of the Town of Marseilles , as architect of the buildings, currently Museum of the Old Charity
- Toulon.
- Caryatids of the Town hall
- With the Louvre
- Alexandre and Diogène (low-relief)
- Christ dying on the cross (low-relief)
- Gallic Hercules
- Milon of Crotona
- Persée and Andromède
- with the the United States of America
- Boat in a port, with an obelisk in ruin (1650), engraving, J. Paul Getty Museum, California
- Head of a philosopher , 1662, statue, museum of Cleveland
- Alessandro Sauli wounded , 1663 - 1668, statue, museum of Cleveland
- the removal of Helen of Troy , marble, 1683 - 1686, Institute off Arts, Strait, Michigan
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