François Gaspard Aimé Lanno (1800 in

Rennes Rennes (; br, Roazhon ; Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department ...

– 1871 in

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) was a French sculptor. He was a pupil of François-Frédéric Lemot and Pierre Cartellier. In 1827, he won jointly with

Jean-Louis Jaley Jean-Louis Nicolas Jaley (27 January 1802, Paris – 30 May 1866, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French sculptor. He was the pupil of his father Louis Jaley and Pierre Cartellier. In 1827, he won - together with François Lanno - the Prix de Rome fo ...

the Prix de Rome for sculpture with a

bas-relief Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces are bonded to a solid background of the same material. The term ''relief'' is from the Latin verb ''relevo'', to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that the ...

''Mucius Scævola devant Porsenna''.

Works

* ''Camille rompant le traité avec Brennus'', 1827, bas-relief, plaster, École des Beaux Arts, Paris * ''Mucius Scævola devant Porsenna'', 1827, bas-relief, plaster, École des Beaux Arts, Paris * ''Joven Mercurio'', 1829, marble, École des Beaux Arts, Paris * ''

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'', one of the figures at the ''Fountain of the Four Bishops'', stone,

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, Paris * ''La Récolte des fruits'', statue, bronze, fountain on the

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, Paris * ''Portrait de Nicolas Poussin'', ''Portrait de Eustache Le Sueur'', medallions, Paris, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, facade of the Palais des Études * ''Portrait de Guillaume Gouffier'', bust, plaster,

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* ''Apollon et les neuf Muses'', 1835, ten statues, theater,

* ''

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'', statue, stone,

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, Paris * ''

Esprit Fléchier Esprit Fléchier (10 June 163216 February 1710) was a French preacher and author, Bishop of Nîmes from 1687 to 1710. Biography Fléchier was born at Pernes-les-Fontaines, in today's ''département'' of Vaucluse, in the then Comtat Venaissin, ...

'', statue, stone, also at the Louvre

Bibliography

* Pierre Kjellberg, ''Le Nouveau guide des statues de Paris'', La Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1988 * Emmanuel Schwartz, ''Les Sculptures de l'École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Histoire, doctrines, catalogue'', École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 2003

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lanno, Francois 1800 births 1871 deaths Artists from Rennes Prix de Rome for sculpture 19th-century French sculptors French male sculptors 19th-century French male artists