Jean-Baptiste Théodon (1645–1713) was a French sculptor.
Born at
Vendrest
Vendrest is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.
Demographics
Inhabitants of Vendrest are called ''Vendrestois''.
See also
*Communes of the Seine-et-Marne department
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(Seine-et-Marne), he formed his style working in the
Manufacture royale des Gobelins organized by
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, who saw to it that he was admitted to the newly founded
French Academy at Rome
The French Academy in Rome (french: Académie de France à Rome) is an Academy located in the Villa Medici, within the Villa Borghese, on the Pincio (Pincian Hill) in Rome, Italy.
History
The Academy was founded at the Palazzo Capranica in 16 ...
in 1675.
[Roman Baroque Sculpture: The Industry of Art, by Jennifer Montagu, Yale University Press, 1992, page 107] Following the successive reinstallations of the Academy, in the company of his wife, Théodon remained in Rome for three decades, working for the popes at the Lateran and the
Basilica of St. Peter, and above all for the
Jesuits
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After a brief visit to Paris in 1704, he returned once and for all in 1705, to participate, among sculptors of greater renown, in the installation of the
Chapelle Royale at Versailles under the general direction of
Jules Hardouin-Mansart, whose last major project this was, and the more immediate supervision of
Robert de Cotte.
References
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17th-century French sculptors
French male sculptors
18th-century French sculptors
1645 births
1713 deaths
18th-century French male artists