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François Perrier (French Army Officer)
François Perrier may refer to: * François Perrier (French Army officer) (1835–1888), French soldier and geodesist * François Perrier (painter) (1590–1650), French painter * François Perrier (psychoanalyst) (1922–1990), French psychoanalyst {{hndis, Perrier, Francois ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Perrier (painter)
François Perrier (; 1590–1650) was a French painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Perrier was instrumental in introducing into France the grand style of the decorative painters of the Roman Baroque. He is also remembered for his two collections of prints after antique sculptures, the ''Segmenta nobilium signorum et statuarum quae temporis dentem invidium evasere'' (Paris, 1638), and ''Icones et segmenta...quae Romae adhuc extant'' (Paris, 1645). These prints provided visual repertories of classical models for generations of European artists and connoisseurs. Biography Perrier was born in Pontarlier, which was at the time part of the County of Burgundy and thus part of the Holy Roman Empire and not in France. During the years 1620–1625, he resided in Rome, where he took as his model the practitioner of academic Baroque classicism, Giovanni Lanfranco while he was employed on the fresco decoration of the dome of S. Andrea della Valle, one of the earliest examples of Roman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
