François Gaspard Aimé Lanno (1800 in

Rennes Rennes (; ; Gallo language, Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in Northwestern France at the confluence of the rivers Ille and Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the Brittany (administrative region), Brittany Regions of F ...

– 1871 in Beaumont-du-Gâtinais) was a French sculptor. He was a pupil of François-Frédéric Lemot and Pierre Cartellier. In 1827, he won jointly with Jean-Louis Jaley the

Prix de Rome The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them t ...

for sculpture with a

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

''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, Place Saint-Sulpice, 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, Cour Napoléon,

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, Paris * '' Esprit Fléchier'', 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