Gallery David d'Angers (Galerie David d'Angers) description and photos - France: Angers (Topic)

Galerie David d'Angers description and photos - France: Angers. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Galerie David d'Angers.

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The David d'Ange (Angersky) Gallery was opened in 1839 during the lifetime of this famous sculptor. Born in Angers in 1788, he studied painting and sculpture in France and Italy. By the age of 28, having returned from Rome to Paris, the artist acquired the fame of an unsurpassed sculptor. Traveling around Europe, the sculptor became famous thanks to the stucco busts of many celebrities of that time. He also made bas-relief medallions and cast bronze medals with portraits of celebrities of that era - for example, the virtuoso Paganini, the writer Georges Sand and the poet Beranger. The most famous medal works of d'Ange are recognized as bronze images of the young Napoleon and Lord Byron.

David of Anzhersky captured Victor Hugo and Goethe, Chateaubriand and Rouge de Lille, Washington and Humboldt, sculpted statues of the Prince of Conde and Rene of Anjou, the playwright Pierre Corneille and the inventor of the printing press, Johann Gutenberg, and many other politicians and artists. David Anzhersky owns reliefs of the triumphal gates in Marseille, sculptures of the pediment of the Pantheon in Paris, the frieze of the Odeon theater and other sculptural images.

The last four years of his life the sculptor spent in exile and returned to Paris only in 1856, where died suddenly and was buried in the Pere-La-Chaise cemetery.

In his hometown, the gallery of his works was located in the building of the Museum of Fine Arts for about one and a half hundred years. In 1984, the gallery moved to the Church of All Saints, built in the XII century and restored. In this museum you can see works of large format, which are assigned to the hall on the first floor. Among the busts and sculptures are images of Balzac, Goethe and Washington. The gallery's collection also includes sketches, small sculptural forms and a collection of medals collected by the author.

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