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François Rude (4 January 1784 – 3 November 1855) was a French sculptor, best known for the Departure of the Volunteers, also known as La Marseillaise on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. (1835–36). His work often expressed patriotic themes, as well as the transition from neo-classicism to romanticism.
Apr 4, 2024 · François Rude was a French sculptor, best known for his social art (art that inspires and captures the interest of a broad public), including public monuments such as the Departure of the Volunteers of 1792 (1833–36), popularly called La Marseillaise. Rude rejected the classical repose of late.
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Dec 6, 2023 · François Rude, Neapolitan Fisherboy, 1831–3, Marble, 77.5 cm high (Louvre, Paris) His reputation grew over the next ten years, reaching its peak with the justly famous La Marseillaise ( The Departure of the Volunteers of 1792) (above).
François Rude had revolution in his blood. At eight years-old, he watched his father, a stovemaker, join the volunteer army to defend the new French Republic (this is shortly after the French Revolution) from the threat of foreign invasion. Fiercely loyal himself, as a young man he was a Bonapartist (a follower of the emperor Napoleon Bonaparte).
RUDE, FRANÇOIS (1784–1855), French sculptor. Best known as creator of the iconic Departure of the Volunteers in 1792 on the Arc de Triomphe, François Rude exemplifies the moral seriousness of monumental sculpture in mid-nineteenth-century France.
RUDE, FRANCOIS (1784�1855), French sculptor, was born at Dijon on the 4th of June 1784. Till the age of sixteen he worked at his father�s trade as a stovemaker, but in 1809 he went up to Paris from the Dijon school of art, and became a pupil of Castellier, obtaining the Grand Prix in 1812.
François Rude was a French sculptor, best known for the Departure of the Volunteers, also known as La Marseillaise on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. His work often expressed patriotic themes, as...
