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| | COYSEVOX, - Encyclopedia Britannica - COYSEVOX, - JCSM's Study Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | COYSEVOX,,CHARLES ANTOINE (164o-1720), French sculptor, was born at Lyons on the 29th of September 164o, and belonged to a family which had emigrated from Spain. |
 | | He was only seventeen when he produced a statue of the Madonna of considerable merit; and having studied under Lerambert and trained himself by taking copies in marble from the Greek masterpieces (among others from the Venus de Medici and the Castor and Pollux), he was engaged by the bishop of Strassburg, Cardinal |
 | | See Henry Jouin, A. Coysevox, sa vie, son oeuvre (1883) ; Jean du Seigneur, Revue universelle des arts, vol. |
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