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  CIBBER, CAIUS GABRIE - LoveToKnow Article on CIBBER, CAIUS GABRIE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Cibber was long employed by the fourth earl of Devonshire, and many fine specimens of his work are to be seen at Chatsworth.
CIBBER, COLLEY (16711757), English actor and dramatist, was born in London on the 6th of November 1671, the eldest son of Caius Gabriel Cibber, the sculptor.
Cibber refused to discontinue the offensive passage, and Pope revenged himself in sarcastk allusions in his printed correspondence, in the Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot and in the Dunciad.
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 COLLEY CIBBER - LoveToKnow Article on COLLEY CIBBER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In 1742 Cibber was substituted for Theobald as the hero of Popes Dunciad.
Cibbers Dramatic Works were published in 1760, with an account of the life and writings of the author, and again in 1777.
SUSANNAII MARIA CIBBER (1714-1766), wife of Theophilus, was an actress of distinction.
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 AllRefer.com - Caius Gabriel Cibber (European Art, 1600 To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Caius Gabriel Cibber, European Art, 1600 To The Present, Biographies
Cibber was appointed carver to the king's closet for his services to William III of England.
Cibber is best known for his statues Melancholy and Raving Madness, both in London.
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 Colley Cibber
English actor and dramatist, born in London on the 6th of November 1671, the eldest son of Caius Gabriel Cibber, the sculptor.
In 1717 Cibber produced the Nonjuror, an adaptation from Molière's Tartuffe; the play, for which Nicholas Rowe wrote an abusive prologue, ran eighteen nights, and the author received from George I, to whom it was dedicated, a present of two hundred guineas.
Cibber refused to discontinue the offensive passage, and Pope revenged himself in sarcastic allusions in his printed correspondence, in the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot and in the Dunciad.
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 Colley Cibber   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Cibber's comedies Love's Last Shift (1696) and The Careless Husband (1704) are early heralds of a massive shift in audience taste, away from the intellectualism and sexual frankness of Restoration comedy and towards the conservative certainties and gender role backlash of exemplary or sentimental comedy.
Cibber's application on behalf of his son for a patent to perform at the Haymarket was, however, refused by the Lord Chamberlain, who was "disgusted at Cibber's conduct" (Lowe).
Cibber's appointment as Poet Laureate in 1730 was widely assumed to be a political rather than artistic honor, and a reward for his untiring support of the controversial Whig prime minister Robert Walpole.
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 Colley Cibber   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
He was born in London his father being Caius Gabriel Cibber a Danish sculptor living in England.
Cibber began his career as an at Drury Lane Theatre in 1690.
Cibber's son Theophilus Cibber married the singer Susannah Maria Arne (sister of Thomas Arne).
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 Caius Gabriel Cibber --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The son of the Danish king's cabinetmaker, Cibber was sent to Italy at royal expense to study art.
The play established his reputation both as an actor and as a playwright and is generally considered the first sentimental comedy, a dramatic form that dominated the English stage for the next 100 years.
English poet Gabriel Harvey is remembered as much for his participation in literary feuds as he is for his own writing.
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 Caius Atticus Guilliams
Caius, also pronounced Gaius, was once a very popular name.
Prominent Humanist and physician whose classic account of the English sweating sickness is considered one of the earliest histories of an epidemic.
Caius Cassius - One of the leaders of the conspiracy to murder Caesar in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
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 Caius Gabriel Cibber -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Caius Gabriel Cibber (1630-1700) was a (An artist who creates sculptures) sculptor, and the father of (additional info and facts about Colley Cibber) Colley Cibber.
He was born in the province of (additional info and facts about Schleswig) Schleswig in (A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe; consists of the mainland of Jutland and many islands between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea) Denmark, but later emigrated to (A division of the United Kingdom) England.
He also created the (A sculptural relief in which forms extend only slightly from the background; no figures are undercut) bas relief at the base of the (additional info and facts about Monument to the Great Fire of London) Monument to the Great Fire of London
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 Cibber - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
Cibber is not so strongly enamoured with her...June 1745(1) Those familiar with Colley Cibbers sentimental comedies might smile at his...
Cibber (Susanna Maria Cibber, onetime daughter-in-law of Colley Cibber who became poet laureate) was the best-known of the soloists that afternoon, and that...
A pupil of Betterton, she was the delight of Colley Cibber and the favorite of Congreve, achieving her greatest successes as the heroines of Congreves comedies, which were written for her...
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 The Sackville Chapel, St Michaels & All Angels, Withyham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The sculptor is Caius Gabriel Cibber, born in 1630 in Flensborg in Slesvig.
Cibber studied sculpture in Italy from the age of 17 and came to England in 1660.
Cibber was to be paid £350, and the monument was to be 'Ye well liking of Mr.
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 Kathryn Shevelow; Henry Holt, 433 pages, $27.50 | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Bedlam's disturbing figures had been carved of Portland stone at the end of the seventeenth century by Caius Gabriel Cibber, and were widely acknowledged as his masterpieces.
To Caius Gabriel's son Colley, the Bedlam statues held more equivocal significance.
Pope may not have been the first of Colley's contemporaries to think of this gibe, but he was the one who immortalized it.
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 The Twickenham Museum : Colley Cibber   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Colley Cibber was born at Southwark, the son of Caius Gabriel Cibber the Danish sculptor, and his second wife Jane Colley, an heiress.
The Colleys came from Rutland and Colley was sent to school in Grantham displaying, according to the DNB, "a special sharpness of intellect and aptitude for verse writing which gained him consideration from his masters, and a conceit which rendered him unpopular with his fellows".
Richard H Barker, Mr Cibber of Drury Lane, 1939
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 CIBBER (or CIBERT), CAIUS GABRIEL (163o-1700) - Online Information article about CIBBER (or CIBERT), CAIUS GABRIEL ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
CIBBER (or CIBERT), CAIUS GABRIEL (163o-1700) - Online Information article about CIBBER (or CIBERT), CAIUS GABRIEL (163o-1700)
London, where he lies buried beside his second wife, to whom he erected a monument.
End of Article: CIBBER (or CIBERT), CAIUS GABRIEL (163o-1700)
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 Charlotte Charke - The Info Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Colley Cibber (1671-1757) was a British actor-manager, dramatist and Poet Laureate of Britain.Cibber was born in London, his father being Caius Gabriel Cibber, a Danish sculptor living in England.
In this ambition I was soon snubbd, by the insufficiency of my voice; to which might be added, an uninformed meagre person (tho then not ill made) with a dismal pale complexion.
Cibber also adapted Shakespeares Richard III (1700), King John (1745) as Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John and Molieres Tartuffe as The Nonjuror in 1717.
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 Bedlam.html
This is reminiscent of the statue of 'melancholy madness' by Caius Gabriel Cibber, which [along with a statue of 'raving'] stood guard over the entrance gates to Bethlem at Moorsfields.
In addition, a religious maniac [this time resembling Cibber's statue 'raving'] is shown taking the light from his cell window for a revelation.
Two visitors--judging by their appearance,either ladies of fashion (or a lady and her maid) or high-class corteseans-- stand by the cell of the crazed king.
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 Topiary Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Originally it was situated a quarter of a mile away in what is now the private garden; it was rebuilt in its present position in about 1760.
Flora herself probably carved by Caius Gabriel Cibber (1630-1700), has moved several times.
Originally the centre piece of "Flora's Garden", an area laid out by the 1st Duke in the 1690s to the south of the house, she was moved c.
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 artnet.com: Resource Library: Bird, Francis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
He was born in the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields and was sent to Flanders to the studio of a sculptor named Cozins (perhaps a member of the family of sculptors named Cosyns) and later to Rome.
1689, he was employed by both Grinling Gibbons and Caius Gabriel Cibber, but he returned to Rome some years later, perhaps from 1695, and worked in the studio of Pierre Legros (ii).
On his return to England, by 1700, after the death of Cibber, he was appointed by Sir Christopher Wren to undertake the major sculptural decoration of St Paul’s Cathedral, notably the pediment of the west front (see LONDON, fig.
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 Colley Cibber Books and Articles - Research Colley Cibber at Questia Online Library
In its stead, came Colley Cibber and The Rehearsal.
The Importance of Being Easy: Desire and Cibber's the Careless Husband, in Texas Studies in Literature and Language
...throughout the eighteenth century, Colley Cibber The Careless Husband (1704...consistent moral tone is offensive." Colley Cibber, rev. ed.
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 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Cibber, Caius Gabriel @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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CIBBER, CAIUS GABRIEL [Cibber, Caius Gabriel], 1630-1700, Danish-English sculptor.
Our archive contains millions of documents from thousands of sources and goes back over 23 years.
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 The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield by Edward Robins eBook by BookRags
George has vices, to be sure, but they belong to the stomach rather than the heart—­that obese heart which, such as it is, the good Queen can call her own.
She never stands on ceremony with soft-pated George, and does not wait to speak until she is spoken to.
“Cibber—­Cibber—­who be Cibber?” queries the Prince, a beery look in his eye, a foreign accent on his tongue.
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 Art Bulletin, The: The Monument, or, Christopher Wren's Roman accent
That interpretation, however, does not correspond to the structure's erstwhile importance as one of London's proudest landmarks: a skyscraper in its own time, it was the first and is still the tallest of all the colossal columns in that city [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 1 OMITTED].
From the time of its unveiling in 1677, commentators - whether writing guidebooks in the eighteenth century or modern scholarly monographs - have been content to point out the relationship between the Monument and the triumphal columns of Roman antiquity and to analyze Caius Gabriel Cibber's west dado relief.
The other three faces of the pedestal, consisting of Latin inscriptions dating to 1677-78, have been transcribed and translated in some cases, in most simply summarized.
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 The world's top colley cibber websites
Colley Cibber (1671-1757) was a British actor-manager, dramatist and Poet Laureate of Great Britain.
Cibber began his career as an actor at Drury Lane Theatre in 1690.
He quickly became popular as a comedy performer, playing parts such as Lord Foppington in Vanbrugh's play, The Relapse.
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 places   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
For a small fee, paid in the form of a tip to the warder, anyone who wished to could roam freely about the halls, peering into various cells, and laughing at the deranged antics of the inmates.
That there were people who were able to do this with clear consciences is amazing, for in order to pass through the archway and into the building, they had to first pass under Caius Gabriel Cibber's statues representing of the terror and abject sorrow of Raving Madness and Melancholy.
The two figures are extremely lifelike in their features, and they bear testimony to the fact that mental illness is not something to laugh about.
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 Chatsworth House, the First Floor Landing and Queen of Scots and Leicester Apartments
Sculptures on display on the first floor landing include an English 18th century bust of a woman and, by the window a portrait bust of Lady Hunloke as Atalanta.
Works of art to be found on the second floor landing include statues of Apollo, Minerva and Lucretia by Caius Gabriel Cibber (1630-1700).
The staircase leads to the top floor and to the Queen of Scots and Leicester apartments.
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 Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Whitechapel
The British and Foreign Sailors' Church, formerly called the Danish Church, Whitechapel, was built in 1696 by Caius Gabriel Cibber, the sculptor, at the expense of Christian V., King of Denmark, for the use of the Danish merchants and sailors of London.
Attached to the pulpit is a handsome brass frame, with four sand-glasses.
Both Caius Cibber and his more celebrated son, Colley Cibber, Pope's enemy, are buried here.
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 Camelot Village: Britain's Heritage and History
High up are coloured paintings in the style of Verrios ceiling.
There are three sculpted figures by Caius Gabriel Cibber (1630-1700) brought in from the garden in 1692 and busts were placed in the niches.
Finding these not enough the Duke had the grisaille panels painted on the walls to resemble sculpture.
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 Bedlam or Bethlehem Hospital
have always been attributed to Caius Gabriel Cibber, but curiously enough Hooke makes no reference to Cibber in connection with Bedlam nor does
Pope, in the Dunciad, referring to Colley Cibber, Caius Gabriel's son, mentions the Madnesses ‘by his fam'd father's hand'.
On the outer piers of the gates stood a lion and a unicorn.
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