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| | artnet.com: Resource Library: Prieur, Barthélemy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | From October 1564 to the end of 1567 he was in Turin as court sculptor to Duke Emanuel-Philibert of Savoy; while there he made the model (untraced) for a huge bronze coat of arms intended for the main gateway into the citadel. |
 | | Settled in Paris in 1571, he and Martin Lefort (fl 1562; d 1603) were commissioned to prepare three under life-size bronze, female allegorical figures (Paris, Louvre) for the monument for the heart of Constable Anne de Montmorency, working to a design by Jean Bullant. |
 | | From 1576 Prieur was again working for Montmorencys widow, Madeleine of Savoy, making their funerary monument, again to designs by Bullant, for St Martin, Montmorency. |
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