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Houdon's work blends 'beauty' and reality.(ARTS)(ART)
The Washington Times
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May 3, 2003
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Byline: Joanna Shaw-Eagle, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The French 18th-century sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon lived in both the bloodiest and most forward-thinking of times. Considered the greatest sculptor of the Enlightenment, or Age of Reason, Houdon (1741-1828) sculpted its leading figures, including its two most representative men of ideas, Voltaire and Denis Diderot.
These Encyclopedists wanted out with the "old" power of church and monarchy and in with the "new," ideas and progress. With the violent excesses of the French Revolution, they got more than they ...
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