Slodtz
Slodtz. Family of French artists. The head of the family was
Sébastien (1655–1726), a sculptor and designer, who was Flemish by birth. He had three sculptor sons:
Sébastien-Antoine (1695–1754),
Paul-Ambroise (1702–58), and
René-Michel called Michel-Ange (
b Paris, 27 Sept. 1705;
d Paris, 26 Oct. 1764). All four of them worked for the Menus Plaisirs (the office that designed costumes, festivities, etc. for the court), as did another son of Sébastien, the painter
Dominique Slodtz (1711–64); a fifth brother,
Jean-Baptiste (1699–1759), was also a painter. Michel-Ange was the only member of the family to attain great distinction. From 1728 to 1747 he lived in Rome, where his admiration for
Michelangelo won him his nickname. His best-known work is the marble
St Bruno (1744, St Peter's, Rome), which shows the nervous sensitivity of his style. In France he made several major tombs, notably that of Languet de Gergy (completed 1753, St Sulpice, Paris), which shows the influence of
Bernini in its
Baroque rhetoric and use of different coloured marbles.
Houdon was Slodtz's most important pupil.
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