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Pierre-Étienne Monnot (9 August 1657 — 24 August 1733) was a French sculptor from the Franche-Comté who settled in Rome in 1687 for the rest of his life. He was a distinguished artist working in a late-Baroque idiom for international clients. In Italian sources he is often referred to as Pietro Stefano Monnot, an italianised version of his name. ==Biography== Monnot was born at Orchamps-Vennes near Besançon in the Franche-Comté. Trained by his father, a woodcarver, he subsequently worked for Jean Dubois, a sculptor in Dijon, for a year. He then took on independent commissions for religious works in Besançon and Poligny. Monnot also visited Paris on at leas two occasions, probably 1679-1681 and between 1684 and 1686, where he might have had contact with or worked under some of the leading sculptors working on the various enterprises of Louis XIV.〔Walker, Stefanie. ''The Sculptor Pietro Stefano Monnot in Rome, 1687-1713'' (Ann Arbor, 1994), p. 29.〕 Leaving Besançon in December 1686, he arrived in Rome in February 1687,〔Walker, p. 67.〕 where he was introduced to an established, tightly-knit community of Burgundian artists. Monnot quickly intregrated into Rome's artistic circles and gained many commissions. With the main sculptures of the Saint Ignatius altar in the Church of the Gesù assigned to Pierre Le Gros the Younger and Jean-Baptiste Théodon in 1695, French sculptors in Rome became highly prized for decades to come.〔Enggass 1976 provides the setting and outlines the patterns of patronage for Roman sculpture in this period; his section "The French in Rome" sets Monnot in the context of his compatriots.〕 Monnot himself contributed a ''Pair of Angels holding the IHS monogramme'' to the Saint Ignatius altar. Monnot's first major commission was for two marble reliefs, a ''Nativity'' and a ''Flight into Egypt'' flanking Domenico Guidi's ''Dream of St. Joseph'' for the right transept altar in Santa Maria della Vittoria. Here, as in some other pieces, Monnot was to some measure influenced by Guidi, a pupil of Alessandro Algardi, who had become a prominent sculptor in late 17th century Rome. Through his patron, Prince Livio Odescalchi, Monnot was entrusted to execute the ''Tomb of Pope Innocent XI'' for St. Peter's Basilica (1697-1704) to a design by Carlo Maratta. He was also among the select group to be commissioned with apostles of heroic scale for niches in the Basilica of Saint John Lateran. On his last of four Grand Tours in 1699-1700, the English aristocrat John Cecil, 5th Earl of Exeter, entrusted Monnot with some major commissions. For his family seat, Burghley House, the earl ordered a sculpture of ''Andromeda and the Sea Monster''〔This ''Andromeda'' is sometimes wrongly attributed to Guidi.〕 (now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art) together with some other mythological pieces which Monnot completed by 1704. Exeter also sat for portrait busts of himself and his wife. Finally, Monnot created the couple's tomb monument with reclining lifesize figures of the earl and his countess together with two standing allegorical figures to the sides. This was shipped to England and installed in the family chapel at St Martin's Church, Stamford. The earl saw neither of these works completed as he died on his return journey to England in 1700, followed into the grave by his wife in 1703.〔According to the inscription on the tomb monument.〕 Like all sculptors working in Rome, Monnot was called upon to restore fragmentary antiquities. Baroque restorations often took broader liberties of interpretation than eighteenth-century and later tastes permitted. Monnot restored a torso of a copy after Myron's ''Discobolus'' as a ''Wounded Gladiator'' who supports himself on his arm as he sinks to the ground; it was donated before 1734 by Pope Clement XII to the Capitoline Museums, where it remains.〔Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, ''Taste and the Antique: the Lure of classical Sculpture 1500-1900 (Yale University Press), pp 200, 227.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pierre-Étienne Monnot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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