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Article: Francois Duquesnoy and the Greek Ideal.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- September 22, 2008
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Estelle Lingo. Francois Duquesnoy and the Greek Ideal.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. viii + 240 pp. index. illus. bibl. $75. ISBN: 978-0-300-12483-5.
This is the only book on the Flemish-born sculptor Duquesnoy to have appeared since the monograph by Mariette Fransolet published in 1942. Among the many well-chosen quotations in this new study, Lingo translates a sentence from the biography of the artist in Giovanni Battista Passeri's Lives of the painters, sculptors and architects, dead between 1641 and 1673, who have worked in Rome, which defines what Passeri saw to be the vocation that sustained Duquesnoy since his coming to Rome in 1618 ...