Pierre Puget

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Pierre Puget was a 17th-century French Baroque sculptor, painter, and architect renowned for his dramatic, emotionally charged marble sculptures and major decorative works in Marseille and Toulon.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Baroque artist
architect
human
painter
sculptor
artisticStyle French Baroque
High Baroque
centuryOfActivity 17th century
countryOfCitizenship France
employer Arsenal of Toulon
City of Marseille
French Navy
ethnicGroup French
fieldOfWork architectural decoration
marble sculpture
naval decoration
genre history painting
monumental sculpture
religious art
influenced French Baroque sculpture
influencedBy Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Italian Baroque sculpture
knownFor dramatic marble sculpture
emotionally charged compositions
large-scale decorative programs
movement Baroque
nationality French
notableWork Alexander and Diogenes
Atlantes of the Hôtel de Ville de Toulon
Atlantes of the Pavillon de l’Horloge, Marseille
Decorations for the Hôtel de Ville de Marseille
Milon de Crotone
Perseus and Andromeda
Reliefs for the Arsenal of Toulon
Saint Sebastian
notableWorkLocation Louvre Museum
Marseille NERFINISHED
Toulon NERFINISHED
occupation architect
painter
sculptor
placeOfBirth Marseille
placeOfDeath Marseille
workLocation Genoa
Marseille
Rome
Toulon NERFINISHED

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