Question
The Château d’Anet (“shah-toh dah-neh”) was the original site of an anonymous sculptural fountain showing this figure embracing an animal that may represent the huntsman Louis de Brézé (“loo-ee deh breh-zeh”). For 10 points each:
[10h] Antoine Coysevox (“ahn-twahn coy-seh-voh”) depicted Marie Adelaide of Savoy as what figure holding a hand to her ear? Michel-Ange Slodtz showed this figure cradling the head of a sleeping man in a Baroque marble depiction.
ANSWER: Diana [accept Artemis]
[10m] The 18th-century French craze for sculptures of Diana includes a bronze one of her balancing on one leg by this artist. This sculptor showed a shivering woman in Winter and created many depictions of Voltaire.
ANSWER: Jean-Antoine Houdon (“zhawn ahn-twahn oo-down”)
[10e] The Anet Diana is a work from a Mannerist “school” of sculpture named for this palace complex, which housed many French monarchs before the construction of Versailles (“vair-SYE”).
ANSWER: Palace of Fontainebleau (“fon-tehn-bloh”) [or Château de Fontainebleau; accept School of Fontainebleau]
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Summary
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