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Bartholdi Frédéric Auguste
(1834–1904)

Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi was born at Colmar, in Alsace, France, on April 2, 1834. At first he studied painting under Ary Scheffer, the famous Parisian society portraitist, but soon abandoned it for sculpture under the influence of the Parisian, Jean Francois Soitoux, working on a colossal scale and with architectural effects. When... More...

Mozambique, 2012, Rousseau, statue of Diderot, Pantheon