Pierre Le Gros (12 April 1666 Paris – 3 May 1719 Rome) was a French sculptor, active almost exclusively in Baroque Rome where he was the pre-eminent sculptor...
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Pierre Le Gros refers to one of two French sculptors, father and son: Pierre Le Gros the Elder, 1629–1714 Pierre Le Gros the Younger, 1666–1719 This disambiguation...
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Gros the Elder and stepmother to the three-year-old Pierre Le Gros the Younger, who in turn learned drawing from Jean Le Pautre. Maxime Préaud, Inventaire...
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Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duc de Bouillon (category Military personnel of the Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659))
Gerhard (1997), Pierre le Gros, 1666-1719, Si Vede, p. 47, ISBN 0-9529925-0-7 (in German) Bissell, Gerhard (1997), Pierre le Gros, 1666-1719, Si Vede...
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on the purchase in Rome of the art collection of Queen Christina of Sweden for the Orleans Collection. His friend, the sculptor Pierre Le Gros the Younger...
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sculptor Pierre Le Gros the Elder and was the mother of the sculptor Pierre Le Gros the Younger. Bassin d'Encelade (Basin of Enceladus; 1675–1677), Versailles...
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of the marble groups The Triumph of Faith over Idolatry by Jean-Baptiste Théodon and Religion Overthrowing Heresy and Hatred by Pierre Le Gros the Younger...
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Stanislaus Kostka (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
Retrieved 2022-08-19. "The Death of St Stanislas Kostka by LE GROS, Pierre the Younger". www.wga.hu. Retrieved 2018-12-09. The Plays of Saint Therese...
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Girolamo Casanate (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
Casanate's death, Cloche commissioned his tomb in the Lateran basilica from Pierre Le Gros the Younger, which was inaugurated in 1703. Casanate's chief...
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old at the death of her husband, the sculptor Pierre Le Gros the Younger. The couple had married on 20 October 1704 in Rome where they lived. The widowed...
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the sculptor Pierre Le Gros the Younger, working in Rome, was faced with the restoration of a fragmented antique group of Amor and Psyche for the Portuguese...
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Archbasilica of St. John Lateran by Pierre Le Gros the Younger. Statue of Saint Bartholomew by August Wredow at the roof of the Helsinki Cathedral St Bartholomew...
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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...
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Carlo Bizzaccheri (category Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Letters of the Virtuosi al Pantheon)
San Pietro in Vincoli. The sculpture of a winged skeleton and a pair of putti on this monument are by Pierre Le Gros the Younger. From 1695 he succeeded...
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Adrien Manglard (category Expatriates in the Papal States)
Manglard also came into contact with artists in the circle of sculptor Pierre Le Gros the Younger (1666–1719), who commissioned two paintings from him...
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French Academy in Rome (category 1666 establishments in the Papal States)
of the scholarship in the 17th century was Pierre Le Gros the Younger. The Academy was housed in the Palazzo Capranica until 1737, and then in the Palazzo...
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Gerhard Bissell, Pierre le Gros, 1666–1719, Reading, Berkshire 1997, pp. 104–105. Reardon's statement (Reardon, 2004, p. 206–207) that the design was by...
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Pierre Le Gros the Elder (baptised 27 May 1629 Chartres – died 11 May 1714 Paris) was a French sculptor in the service of King Louis XIV. His first wife...
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San Luigi dei Francesi (redirect from Church of St. Louis of the French)
Chateaubriand. The sculptor Pierre Le Gros the Younger is buried here in an unmarked grave. The painter Antoniazzo Romano is buried here as well. The inscriptions...
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in Rome for studio of Pierre Le Gros the Younger since 1703. His early works include: the Glory of the Angels, stucco, on the altar of San Salvatore...
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Château de Montmorency (Val-d'Oise) (category Houses completed in the 18th century)
survives today as the town's music conservatory. Crozat's grand château contained a chapel decorated in 1715-16 by Pierre Le Gros the Younger and paintings...
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Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran (redirect from Cathedral of the Most Holy Savior and of Saints John the Baptist and the Evangelist in the Lateran)
Maratta, to which they were to adhere, but with the notable exception being Pierre Le Gros the Younger, who successfully refused to sculpt to Maratta's...
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Joseph Marie Terray (category Secretaries of State of the Navy (France))
by Pierre Le Gros the Younger was purchased from the estate of the painter Jean-François de Troy, the head of the French Academy in Rome. Among the rich...
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Pediment (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Aloysius Gonzaga, Sant'Ignazio, Rome, by Pierre Le Gros the Younger, 1697-1699 Curving Rococo pediment of the Erbdrostenhof, Münster, Germany, by Johann...
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Pope Pius V (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia without Wikisource reference)
from the sculptor Pierre Le Gros the Younger to be erected in the Sistine Chapel of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore. The pope's body was placed in...
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Antonin Cloche (category Masters of the Order of Preachers)
sarcophagus made for him in the Sistine Chapel in Santa Maria Maggiore by the sculptor Pierre Le Gros the Younger. Shortly before the death of his friend Cardinal...
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Gonzaga, Sant'Ignazio, Rome, by Pierre Le Gros the Younger, 1697-1699 Brâncovenesc cartouche on a damaged stone in the courtyard of Antim Monastery, Bucharest...
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San Pietro in Vincoli (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
Bizzaccheri and with the sculptures of putti and a winged skeleton by Pierre Le Gros the Younger. In 1876 archeologists discovered the tombs of those once...
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Pope Gregory XV (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 9 February 1621 until his death in 1623. He is notable for founding the Congregation...
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