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Sculptors of the Empress
2003
Overview
Catherine had good reason to gloat over Falconet’s arrival. She had a habit of treating architects and artists as skilled employees, whose usefulness ended with the completion of the project at hand. But Falconet was different. He was clearly much more than a craftsman coming to execute a commissioned work. The empress knew that she was hosting not only a major European artist but also an envoy from the land of the Enlightenment, aphilosophe,anami de l’âmeof Diderot, and a contributor to theEncylopédie.She also realized that Falconet’s intellectual interests and social and professional contacts could
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