Author: CORDIER, NICOLAS. Pressouyre, Sylvia.
Title: Nicolas Cordier. Recherches sur la sculpture à Rome autour de 1600.
Description: [Rome, Ecole Française de Rome, Palais Farnèse, Rome, 1984. 2 vols. XVII, 529 pp. 353 b./w. figs (chiefly photographs) on [145] unnumbered plts. Orig. uniform softcovers (pictorial wrappers). 4to. - Covers with light shelfwear along the extrimities; owner's name on first free endpaper. (Collection de l'École Française de Rome, 73).Important monograph on Nicolas Cordier (1567, Saint-Mihiel - 1612, Rome). Cordier was a French sculptor from Lorraine working in Rome where he was also known as Niccolò da Lorena or il Franciosino (the little Frenchman). As a sculptor, he primary produced religious-themed works which were executed for church commissions. His surviving works can be found in various churches of Rome and in The Louvre. He died in Rome in 1612.

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