Louis-François Roubiliac

Portret Roubiliaca kako dovršava svojeg Shakespearea, autor: Adrien Carpentiers, 1762

Louis-François Roubiliac (ispravnije Roubillac) (1702/1705^[1] – 11. januar 1762) bio je francuski kipar koji je radio u Engleskoj, poznat kao jedan od najistaknutijih kipara rokloko stila,^[2] "najvjerojatnije najbolji kipar koji je ikada radio Engleskoj", prwma Margaret Whinney.^[3]

Dr Richard Bentley (1756), jedna od Roubiliacovih mramornih bisti za Trinity College na Cambridgeu

Izvori

1. Dates in Margaret Whinney, Sculpture in Britain, 1530 to 1830, 1981:198.
2. Ostali su Michael Rysbrack, Peter Scheemakers i Henry Cheere.
3. Whinney 1981:198.

Literatura

• Katherine A.M. Esdaile, Roubiliac's Work at Trinity College Cambridge. Cambridge University Press (1924. reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009) ISBN 978-1-108-00231-8)
• Allan Cunningham, The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, vol. 3, pp. 31–67 (London, 1830) the fount of information of later biographies.
• Dutton Cook, Art in England ("A Sculptor's Life in the Past Century") (London, 1869)
• Austin Dobson, "Little Roubiliac," The Magazine of Art 17 (1894:202, 231)
• entry in DNB
• J.T. Smith, Nollekens and his Times (London, 1829 passim); Smith's father was an assistant in Roubiliac's studio.
• Henry B. Wheatley has also devoted research to the work and life of Roubiliac.
• Rupert Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 rev. ed. 1968.
• William T. Whitley, Artists and Their Friends in England, 1700-1799, 1928.

Vanjske veze

• „Roubiliac's Handel”. Sculpture. Victoria and Albert Museum. Arhivirano iz originala na datum 2008-09-18. Pristupljeno 2007-09-01. 
• „Tomb of Sir Joseph and Lady Elizabeth Nightingale”. Sculpture. Pristupljeno 2008-07-23. ^{[mrtav link]}
• „The Laughing Child & The Crying Child”. Sculpture. Victoria and Albert Museum. Arhivirano iz originala na datum 2009-06-28. Pristupljeno 2011-02-15.