Jean Michel De Verdiguier

สถานที่: Marseille

เกิด: 1706

ความตาย: 1796

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Juan Miguel de Verdiguier, also known as Jean Michel de Verdiguier, was a French sculptor born in Marseille in 1706 and died in Cordoue in 1796. He was nominated academician of merit of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid on March 5, 1780. He was the author of the design for a monument to the Cordobesian martyrs. He studied sculpture in Paris and Rome before settling in Toulon, where he worked as a sculptor at the arsenal under the direction of Jean-Ange Maucord. He married Marie Magdeleine Maucord in 1743 and had two children. He participated in the execution of the statues and bas-reliefs of the portal of the arsenal, now a museum of the navy. He also realized the main altar in marble of the cathedral of Sainte-Marie-Majeure or Notre-Dame-de-Seds. He left Toulon around 1758 and settled in Marseille, where he created a sculpture workshop. He realized all the sculptures of the main facade of the palace of justice of the time, the Hôtel Daviel. In 1779, he moved to Cordoue, where he became director of the Academy of Painting and Sculpture. He died in Cordoue on December 29, 1796.