This sculptor was commissioned to create a series of paintings including a Visitation at the chapel in the Jesuit's college at Aix-en-Provence. He drew on the paintings of artists such as Giovanni Andrea Ferrari and Gioacchino Asseretto for his early terracotta work Storming of St. Peter, while other works in Genoa include decorations for the Lorellini family and two sculptures to be placed under the dome of the Santa Maria Assunta di Carignano. Besides creating those depictions of Sebastian and the Blessed Alessandro Sauli, his later works include a Perseus and Andromeda group commissioned by Louis XIV for Versailles
This sculptor was commissioned to create a series of paintings including a Visitation at the chapel in the Jesuit's college at Aix-en-Provence. He drew on the paintings of artists such as Giovanni Andrea Ferrari and Gioacchino Asseretto for his early terracotta work Storming of St. Peter, while other works in Genoa include decorations for the Lorellini family and two sculptures to be placed under the dome of the Santa Maria Assunta di Carignano. Besides creating those depictions of Sebastian and the Blessed Alessandro Sauli, his later works include a Perseus and Andromeda group commissioned by Louis XIV for Versailles. His most famous sculpture depicts a man twisting his torso to remove a hand that has become stuck in the stump of an oak tree, and that man is depicted with claws sinking into his thighs as lion bites into his backside. For 10 points, name this French Baroque sculptor, best known for his Milo of Crotona.
This sculptor was commissioned to create a series of paintings including a Visitation at the chapel in the Jesuit's college at Aix-en-Provence.
{Pierre Puget}