Jean-Pierre Cortot (20 August 1787 – 12 August 1843) was a French neoclassical sculptor. Cortot was born and died in Paris. He was educated at the École...
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Cortot is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alfred Cortot (1877–1962), French pianist, conductor, and teacher Jean-Pierre Cortot (1787–1843)...
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Alfred Denis Cortot (/kɔːrˈtoʊ/ kor-TOH, French: [alfʁɛd dəni kɔʁto]; 26 September 1877 – 15 June 1962) was a French pianist, conductor, and teacher who...
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Jean-Jacques Feuchère (24 August 1807 – 26 July 1852) was a French sculptor. He was a student of Jean-Pierre Cortot, and among his students was Jacques-Léonard...
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Champagne, Simart was the pupil of Antoine Desbœuf, Charles Dupaty, Jean-Pierre Cortot and James Pradier. In 1833, he won the first Prix de Rome for sculpture...
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Pandora is an 1819 neoclassical marble sculpture by Jean-Pierre Cortot, produced during his stay in Villa Medici in 1819. It shows the moment when Pandora...
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marathon, the origin of the name of the battlefield.) This poem inspired Baron Pierre de Coubertin and other founders of the modern Olympic Games to invent a...
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present-day pedestal was originally intended for an equestrian statue by Jean-Pierre Cortot of Louis XVI, but the statue was destroyed during the July Revolution...
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attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he was a pupil of Jean-Pierre Cortot. He was a professor of sculpture at the École des Arts décoratifs...
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Ramsay. The novel Paul et Virginie by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre echoes the same story. Jacques Amyot's French translation is perhaps better...
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