Jacques Sarazin
French artist (1592–1660)
Jacques Sarazin or Sarrazin (French pronunciation: [ʒak saʁazɛ̃]; baptised 8 June 1592 – died 3 December 1660 in Paris) was a French sculptor in the classical tradition of Baroque art. He was instrumental in the development of the Style Louis XIV through his own work as well as through his many pupils. Nearly all his work as a painter was destroyed and is only known through engravings.
Life
Sarazin was born in Noyon, France, and went to Paris with his brother, where he trained in the workshop of Nicolas Guillain. He went to Rome in 1610 and remained there until 1628. While in Rome, he produced garden sculpture for Cardinal Aldobrandini's Villa Aldobrandini in Frascati (c. 1620). From 1622 to 1627, he carried out stucco work to accompany the paintings of Domenichino on the high altar of Sant'Andrea della Valle and in San Lorenzo in Miranda.
In 1628 he returned to Paris, where, in 1631, he married a niece of the painter Simon Vouet, whom he had met in Rome and for whom he had created some angels in stucco to frame his altarpiece in Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs, Paris.
Appointed Sculpteur et peintre ordinaire du roi in 1631, Sarazin made a number of works for Louis XIII and his wife Anne of Austria, particularly portraits and tomb sculpture, most of which were later destroyed.
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