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  • noun French sculptor of monumental female nudes (1861-1944)

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Examples

  • It's a beautiful spot in the foothills of the Pyrenees and Maillol is buried there.

    Archive 2008-08-01 The Nag 2008

  • I didn't know much about Aristide Maillol until I visited Banyuls last spring and made the hike up to his beautiful home.

    RIP Dina Vierny, Model And Muse For Art's Masters The Nag 2009

  • For another example of successful outdoor placement of sculptures, you may want to go to the Getty Center to see the splendid female nude by Maillol, floating majestically above the steps leading to the museum's entrance.

    Edward Goldman: Twelve Angry Heads Edward Goldman 2011

  • "Treasures of the Medicis, Botticelli to Galileo" at the Mus é e Maillol offers a fascinating glimpse into their world, with some 150 works — an "infinitesimal part" of their riches, as the show's catalog notes.

    A Sumptuous Medici Collection Judy Fayard 2010

  • For another example of successful outdoor placement of sculptures, you may want to go to the Getty Center to see the splendid female nude by Maillol, floating majestically above the steps leading to the museum's entrance.

    Edward Goldman: Twelve Angry Heads Edward Goldman 2011

  • Dina Vierny was 15 when she began modeling for Aristide Maillol.

    RIP Dina Vierny, Model And Muse For Art's Masters The Nag 2009

  • The introductory panel for "Pompeii: An Art of Living" at the Musée Maillol compresses 800 years of history into a few essentials: founded by Etruscans in the 7th century B.C., on a site overlooking the Gulf of Naples, the city was conquered by Greeks, Samnites and, finally, in 80 B.C., by Rome.

    The Gracious Art of Living Judy Fayard 2011

  • Together with the Maillol Virgil, this is one of the most ambitious and successful books of the Cranach Press, with a fine harmony between the type page and the illustration.

    2009 June 11 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

  • A friend of her father's spotted her at a party and told the sculptor, I have met a girl who is a living Maillol.

    RIP Dina Vierny, Model And Muse For Art's Masters The Nag 2009

  • One of 300 numbered copies on handmade hemp fibre and linen Maillol/Kessler paper (from a total edition of 322 copies), this being copy number sixty-two.

    2009 June 11 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

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