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French sculpture has been an original and influential component of world art since the Middle Ages. The first known French sculptures date to the [[Upper Paleolithic]] age. French sculpture originally copied ancient Roman models, then found its own original form in the decoration of [[Gothic architecture]]. French sculptors produced important works of [[Baroque sculpture]] for the decoration of the [[Palace of Versailles]]. In the 19th century, the sculptors [[Auguste Rodin]] and [[Edgar Degas]] created a more personal and non-realistic style, which led the way to [[modernism]] in the 2Oth century, and the sculpture of [[Pablo Picasso]], [[Georges Braque]], [[Marcel Duchamp]] and [[Jean Arp]].
==Prehistory ==
The earliest undisputed examples of sculpture belong to the [[Aurignacian culture]], which was located in Europe and southwest Asia and active at the beginning of the [[Upper Paleolithic]]. As well as producing some of the earliest known [[cave art]], the people of this culture developed finely-crafted stone tools, manufacturing pendants, bracelets, ivory beads, and bone-flutes, as well as three-dimensional figurines.<ref>P. Mellars, Archeology and the Dispersal of Modern Humans in Europe: Deconstructing the Aurignacian, ''Evolutionary Anthropology'', vol. 15 (2006), pp. 167–82.</ref><ref></ref>
Two of the largest prehistoric sculptures can be found at the [[Trois Frères|Tuc d'Audobert caves]] in France, where around 12–17,000 years ago a sculptor used a spatula-like stone tool and fingers to model a pair of large bison in clay against a limestone rock.<ref></ref>
With the beginning of the [[Mesolithic]] the amount of figurative sculpture was greatly reduced,<ref>Sandars, 75–80.</ref> and remained a less common element in art than relief decoration of practical objects until the Roman period, <ref>Sandars, 253−57, 183−85.</ref>
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File:Magdalenian horse.jpg|''[[Magdalenian]] Horse'', c.17,000BP [[Musée d'Archéologie Nationale]], France
File:Speerschleuder LaMadeleine.jpg|''Creeping Hyena,'' c.12–17,000BP, [[Elephant and mammoth ivory|mammoth ivory]], found in [[Abri de la Madeleine|La Madeleine]], France
File:Sleeping Reindeer 3 2918856445 7d66cc4796 o.jpg|''[[Swimming Reindeer]]'' c.13,000 BP, female and male swimming reindeer – late [[Magdalenian]] period, found at Montastruc, Tarn et Garonne, France
File:Laussel.jpg|[[Venus of Laussel]] c.27,000BP, an Upper Palaeolithic carving, Bordeaux museum, France
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==Notes and citations==
==Bibliography==
* Jeancolas, Claude, ''Sculpture Française'', CELIV, Paris (1992), (ISBN=2-86525-162-9)
* Geese, Uwe, Section on Baroque sculpture in ''L'Art Baroque - Architecture - Sculpture - Peinture'' (French translation from German), H.F. Ulmann, Cologne, 2015. ()
* Duby, Georges and Daval, Jean-Luc, ''La Sculpture de l'Antiquité au XXe Siècle'', (French translation from German), Taschen, (2013), (ISBN=978-3-8365-4483-2)
==Prehistory ==
The earliest undisputed examples of sculpture belong to the [[Aurignacian culture]], which was located in Europe and southwest Asia and active at the beginning of the [[Upper Paleolithic]]. As well as producing some of the earliest known [[cave art]], the people of this culture developed finely-crafted stone tools, manufacturing pendants, bracelets, ivory beads, and bone-flutes, as well as three-dimensional figurines.<ref>P. Mellars, Archeology and the Dispersal of Modern Humans in Europe: Deconstructing the Aurignacian, ''Evolutionary Anthropology'', vol. 15 (2006), pp. 167–82.</ref><ref></ref>
Two of the largest prehistoric sculptures can be found at the [[Trois Frères|Tuc d'Audobert caves]] in France, where around 12–17,000 years ago a sculptor used a spatula-like stone tool and fingers to model a pair of large bison in clay against a limestone rock.<ref></ref>
With the beginning of the [[Mesolithic]] the amount of figurative sculpture was greatly reduced,<ref>Sandars, 75–80.</ref> and remained a less common element in art than relief decoration of practical objects until the Roman period, <ref>Sandars, 253−57, 183−85.</ref>
<gallery mode="packed" heights="200">
File:Magdalenian horse.jpg|''[[Magdalenian]] Horse'', c.17,000BP [[Musée d'Archéologie Nationale]], France
File:Speerschleuder LaMadeleine.jpg|''Creeping Hyena,'' c.12–17,000BP, [[Elephant and mammoth ivory|mammoth ivory]], found in [[Abri de la Madeleine|La Madeleine]], France
File:Sleeping Reindeer 3 2918856445 7d66cc4796 o.jpg|''[[Swimming Reindeer]]'' c.13,000 BP, female and male swimming reindeer – late [[Magdalenian]] period, found at Montastruc, Tarn et Garonne, France
File:Laussel.jpg|[[Venus of Laussel]] c.27,000BP, an Upper Palaeolithic carving, Bordeaux museum, France
</gallery>
==Notes and citations==
==Bibliography==
* Jeancolas, Claude, ''Sculpture Française'', CELIV, Paris (1992), (ISBN=2-86525-162-9)
* Geese, Uwe, Section on Baroque sculpture in ''L'Art Baroque - Architecture - Sculpture - Peinture'' (French translation from German), H.F. Ulmann, Cologne, 2015. ()
* Duby, Georges and Daval, Jean-Luc, ''La Sculpture de l'Antiquité au XXe Siècle'', (French translation from German), Taschen, (2013), (ISBN=978-3-8365-4483-2)
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