{"id":30477,"date":"2025-09-04T08:19:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T07:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.histoiresgalantes.fr\/blog\/?p=30477"},"modified":"2025-09-09T08:32:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:32:32","slug":"le-sculpteur-philosophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.histoiresgalantes.fr\/blog\/2025\/09\/04\/le-sculpteur-philosophe\/","title":{"rendered":"Le sculpteur philosophe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.histoiresgalantes.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/falconet-diderot5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"572\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.histoiresgalantes.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/falconet-diderot5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.histoiresgalantes.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/falconet-diderot5.jpg 572w, https:\/\/www.histoiresgalantes.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/falconet-diderot5-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><br>Ami de <strong>Diderot<\/strong>, qui le surnomme l&#8217;<strong>Ours <\/strong>en raison de son caract\u00e8re acari\u00e2tre et belliqueux, le sculpteur acad\u00e9micien <strong>\u00c9tienne-Maurice Falconet <\/strong>ne se g\u00e8ne pas pour dire \u00e0 son &#8220;bon&#8221; ami \u00e0 quel point ses critiques sur l&#8217;art sont nulles et infond\u00e9es. Il en fait d&#8217;ailleurs un livre !<br>Les deux hommes se chamailleront jusqu&#8217;\u00e0 l&#8217;ultime dispute qui mettra fin \u00e0 leur amiti\u00e9.<br><em>\u00ab Il n&#8217;y a rien de pire que ceux qui, ayant<br>quelque l\u00e9g\u00e8re teinture d&#8217;une science, se per-<br>suadent faussement qu&#8217;ils sont savants. Car<br>ils se r\u00e9voltent contre ceux qui seraient en \u00e9tat<br>de les instruire, &amp; Prenant un ton d&#8217;autorit\u00e9<br>ce qui est fort familier \u00e0 cette esp\u00e8ce de gens,<br>ils d\u00e9bitent leurs sottises avec hauteur, quelque-<br>fois m\u00eame avec humeur, contre ceux qui osent<br>les contredire. \u00bb<\/em> <br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/bpt6k65541167\/f10.item.texteImage?fbclid=IwY2xjawMsthFleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFQUmczWHp0em5zcGhyM1l0AR4QPT6_bpWw726J1sSW-HYAsyAWe6zOViU-CFRDr5d2T2fx1rDgZ8ryBjKgsQ_aem_e4YDPlf0aTPSLTH2vw4PZQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Observations sur la statue de Marc-Aur\u00e8le et sur d&#8217;autres objets relatifs aux beaux-arts<\/a><\/em> (extrait) \u2026 par \u00c9tienne Falconet<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.histoiresgalantes.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/falconet-diderot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.histoiresgalantes.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/falconet-diderot-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.histoiresgalantes.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/falconet-diderot-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.histoiresgalantes.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/falconet-diderot-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.histoiresgalantes.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/falconet-diderot-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.histoiresgalantes.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/falconet-diderot-1536x1153.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.histoiresgalantes.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/falconet-diderot-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.histoiresgalantes.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/falconet-diderot.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Entr\u00e9e des ateliers de sculpture, cour Carr\u00e9e du Louvre, rue de Rivoli<br>Denis Diderot par Van Loo<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.histoiresgalantes.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/falconet-diderot6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"866\" src=\"https:\/\/www.histoiresgalantes.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/falconet-diderot6-1024x866.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.histoiresgalantes.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/falconet-diderot6-1024x866.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.histoiresgalantes.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/falconet-diderot6-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.histoiresgalantes.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/falconet-diderot6-768x650.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.histoiresgalantes.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/falconet-diderot6-1536x1299.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.histoiresgalantes.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/falconet-diderot6.jpg 1591w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/bpt6k65541167\/f10.item.texteImage?fbclid=IwY2xjawMsthFleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFQUmczWHp0em5zcGhyM1l0AR4QPT6_bpWw726J1sSW-HYAsyAWe6zOViU-CFRDr5d2T2fx1rDgZ8ryBjKgsQ_aem_e4YDPlf0aTPSLTH2vw4PZQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Observations sur la statue de Marc-Aur\u00e8le et sur d&#8217;autres objets relatifs aux beaux-arts<\/a><\/em> (extrait) \u2026 <br>par \u00c9tienne Falconet<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ami de Diderot, qui le surnomme l&#8217;Ours en raison de son caract\u00e8re acari\u00e2tre et belliqueux, le sculpteur acad\u00e9micien \u00c9tienne-Maurice Falconet ne se g\u00e8ne pas pour dire \u00e0 son &#8220;bon&#8221; ami \u00e0 quel point ses critiques sur l&#8217;art sont nulles et infond\u00e9es. Il en fait d&#8217;ailleurs un livre !Les deux hommes se chamailleront jusqu&#8217;\u00e0 l&#8217;ultime dispute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[100,93,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diderot","category-philosophes","category-sculpteurs","post_format-post-format-image"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.histoiresgalantes.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.histoiresgalantes.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.histoiresgalantes.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.histoiresgalantes.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.histoiresgalantes.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.histoiresgalantes.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30482,"href":"https:\/\/www.histoiresgalantes.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30477\/revisions\/30482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.histoiresgalantes.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.histoiresgalantes.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.histoiresgalantes.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.histoiresgalantes.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}