12th Workshop of the Czech Handel Society

Wednesday 7 November 2012 at 6.00 pm.

Classroom No. 19 at 'Vyšší odborná škola oděvního návrhářství a Střední průmyslová škola oděvní' (Vocational High School for Clothing Design and Secondary Technical School for Clothing), Jablonského 3/333, Prague 7 - Holešovice, Czech Republic, close to the underground station 'Nádraží Holešovice' (line 'C').

Admission free.

Snacks & drinks available in vending machines on the premises of the School.

Programme:

Louis François Roubiliac (1702-1762)
- 'Personal Sculptor' to George Frideric Handel

The lecture will be given by Pavel Polka, Chairman of the Czech Handel Society.

Louis François Roubiliac (1702-1762): bust of the composer George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). Plaster cast of the terracotta model for the 1739 bust at the Royal Castle of Windsor, near London. Height: 83.5 cm. In the Collection of the Czech Handel Society; Prague, Czech Republic. Handel's signature was taken from a document dated 24 February 1750. [A picture postcard of the Czech Handel Society (1998).]

  

Adri(a)en Carpentiers (Carpentière, Charpentière; c.1713-1778): sculptor Louis François Roubiliac (1702-1762). Oil painting on canvas, 1762. 125.7 × 100.3 cm. National Portrait Gallery, London, England. Inv.No.: NPG 303 (1870). - Roubiliac is seen modelling, absorbed, a figure of William Shakespeare (1564-1616).

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