Denis Foyatier spent much of his youth working for a farmer and first started sculpting in wood while watching his employer’s flocks. He went on to attend drawing classes in Lyon and then enrolled in Paris’ School of Fine Arts. In 1819, he was awarded a scholarship to the French Academy in Rome at the Villa Medici. It was there that he created the mould for “Spartacus”, which remains his most famous work.
Denis Foyatier spent much of his youth working for a farmer and first started sculpting in wood while watching his employer’s flocks. He went on to attend drawing classes in Lyon and then enrolled in Paris’ School of Fine Arts. In 1819, he was awarded a scholarship to the French Academy in Rome at the Villa Medici. It was there that he created the mould for “Spartacus”, which remains his most famous work.
