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[[Image:Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's marble sculpture 'Ugolino and his Sons', Metropolitan Museum of Art.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's marble sculpture 'Ugolino and his Sons', Metropolitan Museum of Art]]
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[[Image:heckmondwikesign.jpg|thumb|left|Welcome to Heckmondwike]]
'''Heckmondwike''' (known locally by its [[nickname]], '''Hecky'''), and through it's closeness to [[Cleckheaton]] and [[Liversedge]], as a part of '''Cleckheckmonsedge''', is a small town which is located in [[West Yorkshire]], [[England]], 13 km (8 miles) southeast of [[Bradford]]. Its population has a high sense of civic pride; recent reports by the Boundary Commission have talked of a "fierce independence" in the town, which makes it hard to link to any constituency[http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pbc/review_areas/West_Yorkshire_Boroughs/downloads/TR_Wakefield_Day6.doc]. It is currently divided between the Dewsbury and Batley & Spen seats, but shall be entirely within Batley & Spen at the next election.


'''Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux''' ([[May 11]], [[1827]], [[Valenciennes]] –[[October 12]], [[1875]], [[Courbevoie]]) was a French sculptor and painter. His early studies were under [[François Rude]]. Carpeaux won the [[Prix de Rome]] in [[1854]], and moving to [[Rome]] to find inspiration, he there studied the works of [[Michelangelo Buonarroti|Michelangelo]], [[Donatello]] and [[Andrea del Verrocchio|Verrocchio]]. Staying in Rome from [[1854]] to [[1861]], he obtained a taste for movement and spontaneity, which he joined with the great principles of [[baroque art]]. In [[1861]] he made a bust of [[Mathilde Bonaparte|Princess Mathilde]], and this later brought him several commissions from [[Napoleon III]]. He worked at the pavilion of [[Flora (goddess)|Flora]], and the [[Opéra Garnier]]. His group La Danse (the Dance, [[1869]]), situated on the right side of the façade, was criticised as an offence to common decency.
It is often overshadowed by its neighbours [[Batley]] and [[Dewsbury]], and like many of the towns in West Yorkshire, Heckmondwike was formerly a milling town, located in the [[Heavy Woollen District]], and was famous for its blankets. In 1811 a Blanket Hall was built for the trade of the town's primary industry, and a second hall was erected in 1839, on the road now called Blanket Hall Street in the town centre.


He never managed to finish his last work, the famous Fountain of the Four Parts of the Earth, on the Place Camille Jullian. He did finish the terrestrial globe, supported by the four figures of [[Asia]], [[Europe]], [[North America|America]] and [[Africa]], and it was [[Emmanuel Frémiet]] who completed the work by adding the eight leaping horses, the tortoises and the dolphins of the basin.
It runs under the auspices of [[Kirklees|Kirklees Metropolitan Council]]. It hit the headlines in [[2003]] when it elected a member of the far-right [[British National Party]] as its [[councillor]]; leading to local protests. The councillor in question — Counc. [[David Exley]] — was elected after the then-serving councillor, [[Tim Crowther]],(now a teacher at Heckmondwike Grammer School) left the Labour party and ran as an independent, splitting the Labour vote. In 2006 the major parties again failed to unite behind a single anti-BNP candidate thus allowing a second BNP candidate to be elected — Roger Roberts, a security guard who in his previous post on [[Mirfield]] Town council was fired after failing to attend a meeting for over six months. In May 2007, Heckmondwike's third councillor, David Sheard (Labour) was returned with a 644 majority. The Heckmondwike electoral ward also includes the Norristhorpe area of neighbouring [[Liversedge]].


== Sculptures by Carpeaux ==
Heckmondwike's weekly newspaper is called the Heckmondwike Herald and is available each Friday. This is an edition of the Spenborough Guardian, which covers the settlements of the former Spenborough Urban District.


* Ugolin et ses fils - [[Ugolino della Gherardesca|Ugolino]] and his Sons (1861, in the permanent collection of the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]])[[http://www.insecula.com/oeuvre/photo_ME0000009025.html]] with versions in other museums including the [[Musée d'Orsay]]
In recent years the length of the name of the town seems to have caused problems on road signs in the local area where the town's name has been abbreviated to "Heck'wike" or even "Heckm'wike" although this in no way reflects local pronunciation of the town's name.
* The Dance (commissioned for the [[Palais Garnier|Opera Garnier]])
* Jeune pêcheur à la coquille - [[Naples|Neapolitan]] Fisherboy - in the [[Louvre]], [[Paris]] [[http://www.insecula.com/oeuvre/photo_ME0000034255.html]]
* Girl with Shell
* [[Antoine Watteau]] monument, [[Valenciennes]]


==Neapolitan Fisherboy==
Heckmondwike has its own telephone exchange, part of the Wakefield 01924 dialling area, with numbers beginning 40, 41 and 235. This exchange also covers neighbouring [[Liversedge]], and small areas of [[Dewsbury]] and [[Gomersal]].


Carpeaux submitted a plaster version of ''Pêcheur napolitain à la coquille'', the Neapolitan Fisherboy, to the [[French Academy]] while a student in [[Rome]]. He carved the marble version several years later, showing it in the Salon exhibition of 1863. It was purchased for [[Napoleon III]]'s empress, [[Eugénie de Montijo|Eugènie]]. The statue of the young smiling boy was very popular, and Carpeaux created a number of reproductions and variations in marble and bronze. There is a copy, for instance, in the Samuel H. Kress Collection in the [[National Gallery of Art]] in [[Washington D.C.]]
==Other facts==


Some years later, he carved the Girl with a Shell, a very similar study.
* Heckmondwike derives its name from 'Heamunds Farm' in Old English. Although it is not mentioned in the Domesday Book, the name suggests that there was a small settlement here long before the Norman Conquest.
* The town hosts frequent local markets (Tuesdays & Saturdays) and the Farmer's Market (first Sunday of the month) in the main square.
* Heckmondwike was the first town in England to have [[Christmas]] lights ([[Illuminations (festival)|illuminations]]).
* [[Heckmondwike Grammar School]] was the last state selective school in the area in 1973 and remains selective to this day.
* Heckmondwike also acquired brief fame due to ''[[The Sun (newspaper)|The Sun]]'''s headline "[[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]] goes to Heckmondwike [Carpets] when she wants her underfelt". The town's name is deliberately misspelt as Heckmondwyke whenever it is mentioned in [[The Guardian]]
* [[Joseph Priestley]]'s aunt lived here, in what is now a public house and was often visited here by her nephew.
* [[Elizabeth Gaskell]]'s biography of the novelist [[Charlotte Bronte]] in 1857 described the inhabitants of Heckmondwike as "a chapel going people, very critical of their sermons, tyrannical to their ministers and violent radicals".
* The Six Lane Ends area of the town today is a road junction of only 5 roads, the sixth, Little Green Lane was redirected to make the junction safer.
Often referred to as Hecky or Hecki by the OG's ov Heckmondwike


Carpeaux sought real life subjects in the streets and broke with the classical tradition. The Neapolitan Fisherboy's body is carved in intimate detail and shows an intricately balanced pose. Carpeaux claimed that he based the Neapolitan Fisherboy on a boy he had seen during a trip to [[Naples]].
==Famous sons==


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==External links==
* [[Jeff Butterfield]] – England Rugby international.
* [[John Curwen]] – developer of the [[Tonic Sol-fa]] system of musical notation: a street in one of the housing estates is named after him: Curwen Crescent.
* [[David Hand]] – curate of Heckmondwike from [[1942]] to [[1946]] who later became [[Archbishop]] of [[Papua New Guinea]]
* [[James Berry]] - The Hangman from Heckmondwike - Born in Blanket Hall Street in 1852. Between 1884 and 1891 working on piece rate he hung 134 men and women. He resigned as a result of the execution of John Conway in Liverpool when his head nearly came off. He died in 1913.
* [[Arthur Wood]] - in 1924 Arthur Wood composed a maypole dance called Barwick Green. Barwick Green is the theme tune from the Archers that [[Billy Connolly]] suggested should replace the current National Anthem.
* [[Malcolm Merriweather]] - A fictional character played by [[Bernard Fox]] on "[[The Andy Griffith Show]]", a U.S. television series, was from Heckmondwike.
* [[Dave Pybus]] - Current bass player of Grammy-nominated heavy metal band [[Cradle of Filth]].
* [[Les"Lecter" Smith]] - Previous member of [[Cradle of Filth]].


*[http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=rs_display_res&critere=jean+baptiste+carpeaux&operator=AND&nbToDisplay=5&langue=fr A page on the official Louvre site giving access to some of Carpeaux's works (French language only)]
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== External links ==
*[http://www.insecula.com/contact/A005511_oeuvre_1.html A page from insecula.com listing more views of Carpeaux's works (also in French;] it may be necessary to close an advertising window to view this page)
*[http://www.studiolo.org/MMA-Ugolino/Ugolino.htm A page analysing Carpeaux's ''Ugolino'', with numerous illustrations]


[[Category:French sculptors|Carpeaux, Jean-Baptiste]]
* [http://www.lostrailwayswestyorkshire.co.uk/Mirfield%20Low%20moor.htm Heckmondwike Central Railway Station]
[[Category:1827 births|Carpeaux, Jean-Baptiste]]
* [http://www.lostrailwayswestyorkshire.co.uk/leeds%20new%20line%203.htm Heckmondwike Spen Railway Station]
[[Category:1875 deaths|Carpeaux, Jean-Baptiste]]
* [http://www.magmapoetry.com/poem.php?article_id=260 Heckmondwyke – a poem]
* [http://www.lostrailwayswestyorkshire.co.uk/Vintage%20Carriages.htm Heckmondwike railway tickets and timetable]
* [http://www.heckmondwikejfc.co.uk/ Heckmondwike Junior Football Club]


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Revision as of 01:07, 19 June 2007

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's marble sculpture 'Ugolino and his Sons', Metropolitan Museum of Art
La Danse (The Dance), Opera Garnier in Paris
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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (May 11, 1827, Valenciennes –October 12, 1875, Courbevoie) was a French sculptor and painter. His early studies were under François Rude. Carpeaux won the Prix de Rome in 1854, and moving to Rome to find inspiration, he there studied the works of Michelangelo, Donatello and Verrocchio. Staying in Rome from 1854 to 1861, he obtained a taste for movement and spontaneity, which he joined with the great principles of baroque art. In 1861 he made a bust of Princess Mathilde, and this later brought him several commissions from Napoleon III. He worked at the pavilion of Flora, and the Opéra Garnier. His group La Danse (the Dance, 1869), situated on the right side of the façade, was criticised as an offence to common decency.

He never managed to finish his last work, the famous Fountain of the Four Parts of the Earth, on the Place Camille Jullian. He did finish the terrestrial globe, supported by the four figures of Asia, Europe, America and Africa, and it was Emmanuel Frémiet who completed the work by adding the eight leaping horses, the tortoises and the dolphins of the basin.

Sculptures by Carpeaux

Neapolitan Fisherboy

Carpeaux submitted a plaster version of Pêcheur napolitain à la coquille, the Neapolitan Fisherboy, to the French Academy while a student in Rome. He carved the marble version several years later, showing it in the Salon exhibition of 1863. It was purchased for Napoleon III's empress, Eugènie. The statue of the young smiling boy was very popular, and Carpeaux created a number of reproductions and variations in marble and bronze. There is a copy, for instance, in the Samuel H. Kress Collection in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.

Some years later, he carved the Girl with a Shell, a very similar study.

Carpeaux sought real life subjects in the streets and broke with the classical tradition. The Neapolitan Fisherboy's body is carved in intimate detail and shows an intricately balanced pose. Carpeaux claimed that he based the Neapolitan Fisherboy on a boy he had seen during a trip to Naples.

External links

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