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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

Ugolin et ses fils - Ugolino and his Sons (1861, in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art)[[1]] with versions in other museums including the Musée d'Orsay
The Dance (commissioned for the Opera Garnier)
Jeune pêcheur à la coquille - Neapolitan Fisherboy - in the Louvre, Paris [[2]]
Girl with Shell
Antoine Watteau monument, Valenciennes

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

A page on the official Louvre site giving access to some of Carpeaux's works (French language only)
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)
A page analysing Carpeaux's Ugolino, with numerous illustrations

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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]]
-This is a '''list of self-contradicting English words''' -- that is, words which in and of themselves have two or more generally accepted meanings in the English language that directly or generally contradict each other. Such words are also known as '''[[Auto-antonym|auto-antonyms]], [[Auto-antonym|antagonyms]], [[contronyms]],''' and words having '''[[contradefinitions]].''' Many such contradefinitions arise from [[slang]] usage. Others develop as a result of their frequent use in [[sarcasm]].
+[[Image:Jean-Baptiste_Carpeaux_La_Danse.jpg|thumb|right|400px|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 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.
-A similar concept, where a commonly used phrase contains two words which have or can be construed to have definitions in opposition to each other is known as an [[oxymoron]]. See [[list of oxymora]] for a list of examples.
+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.
-There are two forms of contranyms: [[homograph]]ic, where two words with the same spelling can have opposing definitions; and [[homophone|homophonic]], where two words with the same [[pronunciation]] can have opposing definitions. In general, the terms below are '''both''' homographic and homophonic contranyms.
+== Sculptures by Carpeaux ==
-[[Richard Lederer]] included a list of self-contradicting words in a chapter on [[Janus]]-faced words in his book ''Crazy English.''<ref>{{cite book | edition = Revised | publisher = Pocket | isbn = 0671023233 | pages = 224 | last = Lederer | first = Richard | title = Crazy English | date = 1998-06-01 }}</ref>
+* 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]]
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+* 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==
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+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.]]
-==A==
-; Adumbrate : To clarify or to cast a shadow over.
-; Awesome : The strict definition of this adjective is "fearsome, mighty"; but the now generally accepted slang usage roughly equates to "enjoyable, fun".
-; Against : Depending on context, this word can mean "towards" or "close to" ("against the wall"); otherwise it means "opposing" ("against the wind").
-;Act : To pretend or feign as in "act interested even if you're bored", or to actually do something
-; Aught : Anything or nothing.
+Some years later, he carved the Girl with a Shell, a very similar study.
-==B==
-; Bad : [[United States|American]] urban slang, chiefly in the [[1970s]] and [[1980s]], reassigned ''bad'' to mean "good".
-; Before : Earlier or sooner than; or in the future of; awaiting as in "the golden age is before us"
-; Bill : Bills (in American English) can be either monetary notes, indicating money possessed, or (in both American and [[British English|British]]) they can refer to statements of debt, indicating money owed.
-; Blunt : In common use, when this adjective is applied to an object, it means "dull, not sharp"; but when applied to a ''statement'', it generally means "straight to the point, direct".
-; Bolt : As a [[transitive verb]], it means "to secure something in place (with a bolt)". But as an [[intransitive verb]], it means "to leave or run away from (quickly)".
-; Bound : In the construction ''bound for'', it means "moving towards someplace"; as an adjective by itself, it means "tied up, secure", in other words "unable to move".
-; Buckle : As a verb construction of the noun ''buckle'', which is a device for clasping a belt together, it means "to secure, tighten, hold"; otherwise, it means "to weaken, collapse".
+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]].
-==C==
-; Check (cheque) : Like ''bill'', this can either refer to a bank check, having a positive monetary value; or to a restaurant check, which is a statement of money owed.
-; Chuffed : In [[United Kingdom|British]] slang this has come to mean "pleased", synonymous to "puffed up"; the strict definition is "displeased, upset".
-; Cleave : To cleave means both to separate and to cling together.
-; Clip : When referring to the noun ''clip'', this verb means "to attach together". Otherwise, as applied to part of a larger corpus (e.g. "clipping an article"), it means "to cut apart from".
-; Commencement : As a noun form of the verb ''commence'', this should mean "the start"; however the most popular use of the term is for university graduation ceremonies, at the '''end''' of schooling. (It should be noted that the intent of the term is to mean "the start of professional life", but this is not the primary perception of the event.)
-; Contingent : The adjective ''contingent'' describes a known dependency or result; but the noun form ''contingency'' usually refers to an unexpected event.
-; Continue : The verb ''continue'' means "to keep doing"; however the noun form ''continuation'', in legal usage, means "to pick up later".
-; Cool : In commonly accepted slang, ''cool'' means happy, pleasant, agreeable; but when referring to a personal interaction, especially in politics, it usually means "less than agreeable" or "polite but strained".
-; Custom : As a noun, this means "usual, conventional"; but as an adjective, it means "specially designed".
-==D==
+==External links==
-; Dispose : As a past tense verb, ''disposed'' means "removed" or "gotten rid of"; as an adjective; ''disposed'' means "available".
-; Derivation : ''Derivation'' means both "something derived; a derivative" and the "source from which something is derived; an origin."
-; Downhill : When referring to difficulty, it means "progressively easier"; but when referring to status or condition, it means "progressively worse".
-; Dusting : When ''dusting'' furniture, this means "to remove dust from"; but when "dusting for fingerprints", or when used as a noun ("a dusting of snow"), it means respectively "to apply dust" or "the application of dust".
-; Dense : A person who is dense is not smart; a written document that is dense is packed with intelligent statements
+*[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)]
-==E==
+*[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)
-; Enjoin : A verb meaning either "to require" or "to forbid," as in a judicial order
+*[http://www.studiolo.org/MMA-Ugolino/Ugolino.htm A page analysing Carpeaux's ''Ugolino'', with numerous illustrations]
-; Execute : To execute a person is to end their life; to execute a program is to ''start'' it
+[[Category:French sculptors|Carpeaux, Jean-Baptiste]]
-==F==
+[[Category:1827 births|Carpeaux, Jean-Baptiste]]
-; Fast : as an adverb, it means "to move or do quickly"; as an adjective, as in "holding fast", it means "to '''not''' move".
+[[Category:1875 deaths|Carpeaux, Jean-Baptiste]]
+[[de:Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux]]
-==G==
+[[fr:Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux]]
-; Garnish : With food, the verb means "to add to"; with wages, it means "to take from". (Strictly speaking, though, the intention of the latter is to mean something added to the charges against the wages, alongside insurance, taxes, etc.)
+[[nl:Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux]]
-==H==
+[[pl:Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux]]
-; Hardly : This adverb can mean either "lightly" or "harshly";  the phrase "The boots were hardly worn" may mean " The boots were lightly worn", but can also mean "The boots were harshly (or heavily) worn", depending upon context.  In the "harshly" case, it is correct, and clearer, to say "The boots were worn hardly".
+[[pt:Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux]]
-; Handicap : Advantage (e.g. in sport) or disadvantage/disability
+[[zh:让-巴蒂斯·卡尔波]]
-==I==
-==J==
-==K==
-==L==
-; Lease : To lend or to borrow.
-; Left : As a past tense verb, it means "to have gone"; as an adjective; it means "remaining".
-; Literally : Originally "in the literal sense", it has come to mean "in effect, or virtually".  The newer use is widely criticized by proscriptive speakers.
-==M==
-==N==
-; Natty : Fashionable or unkempt.
-==O==
-; Off : Generally, something being ''off'' means it is not operating; however when an alarm ''goes off'', it means it has '''started''' operating (or when a person ''goes off'', it means they have become very agitated).
-; Original : Original either means plain, or unchanged (as in original flavour), or it could mean something creative or new (an original idea).
-; Out : Similar to ''off'', to ''take something out'' means to remove it; but to ''bring something out'' is to exhibit it prominently.
-; Oversight : When used as a general concept, this word is the noun form of ''oversee'', which means "to manage and be in charge of". But when used to refer to a specific incident, it becomes the noun form of ''overlook'', meaning "error" or lapse in proper management.
-==P==
-; Par : In all cases, ''par'' means "average". ''Below par'' should then mean "below average". However, in [[golf]], since a lower score means a better showing, ''below par'' means "better than average".
-; Peer : Strictly, a ''peer'' is someone on the same social level as you; but in chiefly [[United Kingdom|British]] usage, a ''peerage'' is a title of nobility (a higher social level than the general populace).
-; Peruse : Although considered an error by most usage experts, the word peruse is commonly understood to mean "to skim over" or "to glance at."  The accepted definition is "to examine closely."
-; Practiced/practised : As a past tense verb, this word means "attempted something" in order to improve ability; but as an adjective it means "expert". (Arguably, however, having had lots of practice will generally lead to expertise.)
-; Public : As a noun, it refers to the common people of a society; however as an adjective, it normally refers to things operated by the government. (Of course, such government operations are maintained for public use. Furthermore, under [[democracy]] the people and the government are considered one in the same by definition.)
-==Q==
-; Quantum : Very small (e.g. in Physics) or very large (e.g. "quantum leap").
-==R==
-; Reservation : as a concrete noun, this can be "a confirmation" of availability; as an abstract noun, it is "a fear or uncertainty".
-; Riot : A riot is usually a chaotic spree of violence and destruction; but in more casual use it can refer to a funny story or a good party. (Outside observers may argue that this last definition often resembles the first.)
-; Root : ''Root'' can mean "to take root", i.e. to situate tenaciously; but it can also mean "to remove roots" i.e. to unseat and dispose.
-==S==
-; Sanction : The verb ''sanction'' means "to permit"; the noun ''sanctions'' normally means "restrictions".
-; Scan : Originally, this word meant "to examine closely," but has come to mean "to look over hastily".
-; Screen : Conceal with or as if with a screen; or "to display prominently" as in ''screening a film''.
-; Secreted : Usually obvious due to context; but this can mean either "hidden" (''secreted away''), or "exposed" (''secreted from a wound'').
-;seed : to plant a field, or to clean seeds from a fruit
-; Several : Originally meaning "separate, single, or individual", (as in "the several states" referred to in the US Constitution) it is now understood to mean "plural, more than two".
-; Shelled : Shelled can describe either the result of removing a shelled (e.g., we shelled the [[hazelnuts]]) or describe something that has a shell (e.g., turtles are like shelled snakes with legs).
-; Show-stopper : In the standard usage, this means "something that is strikingly attractive or has great popular appeal".  Recent usage particularly in the computer industry has "A bug that makes an implementation effectively unusable".<ref>http://catb.org/jargon/html/S/showstopper.html</ref>
-; Sick : Used with a standard definition, this word can mean "disgusted; revolted," but used colloquially, it can mean "very pleasant; agreeable".
-;Skin : To add skin, or to remove it. "Skin that deer" "Skin that kayak".
-; Smell : Means both to emit an odor ("My foot smells") and to perceive an odor ("My nose smells").
-; Stain : To ''stain fabric'' is to intentionally add a desired color; but to ''stain clothes'' is to accidentally add an undesired color.
-; Strike : Normally meaning "to hit", in [[baseball]] it means "to miss", and an extension of this usage has led to the meaning "to make a mistake". Further adding to the contradiction, in [[bowling]] it refers to the best possible play. Another contradiction results with the phrase ''strike out'': the baseball lineage leads to the meaning "to run out of hope"; but the original lineage also leads to the meaning "to start pursuing a desire"
-==T==
-; Table : Generally, the phrase ''put on the table'' means "to present something for consideration"; however, in [[parliamentary procedure]], the verb ''table'' means to put off discussion of a topic.
-; Temper : As a verb, it can either mean to soften or mollify, or to strengthen (e.g. a metal).
-; Terrific : Originally and still used to mean "inducing terror", but has now come to have a positive connotation as well, meaning "fantastic" or "amazing"
-; Trim : Similar to ''clip'': it can mean "to add decoration to" (''trim the (Christmas) tree''), or "to remove from" (''trim the bushes'').
-; Trying : As an adjective, 'hard to endure'. As a verb, 'to make an effort'. A teacher's report may say, "Your child is trying".
-==U==
-==V==
-==W==
-; Weather : ''Weathering a storm'' means "to endure" the storm; but generally ''weathering'' means "to decay".
-; Wicked : Similar to ''awesome'' above, the strict definition of the adjective is "evil"; the now generally accepted slang usage (barring regional quirks) is roughly equivalent to "very good".
-==X==
-==Y==
-==Z==
-==References==
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