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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:Jean-Baptiste_Carpeaux_La_Danse.jpg|thumb|right|400px|La Danse (The Dance), Opera Garnier in Paris]]
county = Yazoo County |
{{Commonscat}}
state = Mississippi |
seal = |
map = Map of Mississippi highlighting Yazoo County.png |
map size = 150 |
founded = [[January 21]], [[1823]] |
seat = [[Yazoo City, Mississippi|Yazoo City]] |
area = 2,419 [[km²]] (934 [[square mile|mi²]]) |
area land = 2,381 km² (919 mi²) |
area water = 38 km² (15 mi²) |
area percentage = 1.57% |
census yr = 2000|
pop = 28,149 |
density = 12 |
web = www.co.yazoo.ms.us |
|}}
'''Yazoo County''' is a [[county]] located in the [[Mississippi Delta]] region of the [[U.S. state]] of [[Mississippi]]. As of 2000, the population was 28,149. It is named for the [[Yazoo River]], whose name, legend has it, comes from an Indian word meaning "River of Death". Farming and lumber are the predominant industries of Yazoo county.


'''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.
==Geography==
According to the [[United States Census Bureau|U.S. Census Bureau]], the county has a total area of 2,419 [[km²]] (934 [[square mile|mi²]]). 2,381 km² (919 mi²) of it is land and 38 km² (15 mi²) of it (1.57%) is water.


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.
The total land area of 934 square miles makes Yazoo County the largest county in Mississippi. In fact, the State of [[Rhode Island]] is only 298 square miles larger.


== Sculptures by Carpeaux ==
===Major Highways===
*[[Image:I-55.svg|20px]] [[Interstate 55]]
*[[Image:US 49.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Highway 49]]
*[[Image:Circle sign 3.svg|20px]] [[Mississippi Highway 3]]
*[[Image:Circle sign 16.svg|20px]] [[Mississippi Highway 16]]


* 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]]
===Adjacent Counties===
* The Dance (commissioned for the [[Palais Garnier|Opera Garnier]])
*[[Humphreys County, Mississippi|Humphreys County]] (north)
* Jeune pêcheur à la coquille - [[Naples|Neapolitan]] Fisherboy - in the [[Louvre]], [[Paris]] [[http://www.insecula.com/oeuvre/photo_ME0000034255.html]]
*[[Holmes County, Mississippi|Holmes County]] (northeast)
* Girl with Shell
*[[Madison County, Mississippi|Madison County]] (east)
* [[Antoine Watteau]] monument, [[Valenciennes]]
*[[Hinds County, Mississippi|Hinds County]] (south)
*[[Warren County, Mississippi|Warren County]] (southwest)
*[[Issaquena County, Mississippi|Issaquena County]] (west)
*[[Sharkey County, Mississippi|Sharkey County]] (northwest)


== History ==
==Neapolitan Fisherboy==
The area which is now Yazoo County was acquired by the State of Mississippi from the [[Choctaw]] Indians in [[1820]]. Yazoo County was established on [[January 21]], [[1823]]. It was the 19th county established in the State of Mississippi, and remains the largest in area. The first county seat was at [[Beattie's Bluff, Mississippi]]. In [[1829]] the county seat was moved to [[Benton, Mississippi|Benton]]. In [[1849]] the county seat was moved once again, to [[Yazoo City, Mississippi|Yazoo City]] where it remains.


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.]]
Yazoo County was a battlefield in [[1863]] and [[1864]] during the [[American Civil War]].


Some years later, he carved the Girl with a Shell, a very similar study.
The famous [[railroad]] disaster which killed engineer [[Casey Jones]] took place in Yazoo County, just north of [[Vaughan, Mississippi]], in [[1900]].


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]].
The [[Great Mississippi Flood of 1927]] did much damage in Yazoo County.


==External links==
Comedian Jerry Clower was a native of Liberty, Mississippi, who immortalized the fictitious ''Ledbetter'' Amite County family (based on his memories of real people) with his comedy sketches. His humor was always gentle, upbeat, and deeply based on his [[Christianity|Christian]] faith. Jerry attended [[Mississippi State University]], and was employed by the Mississippi Chemical Company of Yazoo City. He died shortly after building a new home in his native Amite County. See: http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/clower_jerry/


*[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)]
==Demographics==
*[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)
{{USCensusPop
*[http://www.studiolo.org/MMA-Ugolino/Ugolino.htm A page analysing Carpeaux's ''Ugolino'', with numerous illustrations]
|1900= 43948
|1910= 46672
|1920= 37149
|1930= 37262
|1940= 40091
|1950= 35712
|1960= 31653
|1970= 27304
|1980= 27349
|1990= 25506
|2000= 28149
|estyear=2005
|estimate=28195
}}
As of the [[census]][[Geographic references#2|²]] of 2000, there were 28,149 people, 9,178 households, and 6,644 families residing in the county. The [[population density]] was 12/km² (31/mi²). There were 10,015 housing units at an average density of 4/km² (11/mi²). The racial makeup of the county was 44.74% [[Race (United States Census)|White]], 53.96% [[Race (United States Census)|Black]] or [[Race (United States Census)|African American]], 0.20% [[Race (United States Census)|Native American]], 0.36% [[Race (United States Census)|Asian]], 0.22% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 0.52% from two or more races. 4.38% of the population were [[Race (United States Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Race (United States Census)|Latino]] of any race.


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35.60% of the 9,178 households have children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.20% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 23.70% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.60% were non-families. 24.50% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.70% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.81 and the average family size was 3.35.
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In the county the population was spread out with 28.50% under the age of 18, 9.80% from 18 to 24, 29.20% from 25 to 44, 20.10% from 45 to 64, and 12.40% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females there were 103.60 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 103.60 males.
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The median income for a household in the county was $24,795, and the median income for a family was $29,395. Males had a median income of $28,553 versus $19,797 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the county was $12,062. About 25.40% of families and 31.90% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 42.90% of those under age 18 and 22.50% of those age 65 or over.
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== Cities and towns ==
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*[[Benton, Mississippi|Benton]]
*[[Bentonia, Mississippi|Bentonia]]
*[[Eden, Mississippi|Eden]]
*[[Satartia, Mississippi|Satartia]]
*[[Vaughan, Mississippi|Vaughan]]
*[[Yazoo City, Mississippi|Yazoo City]] (county seat)

== Famous Residents of Yazoo County==
*[[Haley Barbour]], Governor of Mississippi
*[[Willie Brown (athlete)|Willie Brown]], athlete
*[[Jerry Clower]], comedian
*[[Mike Espy]], former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
*[[Lawrence Gordon]], motion picture producer
*[[Lynn Hamilton (actress)|Lynn Hamilton]], actress
*[[T. J. Huddleston]], entrepreneur
*[[Skip James]], blues musician
*[[Tommy McClennan]], blues musician
*[[Willie Morris]], writer
*[[Stella Stevens]], actress
*[[Sarah Mary Taylor]], nationally acclaimed folk artist
*[[Zig Ziglar]], writer and motivational speaker

==External links==
* [http://www.rootsweb.com/~msyazoo/ Yazoo County Mississippi] on RootsWeb.com
* [http://www.yazoo.org/ Yazoo County Convention and Visitors Bureau]

== References ==
* Cox, James L. <u>The Mississippi Almanac</u>. (2001). ISBN 0-9643545-2-7

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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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