List the places named after famous personalities
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Barthélemy Prieur (1536-1611)
First commissions, from the Duke of Savoy
Barthélémy Prieur was born in 1536 at Berzieux in the Champagne region, currently the department of Marne, into a peasant family.
He may have trained in the Netherlands, but then went to Italy, to Turin where he worked from 1564 to 1568 for Duke Emmanuel-Philibert of Savoy. He had probably stayed in Rome, Florence and maybe Milan before.
Back to France
His artistic output went in several directions.
Places named after fruitOn the one hand he worked on a range of pieces, mainly sepulchral monuments. On the other hand he brought to France the production of small bronzes, an Italian idea.
In 1571 the sculptor was in Paris and, under the architect Jean Bullant, made two of the Virtues on the Monument to the heart of Anne de Montmorency, High Constable of France.
This monument is now exhibited at the Louvre Museum. The two worked together again on the tomb of the High Constable and his wife erected after 167