Franz Xaver Messerschmidt

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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At a glance

Class

Figure

Domain

Arts and letters

Knowledge cost

4

Influence

7

Resistance

5

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What Wikipedia says

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (6 February 1736 – 19 August 1783) was a German-Austrian sculptor most famous for his "character heads", a collection of busts with faces contorted in extreme facial expressions.

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