Arcades du Capitole: Pierre de Fermat
Moretti, Raymond
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Alternative Title
Arcades du Capitole [series]
Date
1998Description
Overall view, Pierre de Fermat; The Arcades du Capitole also known as the Galerue des Arcades is a series of 29 serigraphs (silk screen prints) on translucent material fastened to illuminated cases on the ceiling of the arcade of the Capitole building. Each serigraph measures 2.50 x 3.10 metres. The series depicts the history of Toulouse. Moretti executed 89 works from which the 29 were chosen. Moretti also installed a huge Occitan cross (cross of Languedoc) made of bronze measuring 18 metres wide and weighing 20 tons embedded in the square in front of the Capitole. This panel depicts Pierre de Fermat (ca. 1601-1665) a French lawyer at the Parlement of Toulouse, and an amateur mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to infinitesimal calculus. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 4/18/2011)
Type of Work
screen printSubject
contemporary (1960 to present), cycles or series, portrait, scientific or medical, Fermat, Pierre de, 1601-1665, Toulouse (France : County), serigraphy, serigraphs (screen prints), silk screen prints, Languedoc, mathematics, Twentieth century
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