Arcades du Capitole: La Mort de Simon de Montfort
Moretti, Raymond
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Alternative Title
Arcades du Capitole [series]
Date
1998Description
Overall view, La Mort de Simon de Montfort; 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 the death of Simon IV de Montfort, Seigneur de Montfort-l'Amaury, 5th Earl of Leicester (1160 -25 June 1218), who was known for his brutal suppression and slaughter of the Cathars during the Albigensian Crusade. He died at a seige of Toulouse, his head smashed by a stone from a mangonel, operated, according to the most detailed source, by donas e tozas e mulhers ("ladies and girls and women") of Toulouse. 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, historical, military or war, rulers and leaders, Toulouse (France : County), serigraphy, serigraphs (screen prints), silk screen prints, Languedoc, Twentieth century
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