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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Paris, Île-de-France, Franceen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1806-1807 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorPercier, Charlesen_US
dc.creatorFontaine, Pierre-François-Léonarden_US
dc.date1806-1807en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-22T17:56:50Z
dc.date.available2013-02-22T17:56:50Z
dc.date.issued1806-1807en_US
dc.identifier194208en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 1436en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/101716
dc.descriptionSide view of the west elevation; The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel is a triumphal arch in Paris, France. It is located on the Place du Carrousel, just to the west of the Louvre. Designed by Charles Percier and Pierre Léonard Fontaine, the arch was made between 1806-1808 by the Emperor Napoleon I on the model of the Arch of Septimius Severus in Rome. It was commissioned to commemorate France's military victories in 1805. It was originally surmounted by the famous horses of Saint Mark's Cathedral in Venice, captured by Napoleon, but these were returned to Venice in 1815. They were replaced by a quadriga sculpted by Baron François Joseph Bosio, depicting Peace riding in a triumphal chariot, led by gilded Victories on either side; the composition commemorates the Restoration of the Bourbons following Napoleon's downfall. The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel is at the easternmost end of the so-called "Axe historique" ("grand historic axis") of Paris, a nine-kilometre long linear route which dominates central and western Paris created under the (later) city planning of Baron Haussmann. Looking west towards , the arch is perfectly aligned with the obelisk in the Place de la Concorde, the Champs-Élysées, the Arc de Triomphe and (although it is not directly visible from the Place du Carrousel) the Grande Arche de la Defense. The axis thus begins and ends with an arch today. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 6/20/2008)en_US
dc.format.mediumstoneen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectallegoricalen_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectmilitaryen_US
dc.subjectwaren_US
dc.subjectmythology (Classical)en_US
dc.subjectNapoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821en_US
dc.subjectvictory archen_US
dc.subjecttriumphal archen_US
dc.subject"Haussmannization"en_US
dc.subjectVoie Triomphaleen_US
dc.subjecttriumphal wayen_US
dc.subjectmemorialen_US
dc.subjectNineteenth centuryen_US
dc.subjectEmpireen_US
dc.titleArc de Triomphe du Carrouselen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A2-F-P-ATC-A4en_US
vra.culturalContextFrenchen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling) carving (processes)en_US
vra.worktypemonumenten_US
vra.worktypetriumphal arch (memorial arch)en_US
dc.contributor.displayCharles Percier (French architect, 1764-1838); Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (French architect, 1762-1853)en_US


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