| dc.coverage.spatial | Site: Paris, Île-de-France, France | en_US |
| dc.coverage.temporal | 1838-1851 (creation) | en_US |
| dc.creator | Labrouste, Henri | en_US |
| dc.date | 1838-1851 | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-05-07T17:32:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-05-07T17:32:18Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1838-1851 | en_US |
| dc.identifier | 214115 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | archrefid: 609 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/121509 | |
| dc.description | View of two arched windows and cornice; Labrouste finally received his first important public commission: the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Place du Panthéon, Paris. He worked for four years (1839-1842) on the design of the building, which was opened in 1851. He conceived the library as a sort of basilica in the Roman manner, with an elongated rectangular plan; the building is also reminiscent of a medieval monastic refectory and it has been compared to the refectory of the 13th-century St Martin-des-Champs, Paris. The main book stacks were placed on the ground-floor, expressed externally as a heavily rusticated base with small openings; above was placed the reading-room, with access via a staircase block projecting from the centre of the long, rear façade. The most striking feature of the Bibliothèque is the structure of the reading-room, where an exposed iron frame was used for the first time in a monumental building. The frame consists of decorated cast-iron arches and piers, with fireproof 'vaults' formed from latticework clad in plaster. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 12/2/2007) | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | stone; iron | en_US |
| dc.rights | © Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc. | en_US |
| dc.subject | architectural exteriors | en_US |
| dc.subject | Neoclassical | en_US |
| dc.subject | Renaissance Revival | en_US |
| dc.title | Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève | en_US |
| dc.type | image | en_US |
| dc.rights.access | Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only | en_US |
| dc.identifier.vendorcode | 1A1-LH-BS-B5 | en_US |
| vra.culturalContext | French | en_US |
| vra.technique | construction (assembling) | en_US |
| vra.worktype | library (building) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.display | Henri Labrouste (French architect, 1801-1875) | en_US |
