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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Paris, Île-de-France, Franceen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1838-1851 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorLabrouste, Henrien_US
dc.date1838-1851en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-05-07T17:32:19Z
dc.date.available2013-05-07T17:32:19Z
dc.date.issued1838-1851en_US
dc.identifier214116en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 609en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/121510
dc.descriptionDetail of pilaster capital; 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.mediumstone; ironen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectNeoclassicalen_US
dc.subjectRenaissance Revivalen_US
dc.titleBibliothèque Sainte-Genevièveen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-LH-BS-B6en_US
vra.culturalContextFrenchen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypelibrary (building)en_US
dc.contributor.displayHenri Labrouste (French architect, 1801-1875)en_US


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