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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Palais de Chaillot (Paris, Île-de-France, France)en_US
dc.coverage.temporal1879 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorunknown (French cast maker)en_US
dc.date1879en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-26T18:13:57Z
dc.date.available2013-09-26T18:13:57Z
dc.date.issued1879en_US
dc.identifier236110en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 2530en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/143845
dc.descriptionDetail, west flanking panel of the south portal, lower panels, the rich man’s death and his torments; In the late Victorian era, plaster casts of outstanding world artworks were produced by various vendors for museums (and world's fairs), spurred by an initiative of Prince Albert in Great Britain. Just a few museums, like the V&A and the Musée national des Monuments Français (Galerie des Moulages) went to extraordinary lengths to develop their own large, unique casts. The present cast collection (in what was the Palais du Trocadéro), was proposed by Viollet-le-Duc in 1879, which is the year this cast was made. It is a cast of the south portal of the former Benedictine abbey (Eglise abbatiale Saint-Pierre) in Moissac, Tarn-et-Garonne department, southwestern France. The giant tympanum, over 6 m wide, represents a theophanic vision, the iconographic source of which has been disputed. Christ, enthroned and wearing a crown, is surrounded by the four living creatures and the twenty-four Elders described in Revelation 4; they carry cups and musical instruments as in Revelation 5. There are also relief panels on the walls flanking the portal. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/en_US
dc.format.mediumpatinated plasteren_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectcycles or seriesen_US
dc.subjectNew Testamenten_US
dc.subjectsaintsen_US
dc.subjectJesus Christen_US
dc.subjectGalerie des Moulagesen_US
dc.subjectplaster castsen_US
dc.subjectjugement dernieren_US
dc.subjectNineteenth centuryen_US
dc.titleSouth Portal of Saint-Pierre, Moissac [plaster cast]en_US
dc.title.alternativeReproduction of South Portal of Saint-Pierre, Moissacen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A2-F-MO-SP-A14en_US
vra.culturalContextFrenchen_US
vra.techniquecasting (process)en_US
vra.worktypereplicaen_US
vra.worktypeportalen_US
vra.worktypetympanumen_US
vra.worktyperelief (sculpture)en_US
dc.contributor.displayunknown (French cast maker)en_US


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