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Model of the Paris Opera House, longitudinal section

after Charles Garnier (French architect, 1825-1898); Richard Peduzzi (French model maker, born 1943)
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Alternative Title
Cutaway model of the Paris Opéra (Palais Garnier)
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/167046
Date
1984-1986
Description
Overall view of section model; represents the eastern half of the building; Architecture was allocated permanent exhibition areas in the Musée d'Orsay. It was impossible to illustrate all the great changes wrought by Napoleon III and the prefect Haussmann which turned Paris into a modern capital. The emphasis was therefore put on the new Paris Opera house, designed by Charles Garnier and built from 1863 to 1875. Located at the end of the museum's central aisle in a space designed by Richard Peduzzi (a stage and set designer), the Opéra gallery presents all aspects of the monument, town planning, architecture and decoration, through a polychrome plaster cross-section of the building as it was at the time of its inauguration on 5 January 1875. Source: Musée d'Orsay [website]; http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/ (accessed 5/13/2013)
Type of Work
model (representation)
Subject
architecture, models (representations), scale model, Nineteenth century, Second Empire
Rights
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Rights Statement
Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only
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