| dc.coverage.spatial | Site: Paris, Île-de-France, France | en_US |
| dc.coverage.temporal | 1755- ca.1775 (creation); 1829-1854 (alteration) | en_US |
| dc.creator | Gabriel, Ange-Jacques | en_US |
| dc.creator | Hittorff, Jacques-Ignace | en_US |
| dc.date | 1755-1775 | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-12-20T17:02:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-12-20T17:02:06Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1755-1775 | en_US |
| dc.identifier | 178673 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | archrefid: 2077 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/83821 | |
| dc.description | Detail, lamp post in the shape of a rostral column; The commission for the Place Louis XV was awarded to the Premier Architecte, Anges-Jacques Gabriel. A preliminary design was approved in 1755; the definitive plan in 1757. Construction of the Place Louis XV continued until the 1770s. Under the direction of Nicolas-Marie Potain, Gabriel’s scheme transformed the muddy Esplanade into a knuckle that reinforced the great east–west axis of the Louvre and the Champs-Elysées, subsequently extended to Neuilly, and linked it with the peripheral boulevards, the Cours de la Reine and, via a bridge built by Perronet in 1786, the Left Bank . The Place Louis XV acted as a catalyst for residential development along the north side of the Champs-Elysées. The Comte de Rambuteau levelled and widened the line of boulevards from the Bastille to the re-named Place de la Concorde (ca. 1840), also redesigned by Hittorff (1829-1854). Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 7/15/2010) | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | paving; stone | en_US |
| dc.rights | © Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc. | en_US |
| dc.subject | architecture | en_US |
| dc.subject | cityscape | en_US |
| dc.subject | City planning | en_US |
| dc.subject | Nineteenth century | en_US |
| dc.title | Place de la Concorde | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | Place Louis XV | 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-GAJ-PC-D3 | en_US |
| vra.culturalContext | French | en_US |
| vra.technique | construction (assembling) carving (processes) | en_US |
| vra.worktype | square (open space) | en_US |
| vra.worktype | fountain | en_US |
| vra.worktype | sculpture (visual work) | en_US |
| vra.worktype | obelisk (monumental pillar) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.display | Ange-Jacques Gabriel (French architect, 1698-1782); Jacques-Ignace Hittorff (French architect, 1792-1867) | en_US |
