COLLECTION NAME:
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Record
Preferred Title:
Rotonde de la Villette Work_PrefTitle Rotonde de la Villette Preferred Title false
Alternate Title:
Barrière de la Villette Work_AltTitle Barrière de la Villette Alternate Title false
Image View:
Close view of drum Image_Title Close view of drum Image View false
Creator:
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (French architect, 1736-1806) Agent_Display Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (French architect, 1736-1806) Creator false
Location:
site: Paris, Île-de-France, France Work_Location_Type_Display site: Paris, Île-de-France, France Location false
Location Note:
Place de Stalingrad Work_LocationNotes Place de Stalingrad Location Note false
Date:
1784-1789 (creation) Work_DateDisplay 1784-1789 (creation) Date false
Cultural Context:
French Work_Culture French Cultural Context false
Style Period:
Neoclassical Work_StylePeriodDisplay Neoclassical Style Period false
Work Type 1:
tollgate Work_Worktype1 tollgate Work Type 1 false
Classification:
architecture Work_Classification architecture Classification false
Material:
stone Work_MaterialDisplay stone Material false
Technique:
construction (assembling) Work_Technique construction (assembling) Technique false
Subjects:
architectural exteriors; City planning; Transportation; drum; column: Doric Work_Image_SubjectDisplay architectural exteriors; City planning; Transportation; drum; column: Doric Subjects false
Description:
From 1784 to 1789 Ledoux was engaged by Calonne and the Ferme to build a new tax-wall around Paris, together with attendant boulevards and toll-gates or barrières. These latter buildings Ledoux conceived as monumental entries to the city, for which he adopted simplified geometric forms and manipulated scale and classical elements to produce bold, imaginative designs; 40 were proposed, in many variations of a few prototypes, and they were built very rapidly--almost all being completed in the four years before the Revolution--amid heated controversy and despite Ledoux's own dismissal from the work in 1789. The barrières, long a target of press criticism for their monumental scale and distorted motifs, were not unexpectedly the first recipients of that violence against monuments later called vandalism, and only four survived the 19th century: the Barrière d'Enfer, Barrière du Trône, Rotonde de la Villette and Rotonde de Monceau. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Base Collection LocalCollection Archivision Base Collection Collection false
Identifier:
1A1-LCN-BV-A4 Image_OriginalVendorID 1A1-LCN-BV-A4 Identifier false
Rights:
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