COLLECTION NAME:
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Record
Preferred Title:
Hôtel de Ville, Paris Work_PrefTitle Hôtel de Ville, Paris Preferred Title false
Alternate Title:
City Hall, Paris Work_AltTitle City Hall, Paris Alternate Title false
Image View:
Detail view of three statues (of famous Parisians), on main elevation, left of centre Image_Title Detail view of three statues (of famous Parisians), on main elevation, left of centre Image View false
Creator:
Domenico da Cortona (Italian architect, ca. 1470-ca. 1549); Pierre Joseph Edouard Deperthes (French architect, 1833-1898); Theodore Ballu (French architect, 1817-1885) Agent_Display Domenico da Cortona (Italian architect, ca. 1470-ca. 1549); Pierre Joseph Edouard Deperthes (French architect, 1833-1898); Theodore Ballu (French architect, 1817-1885) Creator false
Location:
site: Paris, Île-de-France, France Work_Location_Type_Display site: Paris, Île-de-France, France Location false
Location Note:
4th arrondissement; Place de l'Hôtel de Ville (formerly the Place de Grève) Work_LocationNotes 4th arrondissement; Place de l'Hôtel de Ville (formerly the Place de Grève) Location Note false
GPS:
+48.856389+2.352222
Date:
1532-1628 (creation); rebuilt 1873-1892 (other) Work_DateDisplay 1532-1628 (creation); rebuilt 1873-1892 (other) Date false
Cultural Context:
French Work_Culture French Cultural Context false
Style Period:
Nineteenth century; Renaissance; Renaissance Revival Work_StylePeriodDisplay Nineteenth century; Renaissance; Renaissance Revival Style Period false
Work Type 1:
city hall Work_Worktype1 city hall Work Type 1 false
Classification:
architecture Work_Classification architecture Classification false
Material:
stone Work_MaterialDisplay stone Material false
Technique:
carving (processes); construction (assembling) Work_Technique carving (processes); construction (assembling) Technique false
Subjects:
architecture; Restoration and conservation; Revolutionaries; Uprising of 1871; communards Work_Image_SubjectDisplay architecture; Restoration and conservation; Revolutionaries; Uprising of 1871; communards Subjects false
Description:
The Hôtel de Ville (French for "City Hall") in Paris, France, is the building housing the City of Paris's administration; it has been the location of the municipality of Paris since 1357. In 1871, the Paris Commune chose the Hôtel de Ville as its headquarters, and as anti-Commune troops approached the building, Commune extremists set fire to the Hôtel de Ville destroying almost all extant public records from the French Revolutionary period. The blaze gutted the building, leaving only a stone shell. Reconstruction of the hall lasted from 1873 through 1892 and was directed by architects Théodore Ballu and Édouard Deperthes following an architectural contest. The architects rebuilt the interior of the Hôtel de Ville within the stone shell that had survived the fire. While the rebuilt Hôtel de Ville is, from the outside, a copy of the 16th-century French Renaissance building (the central block) that stood before 1871, the new interior was based on an entirely new design, with ceremonial rooms lavishly decorated i
Image Description:
Some 230 sculptors were commissioned to produce 338 individual figures of famous Parisians on each facade. The sculptors included prominent academicians like Ernest-Eugène Hiolle and Henri Chapu, but easily the most famous was Auguste Rodin. Rodin produced the figure of the 18th-century mathematician Jean le Rond d'Alembert, finished in 1882. Image_Description Some 230 sculptors were commissioned to produce 338 individual figures of famous Parisians on each facade. The sculptors included prominent academicians like Ernest-Eugène Hiolle and Henri Chapu, but easily the most famous was Auguste Rodin. Rodin produced the figure of the 18th-century mathematician Jean le Rond d'Alembert, finished in 1882. Image Description false
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Five LocalCollection Archivision Addition Module Five Collection false
Identifier:
1A2-F-P-HV-A5 Image_OriginalVendorID 1A2-F-P-HV-A5 Identifier false
Rights:
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