Preferred Title:
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Grand Palais
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Alternate Title:
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Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées
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Image View:
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Aerial view, from second platform of the Eiffel Tower, showing the entire glass roof of the Grand Palais
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Creator:
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Charles Louis Girault (French architect, 1851-1932); Henri Deglane (French architect, 1855-1921)
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Location:
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site: Paris, Île-de-France, France
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Location Note:
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8th arrondissement; 3, avenue du Général-Eisenhower
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GPS:
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+48.866161+2.312553
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Date:
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1897-1900 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Beaux-Arts; Nineteenth century; Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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exhibition building
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Work Type 2:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Work Type 3:
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museum
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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stone; cast iron; glass
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Technique:
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carving (processes); construction (assembling); metalworking
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Measurements:
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240 m (length, main hall)
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Subjects:
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architecture; Exposition universelle internationale de 1900 (Paris, France); world's fairs; historic quotation; temporary exhibits buildings
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Description:
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Girault had done temporary structures for Exposition Universelle, Paris, of 1889 and of 1900. He also erected two structures that were intended to outlast the 1900 exhibition: the Petit Palais, which was entirely his own work, and the Grand Palais, of which he was principal architect, working in partnership with Henri-Adolphe-Auguste Deglane, Albert Louvet (1860-1936) and Albert-Théophile-Félix Thomas (1847-1907). The two buildings flank the broad Avenue Alexandre III, just off the Avenue des Champs-Elysées. The façades are interpretations of 18th-century French architecture. Behind exterior façades built entirely of stone, the Grand Palais is in fact one great iron-framed and glass hall (almost 240 metres long). Its plain interior décor centres on a grand staircase leading to the upper galleries. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Five
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Identifier:
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1A2-F-P-PG-A1
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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