Preferred Title:
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Monument to the Dead
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Alternate Title:
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Monument aux Morts
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Image View:
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Side view, Monument aux Morts
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Creator:
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Albert Bartholomé (French sculptor, 1848-1928)
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Location:
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site: Père-Lachaise, Cimetière du (cemetery) (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
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Location Note:
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Boulevard de Ménilmontant
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GPS:
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+48.86+2.396
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Date:
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1889-1899 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Nineteenth century; Symbolist
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Work Type 1:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Work Type 2:
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monument
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Classification:
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sculpture
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Material:
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stone
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Technique:
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carving (processes); construction (assembling)
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Relation Work:
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part of Père Lachaise Cemetery
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Subjects:
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allegory; architecture; death or burial; funerary art; human figure; mourning
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Description:
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Soon after the death of his first wife in 1887, Bartholomé embarked on the chief work of his career: from 1889 to 1899 he worked on the stone Monument to the Dead in Père Lachaise cemetery, Paris, which, together with Rodin?s Gates of Hell, is one of the greatest expressions of Symbolist sculpture. This large stone sculpture in high relief, with its harmonious rhythms, its lyrical interlinking of figures and its sober modelling expresses in sculpture an ideal of refined restraint close to that of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. (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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2A2-F-P-PL-A4
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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