Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Monument to the Dead

Preferred Title: 
Monument to the Dead
Alternate Title: 
Monument aux Morts
Image View: 
Side view, Monument aux Morts
Creator: 
Albert Bartholomé (French sculptor, 1848-1928)
Location: 
site: Père-Lachaise, Cimetière du (cemetery) (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Location Note: 
Boulevard de Ménilmontant
GPS: 
+48.86+2.396
Date: 
1889-1899 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
French
Style Period: 
Nineteenth century; Symbolist
Work Type 1: 
sculpture (visual work)
Work Type 2: 
monument
Classification: 
sculpture
Material: 
stone
Technique: 
carving (processes); construction (assembling)
Relation Work: 
part of Père Lachaise Cemetery
Subjects: 
allegory; architecture; death or burial; funerary art; human figure; mourning
Description: 
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/)
Collection: 
Archivision Addition Module Five
Identifier: 
2A2-F-P-PL-A4
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.