Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: West Tympanum of Saint-Lazare, Autun Cathedral [plaster cast]
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Preferred Title:
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West Tympanum of Saint-Lazare, Autun Cathedral [plaster cast]
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Alternate Title:
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Reproduction of West Tympanum of Saint-Lazare, Autun Cathedral
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Image View:
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Detail, left corner, souls of the righteous awaiting judgment
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Creator:
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after Gislebertus (French sculptor, active ca. 1120-1140); Jules Fontaine (French cast maker, active ca. 1875-1900)
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Location:
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repository: Palais de Chaillot (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
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Location Note:
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Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine (Musée national des Monuments Français), galerie Davioud; 1, Place du Trocadéro
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GPS:
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+48.862760+2.288279
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Date:
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1881 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Nineteenth century; Romanesque
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Work Type 1:
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tympanum
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Work Type 2:
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replica
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Work Type 3:
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bas-relief (sculpture)
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Classification:
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sculpture
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Material:
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patinated plaster
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Technique:
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carving (processes); casting (process)
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Description:
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In the late Victorian era, plaster casts of outstanding world artworks were produced by various vendors for museums (and world's fairs), spurred by an initiative of Prince Albert in Great Britain. Just a few museums, like the V&A and the Musée national des Monuments Français (Galerie des Moulages) went to extraordinary lengths to develop their own large, unique casts. The present cast collection (in what was the Palais du Trocadéro), was proposed by Viollet-le-Duc in 1879. The cast is by Jules Fontaine; it was restored in 1949 by Georges Latapie. An inscription on the west tympanum of St Lazare, Autun (now Autun Cathedral), reads gislebertus hoc fecit ('Gilbert made this'). The subject of the tympanum is the Last Judgment and includes Christ in a central mandorla and the weighing of souls and the dammed in the lower register. The original is in stone and dates from ca. 1130-1140. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Seven
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Identifier:
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1A2-F-A-SL-A5
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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