Preferred Title:
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Model of the Paris Opera House, longitudinal section
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Alternate Title:
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Cutaway model of the Paris Opéra
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Image View:
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Detail, center section, the actual domed theater with balcony seats
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Creator:
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after Charles Garnier (French architect, 1825-1898); Richard Peduzzi (French model maker, born 1943)
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Location:
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repository: Musée d'Orsay (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
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Location Note:
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62, rue de Lille; Gift of E.P.M.O., 1989
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GPS:
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+48.86-2.325
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Date:
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model 1984-1986 (creation); modeled as it appeared in 1875 (other)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Nineteenth century; Second Empire
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Work Type 1:
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model (representation)
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Classification:
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architectural and scale models
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Material:
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paint; plaster
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Technique:
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casting (process); construction (assembling); painting and painting techniques
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Measurements:
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240 cm (height) x 578 cm (length) x 110 cm (depth)
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Relation Work:
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depicts Paris Opéra
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Description:
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Architecture was allocated permanent exhibition areas in the Musée d'Orsay. It was impossible to illustrate all the great changes wrought by Napoleon III and the prefect Haussmann which turned Paris into a modern capital. The emphasis was therefore put on the new Paris Opera house, designed by Charles Garnier and built from 1863 to 1875. Located at the end of the museum's central aisle in a space designed by Richard Peduzzi (a stage and set designer), the Opéra gallery presents all aspects of the monument, town planning, architecture and decoration, through a polychrome plaster cross-section of the building as it was at the time of its inauguration on 5 January 1875. (Source: Musée d'Orsay [website]; http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Eight
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Identifier:
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1A1-GJ-POM-BB04
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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