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Essays in French Literature and Culture, 2021 This article shows how Bénédict Morel’s degeneration theory underlays Eugène Viollet-le-Duc’s architectural discourses. It illustrates how notions that originated in medical and scientific fields such as racial degeneration and the concept of human ...
Aina Marti-Balcells
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Le rationalisme structurel à la rencontre des programmes de lycées (1860-1900)
In Situ, 2021 The architectural scene of the 19th century was animated by profound debates in which doctrines and personalities strongly opposed each other. Among them, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc was, of course, a prominent figure. The famous architect would not rest until
Claude Laroche
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The Middle Ages in the Nineteenth Century
ArcHistoR Architettura Storia Restauro: Architecture History Restoration, 2017 The present short essay, drawn from the introductive lecture given by Lucio Villari during the seminar Duc La Nostalgia delle origini. Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc e la percezione del Medioevo nell’Ottocento (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria,
Lucio Villari
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In Situ, 2014 Built at Hendaye by Eugène-E. Viollet-le-Duc and Edmond Duthoit for the Ethiopist scientist explorer Antoine d’Abbadie, the château d’Abbadia (1864-1884) is characterized by an extraordinary artistical eclectism which mixes gothic inspiration and Eastern
Viviane Delpech
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Sacrum et Decorum, 2023 Józef Mehoffer’s competition design for the painting decoration of the Franciscan Church in Kraków in 1894 has not yet been found. This article is an attempt to reconstruct the artist’s decorative concept on the basis of the surviving sketches for ...
Beata Studziżba-Kubalska
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THE PUERTO RICO TOWER, CAMPECHE. STUDY OF A UNIQUE CASE IN MAYAN ARCHITECTURE [PDF]
, 2011 [EN] One of the most outstanding aspects of Mayan culture is its remarkable progress in the subject of astronomy. According to very recent research, astronomical knowledge of the Mayans can be confirmed on the inscriptions of sculptural monuments ...
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The ornament of the 1870s. In Search of original Russian Art (Victor Butovsky, Vladimir Stasov and Eugene Viollet-le-Duc) [PDF]
Литературный фактBefore being denounced as a “crime,” ornamentation held a prominent place within debates that focused more on national identity than aesthetics. The present article revisits the controversy that took place around ornamentation as an expression of the ...
Dany Savelli
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In Situ, 2019 France witnessed its last significant territorial acquisitions during the second half of the nineteenth century, when, in 1860, at the end of the Austro-French Piedmontese War, Napoleon III’s Empire annexed Savoy and the County of Nice.
Alain Bottaro
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Le décapage des peintures murales de Viollet-le-Duc entre 1951 et 1963
In SituIn the 19th century, Paris Cathedral was decorated with murals designed by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879) for the chapels in the choir and nave, two sections of wall at the entrance to the side aisles, and the two arms of the transept. Today, only the
Mathilde Candau
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ArcHistoR Architettura Storia Restauro: Architecture History Restoration, 2017 Around the middle of the 19th century, the expanding architectural historiography – fed by a group of intellectuals who ‘heroically’ started the classification of the infinite Italian heritage – began more and more frequently to adopt the Monge ...
Renata Picone
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