Nouvel Opéra, Modèles de Sculpture
During construction of the sumptuous Beaux-Arts Paris Opéra, designed by Charles Garnier, Durandelle made hundreds of photographs of details of the elaborately carved and painted decorations and of the edifice overall. Most revolutionary for their time, however, and most striking to modern eyes are his photographs of the building's structural skeleton and of the construction site's mammoth network of scaffolding. Such images reveal the dual nature of the Paris Opéra-below the traditional, if ornate, masonry there lies a modern industrial armature of iron.
Artwork Details
- Title: Nouvel Opéra, Modèles de Sculpture
- Artist: Louis-Emile Durandelle (French, 1839–1917)
- Artist: Charles Marville (French, Paris 1813–1879 Paris)
- Date: 1860s–early 1870s
- Medium: Albumen silver prints
- Classification: Albums
- Credit Line: Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
- Object Number: 2005.100.377.2 (1–84)
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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