Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 13: Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
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Collection:
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Archivision Base to Module 13
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Preferred Title:
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Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
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Image View:
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Frontal view of the west elevation, south side
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Creator:
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Charles Percier (French architect, 1764-1838); Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (French architect, 1762-1853)
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Location:
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site: Paris, Île-de-France, France
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Location Note:
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Place du Carrousel
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Date:
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1806-1807 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Empire; Nineteenth century
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Work Type 1:
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monument
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Work Type 2:
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triumphal arch (memorial arch)
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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stone
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Technique:
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carving (processes); construction (assembling)
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Measurements:
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63 x 75 x 24 ft (depth)
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Subjects:
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allegorical; architectural exteriors; military; war; mythology (Classical); Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821; victory arch; triumphal arch; "Haussmannization"; Voie Triomphale; triumphal way; memorial
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Description:
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The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel is a triumphal arch in Paris, France. It is located on the Place du Carrousel, just to the west of the Louvre. Designed by Charles Percier and Pierre Léonard Fontaine, the arch was made between 1806-1808 by the Emperor Napoleon I on the model of the Arch of Septimius Severus in Rome. It was commissioned to commemorate France's military victories in 1805. It was originally surmounted by the famous horses of Saint Mark's Cathedral in Venice, captured by Napoleon, but these were returned to Venice in 1815. They were replaced by a quadriga sculpted by Baron François Joseph Bosio, depicting Peace riding in a triumphal chariot, led by gilded Victories on either side; the composition commemorates the Restoration of the Bourbons following Napoleon's downfall. The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel is at the easternmost end of the so-called "Axe historique" ("grand historic axis") of Paris, a nine-kilometre long linear route which dominates central and western Paris created under the (later)
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Three
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Identifier:
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1A2-F-P-ATC-B2
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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