Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 13: Arcades du Capitole: La Vénus de Lespugue
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Collection:
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Archivision Base to Module 13
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Preferred Title:
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Arcades du Capitole: La Vénus de Lespugue
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Alternate Title:
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Arcades du Capitole [series]
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Image View:
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Overall view, La Vénus de Lespugue (prehistoric figurine)
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Creator:
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Raymond Moretti (French artist, 1931-2005)
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Location:
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repository: Capitole (Toulouse, Midi-Pyrénées, France)
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Location Note:
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Place du Capitole
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GPS:
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+43.60446+1.44403
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Date:
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1998 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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screen print
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Classification:
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printing, printmaking
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Material:
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pigment inks on translucent material over lightboxes
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Technique:
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screen printing
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Measurements:
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2.50 m (height) x 3.10 m (width)
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Subjects:
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contemporary (1960 to present); cycles or series; historical; Toulouse (France : County); serigraphy; serigraphs (screen prints); silk screen prints; Languedoc
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Description:
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The Arcades du Capitole also known as the Galerue des Arcades is a series of 29 serigraphs (silk screen prints) on translucent material fastened to illuminated cases on the ceiling of the arcade of the Capitole building. Each serigraph measures 2.50 x 3.10 metres. The series depicts the history of Toulouse. Moretti executed 89 works from which the 29 were chosen. Moretti also installed a huge Occitan cross (cross of Languedoc) made of bronze measuring 18 metres wide and weighing 20 tons embedded in the square in front of the Capitole. This panel depicts a prehistoric figurine of the Gravettian period, dated to between 26,000 and 24,000 years ago. It was discovered in 1922 in the Rideaux cave of Lespugue (Haute-Garonne) in the foothills of the Pyrenees by René de Saint-Périer (1877-1950). (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Six
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Identifier:
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1A1-F-T-RM-AC-A1
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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