Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 13: Arcades du Capitole: Saint-Sernin
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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: Saint-Sernin
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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, Saint-Sernin being dragged by the bull
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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; saints; 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 the martyrdom of Saint Sernin. St Saturnin (Sernin) is styled as the first Bishop of Tolosa (Toulouse), died ca. 257. He was martyred in front of the (then Roman) Capitole by having his feet tied to a bull, which dragged him around Toulouse. (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-A2
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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