Collection:
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Archivision Base to Module 13
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Preferred Title:
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Arcades du Capitole: La Croisade contre les Cathares
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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 Croisade contre les Cathares, with Occitan cross in center
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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; Catholic Church; Toulouse (France : County); serigraphy; serigraphs (screen prints); silk screen prints; Inquisition; religious repression; 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 Albigensian Crusade (1208 -1249) (or crusade against the Albigenses) a crusade declared by the Catholic Church against the heresy, especially the Cathars. The Cathars were mainly located in the Languedoc , which was dominated by two families, the houses of Toulouse and Trencavel. The Occitan cross in seen in the center of the panel. (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-A6
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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