Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Archivision Base to Module 13
Preferred Title:
Arcades du Capitole: Pierre de Fermat
Alternate Title:
Arcades du Capitole [series]
Image View:
Overall view, Pierre de Fermat
Creator:
Raymond Moretti (French artist, 1931-2005)
Location:
repository: Capitole (Toulouse, Midi-Pyrénées, France)
Location Note:
Place du Capitole
GPS:
43.60446 1.44403
Date:
1998 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
screen print
Classification:
printing, printmaking
Material:
pigment inks on translucent material over lightboxes
Technique:
screen printing
Measurements:
2.50 m (height) x 3.10 m (width)
Subjects:
contemporary (1960 to present); cycles or series; portrait; scientific or medical; Fermat, Pierre de, 1601-1665 ; Toulouse (France : County); serigraphy; serigraphs (screen prints); silk screen prints; Languedoc; mathematics
Description:
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 Pierre de Fermat (ca. 1601-1665) a French lawyer at the Parlement of Toulouse, and an amateur mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to infinitesimal calculus. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Six
Identifier:
1A1-F-T-RM-AC-A14
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Arcades du Capitole: Pierre de Fermat