Detail View: Design Library Image Collection: Palais Royal
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Accession Number:
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176771
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Order Title:
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Archivision Addition Module FIVE--6,102 images
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Type of View:
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generalView
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View Title:
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Forecourt (cour d'honneur) from southeast, with Les Colonnes de Buren installation
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Date of View:
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8/19/1993
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Image description:
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Its famous forecourt (cour d'honneur), is screened with columns and, since 1986, contains Daniel Buren's site-specific artpiece, Les Deux Plateaux, known as Les Colonnes de Buren; a monumental composition of 280 black and white columns of unequal height.
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Image Rights:
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¿ Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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Source Institution:
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Archivision, Inc.
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Collection:
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Addition Module FIVE
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Culture:
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French
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Subject:
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Orle¿ans, Louis Philippe, duc d¿, 1725-1785
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Work Types:
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Landscape Architecture; altered landscapes; gardens
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Work Types:
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Architecture; dwellings; houses; palaces
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Work Types:
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Architecture; commercial / industrial structures; mixed-use developments
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Preferred Title:
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Palais Royal
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Agent Display:
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Jacques Lemercier (French architect, ca.1584-1654); Pierre Louis Moreau-Desproux (French architect, 1727-1793); Victor Louis (French architect, 1731-ca. 1800)
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Date:
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rebuilt 1763-1784 (creation)
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Materials:
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stone
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Technique:
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carving (processes)
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Locations:
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Paris, ¿le-de-France, France
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Location Type:
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(site)
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Style/Period:
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Neoclassical
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Style/Period:
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Eighteenth century
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Classification:
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Architecture
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