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Jean Chalgrin (1786)

Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin (1739 – 21 January 1811) was a French architect, best known for his design for the Arc de Triomphe, Paris.

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Jean Chalgrin

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Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin (1739 – 21 January 1811) was a French architect, best known for his design for the Arc de Triomphe, Paris. His neoclassic...

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Arc de Triomphe

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the Grande Arche de la Défense), the Arc de Triomphe was designed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806; its iconographic programme pits heroically nude French youths...

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Luxembourg Palace

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Louis XIII. After the Revolution it was refashioned (1799–1805) by Jean Chalgrin into a legislative building and subsequently greatly enlarged and remodeled...

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Jardin du Luxembourg

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neighboring religious order of the Carthusian monks. The architect Jean Chalgrin, the architect of the Arc de Triomphe, took on the task of restoring...

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Neoclassicism in France

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Ledoux (1736–1806) and Jean-François Chalgrin (1739–1811); painters included Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825) and his pupil, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres...

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Medici Fountain

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Napoleon Bonaparte, the grotto was restored by the neoclassical architect Jean Chalgrin, the architect of the Arc de Triomphe, who replaced the simple water...

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Louis XV style

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Jacques-Germain Soufflot, and the Église Saint-Philippe-du-Roule (1765–1777) by Jean Chalgrin, which featured an enormous barrel-vaulted nave. Hôtel de la Marine...

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Place de la Concorde

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head. On the four corners of the pedestal, designed by Jean Chalgrin, are bronze statues by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, depicting the virtues of great monarchs;...

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Place Charles de Gaulle

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and 1836, the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile was built to the design of Jean Chalgrin. It was originally commissioned by Emperor Napoleon I during the First...

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Timeline of architecture

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Guanajuato, Mexico is completed. 1806 – Arc de Triomphe, Paris from Jean Chalgrin commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte. 1805 – The Ellesmere Canal, designed...

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Architecture of Paris

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(1751–1780) by Ange-Jacques Gabriel The Arc de Triomphe (1806–1836) by Jean-François Chalgrin Palais Garnier (1861–1875) by Charles Garnier The Basilica of Sacré-Cœur...

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Andreyan Zakharov

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Kokorinov and Ivan Starov, and then in Paris from 1782 to 1786 with Jean Chalgrin. In 1794, he became a full Academician at the Petersburg Academy of...

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French architecture

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the styles called Directoire and "Empire", might be characterized by Jean Chalgrin's severe astylar Arc de Triomphe (designed in 1806). In England the two...

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Ancienne Laiterie de Madame

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The Ancienne Laiterie de Madame is a dairy built by Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin in 1780 for Marie Josephine Louise of Savoy, spouse of Louis XVIII of...

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Louis Lafitte

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complete it successfully. From 1807 to 1808, he worked with architect Jean Chalgrin, managing all the decorations for the Théâtre de l'Impératrice. The...

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French Restoration style

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neoclassicists on the Commission of Public Buildings, who dominated until 1850. Jean Chalgrin had designed Église Saint-Philippe-du-Roule before the Revolution in...

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1806 in architecture

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the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte from Jean Chalgrin. Also this year a competition for design of a Temple de la Gloire de...

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Charles de Wailly

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Beaux-Arts – 3rd section (architecture), fauteuil V. With his death, Jean Chalgrin succeeded to his seat. He became conservator of the museum of painting...

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