Detail View: The AMICA Library: Tympanum, Strasbourg Cathedral
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AMICA ID:
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CMA_.2001.149
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AMICA Library Year:
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2002
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Object Type:
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Photographs
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Creator Name:
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Marville, Charles
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Creator Nationality:
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French
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Creator Role:
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artist
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1816 - 1879
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Biography:
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Charles Marville French, 1816-c. 1879At the invitation of the city of Paris, photographer Charles Marville was among the first to document the ancient quarters of his birthplace. His views, taken in the late 1850s, were intended to record the many buildings and neighborhoods ultimately destroyed by Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann's urban planning project that would create the boulevards and open spaces of modern Paris. While Marville's survey of the city, extensive and thorough in scope, prefigured other important efforts of its kind, it is distinguished by its emotional accessibility. His work beautifully reveals a Paris that has long disappeared. Originally trained as a painter and illustrator, Marville worked with both calotype and glass plate negatives. He photographed in France, Italy, Germany, and Algeria, becoming most well known for his architectural imagery but also producing acclaimed landscapes and studies of trees. Many of Marville's early views, often considered his best, were included in the albums of Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Évrard before the printer's establishment in Lille closed in 1855. Named official photographer of Paris in 1862, Marville also served as photographer to the Imperial Museum of the Louvre and to King Vittorio Emmanuelle of Italy. T.W.F.
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Gender:
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M
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Creator Birth Place:
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Paris, France
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Charles Marville
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Title:
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Tympanum, Strasbourg Cathedral
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Title Type:
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Primary
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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c. 1863
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Creation Start Date:
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1858
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Creation End Date:
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1868
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Materials and Techniques:
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albumen print from wet collodion negative
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Classification Term:
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Photograph
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Dimensions:
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Image: 27.2cm x 35.7cm, Mounted: 43.4cm x 62.1cm
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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ID Number:
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2001.149
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Credit Line:
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John L. Severance Fund
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Inscriptions:
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Written in pencil on recto: "Strasbourg/tympau(?) de la Chapelle St. Vincent de Paul." Embossed on mount: "CH MARVILLE/PHOTOGRAPHE/DU MUSEE IMPERIAL/DU LOUVRE"
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Rights:
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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CMA_.AM20021773.tif
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