Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel is a triumphal arch in Paris , between the Louvre and Tuileries . It is not to be confused with the more famous and twice as large Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile , which stands on the Place Charles de Gaulle and shapes the Champs-Élysées .
location
The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel is located between Tuileries and Place du Carrousel on the so-called Ax historique , which stretches from the Louvre in a straight line west-northwest through Paris and two neighboring cities, in the capital via the Avenue des Champs-Élysées and the Avenue de la Grande Armée, then beyond the city limits in Neuilly-sur-Seine as Avenue Charles de Gaulle and beyond the Seine in the multi-city office district La Défense to the Grande Arche , which François Mitterrand had built.
history
Napoleon I had it built in Rome from 1807 to 1809 to commemorate his Grande Armée based on the model of the Arch of Septimius Severus , between the Louvre and the then still free-standing Palais des Tuileries . So there was still no line of sight with the Tuileries Gardens and the Avenue des Champs-Élysées. By the 1806 continued under Napoleon I and under Napoleon III. When the connecting structures between the Louvre and the Tuileries Palace were completed, the triumphal arch finally stood in a second western courtyard of the Louvre. During the uprising of the Paris Commune in 1871, the Tuileries Palace burned down and was not restored. Only since then has the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel been located in an open courtyard formed by the Louvre and the adjoining gallery buildings with a line of sight to the great triumphal arch and beyond.
layout
On February 27, 1806, Napoleon I commissioned the architects Charles Percier and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine by decree with the realization and the director general of the museums, Vivant Denon , with the planning of the sculptural decoration. Construction progressed so quickly that when the imperial army returned from their campaign in Prussia in 1807, triumphantly passed through the arch. Only the decor was not in place yet.
Denon chose Charles Meynier to design the reliefs and statues . The reliefs and statues were made by various sculptors, including Clodion . The scenes relate to the victorious campaign of the French army ( Battle of Austerlitz ) and the surrender of Ulm in 1805. However, the acts of war are only shown marginally, the focus is more on the calm of the peace negotiations. They correspond to the image that Napoleon propagated of himself, but at the same time they praise the military in that the uniforms are depicted in an exaggerated manner.
The approximately 19 m high, 23 m wide and 7.3 m deep monument consists of three arches: a large one (over 6 m high) and two small ones (a good 4 m high) on its sides. The triumphal arch is lined with pink marble on the columns and the frontispiece . The following text is engraved on the frontispiece:
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The quadriga on the arch is based on a replica of the four golden horses of San Marco in Venice . Napoleon had the originals brought to Paris in 1797 after the victorious Italian campaign together with the Lion of San Marco as a symbol of the republic of Venice, which he had smashed . In 1808 she was given two goddesses of victory . As a result of the Congress of Vienna , France had to return the looted property in 1815. Since then, copies of François Joseph Bosio have been in their place in Paris .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lynnise Phillips - Pomona College; USA: Archive link ( Memento of the original dated December 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Walter Frodl : Idea and Realization: The Becoming of the State Preservation of Monuments in Austria . Böhlau, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3205051548 , p. 29.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 42.4 " N , 2 ° 19 ′ 58.2" E