Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
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Eugène Viollet-le-Duc was a 19th-century French architect and theorist renowned for his influential restorations of medieval buildings such as Notre-Dame de Paris and for shaping the Gothic Revival movement.
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architect
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architectural theorist → art historian → human → restoration architect → writer → |
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Cimetière du Père-Lachaise
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| countryOfCitizenship |
France
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| dateOfBirth |
1814-01-27
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| dateOfDeath |
1879-09-17
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| educatedAt |
self-taught in architecture
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| employer |
Commission des Monuments historiques
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| era |
19th century
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| familyName |
Viollet-le-Duc
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| fieldOfWork |
architectural theory
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architecture → restoration of historic monuments → |
| fullName |
Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
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| genre |
architectural treatise
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| givenName |
Eugène
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| influenced |
Antoni Gaudí
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Frank Lloyd Wright → Gothic Revival architecture → Hector Guimard → Henry Hobson Richardson → modern architecture → |
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medieval Gothic architecture
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| languageOfWorkOrName |
French
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| movement |
Gothic Revival
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Rationalism in architecture → |
| name |
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
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| nationality |
French
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| notableIdea |
restoration to an ideal state that may never have existed
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structural rationalism in Gothic architecture → |
| notableWork |
Dictionnaire raisonné de l’architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle
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Dictionnaire raisonné du mobilier français de l’époque carolingienne à la Renaissance → Entretiens sur l’architecture → restoration of Basilica of Saint-Denis → restoration of Château de Pierrefonds → restoration of Mont Saint-Michel → restoration of Notre-Dame de Amiens → restoration of Notre-Dame de Paris → restoration of Notre-Dame de Reims → restoration of Sainte-Chapelle, Paris → restoration of the medieval city of Carcassonne → |
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architect
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restorer of monuments → theorist → writer → |
| placeOfBirth |
Paris
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| placeOfDeath |
Lausanne
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| positionHeld |
inspector-general of historic monuments
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| sexOrGender |
male
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Referenced by (11)
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Hector Guimard
("Viollet-le-Duc")
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Hendrik Petrus Berlage ("Viollet-le-Duc") → Hendrik Petrus Berlage → Leopold Eidlitz → Pierre Cuypers → |
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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
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collaboratedWith |
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Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
("Viollet-le-Duc")
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familyName |
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École Spéciale d’Architecture
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foundedBy |
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Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
("Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc")
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fullName |
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Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
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name |
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North Rose Window of Notre-Dame de Paris
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restoredBy |