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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Predicate Object
instanceOf architect
architectural theorist
art historian
human
restoration architect
writer
burialPlace Cimetière du Père-Lachaise
countryOfCitizenship France
dateOfBirth 1814-01-27
dateOfDeath 1879-09-17
educatedAt self-taught in architecture
employer Commission des Monuments historiques
era 19th century
familyName Viollet-le-Duc
fieldOfWork architectural theory
architecture
restoration of historic monuments
fullName Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
genre architectural treatise
givenName Eugène
influenced Antoni Gaudí
Frank Lloyd Wright
Gothic Revival architecture
Hector Guimard
Henry Hobson Richardson
modern architecture
influencedBy medieval Gothic architecture
languageOfWorkOrName French
movement Gothic Revival
Rationalism in architecture
name Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
nationality French
notableIdea restoration to an ideal state that may never have existed
structural rationalism in Gothic architecture
notableWork Dictionnaire raisonné de l’architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle
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
occupation architect
restorer of monuments
theorist
writer
placeOfBirth Paris
placeOfDeath Lausanne NERFINISHED
positionHeld inspector-general of historic monuments
sexOrGender male


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