Charles Garnier's Opéra

Name: Charles Garnier's Opéra
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Gérard Fontaine
ISBN: 9782757700952

Gérard Fontaine

19/08/2010
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Couverture de Charles Garnier's Opéra par Gérard Fontaine

Résumé

The work of one man, the architect Charles Garnier, who designed it down to the last detail, the Opéra Garnier, built from 1861 to 1875, is a monument with an unclassifiable style. It features works by several artistes, including Paul Baudry, Gustave Boulanger, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Louis-Félix Chabaud, and François Jouffroy. Avant-garde technology joins forces with rich and innovative decoration, in which the combination of gilding, colours, paintings, mosaics, and marbles composes, like a symphony, an unparalleled harmony. The Opéra Garnier invites the visitor on a dazzling adventure : music and the visual arts combine in this place under the aegis of the architecture. The Opéra Garnier ? An enchantment !