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Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (French: [øʒɛn vjɔlɛ lə dyk]; 27 January 1814 – 17 September 1879) was a French architect and author, famous for his restoration of the most prominent medieval landmarks in France. His major restoration projects included Notre-Dame de Paris, the Basilica of Saint Denis, Mont Saint-Michel, Sainte-Chapelle ...
Sep 13, 2024 · Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (born Jan. 27, 1814, Paris, France—died Sept. 17, 1879, Lausanne, Switz.) was a French Gothic Revival architect, restorer of French medieval buildings, and writer whose theories of rational architectural design linked the revivalism of the Romantic period to 20th-century Functionalism.
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Sep 25, 2021 · Among Viollet-le-Duc’s most remarkable achievements from the restoration of Notre-Dame are the sculpted replicas of the numerous missing medieval sculptures. Based on a few low-quality engravings and existing examples on other French cathedrals, Viollet-le-Duc made drawings of more than a hundred statues.
In 1835, Viollet-le-Duc was ordered his first task of restoring the Abbey of Vézelay, a project that also launched his long-running efforts in restoring other historical buildings such as the Mont Saint Michel, Carcassone, Pierrefonds, Roqetaillade and most famously, the Notre Dame de Paris – which made him a national celebrity.
Nov 2, 2015 · By Sue Aran. A contemporary of Georges-Eugène Haussmann and Charles Garnier, Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc was a 19th-century Gothic Revival architect, designer, architectural historian, theorist and painter, famous for his enthusiastically creative restorations of not only iconographic Parisian monuments, but monuments all over France and a ...
Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (French: [øʒɛn vjɔlɛ lə dyk]; 27 January 1814 – 17 September 1879) was a French architect and author, famous for his restoration of the most prominent medieval landmarks in France. His major restoration projects included Notre-Dame de Paris, the Basilica of Saint Denis, Mont Saint-Michel, Sainte-Chapelle ...
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Dec 2, 2014 · Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, the French architect most famous for the 'restoration' of Notre-Dame de Paris, is a person we unequivocally associate with 19th century Gothic Revival.Although there is no ...
