By competition or administrative decree? : the contest for the Tomb of Napoleon in 1841

Author

Driskel, Michael Paul

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Art journal/Nineteenth-century French art institutions. 1989, Num. 1, Vol. 48, p. 46-52, 7 ill.

ISSN

0004-3249

Abstract (en)

History of the controversy surrounding the July Monarchy government's handling of the competition, 1840-1842, for the design of Napoleon's tomb, which was to be constructed in the church of S. Louis, Hôtel des Invalides, Paris.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- Architecture -- France
• Sepulchral monuments
• Tomb of Napoleon I
• Hôtel des Invalides, Dôme des Invalides||Paris (FRA)
• July Monarchy (France: 1830-1848)
• France
• State
• Art policy
• Competitions

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Architecture -- France
• Monument funéraire
• Hôtel des Invalides, Dôme des Invalides||Paris (FRA)
• Monarchie de Juillet [France: 1830-1848]
• France
• Etat
• Politique artistique
• Concours

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19910101-00446370

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