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Jean-Louis Charles Garnier (pronounced [ʃaʁl ɡaʁnje]; 6 November 1825 – 3 August 1898) was a French architect, perhaps best known as the architect of the Palais Garnier and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.
Charles Garnier (born November 6, 1825, Paris, France—died August 3, 1898, Paris) was a French architect of the Beaux-Arts style, famed as the creator of the Paris Opera House. He was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in 1842 and was awarded the Grand Prix de Rome in 1848 to study in Italy.
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Awarded the Premier Grand Prix de Rome for architecture in 1848, he spent a formative period in Italy at the Villa Medicis. On his return to France, Charles Garnier was hired by the City of Paris for a number of positions in the 5th and 6th arrondissements.
Garnier’s career after the Opéra was filled with both architectural and bureaucratic activity, but the Opéra will remain his principal legacy, as the finest and most exuberant expression of the Beaux-Arts architectural and decorative tradition. Garnier died on August 3, 1898 following two strokes.
Gamier died on the 3rd of August 1898. Advertisement. Buildings and architecture of Charles Garnier, 19th century French architect.
Initially referred to as le nouvel Opéra de Paris (the new Paris Opera), it soon became known as the Palais Garnier, "in acknowledgment of its extraordinary opulence" and the architect Charles Garnier's plans and designs, which are representative of the Napoleon III style.
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Dec 6, 2023 · The Paris Opéra (1860-75), designed by Charles Garnier, is one of the jewels of Napoleon III’s newly reconstructed city. Frequented by Degas and the source for much of his ballet imagery, the Paris Opéra is key to understanding the somewhat perverse culture of voyeurism and spectacle among the prosperous classes of the Second Empire.
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