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  2. Charles Garnier was born Jean-Louis Charles Garnier on 6 November 1825 in Paris, on the Rue Mouffetard, in the present-day 5th arrondissement.His father, Jean André Garnier, 1796–1865, who was originally from Sarthe, a department of the French region of Pays de la Loire, had worked as a blacksmith, wheelwright, and coachbuilder before settling down in Paris to work in a horse-drawn carriage ...

  3. Died: August 3, 1898, Paris (aged 72) Awards And Honors: Prix de Rome. Movement / Style: Second Empire style. 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 ...

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  4. Gamier died on the 3rd of August 1898. Advertisement. Buildings and architecture of Charles Garnier, 19th century French architect.

  5. Garniers 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.

  6. Charles Garnier was born in Paris in 1825 into a family of blacksmiths and began studying drawing at the Atelier Lebas at the age of thirteen. At seventeen, he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and worked as a draughtsman in the architecture studios of Eugene Viollet-le-Duc. Awarded the Premier Grand Prix de Rome for architecture in 1848, he ...

  7. 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. Marvin ...

  8. Jan 24, 2023 · Charles Garnier, the architect, was the last one shortlisted for the project. Emperor Napoleon III started a competition for an “Imperial Academy of Music and Dance” in December 1860.

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