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Garnier's wife Louise later wrote that the French architect Alphonse de Gisors, who was on the jury, had commented to them that Garnier's project was "remarkable in its simplicity, clarity, logic, grandeur, and because of the exterior dispositions which distinguish the plan in three distinct parts—the public spaces, auditorium, and stage ...
- Jean-Louis Charles Garnier, 6 November 1825, Paris, France
- Prix de Rome - 1848
- Architect
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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The Palais Garnier ( French: [palɛ ɡaʁnje] ⓘ, Garnier Palace), also known as Opéra Garnier ( French: [ɔpeʁa ɡaʁnje] ⓘ, Garnier Opera), is a historic 1,979-seat [3] opera house at the Place de l'Opéra in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was built for the Paris Opera from 1861 to 1875 at the behest of Emperor Napoleon III. [4]
- 1,979
- Place de l'Opéra, 75009 Paris, France
- Nouvel Opéra de Paris
- Opera house
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 ...
Jan 23, 2011 · Text description provided by the architects. The Paris Opera, or Palais Garnier, is the most famous auditorium in the world. With 2,200 seats, this opera house designed by Charles Garnier is ...
Jan 24, 2023 · Charles Garnier, the architect, was the last one shortlisted for the project. ... In 1858, Napoleon III and his wife, Empress Eugènie, went to the Salle Le Peletier for a concert. As they arrived ...
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 ...