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Frontal view of the director's residence, from the south
Title:
Royal Saltworks; Director's Residence
Alternate Title:
Le bâtiment du Directeur
View:
Frontal view of the director's residence, from the south
Related Work:
part of Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans
Date:
1774-1779 (creation)
Style/Period:
Neoclassical
Location:
site: Saline Royale (Arc-et-Senans, Franche-Comté, France)
Location Note:
25610 Arc et Senans
Culture:
French
Materials:
Description:
This cruciform building is the focus of the most extreme design in the complex. It attests to the power, capacity, authority of the Director of the Saltworks. Its portico, composed of rare doric columns "with embossings" (alternating cubic and cylindrical drums), is surmounted by a triangular pediment pierced by an oculus, symbolic of an omniscient eye, knowledge, monitoring. The effect of dominating and monitoring is even more accentuated by the skylight which raises the roof of the building (Source: Institut Claude-Nicolas Ledoux [website]; http://www.salineroyale.com/)
Classification:
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Image Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Vendor ID:
1A1-LCN-SW-3-A4
MDID Identifier:
3067
Archivision Set:
Archivision Base Collection
Collection:
Archivision Base Module
Collection:
Front Page Content
Record created:
June 7, 2018
Last modified:
Nov. 1, 2018
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