posted on 2017-06-30, 00:00authored byG. Massiot & cie
In the late Victorian era, plaster casts of outstanding classical, ancient, and medieval works were produced by various vendors for museums (and world's fairs), spurred by an initiative of Prince Albert in Great Britain. The plaster cast collection in the Mus\u00E9e national des Monuments Fran\u00E7ais, Palais de Chaillot, Galerie Davioud was proposed by Viollet-le-Duc in 1879. The west doorway Of Autun Cathedral is dominated by the huge tympanum (4.62 x 6.53 m), carved with the Last Judgment. In 1766 it was considered offensive and concealed with plaster. The projecting head of Christ, which was then broken off to achieve a level surface, was rediscovered and restored to its position in 1948; it was also restored to this cast in 1949 by Georges Latapie. The Romanesque tympanum was signed Gislebertus hoc fecit ('Gislebertus made this').
History
Alt Title
Plaster cast of "Last Judgment" Tympanum, Autun
Date Created
1910-01-01
Date Modified
2017-06-30
Spatial Coverage
Paris
Palais de Chaillot (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
+48.8627+2.2885
Temporal Coverage
before or circa 1910
Cultural Context
['Romanesque', 'Nineteenth century']
Rights Statement
To view the physical lantern slide, please contact the Architecture Library.