Angel of Rue de Turbigo is a photograph by Lilliana Mendez which was uploaded on September 23rd, 2016.
Angel of Rue de Turbigo
Design by Auguste Emile Delange, who proposed in 1851 in a Fine Art competition to design a lighthouse in honor of Augustin Fresnel, founder of... more
Title
Angel of Rue de Turbigo
Artist
Lilliana Mendez
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Photograph - Photographs
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Design by Auguste Emile Delange, who proposed in 1851 in a Fine Art competition to design a lighthouse in honor of Augustin Fresnel, founder of modern optics… Seven years later, it’s not a lighthouse, but the beautiful caryatid (Caryatids: Female statue often wearing a long tunic, used in architecture as columns) that decorate the Haussmann style building.
A mysterious sculpture, nicknamed since then “the genius”, “the angel of the bizarre” or even “the woman with bag “. A nickname due to the small purse she holds in her right hand, typical accessory in the Second Empire.
The myrrh strand held in the left hand is an evocation of the Greek goddesses, in tribute to the most famous Caryatids, located at the Acropolis of Athens.
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September 23rd, 2016
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