Arcades du Capitole: Jean Jaurès (Toulouse, France) : Overall view, Jean Jaurès
- Creator:
- Moretti, Raymond, 1931-2005
- Published/Created:
- Place du Capitole, Capitole (Toulouse, France)
1998 - Physical Description:
- 2.50 m (height) x 3.10 m (width)
- Date Depicted:
- 2009
1950 AD - 2010 AD - Materials:
- pigment inks on translucent material over lightboxes
- Notes:
- The Arcades du Capitole also known as the Galerue des Arcades is a series of 29 serigraphs (silk screen prints) on translucent material fastened to illuminated cases on the ceiling of the arcade of the Capitole building. Each serigraph measures 2.50 x 3.10 metres. The series depicts the history of Toulouse. Moretti executed 89 works from which the 29 were chosen. Moretti also installed a huge Occitan cross (cross of Languedoc) made of bronze measuring 18 metres wide and weighing 20 tons embedded in the square in front of the Capitole. This panel depicts Jean Jaurès (1859-1914), an early Socialist (social democrats) leader. An antimilitarist, Jaurès was assassinated at the outbreak of World War I, and remains one of the main historical figures of the French Left.
- Variant Titles:
- Arcades du Capitole series
- Topics:
- Prints -- France -- 20th century -- (YVRC)
- Period/Style:
- Twentieth century
- Culture:
- French
- Accession Number:
- 1A1-F-T-RM-AC-A20
- Genre:
- printing, printmaking
- Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Rights:
- Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement. - Access Restrictions:
- Yale Community Only
- Digital:
- contemporary (1960 to present); cycles or series; historical; portrait; Jaurès, Jean, 1859-1914; Toulouse (France : County); World War, 1914-1918; serigraphy; serigraphs (screen prints); silk screen prints visual works; prints (visual works); screen prin
- Source Creator:
- Gilchrist, Scott
- Source Title:
- Archivision Addition Module Six
- Source Created:
- 2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc.
2009 - Source Note:
- Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2011; photographer Scott Gilchrist
- Yale Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Digital Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Local Record Number:
- 4125
- OID:
- 10073213
- PID:
- digcoll:1786227