Georges seurat eiffel tower painting
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Description of the artwork «The Eiffel Tower. Paris»
If you think that Georges Seurat painted the main French landmark and the most visited tourist site here, you are greatly mistaken. In 1889, the artist set to paint the most controversial and scandalous engineering structure that was erected in the heart of Paris just the year of the opening of the World Exhibition. This was the construction, against which almost all famous writers and artists opposed. They tried to convince the municipality that an act of vandalism was taking place in the center of the city and this huge, ugly, completely useless factory chimney would distort the architecture of Paris and destroy the view from any window. Remember the textbook anecdote that Guy de Maupassant dined every day in a cafe on the first level of the tower. When asked why, he answered: "This is the only place in Paris from which you cannot see it."
The Eiffel Tower had been built continuously by 300 workers over a period of two years and two months. An amazing action took place in front of the Parisians: more than 18 thousand structural parts were gradually delivered to the construction site, brought higher and higher on cranes and elevators, until the entire ten-ton structure rose above the world as the tallest structure. Th
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About depiction Artist
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| Description | French painter, drawer, lithographer and designer | ||
| Date of birth/death | 2 December 1859 | 29 March 1891 | |
| Location of birth/death | former 5th arrondissement of Paris | boulevard de Magenta | |
| Work location | Brest (1879), Paris (November 1880), Burgundy (1881), Paris (1882-1886), Normandy (1885), Honfleur (1886), Paris (1886), Port-en-Bessin-Huppain (July 1888), Le Crotoy (1889), Gravelines (1890), Paris (1890-1891) | ||
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artist QS:P170,Q34013
Tour Eiffel
label QS:Len,"Tour Eiffel"
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
date QS:P571,+1889-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
dimensions QS:P2048,24.1U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,15.2U174728
institution QS:P195,Q768717
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