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Trocadéro Fountain
The Trocadéro Fountain, also known as the Warsaw Fountain, is a fountain located in the Jardins du Trocadéro, Trocadéro Gardens, situated below the Palais de Chaillot in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. The fountain's footprint (lawns and basins) forms an island bordered by four public roads: ''Place de Varsovie'' (named in 1928), ''Avenue Albert Ier de Monaco'' (named in 1932), ''Avenue Hussein Ier de Jordanie'' (named in 1999), and ''Avenue Gustave V de Suède'' (named in 1951). History The original fountain Before the current fountain, an earlier one stood in its place, designed as a waterfall, cascade by architect Gabriel Davioud for the Exposition Universelle (1878), 1878 Universal Exposition, alongside the construction of the . This fountain featured bronze mascarons crafted by Auguste Rodin. Seven of these were salvaged and reinstalled at the Parc de Sceaux, while c:Mascarons by Auguste Rodin, others were placed on the retaining wall of the terrace at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger-Henri Expert
Roger-Henri Expert (18 April 1882 – 13 April 1955) was a French architect. Life The son of a merchant, Expert first studied painting at the École des beaux-arts in Bordeaux, then from 1906 attended the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied under Gaston Redon and Gustave Umbdenstock. In 1912 he won the second Prix de Rome and spent three years in Rome at the Villa Medici. He returned to the Ecole as an instructor, in 1922, then as the head of his atelier in 1934, until 1953. In 1921 he accepted a position as ''Architecte des Bâtiments civils et palais nationaux'' (official architect of national structures), responsible for the maintenance of the Louvre Palace, Gobelins Manufactory, the Panthéon, Paris, Panthéon, as well as new projects for embassies, fair pavilions and other government commissions through the 1950s. Stylistically Expert worked in a simplified classicism tending towards Art Deco—his Tourism Pavilion for the 1925 In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
