2016/01/01 by IMPMC, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Jacques Touret, Andrey Bulakh · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Archaeological Research and Protection #Building materials and conservation #Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History #Emperor #Ancient history #Politics #St petersburg #Art #History #Art history #Archaeology #Law #Political science
paper · pdf · doi:10.21638/11701/spbu15.2016.306
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The crypt and sarcophagus of Napoleon in the Dme des Invalids in Paris which were constructed by an Italian-born French architect and designer Louis Tullius Joachim Visconti evince an extraordinarily expressive and harmonic colour combination in French and Italian marbles with those of so called porphyries in Napoleon's tombstone (they are really green andesite from France and purple quartzite from Russia). Works continued over a twenty year period (1840-1861) which saw in France three Kings, one Republic and one Emperor, and in Russia two emperors. Every political change in France exerted critical influence on the continuation of these works. The events surrounding the constructing the crypt and tombstone, applying steam machinery to cut and polish the sarcophagus, the budgets of the work is described from archival documents in detail. J.-F. Bujatti (an Italian from St Petersburg) played an important role in the quarrying of the Russian ornamental stone and in its transport to Paris. Refs 16. Figs 3.