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Schwartz Projects is a new initiative created by Patrick Michalopoulos, the director of Schwartz Gallery, to investigate and seek out dynamic and more flexible models of exhibition-making. Schwartz Projects introduces IMPROMPTU, its first such investigation, a summary of which will appear on this blog over the next month until the exhibition opening on March 5th 2009.
The column comprises a stone core enrobed with 425 bronze plaques fixed to the stone with pins. A 280 metre-long frieze of bas-reliefs, designed from drawings by Bergeret, winds round the column depicting the major events of the campaign - from the camp in Boulogne to the return of the Emperor and his guard in 1806. A team of sculptors (including Boizot, Bosio, Bartolini, Ramey, Rude, Corbet, Clodion and Ruxthiel) was commissioned to execute the frieze.
ReplyDeleteDismantled during the Commune at the instigation of Gustave Courbet, the Vendôme column was restored and re-erected once more in 1873 at Courbet's expense.