Marking the 10th anniversary of the CCA’s public opening, the exhibition spotlights and juxtaposes acquisitions from its first decade. Over 350 prints, drawings, photographs, rare books, manuscripts, toys, and models spanning five centuries of architectural history reflect how the built world has been imagined, conceived, and reflected upon. Dedicated to the many donors(...)
Main galleries and hall cases
24 November 1999 to 30 April 2000
En chantier: The Collections of the CCA, 1989-1999
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Marking the 10th anniversary of the CCA’s public opening, the exhibition spotlights and juxtaposes acquisitions from its first decade. Over 350 prints, drawings, photographs, rare books, manuscripts, toys, and models spanning five centuries of architectural history reflect how the built world has been imagined, conceived, and reflected upon. Dedicated to the many donors(...)
Main galleries and hall cases
research
Visiting Scholars 2005
Paolo Amaldi, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium Topic: Analyse du rapport entre espace architectural et instrument de représentation dans l’oeuvre de Mies van der Rohe Jean-François Bédard, Paris Program, Columbia University, New York, United States Topic: Honnêteté and the Grotesque: a Study of the Album by Gilles-Marie Oppenord(...)
3 January 2005 to 30 September 2005
Visiting Scholars 2005
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Paolo Amaldi, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium Topic: Analyse du rapport entre espace architectural et instrument de représentation dans l’oeuvre de Mies van der Rohe Jean-François Bédard, Paris Program, Columbia University, New York, United States Topic: Honnêteté and the Grotesque: a Study of the Album by Gilles-Marie Oppenord(...)
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3 January 2005 to
30 September 2005
books
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286 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Newark [Del.] : University of Delaware Press, 2011.
Decorative games : ornament, rhetoric, and noble culture in the work of Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742) / Jean-François Bédard.
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286 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
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Newark [Del.] : University of Delaware Press, 2011.
DR1967:0006
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- This presentation drawing depicts a rectangular ceiling with a central oval compartment from which six trompe-l'oeil columns, decorated with a spiral motif, emanate at equidistant intervals. The compartments between the "columns" are decorated with grotesque motifs, and the areas at the juncture of the cornice and "columns" depict either busts of putti protruding from Rocaille, or various types of urns.
interior design
1714-1742
Presentation drawing for a Rococo trompe-l'oeil ceiling
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DR1967:0006
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- This presentation drawing depicts a rectangular ceiling with a central oval compartment from which six trompe-l'oeil columns, decorated with a spiral motif, emanate at equidistant intervals. The compartments between the "columns" are decorated with grotesque motifs, and the areas at the juncture of the cornice and "columns" depict either busts of putti protruding from Rocaille, or various types of urns.
interior design
DR1991:0007:012
circa 1713
Design for a funeral monument for the 1636 French edition of Cesare Ripa's "Iconologie"
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DR1991:0007:012
DR1991:0007:050
after 1724
Ornemental drawing of a baldaquin over a fountain / Dessin ornemantal d'un baldaquin surmontant une fontaine
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DR1991:0007:050
DR1992:0001
ca. 1720
DR1993:0010
ca. 1733