Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (French: [øʒɛn vjɔlɛ lə dyk]; 27 January 1814 – 17 September 1879) was a French architect and author, famous for his restoration...
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major restoration by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc Proposed doorway decoration by Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Lassus and Eugène Viollet-le-Duc; plate engraved by Léon...
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century. The second was put into place by the French architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc in 1859, and destroyed in a major fire on 15 April 2019. Work to...
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the Gallo-Roman period and restored by the theorist and architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc between 1853 and 1879. It was added to the UNESCO list of World...
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Château Gaillard (redirect from Château de Gaillard-les-Andelys)
the fortress, searching for an entrance postulated by architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, but no such entrance was found. However, the excavation did reveal...
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Georges Viollet-le-Duc and Renée Defau. Her great-grandfather was the architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. She married (and later divorced) Eugène Marcombes...
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castle in the commune of Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique, in Picardy, built in the 13th century and renovated by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc in the 19th century. During...
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eventually renounced after having commissioned plans for it from Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. Visconti was succeeded by Jules Frédéric Bouchet and, following...
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the Statue of Liberty. Some work had already been carried out by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, but he had died in 1879. Eiffel was selected because of his experience...
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III of France) visited the castle in 1850. As emperor, he asked Eugène Viollet-le-Duc in 1857 to undertake its restoration, which was continued by Maurice...
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purposes rather than for execution. As reconstructed in images by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc it had three sides, and 45 compartments in which people could be...
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1859, during the period of the Second French Empire, the architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc drew up plans for the construction of a new palace on the northeast...
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restored at the end of the 19th century by the theorist and architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. In 1997, it was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites...
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completed, damaged and removed in the 1840s The two-tower plan of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, never built The church was reconsecrated by Napoléon in 1806, and...
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Mont-Saint-Michel (redirect from Le-Mont-Saint-Michel)
18th century 19th to 21st century The islet belongs to the French commune of Le Mont-Saint-Michel, in the département of Manche, in Normandy. The nearest...
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(1826) Reconstruction by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1856) Viollet-le-Duc's reconstructed section of the Grande Vis (1856) Viollet-le-Duc's reconstruction of the...
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architect for the memorial was Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. The base has a nationalistic inscription installed by Viollet-le-Duc, translating into French the...
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by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1866–84) During the Second Empire, under the influence particularly of the architect and historian Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French...
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the Gothic Revival spire of Notre-Dame de Paris (1858–2019) by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc was about 100 feet (30 m) before its destruction in the Notre-Dame...
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theorist Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and his Hôtel Tassel in Brussels (1892–93), often considered the first Art Nouveau house, is based on the work of Viollet-le-Duc...
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Eugène Viollet-le-Duc referenced this recent discovery in their written proposal to restore Notre-Dame in 1843. Later in 1847, Lassus and Viollet-le-Duc...
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rejection of ornament. According to Le Corbusier, the roots of the movement were to be found in the works of Eugène Viollet le duc. The movement emerged in the...
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of several important historic landmarks, carried out for him by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. He restored the flèche, or spire, of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame...
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modernize the cathedral, but was put back in a new form designed by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. The new flèche, of wood covered with lead, was decorated with statues...
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pointed arches can be made from a single curve of the compass. From Eugène Viollet-le-Duc ""Dictionnaire raisonné de l’architecture française du XIe au XVIe...
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French Revolution. His projects were carried out by the architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. These included the restoration (sometimes creative) of the Cathedral...
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château situated in Hendaye, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France. Built by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and Edmond Duthoit, both patronized by the explorer Antoine d'Abbadie...
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Commission that instructed Eugène Viollet-le-Duc to report on the condition of the Abbey of Vézelay in 1840. Following this, Viollet le Duc set out to restore...
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architects of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1864), Frank Lloyd Wright (1941), Le Corbusier (1953), Walter Gropius (1956), Ludwig...
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France, mainly of the second half of 12th and the 13th century. By Eugène Viollet-le-Duc it was called "Style ogivale Plantagenêt", something like "Plantagenet...
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