French Ornament in the Nineteenth Century; A lecture duet by Ralph Ghoche and Estelle Thibault
Bard Graduate Center Gallery 18 West 86th St, New York City, NY, United StatesBard Graduate Center Gallery
A lecture duet by Ralph Ghoche (Barnard College) and Estelle Thibault (École nationale supérieure d'architecture Paris-Belleville), moderated by Martin Bressani (McGill University) Inspired by thirteenth-century gothic architecture, Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc understood ornament as the medium through which the vital energies of the living world became visible. Ornament distilled the anatomical logic of the plants or […]
