Paris, A Rainy Day

If any one painting can be said to sum up the modern city during the second half of the nineteenth century, a good candidate would be Gustave...

~As much as 60 percent of the steel used for the construction of the Centre Pompidou’s parts other than the expansion joints is cast steel. The first span was installed on October 31, 1974, and in April 1975 the work was complete. To avoid on-site welding as much as possible, the parts of the skeleton are remarkably large. Each of the columns, produced in...

~I WANT to begin this chapter with the case study of Gustave Caillebotte, both patron of, and participant in, the Impressionist collective. He was the youngest (born 1848) and most well off of the group, and the most conservative in style and content. His major works attest to a thorough assimilation of the rhetoric of...

~Many of the most admired European cities today, places such as Rome, Florence, Venice, and Paris, have for centuries served as points of inspiration for later efforts to design urban environments. These urban environments, now often overrun with tourists and fraught with social conflicts, were produced in a cultural environment where strictly economic concerns were...

Gustave Caillebotte first presented his Decorative Triptych at the fourth exhibition of “independent artists” in the spring of 1879 (figs....

~Penned in the third person, Giorgio de Chirico’s autobiographical note from 1919 recalls his early paintings from Paris as having been inspired by various Italian cities:

When Henry Tuckerman came to Paris in 1867, one of the thousands of Americans attracted there by the huge international exposition, he was bowled over by the extraordinary changes since his previous visit twenty years before...