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Title	Monument to the Dead
Alternate Title	Monument aux Morts
View	Detail, lower tomb
Work Type	built works monuments visual works sculpture (visual work)
Style/Period	Nineteenth century Symbolist
Creator Name	Bartholome, Albert, 1848-1928
Creator Nationality	French
Date.Creator Birth	1848
Date.Creator Death	1928
Contributors to Project	Albert Bartholome (French sculptor, 1848-1928)
Subject.work	allegory architecture death or burial funerary art human figure mourning
Country	France
City	Paris
State/Province	Ile-de-France
Location.Notes	Boulevard de Menilmontant
Architectural Material	stone
Technique	carving (processes); construction (assembling)
Dates	1889-1899 (creation)
Photographer	Gilchrist, Scott
Date Photographed	5/17/1997
Subject Information	Soon after the death of his first wife in 1887, Bartholom' embarked on the chief work of his career: from 1889 to 1899 he worked on the stone Monument to the Dead in P're Lachaise cemetery, Paris, which, together with Rodin's Gates of Hell, is one of the greatest expressions of Symbolist sculpture. This large stone sculpture in high relief, with its harmonious rhythms, its lyrical interlinking of figures and its sober modelling expresses in sculpture an ideal of refined restraint close to that of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes.
Information.source	Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/
Credit Line	copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)