Arcades du Capitole: La Mort de Simon de Montfort

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Title	Arcades du Capitole: La Mort de Simon de Montfort
Alternate Title	Arcades du Capitole [series]
View	Overall view, La Mort de Simon de Montfort
Work Type	visual works prints (visual works) screen prints
Style/Period	Twentieth century
Creator Name	Moretti, Raymond
Creator Nationality	French
Date.Creator Birth	1931
Date.Creator Death	2005
Contributors to Project	Raymond Moretti (French artist, 1931-2005)
Subject.work	contemporary (1960 to present) cycles or series historical military or war rulers and leaders Toulouse (France : County) serigraphy serigraphs (screen prints) silk screen prints Languedoc
Country	France
City	Toulouse
State/Province	Midi-Pyrenees
Location.Notes	Place du Capitole
Art Medium	pigment inks on translucent material over lightboxes
Technique	screen printing
Dates	1998 (creation)
Photographer	Lysenko, Oksana
Date Photographed	7/15/2009
Subject Information	The Arcades du Capitole also known as the Galerue des Arcades is a series of 29 serigraphs (silk screen prints) on translucent material fastened to illuminated cases on the ceiling of the arcade of the Capitole building. Each serigraph measures 2.50 x 3.10 metres. The series depicts the history of Toulouse. Moretti executed 89 works from which the 29 were chosen. Moretti also installed a huge Occitan cross (cross of Languedoc) made of bronze measuring 18 metres wide and weighing 20 tons embedded in the square in front of the Capitole. This panel depicts the death of Simon IV de Montfort, Seigneur de Montfort-l'Amaury, 5th Earl of Leicester (1160 -25 June 1218), who was known for his brutal suppression and slaughter of the Cathars during the Albigensian Crusade. He died at a seige of Toulouse, his head smashed by a stone from a mangonel, operated, according to the most detailed source, by donas e tozas e mulhers ('ladies and girls and women') of Toulouse.
Information.source	Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Credit Line	copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)

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