Volume 34, Number 3 · February 26, 1987
The Judgment of Paris
By Charles Rosen, Henri Zerner
Le Musée d'Orsay
1, rue de Bellechasse, Paris
Le Triomphe des mairies 8, 1987)
An exhibition at the Petit Palais, Paris, (November 8, 1986–January, Catalog by Thérèse Burollet, by Daniel Imbert, by Frank Folliot
463 pp., fr180
Les Concours d'esquisses peintes, 1816–1863 1986–December 14, 1986), and the National Academy of Design, New York (January 13, 1987–March 15, 1987).
An exhibition at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris (October 8,, Catalog by Philippe Grunchec
Vol. 2: 105 pp., $50.00
The railroad station known as the Gare d'Orsay was built for the World's Fair of 1900 in the very center of Paris as a prestigious display for the Orleans Railroad Company. The bold iron structure, constructed with the most up-to-date technology, was hidden under traditional decoration with profuse ornaments and fashionable murals, all artfully orchestrated by the architect Victor Laloux. It was known as the Orsay Palace, and boasted the city's most luxurious hotel.
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