03 — ARTWORK
View of the Salle Ovale
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- Interior
PALETTE
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COMMENTARY
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A preoccupation with context, as well as a learned eclecticismA nineteenth and twentieth-century architectural style in which a single piece of work incorporates a mixture of elements from previous historical styles to create something that is new and original., is apparent in Pascal's enlargement of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, a responsibility he took on at the death of Henri Labrouste in 1875. He chose to restore the existing hôtel particulier, built by Robert de Cotte in the first half of the 18th century, and to reconstruct the interiors to accommodate administrative offices. He continued with the construction of the façades designed by Labrouste and devised a building in the style of Louis XIII to accompany the galleryan upper story, similar to a tribune, running along the side of a building and open on one side to the interior; in a church (basilica) above the side aisles, over the ambulatory (central-plan building) and also over the west end. The gallery was used to keep certain groups of worshippers apart (women, noblemen). built by François Mansart.
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {View of the Salle Ovale by PASCAL, Jean-Louis},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-13},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pascal-jean-louis-rac334fc16225b3/view-of-the-salle-ovale-rd44bab65ed01ba},
urldate = {2026-09-13},
langid = {english}
}ACCESSED 2026-09-13. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
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