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South Portal, Chartres Cathedral

Charles Marville

(French, Paris 1813–1879 Paris)

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Who made it? Who Paid for it?

Paris, France 1854

unlike paintings and sculptures, photography of architecture can not be faked

these art hisotrians questions don't help to add deeper meaning to the piece unless we were looking at the achitecture and not the photography

Photography

Medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

Dimensions: 21.5 x 15.5 cm (8 7/16 x 6 1/8 in.) Classification: Photographs

Credit Line: Purchase, Jennifer and Joseph Duke Gift and The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2000

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Shape and structure, composition, materials, technique

shape and structure, composition

“the shape and structure, either two dimensions…or three dimensions” (Kleiner, 2014 )

The term composition “refers to how an artist composes (organizes) forms of art work, either by placing shapes on a flat surface or arraigning forms in space” (Kleiner, 2014)

The next set of terms is materials, which is what the artist used “to create the art form” (Kleiner, 2014)

technique, which simply put is the method to how it was created.

since this piece is a photograph it is two-dimentional but the 3-D effect that is achieved is great for such early photography! the structure of the actual building with the use of light helps to aid in this effect

materials and technique

the actual print is salted paper from a paper negative. I was unable to find the format of the camera used. If I had to guess I would say large format. "Marville’s keen ability to harness the play of light, especially against three-dimensional surfaces, made him a sought-after photographer of architecture and sculpture."

references

F. S. Kleiner (Ed.), Gardner’s art through the ages: The Western perspective (14th ed., Vol. II, p. 2-7). Boston, MA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning

Marville, Charles, 1854. South Portal, Chartes Cathedral [salted paper print from paper negative , 21.5 x 15.5 cm (8 7/16 x 6 1/8 in.)] The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Galleries (http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/galleries)

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