Peter Hawke, témoin de la disparition du vieil Alger sous le Second Empire, au musée des Beaux-Arts de Dunkerque

Peter Hawke, témoin de la disparition du vieil Alger sous le Second Empire, au musée des Beaux-Arts de Dunkerque

During the first decades of the colonization of Algeria, the French authorities worked to transform the Arab city of Algiers into a stronghold. At the end of the 1850s, the political project was accompanied by proposals for urban planning aimed at improving commercial and tourist activity. In 1860,...

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Hlavní autor: Cabezas, Hervé
Médium: Article ou chapitre numérique
Jazyk:Français
Vydáno: 2019
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spelling cairn-RDA_205_0075RDARevue de l'art https://shs.cairn.info/revue-de-l-art-2019-3-page-75?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rda.205.0075 Peter Hawke, témoin de la disparition du vieil Alger sous le Second Empire, au musée des Beaux-Arts de Dunkerque Cabezas, Hervé2019 fre Revue de l'art | 205 | 3 | 2019-11-26 | p. 75-81 | 0035-1326 RDA_20585 During the first decades of the colonization of Algeria, the French authorities worked to transform the Arab city of Algiers into a stronghold. At the end of the 1850s, the political project was accompanied by proposals for urban planning aimed at improving commercial and tourist activity. In 1860, the architect Charles-Frédéric Chassériau (1802-1896) designed the seafront, with its long boulevard de l’Impé ratrice stretching over almost two kilometers, built on arcades containing warehouses. Its Haussmann style buildings would carry on the metamorphosis of the old city into a modern metropolis of the south of France by continuing to amputate a part of its ancient constructions. Saint-Simonian artist, living in Algeria since a few of years, and especially interested in the indigenous monuments and architecture, Peter Hawke (1801-1886) represented views of this Algiers destined for destruction. His ink drawing of the Marine Quarter, at the beginning of the construction of the seafront in1862, constitutes a unique testimony that participates in an awareness of the disappearance of an ancient heritage of buildings in France under the Second Empire.Cairn free access
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description During the first decades of the colonization of Algeria, the French authorities worked to transform the Arab city of Algiers into a stronghold. At the end of the 1850s, the political project was accompanied by proposals for urban planning aimed at improving commercial and tourist activity. In 1860, the architect Charles-Frédéric Chassériau (1802-1896) designed the seafront, with its long boulevard de l’Impé ratrice stretching over almost two kilometers, built on arcades containing warehouses. Its Haussmann style buildings would carry on the metamorphosis of the old city into a modern metropolis of the south of France by continuing to amputate a part of its ancient constructions. Saint-Simonian artist, living in Algeria since a few of years, and especially interested in the indigenous monuments and architecture, Peter Hawke (1801-1886) represented views of this Algiers destined for destruction. His ink drawing of the Marine Quarter, at the beginning of the construction of the seafront in1862, constitutes a unique testimony that participates in an awareness of the disappearance of an ancient heritage of buildings in France under the Second Empire.
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