Viollet-le-Duc

American

[vyaw-le-luh-dyk] / vyɔˈlɛ ləˈdük /

noun

Eugène Emmanuel 1814–79, French architect and writer.

Viollet-le-Duc British

/ vjɔlɛlədyk /

noun

Eugène Emmanuel (øʒɛn ɛmanɥɛl). 1814–79, French architect and leader of the Gothic Revival in France, noted for his dictionary of French architecture (1854–68) and for his restoration of medieval buildings

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Those drawings are the subject of “Viollet-le-Duc Drawing Worlds,” his first major exhibition in the U.S., which was prompted by the fire and is now on view at the Bard Graduate Center.

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They instead focus on something more ambitious, and enigmatic: Viollet-le-Duc’s complex relationship to drawing itself.

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The first floor traces Viollet-le-Duc’s formation as an architect and artist; the second is devoted to the restoration of Notre-Dame; and the third shows the range of his nonarchitectural subjects, from the geology of the Alps to a whimsical children’s book depicting a war between a housecat and a company of lead soldiers.

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Knowing that Viollet-le-Duc’s restorations were based on scrupulous archaeological research, we naturally expect his drawings to be technical in nature.

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Viollet-le-Duc did not study at the state-run École des Beaux Arts, but came to architecture by means of drawing.

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