Category: Destinatios
Modern Classicism, Pere-Lachaise Emerging at the end of the nineteenth century from this architectural morass was Art Nouveau. The style had a relatively short run on the scale of …
Gothic, Montmartre Not all architecture fits into the customary architectural styles. Architects often blended totally unrelated styles and sometimes created styles of their own. At the end of the …
Egyptian Revival, Cavetto Cornice, Vulture Wings and Cobras, Auteuil Another very popular form of Egyptian architecture in the cemetery is the obelisk, which is representative of a ray of …
Castrum doloris of Louis XII and Anne de Bretagne at Saint-Denis Egyptian is perhaps the most funerary of all architecture. After all, almost all architecture in ancient Egypt had …
Grottos There are also a number of rock assemblages in cemeteries known as grottos. These monuments are miniature cave-like chapels containing small altars and religious statuary. Grottos are often …
Cemetery Architecture & Monument Styles Cemeteries are a vast treasure trove of art and architecture. It would take many hours of strolling around city to find the number of …
Gustave Eiffel December 15, 1832-December 27, 1923 Levallois-Perret Cemetery Division 10 48° 54′ 6.03 N 2° 17′ 22.72 E Alexandre Gustave Eiffel is best known for his eponymous steel …
About That Cake Hawaii One of the world’s most well known quotes is Let them eat cake, uttered by Marie-Antoinette when she was informed that the French people were …