The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, (Paris, France); 1806-8; Corinthian

The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel (architect Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine) was built by Napoleon I after the model of the Roman Constantine arc from 1806 to 1808. The two arches built by Napoleon -The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel and The Arc de Triomphe at Etoile.He built those arc for commemorate his victory and win their great army, including the victory of the French army in Austerlitz. The bronze horse on the top of the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel was obtained from Saint Mark of Venice. These later returned after World War II.

It is composed of threes arches: a big one and two little ones. The arc is 63 feet high, 75 feet wide, and 24 feet deep. The two small arches are 14 feet, 16 inches high and 9 feet wide. The big arch is 21 feet high and 9 feet wide. The arc is surmounted by a group of men on horses underneath of which, one finds the names of the battles and treaties of Napoleon.

The Quadriga beyond the arch is a replica of the bronze horse of Constantine I at the top of the main entrance of St. Mark's Basilica in Venice. In 1798 Bonaparte reported that the original sculpture was placed on a bow and was surrounded by two victories in 1809. After the fall of Napoleon I in 1815, four horses were sent back to Venice. In 1828, King Charles X finally asked the sculptor Francois-Joseph Biosio (1768-1845) to create a new wagon that represented the recovery and led a chariot pulled by four horses.

The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel is decorated by rose marble for those columns and front panels. It is part of the so-called Grand Ax of Paris, which consist of the Grande Arch de la Defense, the Arc de Triomphe in Etoile, the Champs-Elysées, the Luxor Obélisque in Place de la Concorde, and the Arc de Triomphe in Carrousel to the Louvre.

The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel has set at the eastern end of Paris Axe historique ("historic axis"), a nine-kilometre-long linear route which dominates much of the northwestern quadrant of the city.

Looking the west side, the arches are aligned with the obelisk on the Place de la Concorde, which is the center line of the Champs-Elysées, the center of the Étoile's Arc de Triomphe, although it is impossible to see the Duca Russell, Grande Arche dela Défense, directly from this place. Therefore, the axis starts and ends at one arch. However, when Arc du Carrousel was built, the local du Carrousel observers could not see any sight from the west. The central part of Tuileries intervenes to prevent the west from sight. When Tuileries was burned down in the Paris Commune in 1871, its ruins swept away, just like its current axis, until Carrousel Square and the Louvre.

 Horses Depict Peace Riding in a Triumphal Chariot Led By Gilded Victories On Both Sides

The victory of Austerlitz
The interview of the two emperors
Ceiling of the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel 21 sculpted rose
Gilded Victories
Solders of the Grand Army

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