Palais Garnier Essays

In Gaston Leroux’s story, The Phantom of the Opera, Christine's attraction to both the Phantom and Raoul leads to turmoil and difficult decisions as shown through repetition when referring to both. Firstly, on the roof of the Opera house, Christine tries to prove to Raoul that the Phantom of the Opera really exists. After expressing how terrifying her experience with him was, she, in a trance-like state, says “but his voice filled my spirit with a strange, sweet sound” (Leroux 38). The author's

This next theatre is the Palais Garnier, which is located in Paris, France. This theatre was designed by Charles Garnier. The Palais Garnier wasn’t the original theatre that was in that location on Rue le Peletier, there was another in its place. There was a bomb that was thrown into the theatre while Napoleon III was inside of it and that was the moment when he decided there needed to be a new theatre built. Napoleon wanted to be able to attend shows in a safe environment and not have to worry about

The architectural style of the Thomas Jefferson building of the United States Library of Congress, designed by Paul Pelz and John Smithmeyer, is a spectacular take on the Beaux-Arts style of architecture. Finished in 1897, the Thomas Jefferson building was the first of the three buildings of the Library of Congress to be built and is the most striking of the three. The interior of the building is just as intricately and innovatively designed as the exterior. Initially containing four interior courtyards

Ingres’ Raphael and La Fornarina is a Romanticism painting. The medium is oil on canvas. Ingres’ painting came in on the emerging scene of Romanticism in the early Nineteenth Century. In this representation, Ingres is depicting another artist in the studio with model also displaying his model is indeed the artist in the painting’s mistress. There are three projects of the mistress on display and they all have what seems to be an angle where they are all in contact with the viewer. While all that

REFLECTIVE JOURNAL Yuliya Borodavkina// FS 2 1415 Gender Ambivalence as a trend. The world's main trade show of man's fashion, Pitti Uomo, has recently become not only a source of various inspirations and stylistic ideas for the women (as it has always been), but also a source of the new brilliant brand discoveries, and what is interesting – their men's lines. There is one trick, known since the times of Gabrielle Chanel: if the texture allows that, mensclothing (the