Facade and North Colonnade of the Parthenon on the Acropolis, Athens

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Facade and North Colonnade of the Parthenon on the Acropolis, Athens

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Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey

French Daguerreotypist · 1804–1892

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Until recently, pioneering daguerreotypist Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey was unknown in the world of fine-art photography. His extraordinary images were discovered in a storeroom of his estate in the 1920s and only made known some eighty years later. Girault de Prangey studied painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and learned daguerreotypy in 1841, the same year inventor Louis-Jacque

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1842
Medium
Daguerreotype
Culture
French
Department
Photographs
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Object ID
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Full view of the great Doric temple dedicated to Athena, the patron goddess of Athens, designed and built in the fifth century BC. Heavily damaged by an explosion in 1684. Noted for the extreme refinement of its details including the slight curvature of its carefully spaced columns.

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