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    GE_14.02: Apollon tuant le serpent python qui retient les muses prisonnières
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    Title

    Apollon tuant le serpent python qui retient les muses prisonnières

    Type of Object
    Stained glass
    Artist / Producer
    Cingria, Alexandre
    Studio
    Chiara, Lausanne
    Dating
    1940
    Dimensions
    Env. 500 x 200 cm
    Location
    Université Bastions, Genève
    Place
    Salle 106, aula
    Inventory
    Geneva (Canton)

    Iconography

    Description

    Apollon, sur son char, tue de plusieurs flèches le serpent python à plusieurs têtes qui gardait les muses prisonnières.

    Iconclass Code
    97N71 · a snake is turned into stone by Apollo as it attacks Orpheus' severed head washed ashore (Ovid, Metamorphoses XI 58)
    Iconclass Keywords
    Apollo · head · Orpheus · Ovid, Metamorphoses 11 · shore
    Inscription

    Aucune

    Signature

    Cingria 1940 (en bas à droite)

    Technique / State

    Technique

    Vitrail au plomb, grisaille

    History

    Research

    Vitrail posé seulement en 1944 à cause de la guerre.

    Dating
    1940
    Original Donor

    [Conseil d’Etat du canton de Genève] (donateur)

    Bibliography and Sources

    Literature

    Hélène Cingria, Alexandre Cingria, Un Prince de la couleur dans la Genève du XXe siècle, éd. générales, Genève, 1954, p. 97

    Charles Borgeaud et Paul-E. Martin, Histoire de l’Université de Genève, Genève, 1959

    Marco Marcacci, Justin Thorens, Louis Binz, et al., Histoire de l’Université de Genève 1559-1986, Université de Genève, Genève, 1987

    Armand Brulhart et Erica Deuber-Pauli, “Rond-point de Plainpalais et quartier de l’Université”, in Ville et canton de Genève, coll. “Arts et monuments”, SHAS, Berne, (1ère éd. 1985) 1993, p. 135

    Daniel Marco, Les Palais de l’Etat : Les Bâtiments du Passage de l’Académie à l’Université, Journées Européennes du Patrimoine, Genève, 1997 Claude Lapaire, Musée d’art et d’histoire, Genève, coll. “Musées suisses”, Banque Paribas et Institut Suisse pour l’Etude de l’Art, Genève, Zurich, (1ère éd. 1991)1993, pp. 7-17

    Armand Brulhart et Erica Deuber-Pauli, “Tranchées”, in Ville et canton de Genève, coll. “Arts et monuments”, SHAS, Berne, (1ère éd. 1985) 1993, p. 125-126

    Nicole Quellet-Soguel (dir.), Clement Heaton: 1861-1940, Londres Neuchâtel New York, Attinger, Hauterive, 1996, p. 88

    Cäsar Menz, “Un grand projet pour le Musée d’art et d’histoire de Genève”, in Nike Bulletin, no. 2, Berne, 2000, pp. 8-12

    Marina Masaglia-Aït-Ahmed, Le Musée d’art et d’histoire. Rue Charles-Galland 2, fiche de présentation du musée

    Image Information

    Name of Image
    GE_Geneve_UniBastions_14.02
    Credits
    © APAS (Association pour la Promotion de l'Art Sacré), Genève – photographe: Cyrille Girardet, Veyrier
    Date
    2006
    Copyright
    © Ayants droit

    Inventory

    Reference Number
    GE_14.02
    Author and Date of Entry
    Valérie Sauterel 2008
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