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Description:This category will hold a collection of freestanding arches, both gateway arches and triumphal arches, ancient and modern. As the category grows, the hope is to show how such a simple shape has grown and changed over the ages, and how different regions of the world symbolically interpret this structural form.
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Freestanding ArchesArc de Triomphe - Paris

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The Arc de Triomphe is one of the most famous monuments in Paris. It was commissioned in 1806 after the victory at Austerlitz by Napoleon at the peak of his fortunes.

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location: France

date listed: 11/28/2007

last visited: 8/7/1999

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Freestanding ArchesArc de triomphe du Carrousel - Paris, France

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[FR] L'arc de triomphe du Carrousel est un monument datant de 1809 construit par Napoléon Bonaparte. [EN] The arch was made between 1806-1808 by the Emperor Napoleon I on the model of the Arch of Septimius Severus in Rome.

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location: France

date listed: 7/7/2008

last visited: 10/9/2009

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Freestanding ArchesPorte Saint-Denis

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[FR] La porte Saint-Denis fut érigée en 1672 par l'architecte François Blondel et le sculpteur Michel Anguier sur ordre de Louis XIV. [EN] The Saint-Denis arch was erected (1671-74) by Nicolas François Blondel.

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location: France

date listed: 3/15/2008

last visited: never

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Freestanding ArchesPorte Saint-Martin

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[FR] La porte Saint-Martin fut érigée en 1674 sur ordre de Louis XIV, en l'honneur de ses victoires sur le Rhin et en Franche-Comté. [EN] The Porte Saint-Martin was commissioned by Louis XIV to commemorate his military victories.

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location: France

date listed: 3/15/2008

last visited: never

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