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Name
  
Paul Bigot


Role
  
Architect

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Died
  
June 8, 1942, Paris, France

Education
  
Ecole nationale superieure des Beaux-Arts

Awards
  
Prix de Rome in Architecture

Paul Bigot (20 October 1870 – 8 June 1942) was a French architect.

Biography

Bigot was born in Orbec, Calvados. He studied architecture at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, in the atelier of Louis-Jules André. He won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1900, which enabled him to study in Rome at the Villa Medici. He later became a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts.

He is particularly known for Le Plan de Rome, a large architectural model of Ancient Rome. It is a plaster model of about 70 square metres at a scale of 1:400, showing Rome as it would have been in the time of the emperor Constantine I (4th century AD). The model is preserved at the University of Caen and is itself listed as an ancient monument. A second version is in the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels.

Bigot was also the architect of the Institut d'art et d'archéologie, in Paris, completed in 1928.

References

Paul Bigot Wikipedia


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