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The Triumphal Arch of Orange (French: Arc de triomphe d'Orange; Occitan: Arca Triomfala d'Orange) is a triumphal arch located in the town of Orange, southeast France. [1] There is debate about when the arch was built, [ 2 ] but current research that accepts the inscription as evidence (27 BC–AD 14) [ 3 ] favours a date during the reign of ...
In architecture, "triumphal arch" is also the name given to the arch above the entrance to the chancel of a medieval church where a rood can be placed. [1] and more generally a combination of "one large and two small doorways", [2] such as Leon Battista Alberti's façades for the Tempio Malatestiano and San Andrea, Mantua. [3]
France: Aquae Gratianae Porte Noire: c. 171–175 AD Besançon: France: Vesontio Arch of Carpentras: 18–19 AD Carpentras: France: Carpentoracte Meminorum, Forum Neronis Triumphal Arch of Orange: c. 20–27 AD Orange: France: Colonia Julia Firma Secundanorum Arausio Porte de Mars: 3rd century AD Reims: France: Durocortorum: Pont Flavien: c. 12 BC
It combines the ruins shown in his Principal Monuments of France series, with the Maison Carrée to the left, the Triumphal Arch of Orange and Nîmes' Temple of Diana to the right and the Pont du Gard, the Triumphal Arch of Glanum and the Glanum Mausoleum in the far background. [2]
The city was occupied by France in 1673, 1679, 1690, 1697 and 1702–1713 before it was finally ceded to France in 1713 under the Treaty of Utrecht. [10] Following the French Revolution in 1789, Orange was absorbed into the French department of Drôme, then Bouches-du-Rhône, then finally Vaucluse. However, the title remained with the Dutch ...
Since the Renaissance period, rulers and states have sought to glorify themselves or commemorate victories by erecting triumphal arches on the Roman model. Modern arches have ranged from temporary structures of wood and plaster set up to celebrate royal entries to large permanent stone structures built in prominent places in city centres.
Arch of Triumph (Pyongyang), a 1982 structure in Pyongyang, North Korea; Monumental Arch of Palmyra, a 3rd-century Roman ornamental archway in Syria; Siegestor, an 1852 three-arched triumphal structure; Triumphal Arch, Chișinău, an 1841 structure in Moldova; Triumphal Arch of Orange (27 BC–AD 14), the oldest surviving triple-arched Roman ...
His first major project after returning to France came in 1823, when the Restoration government commissioned him to restore the Triumphal Arch of Orange. When this was completed, he began work on the restoration of the Roman Theatre of Orange .