Place Vendome - 2 Metal Print

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This is a different perspective of Place Vendôme showing the base of the Vendôme Column.

The original column was started in 1806 at Napoleon's direction and was completed in 1810. It was modelled after Trajan's Column to celebrate the victory of the battle of Austerlitz. Its veneer is made out of 425 spiralling bas-relief bronze plates made out of cannon taken from the combined armies of Europe. The plates were designed by various famous sculptors of the time. Only the base of the column is shown here.

Place Vendôme is a square in Paris located to the north of the Tuileries Gardens. It was laid out in 1702 as a monument to the glory of the armies of Louis XIV. Its regular architecture and pedimented screens canted across the corners give the rectangular Place Vendôme the aspect of an octagon.

The Place Vendôme has been renowned for its fashionable and deluxe hotels (such as the Ritz Hotel). Also, many famous dress designers have had their salon...

Hello and Welcome. My name is Hany Jadaa; a part-time professional photographer from Ontario, Canada. ABOUT ME: Full-time owner/director of an Environmental Engineering firm; part-time professional musician; full-time practitioner of Japanese martial arts. Through my work as an engineer and a musician, I have the fortune of traveling very frequently to many places on this planet (Canada, US, Central America, Caribbean, Europe, Middle East, Far East); hence my photo galleries. ABOUT MY PHOTOGRAPHY: Main interest subjects focus on 1) Travel and outdoors (nature, landscape, architecture, structures); 2) close-ups and details (sculptures, statues, structural details); 3) simple visual pleasures (no limit to what that might be). ...