Monument raised for General Foy via Gallica Consultation
One of the many tombstones erected at the Pere Lachaise cemetery, the creation of such statues served to create not only a destination for Parisians of the time, but played heavily into the aspect of visual culture emphasized in this time period. Instead of the clustered forms of the inner-city cemetery, Pere Lachaise required the use of plots, upon which could be created ornamented and monumental tombs. As a type of catalogue of past individuals, this organization of not only visual space, physical space, and history represented the top-down organizing potential of government influence.
April 23, 2009, 1:27pm
