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97-601: The Lockwood–Mathews Mansion is a Second Empire style country house in Norwalk, Connecticut . Now a museum, it was built in 1864-68 for railroad and banking magnate LeGrand Lockwood . The 62-room 44,000 square feet (4,100 m) mansion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1978. It has been described as "one of the earliest and finest surviving Second Empire style country houses ever built in

194-680: A National Historic Landmark in 1971. According to the museum organization's Web site, the museum's mission "is to conserve the building while creating educational programs on the material, artistic and social culture of the Victorian era," . A master plan for a more comprehensive restoration of the mansion was expected to be completed in 2007. Plans for renovation work at the museum include adding an elevator, and systems for heating, air conditioning, and sprinklers. Renovation costs are likely to total about $ 6 million, museum officials said in May 2007, before

291-438: A ball in honour of the family. But on the night of the ball, Carolyn is bitten by Barnabas while she is getting ready. Later on at the ball, he is introduced to young David Collins' governess and Jeff's girlfriend, Maggie Evans, and is instantly smitten with her, as she bears a striking resemblance to his long-lost fiancée, Josette du Pres . Maggie is thinking about leaving Collinwood , but Barnabas persuades her to stay. Back at

388-565: A chorus, Orpheus in the Underworld . It was a popular and critical triumph, playing for two hundred twenty-eight nights. After the final night, Napoleon III granted Offenbach French citizenship, and his name changed formally from Jacob to Jacques. Grand opera and other musical genres also flourished under Napoleon III. The construction of the railroad stations in Paris brought thousands of tourists from around France and Europe to

485-621: A consistency of urban planning that was unusual for the period. Numerous public edifices: railway stations, the tribunal de commerce de Paris , and the Palais Garnier were constructed in the style. The major buildings, including the Opera House and the Church of Saint Augustine, were designed to be the focal points of the new avenues, and to be visible at a great distance. Napoleon III also built monumental fountains to decorate

582-516: A former actress from the Comédie-Française to perform scenes of classic plays in costume. The law was revised in 1867, which opened the way to an entirely new institution in Paris, the music hall, with comedy, sets, and costumed singers and dancers. For the first time, the profession of singer was given formal status and composers could seek royalties for the performance of their songs. House of Dark Shadows House of Dark Shadows

679-794: A map of the Bois de Boulogne on the wall of his office. Central Park in New York City and Golden Gate Park in San Francisco both show the influence of the Napoleon ;III parks. Napoleon III's taste in paintings was quite traditional, favoring the academic style cultivated in the Académie des Beaux-Arts . His favorite artists included Alexandre Cabanel , Ernest Meissonier , Jean-Léon Gérôme , and William-Adolphe Bouguereau who received important commissions. Ingres near

776-544: A mason, his early studies were under François Rude . Carpeaux entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1844 and won the Prix de Rome in 1854, and moving to Rome to find inspiration, he there studied the works of Michelangelo , Donatello and Verrocchio . Staying in Rome from 1854 to 1861, he obtained a taste for movement and spontaneity, which he joined with the great principles of baroque art. Carpeaux sought real life subjects in

873-528: A new theater, the Bouffes-Parisiens , which opened in 1855 with a work called Ba-ta-clan , a Chinese-style Musical . Offenbach's theater attracted not only the working and middle class audiences, the traditional audience of the music halls, but also the upper classes. The comic opera scenes alternated with musical interludes by Rossini , Mozart , and Pergolesi . In 1858 he took a step further with his first full-length operetta, with four acts and

970-519: A park or square. In addition, they planted tens of thousands of trees along the new boulevards that Haussmann created, reaching out from the center to the outer neighborhoods. The parks of Paris, provided entertainment and relaxation for all classes of Parisians during the Second Empire. The Napoleon III style of landscape design for urban parks was very influential outside of France. The American landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted had

1067-459: A scene where young David Collins pretends to hang himself. It was removed because there were concerns some children might "try this at home." No copies of this footage are known to exist. Another scene that was shown in some theaters has Jeff testing out the crossbow before pursuing Barnabas. A paperback novelization of the film by Marilyn Ross (who had written a series of novels based on the TV show)

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1164-429: A single singer with a piano to elegant cafes with orchestras. A city ordinance, designed to protect the traditional musical theaters, forbid the performers in cafés from wearing costumes, dancing, or pantomime , or the use of sets or scenery; they were also forbidden to sing more than forty songs in an evening, and had to present the program in advance each day. This law was challenged by one café-concert owner, who hired

1261-556: A terrorist bomb in 1858; the Théâtre Lyrique ; and Les Italiens , where only Italian works were presented, in Italian. The major French composers of the period included Charles Gounod , Hector Berlioz , Félicien David , and Gabriel Fauré . While Verdi and Wagner certainly attracted the most attention, young new French composers were also striving to win attention. Charles Gounod wrote his first opera, Sapho , in 1851 at

1358-490: A trance and in Josette's wedding gown. Willie warns him against trying to stop Barnabas and knocks him out. Willie leads Maggie out of the room to where Barnabas is waiting for her. He lays her down on an altar and is about to bite her when Jeff wakes up and shoots at him, but Willie, running to stop Barnabas, moves in the way, and is hit by Jeff's crossbow bolt . Barnabas lures Jeff out of his hiding place and forces him to be

1455-417: A witness by placing him in a trance. However, as Barnabas attempts to bite Maggie, he screams in pain as he's struck in his back. Turning around, he's shocked then enraged to discover that it was Willie—in his final act of redemption—who stabbed him with the crossbow bolt. Barnabas strangles the mortally wounded Willie, but Loomis' attack breaks Jeff out of Barnabas's trance long enough for Jeff to finish driving

1552-612: Is a 1970 American feature-length horror film produced and directed by Dan Curtis , based on his Dark Shadows television series. In this film expansion, vampire Barnabas Collins ( Jonathan Frid ) searches for a cure for vampirism so he can marry a woman who resembles his long-lost fiancée Josette ( Kathryn Leigh Scott ). Filming took place at Lyndhurst Estate in Tarrytown, New York , with additional footage at nearby Sleepy Hollow Cemetery . Curtis followed this film one year later with Night of Dark Shadows , another expansion of

1649-670: Is an architectural style most popular in the latter half of the 19th century and early years of the 20th century. It was so named for the architectural elements in vogue during the era of the Second French Empire . As the Second Empire style evolved from its 17th-century Renaissance foundations, it acquired a mix of earlier European styles, most notably the Baroque, often combined with mansard roofs and/or low, square-based domes. The style quickly spread and evolved as Baroque Revival architecture throughout Europe and across

1746-739: Is buried in the Collins family mausoleum. Dr. Hoffman, upon analysing samples of Carolyn's blood, recognises a trace of elements of the same unknown virus that was present in Daphne Budd's blood sample. Thereafter, Professor Stokes confers with Julia and tells her that he suspects that the recent attacks in Collinsport may have been caused by a vampire. Meanwhile, Carolyn rises as a vampire and attacks David. Stokes and Julia try to explain, but Elizabeth and Roger refuse to listen. Carolyn's former fiancé Todd encounters her, and she bites him. After he

1843-468: Is caught and bitten by Barnabas before she can escape, and he vows to come back for her. Jeff soon returns, and he is informed of the family history by Stokes and Roger and that Barnabas intends to make Maggie his bride. That night, Barnabas bites Maggie again, rejuvenating him, and then abducts her. Jeff and the others pursue them; however, Roger and Stokes are killed (both turned into vampires whom Jeff kills). Jeff eventually finds Maggie at an old church in

1940-516: Is taken back to Collinwood, the family realises that Stokes and Julia were correct about the vampires. Todd again sneaks out in search of Carolyn, but she is cornered and staked , instantly killing her. Julia eventually discovers that Barnabas is the vampire responsible. Thus, she visits him at the Old House and convinces him that she can use her methods to make him human and he reluctantly agrees. Julia gives him injections which allow him to walk in

2037-428: The 1st arrondissement of Paris , built in 1855–1861 in a neo-Gothic style by the architect Jacques Ignace Hittorff (1792–1867). The Industrial Revolution was beginning to demand a new kind of architecture: bigger, stronger and less expensive. The new age of railways and the enormous increase in travel that it caused required new train stations, large hotels, exposition halls and department stores in Paris. While

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2134-478: The Dark Shadows 1890s segments; Don Briscoe , who played cursed brothers Chris and Tom Jennings; Dennis Patrick , who played Paul Stoddard and Jason McGuire; and George DiCenzo , who did more behind-the-scenes work on the last two years of the show. Unrestricted by TV's censors, the film is far more graphically violent than its television counterpart, with dripping vampire bites and bloody deaths. The film

2231-730: The Folies Concertantes on the Boulevard du Temple , the main theater district of Paris, and they were also staged at other theatres around the city. A new composer, Jacques Offenbach , soon emerged to challenge Hervé. Born in Germany, Offenbach was first a cello player with the orchestra of the Opéra-Comique , then the conductor of the orchestra for the Comédie-Française , composing music performed between

2328-643: The French Renaissance , Palladian architecture , and French Baroque , and managed to give it coherence and harmony. The Lions Gate of the Louvre Palace by Hector Lefuel is a Louis-Napoléon version of French Renaissance architecture; few visitors to the Louvre realize it is a 19th-century addition to the building. Another characteristic of the Napoleon III style is the adaptation of

2425-468: The French Revolution , or were threatened with destruction by the growth of cities. This program was largely carried out by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc , whose neo-Gothic design for a new Paris Opera later came in second to that of Garnier. The restoration of Notre-Dame de Paris , begun in 1845, continued for twenty-five years. Some of its additions varied from the originals. Viollet-le Duc restored

2522-555: The Legion of Honour to Courbet, but Courbet disdainfully rejected the offer. The term Impressionist was not invented until 1874, but during the Second Empire, all the major impressionist painters were at work in Paris, inventing their own personal styles. Claude Monet exhibited two of his paintings, a landscape and portrait of his future wife Camille Doncieux , at the Paris Salon of 1866. A major decorative painter whose career

2619-530: The Sainte-Chapelle were restored by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc , and the Cathedral of Notre-Dame underwent extensive restoration. In the case of the Louvre in particular, the restorations were sometimes more imaginative than precisely historical. During the Second Empire, under the influence particularly of the architect and historian Eugène Viollet-le-Duc , French religious architecture broke away from

2716-476: The Shadows franchise, dealing with the witch Angelique . Willie Loomis, the Collins family handyman, is searching for old treasure in the family mausoleum when he accidentally frees Barnabas Collins, a 175-year-old vampire who enslaves him. Upon his release, he attacks Daphne Budd, the secretary to Collinwood's matriarch, Elizabeth Collins Stoddard . She is discovered by Jeff Clark, who takes her back to

2813-440: The flèche , or spirelet, of the cathedral, which had been partially destroyed and desecrated during the French Revolution , in a slightly different style, and added gargoyles which had not originally been present to the façade. In 1855, he completed the restoration, begun in 1845, of the stained glass windows of the Sainte-Chapelle , and in 1862 he declared it a national historical monument. He also began restoration programs of

2910-490: The 44,000 square feet (4,100 m) mansion features 26,402 square feet (2,452.8 m) of living space and "is considered his most significant surviving work," according to the association. Both American and immigrant artisans worked to construct and decorate the house. Prominent New York decorating firms, including Herter Brothers and Leon Marcotte were contracted to furnish the mansion's interiors. Financial reversals in 1869 and Lockwood's death in 1872 resulted in loss of

3007-574: The Atlantic. Its suitability for super-scaling allowed it to be widely used in the design of municipal and corporate buildings. In the United States, where one of the leading architects working in the style was Alfred B. Mullett , buildings in the style were often closer to their 17th-century roots than examples of the style found in Europe. The dominant architectural style of the Second Empire

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3104-696: The Chapelle des Anges at the Church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris . They included "The Battle of Jacob with the Angel", "Saint Michael Slaying the Dragon", and "The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple". Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot began his career with study at the École des Beaux-Arts as an academic painter, but gradually began painting more freely and expressing emotions and feelings through his landscapes. His motto

3201-642: The Emperor on the subject of the works of art which were refused by the jury of the Exposition. His Majesty, wishing to let the public judge the legitimacy of these complaints, has decided that the works of art which were refused should be displayed in another part of the Palace of Industry." Following Napoleon's decree, an exhibit of the rejected paintings, called the Salon des Refusés , was held in another part of

3298-492: The Louvre originally featured an equestrian statue of Napoleon III by Antoine-Louis Barye over the central arch, which was removed during the Third Republic . Comfort was the first priority of Second Empire furniture. Chairs were elaborately upholstered with fringes, tassels, and expensive fabrics. Tapestry work on furniture was very much in style. The structure of chairs and sofas was usually entirely hidden by

3395-458: The Old House, he tells Willie about Josette and how she took her own life on the night they were to be married. Carolyn overhears and threatens to expose him out of jealousy. Enraged, Barnabas delivers a deadly bite to Carolyn, much to Willie's horror. A shaken Willie takes Carolyn back home; she slowly walks to the doorway, but she is soon discovered slumped in the doorway—dead—by the maid, Mrs. Johnson. Funeral services are held for Carolyn, and she

3492-647: The Opera was pulled from the repertoire. Wagner got his revenge in 1870, when the Prussian Army captured Napoleon III and surrounded Paris; he wrote a special piece of music to celebrate the event, "Ode to the German Army at Paris". During the Second Empire, before the contraction of the Opéra Garnier , Paris had three major opera houses: The Salle Le Pelletier , where the Emperor barely escaped

3589-509: The Palace of Industry, where the Salon took place. More than a thousand visitors a day came to see now-famous paintings as Édouard Manet 's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe and James McNeill Whistler 's Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl . The journalist Émile Zola reported that visitors pushed to get into the crowded galleries where the refused paintings were hung, and the rooms were full of

3686-597: The Second Empire was Church of Saint Augustine (1860–71) by Victor Baltard , the designer of the metal pavilions of the market of Les Halles . While the façade was eclectic, the structure inside was modern, supported by slender cast iron columns. Not all churches under Napoleon III were built in the Gothic style. Marseille Cathedral , constructed from 1852 to 1896, was designed in a Byzantine Revival style from 1852 to 1896, principally by Léon Vaudoyer and Henri-Jacques Espérandieu . Napoleon III's many projects included

3783-494: The Second Empire, architects began to use metal frames combined with the Gothic style: the Eglise Saint-Laurent , a 15th-century church rebuilt in neo-Gothic style by Simon-Claude-Constant Dufeux (1862–65), Saint-Eugene-Sainte-Cecile by Louis-Auguste Boileau and Louis-Adrien Lusson (1854–55), and Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Belleville by Jean-Baptiste Lassus (1854–59). The largest new church built in Paris during

3880-701: The United States." It sits at 295 West Ave., in Mathews Park, where the Stepping Stones Museum for Children is also located. The home was built on an estate, then called "Elm Park," for LeGrand Lockwood , who made his fortune in banking and the railroad industry. Construction began in 1864 just west of the Norwalk River in Norwalk and was completed four years later. Designed by European-trained, New York-based architect Detlef Lienau ,

3977-400: The actors would be available to appear in the movie. Barnabas, for example, was trapped in his coffin on the TV show by a failed writer who wanted to use the vampire's life story as the basis for a novel. Kathryn Leigh Scott was absent from 30 episodes (986 to 1015); Jonathan Frid was absent from 28 episodes (983 to 1010); Grayson Hall was absent from 21 episodes (986 to 1006); John Karlen

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4074-585: The acts. In 1853, he wrote a short musical scene performed between acts, then a more ambitious short comedy, Pepito , for the Théâtre des Variétés . He was unable to have his work performed in the major theaters, so he tried a different approach. In 1855, taking advantage of the first Paris Universal Exposition , which brought enormous crowds to the city, he rented a theater on the Champs-Élysées and put on his musicals to full houses. He then opened up

4171-463: The bolt through the vampire's back, ultimately bursting through his bloody chest. Maggie, now revived, is rescued by Jeff, both briefly observing the bodies of the presumably dead vampire and Willie Loomis before departing the ruined chapel. In a post-credits scene, Barnabas's body transforms into a bat and then vanishes. Dark Shadows producer Dan Curtis began pitching the idea of a film based on his gothic soap opera sometime in 1968. The project

4268-693: The building threatened with demolition. Local preservationists formed Lockwood–Mathews Mansion Museum, Inc. to run the site. The Junior League of Stamford-Norwalk eventually led a late 1960s restoration, supported by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the American Institute of Architects , the National Park Service, and the Connecticut Historical Commission. The home was designated

4365-504: The center of the city, Napoleon's Prefect of the Seine destroyed the crumbling and overcrowded neighborhoods in the heart of the city and built a network of grand boulevards. The expanded use of new building materials, especially iron frames , allowed the construction of much larger buildings for commerce and industry. Another aspect of the Napoleon III style was the restoration of historical monuments which had been badly damaged during

4462-478: The city limits by Napoleon III and Haussmann's new boulevards called for the construction of a variety of new public buildings, including the new tribunal de commerce (1861–67), influenced by the French Renaissance style, by Théodore Ballu ; and the new city hall of the 1st arrondissement, by Jacques Ignace Hittorff (1855–60), in a combination of Renaissance and Gothic styles. The new city hall

4559-451: The city's first Director of the new Service of Promenades and Plantations; Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps , the city's first gardener-in-chief; Eugène Belgrand , a hydraulic engineer who rebuilt the city's sewers and water supply, and provided the water needed for the parks; and Gabriel Davioud , the city's chief architect, who designed chalets, temples, grottos, follies , fences, gates, lodges, lampposts, and other park architecture. Over

4656-488: The city, and increased the demand for music and entertainment. Operas and musicals could play to larger houses, and play for much longer. The old theaters on the "Boulevard of Crime" were demolished to make way for a new boulevard, but larger new theaters were constructed in the center of the city. Verdi signed a contract in 1852 to create a new work for the Paris Opera, in collaboration with Eugène Scribe . The result

4753-575: The completion of the Louvre Palace , which adjoined his own residence in the Tuileries Palace . The Nouveau Louvre project was led by architect Hector Lefuel between 1852 and 1857. Between 1864 and 1868, Napoleon III also commissioned Lefuel to rebuild the Pavillon de Flore ; Lefuel added many of his own decorations and ideas to the pavilion, including a celebrated sculpture of Flore by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux . Lefuel's grands guichets of

4850-448: The course of seventeen years, Napoleon III, Haussmann and Alphand created 1,835 hectares of new parks and gardens, and planted more than six hundred thousand trees, the greatest expansion of Paris green space before or since. They built four major parks in the north, south, east, and west of the city, replanted and renovated the historic parks, and added dozens of small squares and gardens, so that no one lived more than ten minutes from

4947-487: The daylight. Over time, Barnabas and Maggie begin to spend time together while Jeff is away in Boston. Stokes confronts Julia about helping Barnabas—and realizes she is in love with him—and reminds her that he is in love with Maggie. Overcome with jealousy, Julia gives Barnabas an injection which causes him to age rapidly. Out of rage, he strangles her to death. A terrified Maggie witnesses this and tries to flee, but

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5044-557: The design of the building to its function and the characteristics of the material used. Examples include the Gare du Nord railway station by Jacques Ignace Hittorff , the Church of Saint Augustine by Victor Baltard , and particularly the iron-framed structures of the market of Les Halles and the reading room of the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris, both also by Victor Baltard. A basic principle of Napoleon III interior decoration

5141-528: The design when he was only thirty-seven. When asked by the Empress Eugénie what the style of the building was called, he replied simply, "Napoleon III". At the time, it was the largest opera house in the world, but much of the interior space was devoted to purely decorative spaces: grand stairways, huge foyers for promenading, and large private boxes . Another example was the Mairie , or city hall, of

5238-628: The end of his life, was also still an important figure in both portrait and history painting. During the Second Empire, the Paris Salon was the most important event of the year for painters, engravers and sculptors. It was held every two years until 1861, and every year thereafter, in the Palais de l'Industrie , a gigantic exhibit hall built for the Paris Exposition Universelle (1855) . The Salon granted medals based around

5335-490: The estate through foreclosure in 1874 by Lockwood's heirs. Charles D. Mathews, described in his New York Times obituary as "a very wealthy retired New-York provision dealer", and his wife, Rebecca Thompson Mathews, bought the property in 1876. The mansion was a residence and suburban retreat for the Mathews family, with their Thompson and Martin relatives, until the death of Charles's daughter Florence in 1938. Built in 1864–68,

5432-625: The exteriors of most Second Empire monumental buildings usually remained eclectic, a revolution was taking place inside; based on the model of The Crystal Palace in London (1851), Parisian architects began to use cast iron frames and walls of glass in their buildings. The most dramatic use of iron and glass was in the new central market of Paris, Les Halles (1853–1870), an ensemble of huge iron and glass pavilions designed by Victor Baltard (1805–1874) and Félix Callet (1792–1854). Jacques Ignace Hittorff also made extensive use of iron and glass in

5529-557: The façade was eclectic. Henri Labrouste (1801–1875) also used iron and glass to create a dramatic cathedral-like reading room for the National Library , Richelieu site (1854–1875). The Second Empire also saw the completion or restoration of several architecture treasures: the Nouveau Louvre project realized a longstanding ambition of rationalizing the Louvre Palace , the famed stained glass windows and structure of

5626-589: The heart of the city; his Paris city architect, Gabriel Davioud , designed the polychrome Fontaine Saint-Michel (officially the Fontaine de la Paix) at the beginning of Haussmann's new Boulevard Saint-Michel . Davioud's other major Napoleon III works included the two theatres at the Place du Châtelet , as well as the ornamental fence of Parc Monceau and the kiosks and temples of the Bois de Boulogne , Bois de Vincennes , and other Paris parks. The expansion of

5723-582: The home is an early example of the style used by wealthy New York City elites such as the Vanderbilts in building their Gilded Age mansions later in the 19th century, and set a new standard for opulence. In 1941 the estate was sold to the City of Norwalk, which designated it a public park. The city had planned in 1959 "to build a city hall in the park and tear down the mansion to make way for it." Considerable controversy and claims of bad faith ensued, leaving

5820-413: The house where Dr. Julia Hoffman attends to her. Later, Barnabas introduces himself to the family under the guise of a "cousin from England". Elizabeth and the others are intrigued by Barnabas and take an instant liking to him. However, Elizabeth's daughter, Carolyn Stoddard , and Professor T. Eliot Stokes, a friend of the family, are incredulous. Barnabas insists on moving into the Old House and hosting

5917-461: The inconveniences of a vendetta infinitely prolonged too long and Agamemnon, or the Camel with Two Humps . The early works were limited to two performers on the stage at a time, and usually were no longer than a single act. After 1858, they became longer and more elaborate, with larger casts and several acts, and took the name first of operas bouffes , then operettas . Hervé opened his own theater,

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6014-457: The interior of the new Gare du Nord train station (1842–1865), although the façade was perfectly neoclassical , decorated with classical statues representing the cities served by the railway. Baltard also used a steel frame in building the largest new church to be built in Paris during the Empire, the Church of Saint Augustine (1860–1871). While the structure was supported by cast iron columns,

6111-401: The laughter and mocking comments of many of the spectators. While the paintings were ridiculed by many critics and visitors, the work of the avant-garde became known for the first time to the French public, and it took its place alongside the more traditional style of painting. The government of Napoleon III also commissioned artists to produce decorative works for public buildings. Ingres

6208-427: The master plan was complete. In a decades-long Christmastime tradition, interior decorators deck out about a dozen rooms in the mansion with holiday decorations. An annual "community celebration" is held in December with Christmas music, refreshments and a Santa Claus. In 2007, 10 interior decorators volunteered their services and materials for the event. The museum has hosted an annual antique show since 1978. In 2006

6305-411: The medieval walls of the Cité de Carcassonne and other sites. Viollet-le-Duc's restoration was criticized in the late 20th century for sometimes pursuing the spirit of the original work, rather than strict accuracy (for example, by using a type of Gothic tower cap from northern France for the walls of the Cité de Carcassonne, rather than a tower design from that region), but in Carcassonne and other cases

6402-411: The neoclassical style which had dominated Paris church architecture since the 18th century. Neo-Gothic and other historical styles began to be built, particularly in the eight new arrondissements farther from the center added by Napoleon III in 1860. The first neo-Gothic church was the Basilica of Sainte-Clothilde , begun by Franz Christian Gau in 1841 and finished by Théodore Ballu in 1857. During

6499-409: The orchestra sixty-three times for the first French production of Tannhäuser on March 13, 1861. Unfortunately, Wagner was unpopular with both the French critics and with the members of the Jockey Club , an influential French social society. During the premiere, with Wagner in the audience, the Jockey Club members whistled and jeered from the first notes of the Overture. After just three performances,

6596-400: The original damaged surfaces. The mansion was also featured in the movie House of Dark Shadows . Second Empire (architecture) The Napoleon III or Second Empire style took its inspiration from several different periods and styles, which were often combined in the same building or interior. The interior of the Opéra Garnier by Charles Garnier combined architectural elements of

6693-486: The other artists of a new, more natural school, and began to develop his own style. The most prominent sculptor of the reign of Napoleon III was Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux , who contributed to the decoration of several Napoleon III landmarks, including the façade of the Opéra Garnier and the new additions to the Louvre . His style perfectly complemented the historical styles, but was original and bold enough to stand on its own. Born in Valenciennes , Nord , son of

6790-459: The scheduled public tours of the house. Additional footage was shot at nearby Sleepy Hollow Cemetery; parts of the locales appeared on the Dark Shadows series as well. Some interior scenes were shot at the Lockwood–Mathews Mansion in Norwalk, Connecticut . Along with the original cast, Dan Curtis added other actors to the cast: Jerry Lacy , who notably played Reverend Trask in the 1795 storyline; Terry Crawford and Michael Stroka , who did

6887-451: The show was held the last weekend in October and attracted dealers from Ohio and Pennsylvania as well as Connecticut. In the 2000s, statues and furniture that had originally been in the mansion were bought and placed back in it. Two marble statues, sculpted in 1859 by Joseph Mozier , an American artist, and bought by Lockwood, were purchased for $ 185,000. A $ 165,000 sofa original to the home was also acquired and brought back to it. The home

6984-403: The streets and broke with the classical tradition. His sculpture La Danse for the façade of the Paris Opera (1869) caused a scandal when it was installed, because of the flamboyant pose of the nude figures. A young new sculptor, Auguste Rodin , attempted to break into the sculptural profession during the Second Empire, with no success; he applied three times to the École des Beaux-Arts, but

7081-594: The traditional hierarchy of genres , and a medal from the Salon assured an artist of commissions from wealthy patrons or from the French government. Painters devoted great effort and intrigue to win approval from the jury to present their paintings at the Salon and arrange for good placement in the exhibit halls. The Paris Salon was directed by the Count Émilien de Nieuwerkerke , the Superintendent of Fine Arts, who

7178-562: The upholstery or ornamented with copper, shell, or other decorative elements. Novel and exotic new materials, such as bamboo , papier-mâché , and rattan , were used for the first time in European furniture, along with polychrome wood, and wood painted with black lacquer . The upholstered pouffe , or footstool, appeared, along with the angle sofa and unusual chairs for intimate conversations between two persons ( Le confident ) or three people ( Le indiscret ). The crapaud (or toad) armchair

7275-423: The urging of his friend, the singer Pauline Viardot ; it was a commercial failure. He had no great theatrical success until Faust , derived from Goethe , which premiered at the Théâtre Lyrique in 1859. This remains the composition for which he is best known; and although it took a while to achieve popularity, it became one of the most frequently staged operas of all time, with no fewer than 2,000 performances of

7372-547: The work having occurred by 1975 at the Paris Opéra alone. Georges Bizet wrote his first opera, Les pêcheurs de perles , for the Théâtre Lyrique company. It had its first performance on 30 September 1863. Critical opinion was generally hostile, though Berlioz praised the work, writing that it "does M. Bizet the greatest honour". Public reaction was lukewarm, and the opera's run ended after 18 performances. It

7469-419: The works would have been destroyed entirely without the intervention of Napoleon III and Viollet-le-Duc. Napoleon III named Georges-Eugène Haussmann his new Prefect of Seine in 1853, and commissioned him to build new parks on the edges of the city, on the model of Hyde Park in London, the parks he had frequented when he was in exile. Haussmann assembled a remarkable team: Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand ,

7566-541: Was Les vêpres siciliennes . Verdi complained that the Paris orchestra and chorus were unruly and undisciplined, and rehearsed them an unheard-of one hundred and sixty-one times before he felt they were ready. His work was rewarded. The opera was a critical and popular success, performed 150 times, rather than the originally proposed forty performances. He was unhappy, however, that his operas were less successful in Paris than those of his chief rival, Meyerbeer ; he returned to Italy and did not come back for several years. He

7663-466: Was eclecticism , drawing liberally from the Gothic style , Renaissance style , and the styles dominant during the reigns of Louis XV and Louis XVI . The combination was derided by Émile Zola as "the opulent bastard child of all the styles". The best example was the Opéra Garnier , begun in 1862 but not finished until 1875. The architect was Charles Garnier (1825–1898), who won the competition for

7760-469: Was "never lose that first impression which we feel." He made sketches in the forests around Paris, then reworked them into final paintings in his studio. He was showing paintings in the Salon as early as 1827, but he did not achieve real fame and critical acclaim before 1855, during the Second Empire. While the academic painters dominated the Salon, new artists and new movements rose to prominent prominence under Napoleon III. Gustave Courbet (1819–1872)

7857-435: Was absent from 21 episodes (990 to 1010); Nancy Barrett was absent from 20 episodes (991 to 1010): Louis Edmonds was absent from 17 episodes (991 to 1008); Don Briscoe was absent from 15 episodes (986 to 1000); Joan Bennett was absent from 15 episodes (991 to 1006); and David Henesy was absent from 9 episodes (993 to 1001). The preview version of the film (shown Aug. 24, 1970 at NYC's The DeMille Theatre on 47th Street) included

7954-822: Was commissioned to paint the ceiling of the main salon of the Hôtel de Ville, Paris with the Apotheosis of Napoleon , the Emperor's uncle. The painting was destroyed in 1871 when the building was set afire by the Paris Commune . Napoleon III named Ingres a Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur . In 1862 he was awarded the title of Senator, and made a member of the Imperial Council on Public Instruction. Eugène Delacroix also received important official commissions. From 1857 to 1861 he worked on frescoes for

8051-539: Was finally given the greenlight at MGM by company president James Aubrey in 1970. Curtis decided to use the original Barnabas storyline as the basis for the film, but with a modified conclusion. The film was shot in six weeks for a budget of $ 750,000. Principal shooting took place at several historic locations, including the Lyndhurst Estate in Tarrytown, New York, where the production had to work around

8148-436: Was known for his conservative tastes. He was scornful of the new school of Realist painters led by Gustave Courbet . In 1863, the jury of the Paris Salon refused all submissions by avant-garde artists, including those by Édouard Manet , Camille Pissarro , and Johan Jongkind . The artists and their friends complained, and the complaints reached Napoleon III. His office issued a statement: "Numerous complaints have come to

8245-796: Was launched under Napoleon III was Puvis de Chavannes . He became known in the Paris in the Belle Époque for his murals in the Paris Panthéon , the Sorbonne and the Hôtel de Ville, Paris . Edgar Degas (1834–1917), the son of a banker, studied academic art at the École des Beaux-Arts and travelled to Italy to study the Renaissance painters. In 1868, he began to frequent the Café Guerbois , where he met Manet, Monet, Renoir, and

8342-504: Was leave no space undecorated. Another principle was polychromy , an abundance of color obtained by using colored marble, malachite , onyx , porphyry , mosaics, and silver or gold plated bronze. Wood panelling was often encrusted with rare and exotic woods, or darkened to resemble ebony . The façade of the Opéra Garnier employed seventeen different colored materials, including various marbles, stones, and bronze. Second Empire

8439-487: Was located next to the Gothic church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois . Between the two structures, the architect Théodore Ballu constructed a Gothic bell tower (1862), to link the two buildings. New types of architecture connected with the economic expansion: railroad stations, hotels, office buildings, department stores, and exposition halls, occupied the center of Paris, which previously had been largely residential. To improve traffic circulation and bring light and air to

8536-542: Was low, with a thickly padded back and arms, and a fringe that hid the legs of the chair. The French Renaissance and the Henry II style were popular influences on chests and cabinets, buffets and credences, which were massive and built like small cathedrals, decorated with columns, frontons, cartouches , mascarons , and carved angels and chimeras. They were usually constructed of walnut or oak, or sometimes of poirier stained to resemble ebony . Another popular influence

8633-432: Was made, focusing on Collinwood after new heir Quentin Collins ( David Selby ) takes over. Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (played by Joan Bennett in the series and the first film) gets a brief mention in the film, but is not present. House of Dark Shadows has been released on VHS, and as a two-sided laserdisc (the laserdisc packaged with Night of Dark Shadows , which is out of print ). It is also available on iTunes , on

8730-404: Was not performed again until 1886. Bizet did not have a major success until Carmen in 1875. He died after the thirty-third performance. Carmen went on to become one of the most performed operas of all time. The styles of popular music also evolved under Napoleon III. The café-concert or café-concert was a Paris institution, with at least one in every neighborhood. They ranged from

8827-475: Was persuaded to return to stage Don Carlos , commissioned especially for the Paris Opera. Once again he ran into troubles; one singer took him to court over the casting, and rivalries between other singers poisoned the production. He wrote afterwards, "I am not a composer for Paris I believe in inspiration; others only care about how the pieces are put together". Napoleon III intervened personally to have Richard Wagner come back to Paris; Wagner rehearsed

8924-568: Was published in October 1970. The novel is based on the original script, and contains some scenes which were either cut from the movie or were never filmed. The second film was originally supposed to bring back Barnabas, and was to be called Curse of Dark Shadows (according to Famous Monsters of Filmland ). Before pre-production could begin, however, the series had gone off the air, and Jonathan Frid, fearing being typecast as Barnabas, had moved on to other things. Instead, Night of Dark Shadows

9021-595: Was rejected each time. Under Napoleon III, a new, lighter musical genre, the operetta , was born in Paris, and flourished especially in the work of Jacques Offenbach . It emerged not from the classical opera, but from the comic opera and vaudeville , which were very popular at the time. Its characteristics were a light subject, an abundance of amusement and comedy, spoken dialogue mixed with songs, and instrumental music. The first works were staged in 1848 by August Florimond Ronger, better known as Hervé . The works of Hervé included Latrouillatt and Truffaldini, or

9118-402: Was released at the height of the TV show's popularity to great commercial success. Dark Shadows producer Dan Curtis's original idea had been to edit together footage from the original TV series into a feature-length film, an idea which was quickly abandoned. The TV series was still in production while the film was being made. Some characters had to be temporarily written out of the show so that

9215-542: Was the Louis XVI style , or French neoclassicism , which was preferred by the Empress Eugénie . Her rooms at the Tuileries Palace and other palaces were decorated in this style. The Napoleon III style is inseparable from renovation of Paris under Georges-Eugène Haussmann , the Emperor's Prefect of the Seine between 1852 and 1870. The buildings of the renovation show a singularity of purpose and design,

9312-495: Was the leader of the school of realist painters during the Second Empire who depicted the lives of ordinary people and rural life, as well as landscapes. He delighted in scandal and condemned the art establishment, the Academy of Fine Arts , and Napoleon III. In 1855, when his submissions to the Salon were rejected, he put on his own exhibit of forty of his paintings in a nearby building. In 1870, Napoleon III proposed giving

9409-445: Was used as a filming location for the 2004 remake of The Stepford Wives . Paramount Pictures paid the museum $ 400,000 to paint its central rotunda. The studio also left behind some large paintings (in essence, theatrical pastiches), which serve to emphasize the dramatic size of the rotunda. As a result, the walls look fresh and decorated, and will remain protected until further funds become available for proper, curatorial restoration of

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