Opéra de Paris

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Beautiful model, I am a professor at the university and would like to use your model for a research experiment, you can be part of the research and paper that will write based on the research. How can we get connected?

Visited this model many years ago. So wonderful to see it again! Amazing study of architecture and theater design.

Really nice!

@shadows44 Is this available for download or purchase? Thanks heaps.

Hello, @shadows44 and @andreaborsani

I'm a Canadian 3D artist, and I am very much interested in this model to use as a reference in creating a proportionally accurate 3D model of this architectural wonder. As you can see from the wireframe view, all photogrammetry models are created from thousands of little triangles. I want to use it as a reference and create a model with clean geometry.

I'm happy to pay for a license or fee to use this model as a reference, and I'm happy to share the final version of the clean model with you. I love architecture, and this building is one of the "crème de la crème" of architecture. I asked before, but M. Rogez said it wasn't possible to share this model. Is there anything I can do to purchase a copy? It would be of utmost help to me in making sure my 3D model is accurate and proportionally sound. I thank you in advance for your help and I hope we can find a way to share this gem, and I hope that M. Borsani's father will be very happy that his work continues to attract interest of people who love architecture. I'm eagerly awaiting your reply, you can email me at 3Dlunatic@gmail.com Thank you very much!

John Grey

@andreaborsani Thanks for all those details !

As soon as the museum reopens, I'll go check out the new plaque and I'll include the full text in the model description. In the meantime, I already included the name of your father as well as Giovanni Gianese and Amedeo Brogli.

Any chance you could contact me directly (using the "contact" link at the top of my profile : sketchfab.com/shadows44 ) ? I'd like to ask you a few more questions if that's ok.

@shadows44 Hi Benoit,

I had a chat with my father today, in a nutshell:

- Monsieur Michel Laclotte championed the idea of turning Paris's gare d'Orsay into a museum

- Gae Aulenti is the architect that designed the new interior of the Orsay museum

- Richard Peduzzi designed the areas dedicated to architecture in the museum

- L’Atelier de Giovanni Gianese, Ercole Borsani and Amedeo Brogli created the 1:33 model of the Opéra de Paris

Mr Peduzzi was mistakenly indicated as the creator of the model. My father and the other artists never bothered too much about that but we recently convinced him to get in touch with the museum to have the opera attributed to the people who actually worked on it. A new plaque with the correct names now stands next to the maquette.

P.S. The maquette was commissioned because monsieur Laclotte wanted to have something representing French architecture of the nineteenth century. They realised there would have been plenty of sculptures and paintings but not much about French architecture - that's when the idea of recreating a maquette of the Opera Garnier was conceived.

Thanks again for the nice 3D model!

@andreaborsani Thanks a lot for the photo and the information, I didn't know the model was created in Italy !

Can you ask your father what role did Richard Peduzzi play in the making of the model ? (if I understand well, he probably was the one who oversaw the project for the Museum ?)

@shadows44 Hi Benoit, the model was created by "L’Atelier de Giovanni Gianese, Ercole Borsani and Amedeo Brogli". Giovanni Gianese was the sculptor, Ercole Borsani is the architect (my father ) while Amedeo Brogli took care of the internal painting of the maquette. The model was commissioned by the Orsay Museum for its inauguration in November 1986 and was divided into 5 blocks. Works took place near Rome and took around 3 years, then moved to Paris once completed.

L'Atelier was dissolved in 1991, from its dissolution my father was entrusted to represent the company and its partners in relations with individuals and public administrations.

I happen to be with my dad right now and I just showed him your 3D model. He was impressed and he really enjoyed it a lot. I can see he is daydreaming as I write and he has a smile on his face while he plays around with the 3D model on his computer, thanks very much for this and well done indeed.

He also liked the idea of making art available for everyone to enjoy, especially through this Covid pandemic.

Let us know if you would still like to access to the model, we can contact the museum and see if they can grant you permission to 3D scan the maquette.

Here is an old photo I found while the model was work in progress postimg.cc/3dvmHFpC

Thanks again Benoit

Wonderful, fantastic effort. Thank you for sharing.

I hate to say. I showed your model to my boss so we can get Sketchfab to show some scans to our clients.. nothing big.. but wow! This is exactly what I mean by point cloud, and yes, thanks for sharing. This is too bad.. it's not me. haha

@shadows44 that's really too bad. Thanks for your efforts, however.

@3dlunatic Hello, I would love to share it for free, but the scale model I 3D scanned is not in the public domain : I would need the author to allow me to share my 3d scan, and I wasn't able to find any way to contact him online.

Hello, Mr. Rogez. This fantastic historical model doesn't appear to be downloadable or for purchase. It's a real pitty. Do you think you will make it available in the future? I would really love to explore it in 3D in Maya.

Hermoso xD

Sacré travail ! Bravo !

Stunning!

Amazing!

@virtualsweden It would indeed be nice to get a special authorization from the museum. Especially if I can also use a tripod.

Really cool, here is the original i.pinimg.com/originals/70/cd/5c/70cd5cc4...

You should ask the Museum to get access to the other side aswell.

Amazing. I love cutaways like this.

Staff Pick! Annotations make it even better :)

I wonder what if you could hide some opera music in there too...