Paul Bigot
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Paul Bigot (20 October 1870 – 8 June 1942) was a French architect.
Bigot was born in Orbec (Calvados) in 1870. He studied architecture at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1900, which enabled him to study in Rome at the Villa Medici. He later became a professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
He is particularly known for Le Plan de Rome, a large architectural model of Ancient Rome. It is a plaster model of about 70 square metres at a scale of 1:400, showing Rome as it would have been in the time of the emperor Constantine (4th century AD).
The model is preserved at the University of Caen and is listed as an ancient monument. A second version is in the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels.
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- [1] See: Designed / created by Arch. Paul Bigot ("Prix de Rome"), c. 1906 - 1911. News Report: REMARKABLE RESTORATION OF THE ANCIENT CITY MADE IN MODEL, THE NEW YORK TIMES (26-11-1911, pg. SM8). cf. [2] Martin. G. Conde, Rome. Model's of Ancient Rome [Area of the Imperial Fora]: Giuseppe Marcelliani (1905-1906); Paul Bigot (1906-1911, 1942); Italo Gismondi / Pierino Di Carlo (1933-1937, & later revisions).
