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The Grand Palais served as a military hospital during World War I, employing local artists who had not been deployed to the front to decorate hospital rooms or to make moulds for prosthetic limbs.
The Nazis put the Palais to use during the Occupation of France in World War II. First used as a truck depot, the Palais then housed two Nazi propaganda exhibitions. There was quite the battle fought here.
From every direction the STATUARY was beyond fabulous: Quadriga, which is located on one of the ends of the Grand Palais, and this particular bronze statue of the horses and chariot that you can see in this photo is called L'Immortalite Devancent le Temps, which translates to Immortality Outstripping Time and was produced by Georges Recipon who also produced the other quadriga on the opposite end overlooking the Avenue Winston Churchill.
The light green patina, which is a film on the surface of metal produced by oxidation over a period of time, was more in harmony with the mignonette green colour of the steel structures in the Nave and enhances to the Grand Palais.
The Nazis put the Palais to use during the Occupation of France in World War II. First used as a truck depot, the Palais then housed two Nazi propaganda exhibitions. There was quite the battle fought here.
From every direction the STATUARY was beyond fabulous: Quadriga, which is located on one of the ends of the Grand Palais, and this particular bronze statue of the horses and chariot that you can see in this photo is called L'Immortalite Devancent le Temps, which translates to Immortality Outstripping Time and was produced by Georges Recipon who also produced the other quadriga on the opposite end overlooking the Avenue Winston Churchill.
The light green patina, which is a film on the surface of metal produced by oxidation over a period of time, was more in harmony with the mignonette green colour of the steel structures in the Nave and enhances to the Grand Palais.