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Architectural Conservation and Restoration: Theories of restoration: Viollet-le-Duc to Ruskin · Viollet-le-Duc and Stylistic Restoration

How Viollet-le-Duc defined restoration as completing a building's ideal style, where he applied it, and why later conservators rejected it.
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Viollet-le-Duc's first major restoration, begun in his mid-twenties, saved which building from collapse?

The abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel
The cathedral of Chartres
The basilica of Vézelay

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Answer: The basilica of Vézelay

The Romanesque basilica of Sainte-Madeleine at Vézelay was badly deformed and close to ruin in 1840. Its success established his reputation and led to bigger commissions.

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Viollet-le-Duc's first major restoration, begun in his mid-twenties, saved which building from collapse?

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