Die Guillotione-Brücke bei Lyon. Und das Hospital Hotel de Dieu. M.

Title

Die Guillotione-Brücke bei Lyon. Und das Hospital Hotel de Dieu. M.

Decorativ city view of Lyon with the river Rhone. In 1572, Lyon was a scene of mass violence by Catholics against Protestant Huguenots in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacres.

ca. 1818

Artist

Bollinger (1777-1825)

Friedrich Wilhelm Bollinger ( 1777 -1825 ) was a German engraver and professor in Berlin. Bollinger studied at the Royal Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin and later became a professor there. He engraved about 150 portraits of famous personalities, often using models by other artists. Among his most famous works are engraved portraits of Martin Luther, Johannes Bugenhagen, the King of Saxony and Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni. The latter appeared as the title page of his work Akustik, 1802.

Historical Description

Fernand Braudel remarked, ;Historians of Lyon are not sufficiently aware of the bi-polarity between Paris and Lyon, which is a constant structure in French development...from the late Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution;.In the late 15th century, the fairs introduced by Italian merchants made Lyon the economic countinghouse of France. Even the Bourse (treasury), built in 1749, resembled a public bazaar where accounts were settled in the open air. When international banking moved to Genoa, then Amsterdam, Lyon remained the banking centre of France In 1572, Lyon was a scene of mass violence by Catholics against Protestant Huguenots in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacres.