In a time of basic ignorance, education was the best way to the middle class and his mother saw that he obtained a primary education. Garnier’s frail health prevented him from following in his father’s profession. By 1838 his father, a blacksmith, had completed his climb from poverty to the working class, opening a shop building and repairing small carriages.
Jean-Louis-Charles Garnier was born of humble origins in the worst slum of Paris on November 6, 1825. It is an authentic expression of its time, a magnificent and resplendent union of architecture, ornament, sculpture, and painting. Garnier designed the Opéra with knowledge, imagination, and skill to perfectly fulfill both its aesthetic and functional requirements. Appraisals of the Paris Opéra have ranged from modernism’s charge that it is nothing more than a pastiche of past styles to Garnier’s own view that was a modern synthesis and development of past styles allied with present technology. In a city of jewels however, there is none more dazzling than the Opéra Garnier, now more beautiful than ever after its meticulous restoration. Notable among them are Notre Dame, Versailles and the Louvre. Many are the architectural jewels of Paris. The youthful god, crowned with a laurel wreath, holds aloft a golden lyre, an attribute of Apollo and a decorative leitmotif throughout the splendid Palais Garnier.Footnotes are inserted into the text within brackets. At the stage flytower apex stands Aimé Millet's monumental group Apollo Crowning Dance and Poetry. Each flytower corner group by Lequesne features Pegasus rearing above the great, copper-plated dome. The façade attic groups with winged goddesses by Guméry are entitled Harmony and Poetry.
The four thematic façade groups at the entrance to the opera house include Harmony by Jouffroy Instrumental Music by Guillaume Lyric Drama by Perraud and The Dance, the celebrated sculpture by Carpeaux. Garnier also had "general interest in all kinds of technological progress,'' such as "balancing the ancient craft of stonecutting against iron's modern industrialization of architecture.'' Among round arches and soaring Corinthian columns, busts and medallions of celebrated composers adorn the stately façade of dressed stone.
Garnier's architectural principles are imbued with Renaissance ideals.
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