Maurice Glaize
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Maurice Glaize was a French architect and archeologist, Conservator of Angkor from 1937 to 1945.
Maurice Glaize
Bayon
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The Bayon is a richly decorated Theravada Buddhist temple of the Khmer Empire located at Angkor in Cambodia. Built in the late 12th or early 13th century as the state temple of King Jayavarman VII, it
Maurice Glaize
…Mebon (1937-1939), Phnom Krom (1938) and Phnom Bok (1939). For other buildings he used partially anastylosis, as in Neak Pean (1938-1939), Preah Khan, Bayon (between 1939 and 1946) and the North Gate of Angkor Thom, but in particular cases he opted for deeper or larger interventions, as in Preah Palilay…
Bayon, Angkor Thom, Camboya, 2013 08 17, DD 37
Carved faces on a tower at the Bayon
According to Angkor-scholar Maurice Glaize, the Bayon appears "as but a muddle of stones, a sort of moving chaos assaulting the sky."
According to scholars, King Jayavarman VII bears a strong resemblance to the face towers of the Bayon.