Paul Bigot

Bigot was born in Orbec, Calvados. He studied architecture at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, in the atelier of Louis-Jules André. He won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1900, which enabled him to study in Rome at the Villa Medici. He later became a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts.

He is particularly known for Le Plan de Rome, a large architectural model of Ancient Rome. It is a plaster model of about 70 square metres at a scale of 1:400, showing Rome as it would have been in the time of the emperor Constantine I (4th century AD). The model is preserved at the University of Caen and is itself listed as an ancient monument. A second version is in the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels.

Bigot was also the architect of the Institut d'art et d'archéologie, in Paris, completed in 1928.

• Le Plan de Rome website at University of Caen
• Biography: "Paul Bigot: a Norman in Rome"
• Modern Mechanix: Model of Rome Took Thirty Years to Build (Jun, 1934)
• See: Designed / created by Arch. Paul Bigot ("Prix de Rome"), c. 1906–1911. News Report: REMARKABLE RESTORATION OF THE ANCIENT CITY MADE IN MODEL, THE NEW YORK TIMES (26-11-1911, pg. SM8). cf.
• Martin. G. Conde, Rome. Model's of Ancient Rome [Area of the Imperial Fora]: Giuseppe Marcelliani (1905–1906); Paul Bigot (1906–1911, 1942); Italo Gismondi / Pierino Di Carlo (1933–1937, & later revisions).
• Works by Paul Bigot