342 résultats pour "museum"
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Tajikistan - country.
by more than 100 percent due to a high birth rate and improvements in medical care. During the early 1990s, however, the growth rate began to decline due to civilwar and emigration. A Ethnic Groups and Languages Tajiks constitute the largest ethnic group in Tajikistan, making up about 65 percent of the population. The peoples who live in Gorno-Badakhshan, located in the Pamirs,are classified as Tajiks, although their languages and customs are distinct. The largest minority group in the country...
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Cubism
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Cubism, movement in modern art, especially in painting, invented by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and French artist Georges Braque in 1907 and 1908.
Mont Sainte-Victoire by CézanneFrench artist Paul Cézanne painted Mont Sainte-Victoire, a mountain near his home in Provence in southern France, onmany occasions. Over time, the images he produced became flatter, less realistic, and more abstract. In this late version,painted from 1902 to 1904, patches of color barely indicate the mountain, sky, and foreground, while creating a rhythmicpattern across the painting’s surface. The mountain and sky, both intensely blue, appear almost to merge.Philad...
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Rio de Janeiro (city) - geography.
were coronated; and Our Lady of Candelária Church, thought by some to be the city’s most beautiful church. Another building of interest is the Imperial Palace, located several blocks west of Santos Dumont Airport. Originally constructed as Brazil’s colonial governor’s capitol in1743, it was converted to the royal palace during the city’s period as an imperial capital. It has recently been restored and now houses a cultural center. Otherimpressive 19th-century palaces include Itamaraty and Catete...
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London - geographie.
Westminster sowie die Margaretenkirche sind seit 1987 Weltkulturerbestätten der UNESCO. Im Westen liegt auch der Hyde Park, die größte Parkanlage Londons, der inwestlicher Richtung bis in die Stadtbezirke Knightsbridge und Kensington reicht, beides äußerst elegante Wohnviertel mit vielen Sehenswürdigkeiten, darunter dasWarenhaus von Harrods, die Royal Albert Hall und die South-Kensington-Museen. Direkt im Süden von West End, am anderen Flussufer, befindet sich der Lambeth-Palast des Erzbischofs...
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München - geographie.
19. Jahrhunderts. Die Pinakothek der Moderne (2002 eröffnet) umfasst die Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, das Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität München, dasStaatliche Museum für angewandte Kunst (Neue Sammlung) und die Staatliche Graphische Sammlung. Weitere Kultureinrichtungen von hohem Rang sind u. a. das Nationaltheater, Sitz der Bayerischen Staatsoper, das Kulturzentrum Gasteig, das Haus der Kunst, dasLenbachhaus, das Staatliche Museum für Völkerkunde, die Prähistorische Staatssamml...
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Sydney (Australia) - geography.
kept pace with demand, mostly through the outward expansion of the metropolitan area. More housing has been created recently in inner areas, including the CBD, onredeveloped industrial sites and in converted commercial buildings. Several outlying areas are part of the greater Sydney conurbation (a large urban area formed by urban sprawl). To the west are areas of commercial strip development extending from Penrith through the Blue Mountains; to the north are the Central Coast area centered on...
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Surrealism
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Surrealism, artistic and literary movement that explored and celebrated the realm of dreams and the unconscious mind through the creation of visual art, poetry, and
motion pictures.
Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights (about 1505-1510).© 2008 Salvador Dali, Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York./Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York Dreams, according to Freud, were the royal road to studying the unconscious, because it is in dreams that our unconscious, primal desires manifest themselves. Theincongruities in dreams, Freud believed, result from a struggle for dominance of ego and id. In attempting to access the real workings of...
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Rembrandt
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Rembrandt (1606-1669), Dutch baroque artist, who ranks as one of the greatest painters in the history of Western art.
of his collection of art and antiquities, taken before an auction to pay his debts, showed the breadth of Rembrandt's interests: ancient sculpture, Flemish and ItalianRenaissance paintings, Far Eastern art, contemporary Dutch works, weapons, and armor. Unfortunately, the results of the auction—including the sale of hishouse—were disappointing. These problems in no way affected Rembrandt's work; if anything, his artistry increased. Some of the great paintings from this period are The Jewish Brid...
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Moderne Kunst und Architektur.
Neue Sachlichkeit hervor. Vertreter dieser Richtung waren u. a. Alexander Kanoldt, Georg Schrimpf und Christian Schad. 2.5. 2 Kubismus Der Kubismus versuchte noch radikaler als die avantgardistischen Strömungen zuvor, eine Abstraktion von der äußeren Wirklichkeit zu erreichen. Picassos Gemälde Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907, Museum of Modern Art, New York) ist hierfür das viel zitierte Musterbeispiel (siehe oben). Im Kubismus etwa Picassos und Braques (zwischen 1907 und 1914) wird der zweidi...
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Diego Velázquez (artist)
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Velázquez and Baroque Theatricality
Spanish painter Diego Velázquez presents two scenes in The Fable of Arachne (about 1656, Museo del Prado, Madrid,
Spain), also known as The Spinners.
search for a position as court painter. In 1623, however, he returned to the capital and, after executing a portrait (1623, Prado) of the king, was named official painterto Philip IV. The portrait was the first among many such sober, direct renditions of the king, the royal family, and members of the court. Indeed, throughout the later1620s, most of Velázquez's efforts were dedicated to portraiture. Mythological subjects would at times occupy his attention, as in Bacchus, also called The Drin...
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Peking - geographie.
Von den zahlreichen Hochschulen sind die Peking-Universität (gegründet 1898), die Qinghua-Universität (1911) und die Volks-Universität (1950) am bekanntesten. DieSport-Universität ist die wichtigste ihrer Art in China, landesweit führend ist auch die Fremdsprachen-Universität. Daneben gibt es die Chinesische Akademie derWissenschaften (Academia Sinica) und eine Reihe ihr unterstehender Forschungsinstitute. Die Peking-Bibliothek ist die bedeutendste Chinas (etwa zehn Millionen Bände;mit Beständen...
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Les dessins français du Metropolitan Museum de New York au Musée du Louvre, pavillon de Flore
est l'auteur d'innovations importantes liées à sa maîtrise d'artisan , l'introduction des lettr es et des chiffres d'imprimerie au pochoir, l'em ploi dans un sens créateur, des instruments e t techniques du peintre-décorateur, la transf orma tion d e la matière picturale elle- même par incorporation de sable, sciure de bois o u limaill e de fe r, enfin l'invention, en sept em bre 1912, des papiers collés qui devaient permettre le ren ve...
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cabinet de curiosités - sciences et techniques.
À la fin du XVIe siècle, l’électeur de Saxe Auguste I er (1526-1586), Albert V (1528-1579), duc de Bavière, qui fait spé\ cialement édifier un imposant bâtiment pour présenter ses curio\ sités, l’archiduc Ferdinand II (1529-1595), qui rassemble une importante collection dans le château d’Ambras au Tyrol, ou encore\ François I er de Médicis (1541-1587), grand-duc de Toscane, figurent parmi les g\ rands collectionneurs de leur époque. À la charnière des XVI e et XVII e siècles, Rodolphe II...
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Peinture flamande et école hollandaise (Histoire des Arts) - (Exposé – Art – Collège/Lycée)
En 1639, Van Dyck épouse une aristocrate anglaise, Mary Ruthven. Il meurt peu après la naissance de sa fille. • Ses thèmes -A ses débuts, Van Dyck réalise des compositions religieuses ou mythologiques dans la veine de Rubens. Mais ce sont ses portraits de monarques et d'aristocrates dans le plus pur style baroque qui feront sa gloire. • Ses œuvres les plus célèbres - -La Princesse Mary Stuart et Je Prince Wtlliam d'Orange, 1632 (Rijksmuseum, Am...
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Seattle - geography.
Queen Anne Hill, north of downtown, was long isolated by its steep ascent but emerged as a fashionable residential area at the close of the 19th century. North of QueenAnne Hill and across the Lake Washington Ship Canal, Ballard was originally settled by Scandinavian immigrants. Annexed to Seattle in 1907, Ballard today is a residentialneighborhood with a strong Nordic heritage. To the east from Ballard along the north side of the Ship Canal, the neighborhoods of Fremont, Wallingford, and the Un...
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Crafts.
VI POTTERY Ceramic objects can be molded completely by hand or thrown (shaped) on a potter's wheel, a device with a rotating horizontal disk. When the clay hardens, it is fired ina high-temperature oven, or kiln, to strengthen it. To make the object waterproof, glazes may then be applied and the piece fired again. Although hand construction iseasy to master, throwing on the potter's wheel requires practice. Several simple tools are used by potters, including sponges, trimming tools, wooden sha...
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Shanghai - geography.
language. V EDUCATION AND CULTURE Shanghai is one of China’s leading centers of learning and culture. The metropolitan area is home to more than 40 institutions of higher learning. These include some ofChina’s most famous universities, such as Fudan University (founded in 1905), Tongji University (1907), and the East China Normal University (1951). A large branch ofthe Chinese Academy of Sciences is located in Shanghai, and extensive research is undertaken in areas such as semiconductors, laser...
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Uruguay - geographie.
Museen und literarische Veröffentlichungen. Beliebte Sportarten sind Fußball, Polo, Schwimmen, Tennis und Golf. Siehe lateinamerikanische Literatur. 4.1 Bildung und Schulwesen Uruguay hat mit 98,2 Prozent (2005) einen sehr hohen Alphabetisierungsgrad. Es besteht eine allgemeine Schulpflicht von 10 Jahren. Uruguay gehört zu den wenigenLändern, in denen der Schulbesuch sowie der von Hochschulen und weiterführenden Bildungseinrichtungen unentgeltlich ist. Zu den Einrichtungen der höheren Bildun...
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Benin - country.
French is the official language of Benin, but most people speak an African language. Each of the country’s ethnic groups has its own language. Fon is the most widelyspoken language. About 52 percent of the population professes traditional religious beliefs, chiefly Vodun, a belief in spirits. Arab merchants introduced Islam to the region, and today it isthe religion of some 20 percent of the people, most of whom live in the north. Christianity, especially Roman Catholicism, is the religion of ab...
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Peru - geographie.
(390 000), Pucallpa (312 000), Trujillo (277 000), Chiclayo (251 000) und Piura (248 000). 3.2 Sprache und Religion Spanisch, das von etwa 70 Prozent der Bevölkerung gesprochen wird, war bis 1975 die einzige Amtssprache Perus. Dann wurde Quechua, eine der bedeutendsten unter denIndianersprachen – rund 25 Prozent der Bevölkerung sprechen es –, ebenfalls zur offiziellen Amtssprache erhoben. Auch Englisch und Aymara, eine weitere Indianersprache,sind im Land verbreitet. Ungefähr 90 Prozent der Per...
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Kuba - geographie.
und Mutterschaftsrente. In den achtziger Jahren wurde auch das staatliche Gesundheitswesen erheblich verbessert. Besonderen Wert legte die Regierung dabei auf diemedizinische Vorsorge. Viele junge Ärzte wurden während der vergangenen Jahre in ländliche Regionen versetzt, wo es zuvor keine medizinische Betreuung gegeben hatte. Die medizinischeVersorgung ist kostenlos. 4 BILDUNG UND KULTUR 4.1 Bildung und Schulwesen Es besteht eine 9-jährige Schulpflicht, der Schulbesuch ist kostenlos. Nach der...
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Venezuela - geographie.
3.3 Soziales Die Gesellschaft Venezuelas ist von erheblichen sozialen Gegensätzen geprägt. 31,3 Prozent der Landesbewohner leben unterhalb der Armutsgrenze. Der Staat unterstütztin begrenztem Umfang eine Gesundheits-, Unfall- und Rentenversicherung. Die Lebenserwartung liegt bei 73,5 Jahren (2008). Aufgrund der Armut und der hohenArbeitslosigkeit suchen viele Menschen aus ländlichen Gebieten nach besseren Lebensbedingungen in den Städten, wo sich in den Außenbezirken Slumsiedlungen (Barrios)mit...
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Burundi - country.
D Way of Life Most Burundians live in self-contained compounds of small round grass huts scattered over the country’s many hills. The rugo , the traditional Tutsi hut, is divided into sections and surrounded by an enclosure and cattle corrals. Families farm scattered plots of land on different soils at different altitudes to minimize crop failure. Thefloors of valleys are avoided due to higher temperatures and tsetse fly infestation. Social roles are largely determined by ethnicity, with the T...
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Prince Edward Island - Geography.
hectares (109 acres) each. In 2006 there were 1,700 farms, of which the average size was 148 hectares (366 acres). In 2005 the total farm cash receipts were C$510million. The most important agricultural products in terms of value include potatoes, milk and cream, cattle and calves, hogs, tobacco, vegetables, eggs, hens andchickens, and furs. For the most part the island’s agriculture is diversified, rather than specialized, because of the lack of a large urban industrial population within easy r...
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Prince Edward Island - Canadian History.
hectares (109 acres) each. In 2006 there were 1,700 farms, of which the average size was 148 hectares (366 acres). In 2005 the total farm cash receipts were C$510million. The most important agricultural products in terms of value include potatoes, milk and cream, cattle and calves, hogs, tobacco, vegetables, eggs, hens andchickens, and furs. For the most part the island’s agriculture is diversified, rather than specialized, because of the lack of a large urban industrial population within easy r...
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Österreich - Geschichte.
normalerweise erlaubt. In Österreich gibt es 18 vom Europarat anerkannte Reservate und sechs Biosphärenreservate, die der UNESCO unterstehen. 3 BEVÖLKERUNG Die Einwohnerzahl beträgt 8,21 Millionen (2008), was einer Bevölkerungsdichte von 100 Einwohnern pro Quadratkilometer entspricht. Das jährliche Bevölkerungswachstumliegt bei 0,06 Prozent (2008). Die Lebenserwartung beträgt für Männer 76,5 Jahre und für Frauen 82,4 Jahre (2008). Die Bevölkerung ist sehr ungleichmäßig über das Landverteilt. We...
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Österreich - geographie.
normalerweise erlaubt. In Österreich gibt es 18 vom Europarat anerkannte Reservate und sechs Biosphärenreservate, die der UNESCO unterstehen. 3 BEVÖLKERUNG Die Einwohnerzahl beträgt 8,21 Millionen (2008), was einer Bevölkerungsdichte von 100 Einwohnern pro Quadratkilometer entspricht. Das jährliche Bevölkerungswachstumliegt bei 0,06 Prozent (2008). Die Lebenserwartung beträgt für Männer 76,5 Jahre und für Frauen 82,4 Jahre (2008). Die Bevölkerung ist sehr ungleichmäßig über das Landverteilt. We...
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Lithuania - country.
pollution. III PEOPLE Ethnic Lithuanians constitute about 80 percent of the country’s population. The proportion of Lithuanians increased slightly in the first years after the dissolution of theSoviet Union—many Lithuanians returned to their homeland from that country and abroad while some Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians left the country. Russiansand Poles constitute the country’s largest minority groups, each accounting for roughly 7 percent of the population. Jews were the largest mino...
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Israel - geographie.
Israel eingewandert sind, und die Sephardim, deren Vorfahren von der Iberischen Halbinsel und aus Nordafrika nach Israel kamen. Andere Volksgruppen stammen aus demMittleren Osten oder aus Osteuropa. Letztere wanderten vor allem nach dem Zusammenbruch der Sowjetunion und dem Zerfall des Ostblocks nach Israel aus. 3.1 Wichtige Städte Größte Stadt des Landes ist Jerusalem (702 000 Einwohner einschließlich der Altstadt). Weitere wichtige Städte sind das Industriezentrum Tel Aviv-Jaffa (369 000), Ha...
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Armenia (country) - country.
because of ethnic tension brought on by a secessionist conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, a region inhabited predominantly by Armenians in western Azerbaijan. In thereverse direction, many Armenian refugees entered Armenia from Azerbaijan during the conflict. Armenia’s official state language is Armenian, an Indo-European language with no surviving close relatives. It has a unique 38-letter alphabet that dates from the early5th century. Of its many spoken dialects, the most important are Eastern or Y...
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Latvia - country.
The population of Latvia is about 2,245,423 (2008 estimate), yielding an average population density of 35 persons per sq km (91 per sq mi). Latvia is highly urbanized.Some 66 percent of the population lives in urban areas, with nearly one-third of the total population residing in the capital, Rīga. Other important cities includeDaugavpils, an industrial center in the southeast, on the Daugava River; Liep āja, an important port on the Baltic Sea; Jelgava, an industrial center near Rîga; J ūrmala,...
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Georgia (country) - country.
1917. During the subsequent Soviet period, religious practice was strongly discouraged because the Soviet state was officially atheistic; however, the GeorgianOrthodox Church was allowed to function openly. Orthodox Christianity is the religion of about 58 percent of the Georgian population. Muslims represent about 19 percent of the country’s population, with ethnicAzerbaijanis, Kurds, and Ajars comprising the principal Muslim groups. Ajars are ethnic Georgians who converted to Islam in the 17th...
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- Family of Man (The), célèbre exposition de photographies organisée au Museum of Modern Art de New York en 1955 par Edward Steichen.
- BECQUEREL, Henri (1852-1908) Physicien Après avoir été élève de l'Ecole polytechnique et de celle des Ponts et Chaussées, il est professeur au Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, puis à l'Ecole polytechnique.
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Henri Becquerel
par Jean Becquerel
de l'Institut de France
Henri Becquerel avait, dès son enfance, vécu dans l'atmosphère du
laboratoire du Museum et avait été élevé dans le culte de la Science, sous la
direction de son père Edmond et de son grand-père Antoine-César.
par Jean Becquerel de l'Institut de France
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Redouté et le dessin naturaliste
Washington. Peintres et gra veurs travaillent en collabo ration avec des zoologistes et des biologistes, accompa gnant pas à pas leurs décou vertes . Redouté le Jeune fait partie de cette génération et se consacre à son art aux côtés de Lamarck et de Ge offroy Saint-Hilaire, dont il devient l'ami. Le jeune artiste est nommé peintre pour les ani maux au concours de 1793, l'ann ée même de la création de la ménagerie du...
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genre, peinture de
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Bruegel l'Ancien, le Repas de noces
Les scènes de genre (fêtes de village, mariages) idéalisent les conditions de vie des classes populaires afin de plaire à la bourgeoisie, qui y retrouve les effets de son bon gouvernement.
Stamnos à figures rouges Stamnos à figures rouges, décoré d'une scène de banquet avec joueuse de flûte, v. 450 av. J.-C. Vase grec du service à vin, céramique antique. British Museum, Londres.The British Museum Les rites funèbres se retrouvent également illustrés dans certaines peintures de vases de la Grèce antique. À l’exemple des mosaïques grecques puis romaines (scènes de chasse, de jeux), l’inspiration tirée de la vie quotidienne se retrouve plus tard dans la peinture romaine antique, ainsi...
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Hogarth, William - vie et oeuvre du peintre.
William Hogarth est également un portraitiste de renom qui a bouleversé le genre pictural à maintes reprises. Il participe à l’introduction des « Conversations Pieces » en Angleterre avec le Mariage de Stephen Beckingham et de Mary Cox (1729-1730, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) ou la Famille Foutaine (1730, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphie). Puis lorsqu’il réalise le Capitaine Coram (1740, Foundling Hospital, Londres), il marque un nouveau tournant dans l’art du portrait po...
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Hogarth, William - biographie du peintre.
William Hogarth est également un portraitiste de renom qui a bouleversé le genre pictural à maintes reprises. Il participe à l’introduction des « Conversations Pieces » en Angleterre avec le Mariage de Stephen Beckingham et de Mary Cox (1729-1730, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) ou la Famille Foutaine (1730, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphie). Puis lorsqu’il réalise le Capitaine Coram (1740, Foundling Hospital, Londres), il marque un nouveau tournant dans l’art du portrait po...
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Rembrandt van Rijn (Beaux-Arts)
Rembrandt produit environ 600 peintures ainsi qu'un nombre considérable de dessins et de gravures. Le style de sespremières peintures, autour de 1620, montre l'influence de Lastman dans le choix de sujets dramatiques et decompositions surpeuplées ainsi que dans les contrastes d'ombre et de lumière. Rembrandt aime les costumesexotiques, comme le montrent un grand nombre des ses premières peintures, comme "La Clémence de Titus" (1626,Stedelijk Museum, Leyde) ou "Le noble Slave" (1632...
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Bruegel l'Ancien - biographie.
Bruegel l'Ancien, le Pays de Cocagne L'esprit des Proverbes flamands et des « Mois », ainsi que l'influence des légendes populaires qui transparaissent dans la peinture de Bruegel trouvent une expression plus synthétique dans lesœuvres de la dernière période. D'une symbolique qui peut apparaître aujourd'hui complexe, voire ésotérique, l'image s'éloigne néanmoins de la rhétorique pour transposer l'activité humaine et lespectacle du monde. Dans le Pays de cocagne, la société - paysan, soldat, cler...
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Bruegel l'Ancien - vie et oeuvre du peintre.
Bruegel l'Ancien, le Pays de Cocagne L'esprit des Proverbes flamands et des « Mois », ainsi que l'influence des légendes populaires qui transparaissent dans la peinture de Bruegel trouvent une expression plus synthétique dans lesœuvres de la dernière période. D'une symbolique qui peut apparaître aujourd'hui complexe, voire ésotérique, l'image s'éloigne néanmoins de la rhétorique pour transposer l'activité humaine et lespectacle du monde. Dans le Pays de cocagne, la société - paysan, soldat, cler...
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Goya, Francisco - dessin & gravure.
Goya, Charles III chasseur Peintre de cour, Francisco Goya a peint à plusieurs reprises cette scène figurant le roi Charles III d'Espagne chassant. Outre le tableau conservé au musée du Prado, il existe quatre autresversions connues : collection de la duchesse de Fernán Núñez, collection Argentaria (Banco Exterior de España, Madrid), Hôtel de Ville de Madrid et collection Lord Margadade(Angleterre).Francisco Goya, Charles III chasseur, 1786-1788. Huile sur toile, 207 × 126 cm. Musée du Prado, Ma...
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Cairo (Egypt) - geography.
Prize-winning author and Cairo native Naguib Mahfouz, whose fiction has provided a chronicle of the city. VI POINTS OF INTEREST The pyramids of Egypt, which served as tombs for the ancient pharaohs, and the statue of the Sphinx, which dates from about 2500 BC and is probably the country's most famous monument, are located just west of Cairo in the suburb of Giza. Depite the desert background usually depicted in photographs, the pyramids areextremely close to Cairo and are likely to be affecte...
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Modern Art
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American Gothic
American Gothic was painted by the 20th-century American artist Grant Wood in 1930.
while at the other side a woman in black appears to mourn the end of her participation in the dance. Click on the buttonsto learn more.© Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. In view of this diversity, it is difficult to define modern art in a way that includes all of 20th-century Western art. For some critics, the most important characteristic ofmodern art is its attempt to make painting and sculpture ends in themselves, thus distinguishing modernism from earlier forms of art that had con...
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Paul Cézanne
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Peaches and Pears
Peaches and Pears (1888) by Paul Cézanne displays a sense of unity and continuity typical of the artist's many still-life
paintings.
the most transient natural effects as well as their own passing emotional states as the artists stood before nature. Under Pissarro's tutelage, and within a very shorttime during 1872-1873, Cézanne shifted from dark tones to bright hues and began to concentrate on scenes of farmland and rural villages. IV RETURN TO AIX-EN-PROVENCE Mont Sainte-Victoire by CézanneFrench artist Paul Cézanne painted Mont Sainte-Victoire, a mountain near his home in Provence in southern France, onmany occasions. Ov...
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Seoul - geography.
higher learning in South Korea. All of South Korea’s top-ranked universities are in Seoul, including Chung-ang University (1918), Ewha Women’s University (1886),Korea University (1905), Seoul National University (1946), Sogang University (1960), Sung Kyun Kwan University (1938), and Yonsei University (1885). The National Museum features collections of Korean art and artifacts, and the National Science Museum showcases modern Korean technology. The National Library ofKorea, the country’s largest...
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London (England) - geography.
In the northern part of the West End is Bloomsbury, the city’s traditional intellectual center, with its concentration of bookshops and homes of writers and academics. Inthe early 20th century a number of famous writers, critics, and artists who lived here became known as the Bloomsbury Group. Here, too, is the British Museum, one ofLondon’s chief tourist attractions. Nearby is the giant complex of the University of London, whose various colleges and departments have taken over much ofBloomsbury...
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Native American Art
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Native American Art, the visual works crafted by indigenous people of North America, starting after their arrival on the continent thousands of years ago and continuing
until the present.
artists in the Ohio area cut delicate flat forms from sheets of mica in the shape of birds, human figures, and large hands. They also carved quite natural-looking birdsand animals on stone platform pipes. These figures sat on the pipe’s flat base, or platform, and on some pipes they were part of the pipe bowl. Prominent people ofthese cultures were buried with a wealth of ornaments, such as jewelry of shells and copper, and headdresses elaborated with animal forms. The period of Mississippian cu...
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New York (city) - geography.
The Bronx is the fourth largest and the northernmost of the five boroughs, and the only one on the American mainland. Even so, it is surrounded by water on threesides: Long Island Sound on the east, the Harlem and East rivers on the south, and Hudson River on the west. Encompassing 109 sq km (42 sq mi), it had 1,332,650inhabitants in 2000. Largely residential, the Bronx includes dozens of vibrant neighborhoods. Fieldston is particularly elegant, with great stone houses set among spacious lawns a...