Goya statue, Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain, Europe
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of late 18th and early 19th centuries and throughout his long career was a commentator and chronicler of his era. Immensely successful in his lifetime, Goya is often referred to as both the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. He was born to a modest family in 1746 in the village of Fuendetodos in Aragon. He studied painting from age 14 under José Luzán y Martinez and moved to Madrid to study with Anton Raphael Mengs. He married Josefa Bayeu in 1773; the couple's life together was characterised by an almost constant series of pregnancies and miscarriages. He became a court painter to the Spanish Crown in 1786 and this early portion of his career is marked by portraits of the Spanish aristocracy and royalty, and Rococo style tapestry cartoons designed for the royal palace. Goya was a guarded man and although letters and writings survive, little is known about his thoughts. He suffered a severe and undiagnosed illness in 1793 which left him completely deaf. After 1793 his work became progressively darker and more pessimistic. His later easel and mural paintings, prints and drawings appear to reflect a bleak outlook on personal, social and political levels, and contrast with his social climbing. He was appointed Director of the Royal Academy in 1795, the year Manuel Godoy made an unfavorable treaty with France. In 1799 Goya became Primer Pintor de Cámara, the then-highest rank for a Spanish court painter. In the late 1790s, commissioned by Godoy, he completed his La maja desnuda, a remarkably daring nude for the time and clearly indebted to Diego Velázquez. In 1801 he painted Charles IV of Spain and His Family. In 1807 Napoleon led the French army into Spain. He remained in Madrid during the Peninsular War, which seems to have affected him deeply. Although he did not vocalise his thoughts in public, they can be inferred from his Disasters of War series of prints (although published 35 years after his death) and his 1814 paintings The Second of May 1808 and The Third of May 1808. Other works from his mid period include the Caprichos and Los Disparates etching series, and a wide variety of paintings concerned with insanity, mental asylums, witches, fantastical creatures and religious and political corruption, all of which suggest that he feared for both his country's fate and his own mental and physical health. His late period culminates with the Black Paintings of 1819–1823, applied on oil on the plaster walls of his house the Quinta del Sordo (house of the deaf man) where, disillusioned by political and social developments in Spain he lived in near isolation. Goya eventually abandoned Spain in 1824 to retire to the French city of Bordeaux, accompanied by his much younger maid and companion, Leocadia Weiss, who may or may not have been his lover. There he completed his La Tauromaquia series and a number of other, major, canvases. Following a stroke which left him paralyzed on his right side, and suffering failing eyesight and poor access to painting materials, he died and was buried on 16 April 1828 aged 82. His body was later re-interred in Spain. At age 14 Goya studied under the painter José Luzán, and in Luzán's workshop, copied stamps for 4 years until he decided to work on his own, as he wrote later on paint from my invention. He moved to Madrid to study with Anton Raphael Mengs, a popular painter with Spanish royalty. He clashed with his master, and his examinations were unsatisfactory. Goya submitted entries for the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in 1763 and 1766, but was denied entrance. Rome at the time was the cultural capital of Europe and held all the prototypes of classical antiquity, while Spain lacked a coherent artistic direction, with all of its significant visual achievements in the past. Having failed to earn a scholarship, Goya relocated at his own expense to Rome in the old tradition of European artists stretching back to at least to Albrecht Dürer. He was an unknown at the time and so the records are scant and uncertain. Early biographers have him travelling to Rome with a gang of bullfighters, where he worked as a street acrobat, or for a Russian diplomat, or fell in love with beautiful young nun whom he plotted to abduct from her convent. What is more certain is two surviving mythological painting completed during the visit, a Sacrifice to Vesta and a Sacrifice to Pan, both dated 1771. In 1771 he won second prize in a painting competition organized by the City of Parma. That year he returned to Zaragoza and painted parts of the cupolas of the Basilica of the Pillar (including Adoration of the Name of God), a cycle of frescoes for the monastic church of the Charterhouse of Aula Dei, and the frescoes of the Sobradiel Palace.
Bordeaux March 2005
Rue Goya & Main St.
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GOYA (1746-1828). Portre resimleri, çizimleri ve oymabaskılarıyla tanınan Francisco José de Goya, Velazquez'den sonra İspanyol resim sanatının en önemli ressamlarından biri olarak kabul edilir.
Zaragoza yakınlarında doğan Goya, ilköğrenimini bir Katolik okulunda tamamladıktan sonra, 13 yaşında tanınmış bir ressamın atölyesine girdi. 1769'da boğa güreşçileriyle birlikte iki yıl sürecek olan İtalya gezisine çıktı. Roma'da Parma Akademisi'nin düzenlediği bir resim yarışmasında ikincilik ödülü kazandı.İspanya'ya döndükten sonra krallık sarayı için halı desenleri hazırlamakla görevlendirildi. Çizdiği halı desenlerinde köylerdeki günlük yaşama ve tarlalarda çalışan insanlara yer verdi. Desenlerinin beğenilmesi üzerine saray ressamlığına atandı. O yıllarda, kral ailesinin bireylerinin, soyluların ve saray görevlilerinin portrelerini yaptı.
Goya portresini yaptığı kişileri duygusallığa kaçmadan, toplumsal konumlarını abartmadan, dış görünüşlerinin yanı sıra, kişiliklerini de yansıtabilen bir duyarlılıkla betimledi.
Goya, portre resimlerinden başka dinsel konulu resimler, freskler ve oymabaskı resimler de yaptı. 1804-14 yıllarında Napolyon, ordularıyla İspanya'yı işgal edince Goya savaşa duyduğu tepkiyi Savaşın Felaketleri (San Fernando Akademisi, Madrid) adlı bir dizi resimde dile getirdi. 1819'dan sonra yaşadığı evin duvarlarına yaptığı Siyah Resimlerde büyücüler, cadılar, sarhoşlar, uçan insanlar ve keçiler gibi yaratıklar yer alır. Hiç renk bulunmayan bu resimlerde, zaman da belirsizdir. 1824'te sağlık nedeniyle Bordeaux'ya giden Goya, orada sürgündeki arkadaşlarının portrelerini yaptı. Sanatçının en çok bilinen yapıtları arasında IV. Carlos ve Ailesi (Prado Müzesi, Madrid), Çıplak Maya (Prado Müzesi, Madrid), Bordeauxlu Sütçü Kız (Prado Müzesi, Madrid) sayılabilir. Goya'nın sanatı 19. yüzyıl ressamlarının birçoğunu ve 20. yüzyılda Gerçeküstücü ressamları etkilemiştir.
Francisco Goya
Goya redirects here. For other uses, see Goya (disambiguation).
This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Goya and the second or maternal family name is Lucientes.
Francisco Goya
Vicente López Portaña - el pintor Francisco de Goya.jpg
Portrait of Francisco Goya by Vicente López y Portaña (1826). Oil on canvas, 93 × 75 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
Birth name Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
Born 30 March 1746
Fuendetodos, Aragón, Spain
Died 16 April 1828 (aged 82)
Bordeaux, France
Nationality Spanish
Field Painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking
Training José Luzán
Movement Romanticism
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko xoˈse ðe ˈɣoʝa i luˈθjentes]; 30 March 1746 -- 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. Goya was court painter to the Spanish Crown; throughout the Peninsular War he remained in Madrid, where he painted the portrait of Joseph Bonaparte, pretender to the Spanish throne, and documented the war in the masterpiece of studied ambiguity known as the Desastres de la Guerra.[1] Through his works he was both a commentator on and chronicler of his era. The subversive imaginative element in his art, as well as his bold handling of paint, provided a model for the work of artists of later generations, notably Manet, Picasso and Francis Bacon.[2]
Places to see in ( Bayonne - France )
Places to see in ( Bayonne - France )
Bayonne is a city in the Basque Country region of southwest France, where the Nive and Adour rivers meet. Narrow medieval streets characterize the old Grand Bayonne district. Here lie the Gothic-style Bayonne Cathedral, with its 13th-century cloister, and Château Vieux castle. Across the Nive river in the Petit Bayonne district is the Musée Basque, a museum devoted to the region’s arts, crafts and traditions.
The communes of Bayonne, Biarritz, and Anglet have joined into an intercommunal entity called the Agglomération Côte Basque-Adour (formerly Communauté d'agglomération de Bayonne-Anglet-Biarritz (BAB) prior to 2010).
Bayonne was, in 2014, a commune with over 45,000 inhabitants, the heart of the urban area of Bayonne and of the Agglomeration Côte Basque-Adour which includes Anglet and Biarritz. It is an important part of the Basque Bayonne-San Sebastián Eurocity and it plays the role of economic capital of the Adour basin. Modern industry—metallurgy and chemicals—are established to take advantage of procurement opportunities and sea shipments through the harbour. It is now mostly business services which today represent the largest source of employment. Bayonne is also a cultural capital, a city with strong Basque and Gascon influences and a rich historical past. Its heritage lies in its architecture, the diversity of collections in museums, its gastronomic specialties, and traditional events such as the famous Fêtes de Bayonne.
The inhabitants of the commune are known as Bayonnais or Bayonnaises.
The Nive divides Bayonne into Grand Bayonne and Petit Bayonne with five bridges between the two, both quarters still being backed by Vauban's walls. The houses lining the Nive are examples of Basque architecture, with half-timbering and shutters in the national colours of red and green. The much wider Adour is to the north. The Pont Saint-Esprit connects Petit Bayonne with the Quartier Saint-Esprit across the Adour, where the massive Citadelle and the railway station are located. Grand Bayonne is the commercial and civic hub, with small pedestrianised streets packed with shops, plus the cathedral and Hôtel de Ville. The Cathédrale Sainte-Marie is an imposing, elegant Gothic building, rising over the houses, glimpsed along the narrow streets. It was constructed in the 12th and 13th centuries. The south tower was completed in the 16th century but the cathedral was only completed in the 19th century with the north tower. The cathedral is noted for its charming cloisters. There are other details and sculptures of note, although much was destroyed in the Revolution. Nearby is the Château Vieux, some of which dates back to the 12th century, where the governors of the city were based, including the English Black Prince. The Musée Basque is the finest ethnographic museum of the entire Basque Country. It opened in 1922 but has been closed for a decade recently for refurbishment. It now has special exhibitions on Basque agriculture, seafaring and pelota, handicrafts and Basque history and way of life. The Musée Bonnat began with a large collection bequeathed by the local-born painter Léon Bonnat. The museum is one of the best galleries in south west France and has paintings by Edgar Degas, El Greco, Sandro Botticelli, and Francisco Goya, among others. At the back of Petit Bayonne is the Château Neuf, among the ramparts. Now an exhibition space, it was started by the newly arrived French in 1460 to control the city. The walls nearby have been opened to visitors. They are important for plant life now and Bayonne's botanic gardens adjoin the walls on both sides of the Nive. The area across the Adour is largely residential and industrial, with much demolished to make way for the railway. The Saint-Esprit church was part of a bigger complex built by Louis XI to care for pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela. It is home to a wooden Flight into Egypt sculpture. Overlooking the quarter is Vauban's 1680 Citadelle. The soldiers of Wellington's army who died besieging the citadelle in 1813 are buried in the nearby English Cemetery, visited by Queen Victoria and other British dignitaries when staying in Biarritz.
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Romantic Art - 15 Painting: Spain
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Romanticism is born in XIX century. It is about the manifestation of feelings and sensations through art. It began in literature by the ideas of Goethe, Rousseau and Hegel. Ideals as revolution, nationalism, freedom, independence are the pillars of the romantic thinking. Historicism, coming back to the old forms, but reinterpreting it. Dramatic emotions, the sublime and ruins. Nostalgia for the past.
Painting was very developed in Romanticism. Great imagination, theme of the Middle Ages, legends from the north and national legends. Exotism, ruins, sublime landscapes, monsters, fantasy, dramatism are some of the characteristics.
Spain
Francisco de Goya: he is the great painter of this period, although he is mostly a prerromantic due to chronology. He was painter of four kings, and with the coming of Fernando VII to the throne of Spain, he exiliated to France. He goes to Madrid to participate in the prizes of the academy, but he loses. Aníbal discovering Italy from the Alps, Bury of Christ
He comes back to Zaragoza, Spain, where he was born, and he made the Coreto de la Capilla de la Virgen del Pilar. He had success, and he married with Josefa Bayeu. He went to Italy and entered in the Real Fábrica de Tapices. Gallinita ciega and Cometa
In Madrid he perfected his technique, copying Velázquez. In Zaragoza he made the vaults of the Pilar de Zaragoza, called Regina Martyrum. Francisco Bayeu was the organizer and he didn’t like some of Goya’s sketches. Goya was angry and he will never forget this. He made also the paintings in the dome of Ermita de San Antonio de la Florida.
Goya went to Sevilla. He met the Marqués de Villafranca, that was married with the Duchess of Alba. She get widow and Goya was in love with her, but he enters the friendzone. The painting is Duquesa de negro, that depics the Duchess of Alba
In the court of Charles III he made portraits. Portrait of Floridablanca. Countess of Chinchón. He paints good to the people that he admire. Family of Charles IV represents the family of this king, typical portrait.
For Godoy, he paints two Majas, one naked and other with clothes. Aquelarre is a night meeting of witches.
He made engravings. El Sueño de la razón. Caprichos. Desastres de la Guerra. Fabricación de pólvora and Fabricación de balas. Disparates. The Colossus is not sure if it was painted by Goya or an apprentice
When Independence War is over, as Goya is like a frenchman, he makes the Charge of the Mamelukes for the king of Spain. The painting of the Fusilamientos is painted too in this time, for Fernando VII
The Black Paintings (Pinturas Negras) are made in the walls of a house in la Quinta del Sordo. Saturn devouring to his children, Dog, Smack duel, Aquelarre, Old woman and death, Leocadia (she was his lover in this time)
Goya decided to exiliate to Bordeaux, in France, due to Fernando VII. He went there with Leocadia and his children. His last painting was the Milkmaid of Bordeaux
Luis Ricardo Falero: he made fantastic paintings. Fairy of the lily, Nymph, The pose, The favourite, The lovely, An eastern beauty, Balance of the zodiac, Nymph of the moon, Fairy under starry sky, Party of the witches, Witches going to the sabbath
Antonio María Esquivel: Venus Anadiomede
Federico Madrazo: Isabel II, Carolina Coronado
Leonardo Alenza y Nieto: Suicidal
Music: Symphony N. 5, First Movement by Beethoven
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Late Monet Symposium Part One
Poetry and Anguish: Monet’s Water Lilies
Robert Gordon, independent scholar, New York
The Art of Biography and the Biography of Art: Writing about Claude Monet
Ross King, author of Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies, Woodstock, United Kingdom
Monet’s Grandes Décorations
Marine Kisiel, curator of paintings, Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Moderated by George T. M. Shackelford, deputy director, Kimbell Art Museum
kimbellart.org/event/symposium-0
LeOffduDD2015 - Centre de découverte et de recherche sur la Biodiversité, Beautour (85)
Réhabilitation d'une ancienne demeure et construction d'un nouveau bâtiment en chaume
Guinée*Potin Architectes
Maîtrise d'ouvrage : région Pays de la Loire
Réhabilitation de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Marseille en hôtel 5*, Marseille - 2013
The Hôtel-Dieu in Marseille is the former old general hospital of the City founded in 1753. The Agence d’Architecture Anthony Bechu, representative of the project, has been associated to Tangram Architectes to lead the reopening of the site to the city, the reconversion and the valorization of the historical monument, as well as the conception of housing to connect the Panier district to the old harbor.
The partners’objective – Cogedim as contracting authority, Axa as investor, InterContinental as operator and Thed International as hotel advisor - was to bring the monument into the 21st Century by a respectful transformation of the spirit of the place, to transform it into a 5-stars hotel.
The restoration of the Hôtel-Dieu, remarkable heritage of the City of Marseille, has been carefully driven:
The architect’s work proceeded in three phases:
- A deep historical study to find the ambition of the original architect, Jules Hardouin-Mansart: remove extensions added over the centuries, and reposition the monument at the hinge between the old Panier district and the old harbor.
- The restoration of heritage zones : the great stairs, the terrace, the façades, the roof, galleries and pavilions.
- The reorganization of interior spaces to set up the hotel program: 172 rooms, 22 suites, a SPA, 2 restaurants (one has already won a Michelin Star), a cultural center and a seminar center ; with a decoration inspired from the City of Marseille and the Mediterranean sea.
The contracting authority has associated Volume ABC and Ocre Bleu to the architect’s team to realize the interior decoration.
The Hôtel-Dieu of Marseille is one of the first hotel restructuring in Europe that obtained NF Commercial Buildings - HQE® Standard.
“Reopening the site to the city, resewing the Panier district to the old harbor, imagining the rebirth of Hôtel-Dieu was our challenge. We staged the architecture of this monument. Its walls sing the sun during the day, the “sound & light” takes its place during the night in the old harbor sky-line, linking history and modernity to serve the city.” Says Anthony Bechu, representative architect.
L'Œuvre en scène : Le coffre d’or dit «d’Anne d’Autriche»
Le coffre d’or dit «d’Anne d’Autriche», de la légende à l'histoire.
par Michèle Bimbenet-Privat, musée du Louvre, département des Objets d’art et Emmanuel Plé, C2RMF (Auditorium du Louvre, 26/11/2014)
Le coffre d’or jusqu’ici associé au nom d’Anne d’Autriche, reine puis régente de France (1601-1666), est depuis longtemps considéré comme l’un des chefs-d’œuvre de la collection du département des Objets d’art, célébré depuis le XIXe siècle comme le « coffret à bijoux de la reine Anne d’Autriche ».
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Profitons de la découverte médiévale des douves et remparts de Philippe Auguste sous la cour Carrée du Louvre pour descendre dans les profondeurs de l'antiquité. La Grèce antique, le territoire Etrusque et l'Egypte sont des régions du bassin méditerranéen qui ont été conquises par Rome entre -17 et -30 avant JC avant que les barbares n'envahissent l'empire au V ème siècle.
Strasbourg | Wikipedia audio article
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00:11:47 5 Main sights
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00:26:20 6 Demographics
00:26:47 6.1 Population growth
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Strasbourg (UK: , US: , French: [stʁazbuʁ, stʁasbuʁ]; Alsatian: Strossburi [ˈʃd̥ʁɔːsb̥uʁi] (listen); German: Straßburg [ˈʃtʁaːsbʊɐ̯k]) is the capital and largest city of the Grand Est region of France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located at the border with Germany in the historic region of Alsace, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin department.
In 2016, the city proper had 279,284 inhabitants and both the Eurométropole de Strasbourg (Greater Strasbourg) and the Arrondissement of Strasbourg had 491,409 inhabitants. Strasbourg's metropolitan area had a population of 785,839 in 2015 (not counting the section across the border in Germany), making it the ninth largest metro area in France and home to 13% of the Grand Est region's inhabitants. The transnational Eurodistrict Strasbourg-Ortenau had a population of 915,000 inhabitants in 2014.Strasbourg is one of the de facto three main capitals of the European Union (alongside Brussels and Luxembourg), as it is the seat of several European institutions, such as the Council of Europe (with its European Court of Human Rights, its European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines most commonly known in French as Pharmacopée Européenne its European Audiovisual Observatory), the Eurocorps, as well as the European Parliament and the European Ombudsman of the European Union.
The city is also the seat of many non-European international institutions such as the Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine and the International Institute of Human Rights. It is the second city in France in terms of international congress and symposia, after Paris.
Strasbourg's historic city centre, the Grande Île (Grand Island), was classified a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1988, the first time such an honour was placed on an entire city centre. Strasbourg is immersed in Franco-German culture and although violently disputed throughout history, has been a cultural bridge between France and Germany for centuries, especially through the University of Strasbourg, currently the second largest in France, and the coexistence of Catholic and Protestant culture. It is also home to the largest Islamic place of worship in France, the Strasbourg Grand Mosque.Economically, Strasbourg is an important centre of manufacturing and engineering, as well as a hub of road, rail, and river transportation. The port of Strasbourg is the second largest on the Rhine after Duisburg in Germany, and the fourth largest river port in France after Nantes, Rouen and Bordeaux.
Hommage à Dame Nature
Ce film est composé de photos prises au cours de mes balades matinales dans la nature, lorsque les premiers rayons de soleil inondent les fleurs couvertes de rosée.
Parcourir notre Dame Nature en immortalisant sa beauté est pour moi une source de fraîcheur et de joie dans le chaos qui règne en ce monde et je suis heureuse de la partager avec vous.
Ces photos sont accompagnées par le prélude en C Major de Bach, par Morning Mood de Grieg et par l' Hiver des 4 saisons de Vivaldi
Cathy
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