Tag: architecture

Churches

• Basilica dei Frari (Venezia) • Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano (Vatican City) • Catedral de Santa María de Valencia (Valencia) • Cathédrale Notre-Dame (Paris) • Catedral Primada Santa María de Toledo (Toledo) • Chiesa di Ognissanti (Firenze) • Duomo (Castelfranco Veneto) • Duomo (Siena) • Église Notre-Dame…

Dido building Carthage (1815)

Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Dido building Carthage 1815 Oil on canvas, 155.5 x 230 cm National Gallery, London Turner’s painting is based on the English seventeenth-century author and poet John Dryden’s translation of the Aeneid, the monumental Latin poem written by…

Waterloo Bridge (London)

Waterloo Bridge in Art: Derain, André (1880-1954) Le Pont de Waterloo 1906 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid     Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Pont de Waterloo, effet de brouillard 1903 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg     Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Waterloo Bridge 1903 Worcester Art…

Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris)

Founded: 1368 Location: Site Richelieu: 5, rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris Site François Mitterrand : Quai François Mauriac, 75013 Paris Website: https://www.bnf.fr/fr Collection: • Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902): Ernest Hoschedé (c.1875) • Nadar (1820-1910): Édouard Manet (c.1862) • Nadar (1820-1910): George Sand (1864) •…

Maison et Jardins de Claude Monet (Giverny)

Location: 84 Rue Claude Monet, 27620 Giverny Website: https://fondation-monet.com/ Monet’s Garden in Art: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Pont sur un étang de nymphéas 1899 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York     Monet in his garden. See also: • Gardens | Giverny (France)…

Église Sainte-Radegonde de Giverny

Location: Rue Claude Monet, 27620 Giverny Burials: • Butler, Theodore Earl (1861-1936) • Hoschedé Butler, Suzanne (1863-1899) • Hoschedé Monet, Alice (1844-1911) • Hoschedé Monet, Blanche (1865-1947) • Monet, Claude (1840-1926) • Monet, Jean (1867-1914) • Monet, Michel (1878-1966) The Monet family grave behind the church. Claude Monet’s…

Pont Neuf (Paris)

Pont Neuf in Art: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Pont Neuf 1871 Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas     Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Le Pont Neuf, effet de neige 1902 National Museum Wales, Cardiff     Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Le Pont Neuf à Paris…

Château de Wargemont (Derchigny)

Built: 2nd half of the 18th Century Rebuilt: 19th Century From 1855, it belonged to the Bérard family who received Renoir French Heritage monument Château de Wargemont in Art: Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Route à Wargemont 1879 Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo  …

Cimetière d’Essoyes (Essoyes)

Burials: • Charigot, Aline (1859-1915) • Renoir, Claude (1901-1969) • Renoir, Jean (1894-1979) • Renoir, Pierre (1885-1952) • Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Renoir’s grave. See also: • Cemeteries | Essoyes (France)