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Belvédère (Petit Trianon)
The Belvédère du Petit Trianon, or Pavillon du Rocher, is a neoclassical garden built by Richard Mique between 1778 and 1781 for the French queen Marie Antoinette, Marie-Antoinette within the on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles, Château de Versailles. A small octagonal pavilion, designed by the Queen's architect, is one of the features of the new garden of the Petit Trianon and serves as a music salon. It is flanked by an artificial rock from which a waterfall cascades and is surrounded by miniature mountains that form an alpine garden. It is guarded by eight stone Sphinx, sphinxes sculpted by Joseph Deschamps. Deschamps was also responsible for decorating the eight facades, whose bas-reliefs allegorize the four seasons and whose pediments are decorated with attributes of hunting and gardening. The interior salon is richly decorated with Arabesque, arabesques painted on stucco depicting scenes from nature, a marble floor, and a ceiling by Jean-Jacques Lagrenée depictin ...
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Richard Mique
Richard Mique () (18 September 1728 – 8 July 1794) was a Neoclassical architecture, Neoclassical French architect born in Lorraine. He is most remembered for his picturesque hamlet, the hameau de la Reine — not particularly characteristic of his working style — built for Marie Antoinette, Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and Navarre in the Petit Trianon gardens within the estate of the Palace of Versailles. Biography Richard Mique was born in Nancy, France, Nancy as the son of Simon Mique, an architect and entrepreneur of Lunéville and grandson of Pierre Mique, also an architect. Following their example, he became an architect in the service of Stanisław Leszczyński, the deposed King of Poland and father of Marie Leszczyńska, the wife of Louis XV. Following the death of Emmanuel Héré de Corny, Mique participated as ''premier archite''cte in Stanisław's grand plans for reordering and embellishing Nancy, his capital as Duke of Lorraine. Stanisław made him a knight, ch ...
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Flora (mythology)
Flora () is a Roman goddess of flowers and spring. She was one of the twelve deities of traditional Roman religion who had their own flamen, the ''Floralis'', one of the '' flamines minores''. Her association with spring gave her particular importance at the coming of springtime, as did her role as goddess of youth. She is one of several fertility goddesses and a relatively minor figure in Roman mythology. Her Greek counterpart is Chloris. Etymology The name ''Flōra'' descends from Proto-Italic ''*flōsā'' ('goddess of flowers'), itself a derivation from Proto-Italic ''*flōs'' ('flower'; cf. Latin ''flōs'', ''flōris'' 'blossom, flower'). It is cognate with the Oscan goddess of flowers ''Fluusa'', demonstrating that the cult was known more widely among Italic peoples. The name ultimately derives from Proto-Indo-European ''*bʰleh₃ōs'' ('blossoming'). Festivals and temples Flora's festival, the Floralia, was held between April 28 and May 3 and was celebrated with drin ...
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Petit Trianon - Belvédère Et Grand Rocher 2012
Petit is a French-language surname literally meaning "small" or "little". Notable people with the surname include: *Adriana Petit (born 1984), Spanish multidisciplinary artist *Alexis Thérèse Petit (1791–1820), French physicist *Amandine Petit (born 1997), French model, beauty pageant titleholder, and Miss France 2021 *Antoine Petit (1722–1794), French physician *Antoni Martí Petit, prime minister of Andorra * Cavelier Petit, American politician *François Pourfour du Petit (1664–1741), French anatomist *Henriette Petit (1894-1983), Chilean painter * Jean-Martin Petit (1772–1856), French General during the Napoleonic Wars *Monique Ruck-Petit (born 1942), Swiss and French chess master *Paul Petit (aviator) (1890-1918), French flying ace *Philippe Petit (born 1949), French high-wire artist *Pierre Petit (photographer) (1832–1909), French photographer *Pierre Petit (scholar) (1617–1687), French scholar, medical writer, and poet *Pierre Petit (engineer), (1598–1677), F ...
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Ancien Régime
''Ancien'' may refer to * the French word for " ancient, old" ** Société des anciens textes français * the French for "former, senior" ** Virelai ancien ** Ancien Régime ** Ancien Régime in France {{disambig ...
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Jacques Gondouin
Jacques Gondouin de Folleville, or simply Gondouin (7 June 1737 – 29 December 1818) was a French architect and designer. He was born in Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis, the son of a gardener at the château de Choisy. He died in Paris, aged 81. Main projects * High altar, cathédrale de Noyon (1777–1779) Paris * École de Chirurgie, today the Faculté de Médecine, , (1771–1786). * Interior decor at the Hôtel du Garde-Meuble (also known as Hôtel de la Marine), Place de la Concorde, 1775. * Colonne Vendôme to the glory of the Grande Armée, Place Vendôme, 1806–1810. Works * ''Description des Écoles de Chirurgie'', Paris, Pierres, Cellot et Jombert, 1780, gr. in-folio de 18 pp.ch., 1 f.n.ch., 1 front. par Gibelin et 30 pl. la plupart dépl. par C.R.G. Poulleau. Tiré à 100 ex. sur papier fort à l'occasion de l'inauguration de l'École de Chirurgie. Bibliography * Christian Baulez, "Le projet d'installation de Napoléon à Versailles. De Gondoin à Fontaine", ...
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Garde-Meuble De La Couronne
The ''Garde-Meuble de la Couronne'' was, in the organisation of the French royal household under the Ancien Régime, the department of the ''Maison du Roi'' responsible for the order, upkeep, storage and repair of all the furniture, art, and other movable objects in the royal palaces. It oversaw the administration of the Beauvais Manufactory and Gobelins Manufactory. Since 1870, the organisation is called the Mobilier National The is a French statutory corporation which administers the Gobelins Manufactory and Beauvais Manufactory. It is based in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, and falls under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture. Its history goes back to .... References Court titles in the Ancien Régime Arts and culture in the Ancien Régime European court festivities French royal court {{france-org-stub ...
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Philibert De L'Orme
Philibert de l'Orme () (3-9 June 1514 – 8 January 1570) was a French architect and writer, and one of the great masters of French Renaissance architecture. His surname is also written De l'Orme, de L'Orme, or Delorme. Biography Early career Philbert de l'Orme was born between 3 and 9 June 1514 in Lyon. His father was Jehan de L'Orme, a master mason and entrepreneur, who, in the 1530s, employed three hundred workers and built prestigious buildings for the elite of the city.Boudon 1999, p. 204. When Philibert was nineteen he departed Lyon for Italy, where he remained for three years, working on building projects for Pope Paul III. In Rome he was introduced to Cardinal Jean du Bellay, the Ambassador of King François I to the Vatican, who became his protector and client. Du Bellay was also the patron of his friend Francois Rabelais. In about 1540 de l'Orme moved to Paris, and was soon occupied with royal projects. Royal architect of Henry II (1548-1559) On April 3, 1548 he ...
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Biblioteca Marciana
The Marciana Library or Library of Saint Mark (, but in historical documents commonly referred to as the ) is a public library in Venice, Italy. It is one of the earliest surviving public libraries and repositories for manuscripts in Italy and holds one of the world's most significant collections of classical texts. It is named after St Mark, the patron saint of the city. The library was founded in 1468 when the humanist scholar Cardinal Bessarion, bishop of Tusculum and titular Latin patriarch of Constantinople, donated his collection of Greek and Latin manuscripts to the Republic of Venice, with the stipulation that a library of public utility be established. The collection was the result of Bessarion's persistent efforts to locate rare manuscripts throughout Greece and Italy and then acquire or copy them as a means of preserving the writings of the classical Greek authors and the literature of Byzantium after the fall of Constantinople in 1453. His choice of Venice was ...
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Vincenzo Scamozzi
Vincenzo Scamozzi (2 September 1548 – 7 August 1616) was an Italians, Italian architect and a writer on architecture, active mainly in Vicenza and Republic of Venice area in the second half of the 16th century. He was perhaps the most important figure there between Andrea Palladio, whose unfinished projects he inherited at Palladio's death in 1580, and Baldassarre Longhena, Scamozzi's only pupil. The great public project of Palladio's that Scamozzi inherited early in the process of construction was the Teatro Olimpico at Vicenza, which Palladio had designed in the last months of his life. Biography Scamozzi was born in Vicenza. His father was the surveyor and building contractor Gian Domenico Scamozzi; he was Scamozzi's first teacher, imbuing him with the principles of Sebastiano Serlio, laid out in Serlio's book. Vincenzo visited Rome in 1579–1580, and then moved to Venice in 1581. In 1599 to 1600, he visited the German Empire and France and left a sketchbook record of hi ...
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Théâtre De La Reine
The Théâtre de la Reine (Queen's Theater) ou Théâtre du Trianon (Trianon Theater) is a theater built for Queen Marie-Antoinette by the architect Richard Mique from June 1778 to July 1779. It is located in the grounds of the Petit Trianon, in the park of the Palace of Versailles, hidden between the tree tunnel of the French Garden and the tall trees of the Alpine Garden. The exterior of the building, which looks like an outbuilding, contrasts with the sophisticated decoration of its interior, which is adorned with blue silk and velvet and gilded sculptures, yet is all pretense. It was inaugurated in 1780, ten years after the opening of the "Grand Théâtre", as the Royal Opera of Versailles was then called. This small comedy hall was a secret place for the Queen, far from the court of Versailles and its torments. She herself came to play comedy, with a troupe reduced to her intimate entourage, in memory of her taste, since childhood, for theater and declamation. The authors ...
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Stucco
Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as a decorative coating for walls and ceilings, exterior walls, and as a sculptural and artistic material in architecture. Stucco can be applied on construction materials such as metal, expanded metal lath, concrete, cinder block, or clay brick and adobe for decorative and structural purposes. In English, "stucco" sometimes refers to a coating for the outside of a building and " plaster" to a coating for interiors. As described below, however, the materials themselves often have little or no difference. Other European languages, notably Italian, do not have the same distinction: ''stucco'' means ''plaster'' in Italian and serves for both. Composition The basic composition of stucco is lime, water, and sand. The difference in nomenclature between stucco, plaster, and mortar is based more on use than composition. ...
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Petit Trianon - Belvédère - Salon Intérieur
Petit is a French-language surname literally meaning "small" or "little". Notable people with the surname include: *Adriana Petit (born 1984), Spanish multidisciplinary artist *Alexis Thérèse Petit (1791–1820), French physicist *Amandine Petit (born 1997), French model, beauty pageant titleholder, and Miss France 2021 *Antoine Petit (1722–1794), French physician *Antoni Martí Petit, prime minister of Andorra * Cavelier Petit, American politician *François Pourfour du Petit (1664–1741), French anatomist *Henriette Petit (1894-1983), Chilean painter * Jean-Martin Petit (1772–1856), French General during the Napoleonic Wars *Monique Ruck-Petit (born 1942), Swiss and French chess master *Paul Petit (aviator) (1890-1918), French flying ace *Philippe Petit (born 1949), French high-wire artist *Pierre Petit (photographer) (1832–1909), French photographer *Pierre Petit (scholar) (1617–1687), French scholar, medical writer, and poet *Pierre Petit (engineer), (1598–1677), F ...
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