Barbizon () is a
commune (town) in the
Seine-et-Marne
Seine-et-Marne () is a department in the Île-de-France region in Northern France. Named after the rivers Seine and Marne, it is the region's largest department with an area of 5,915 square kilometres (2,284 square miles); it roughly covers its ...
department in north-central
France
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. It is located near the
Fontainebleau Forest.
Demographics
The inhabitants are called ''Barbizonais''.
Art history
The
Barbizon school
The Barbizon school of painters were part of an art movement towards Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement of the time. The Barbizon school was active roughly from 1830 through 1870. It takes its nam ...
of painters is named after the village;
Théodore Rousseau and
Jean-François Millet, leaders of the school, made their homes and died in the village.
Leon Trotsky
Lev Davidovich Bronstein. ( – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky; uk, link= no, Лев Давидович Троцький; also transliterated ''Lyev'', ''Trotski'', ''Trotskij'', ''Trockij'' and ''Trotzky''. (), was a Russian M ...
also lived here for a short time.
File:Jean-François Millet - The Sheepfold, Moonlight - Walters 3730.jpg, ''The Sheepfold, Moonlight'' by Jean-François Millet. The Walters Art Museum.
File:Jean-François Millet - The Potato Harvest - Walters 37115.jpg, ''The Potato Harvest
''The Potato Harvest'' is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Jean-François Millet, created in 1855. It is held at The Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore
Baltimore ( , locally: or ) is the List of municipalities in Maryland, mo ...
'' by Jean-François Millet. The Walters Art Museum.
International relations
Twin towns
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East Bergholt,
England
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Szentendre,
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croa ...
Friendship cities
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Asago,
Hyogo prefecture,
Japan
See also
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Communes of the Seine-et-Marne department
The following is a list of the 507 communes of the Seine-et-Marne department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):[List of works by Henri Chapu
Henri Chapu (1833–1891) was a French sculptor.
Chapu was born in Le Mée-sur-Seine on 30 September 1833. He trained at the École Gratuite de Dessin as a tapestry maker. In 1849 his successes led him to the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, where h ...]
References
External links
Barbizon website
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Communes of Seine-et-Marne
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