Lyon plaster sculpture Study
The Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon have a large collection of plaster sculpture study, as this young man prostrate in kneeling position which seems to beg a threat or watch fatality. Unfortunately, I…
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Bacchus on a Panther in India
Bacchus on a Panther in India. When you think about the Greek or Roman mythology your first guest is not to associate a country like India to it. According to the myth, Bacchus (also…
The God of Coligny
The God of Coligny is a bronze at the Museum of Gallo-Roman civilization in Lyon – Fourvière. This Statue was discovered in 1897 in the town of Coligny, it was made around the 1st century…
Ephebe supporting the ceiling at the Chateau of Fontainebleau
Stucco in the castles of France and Italy are often overlooked and admired in their overall rather than in details and that is somewhat normal because they mostly are decorative pieces around sculpture and paintings…
Forty three portraits of painter
The Forty- three portraits of painters of the studio Charles Gleyre is an art work you can see at Le Petit Palais in Paris. Claude Monet, Frederic Bazille, Alfred Sisley and Auguste Renoir, they all…
Francois I Gallery – Palace of Fontainebleau
Francis I of France gallery is located on the first floor of the Château de Fontainebleau. Like most large rooms pageantry, it is richly decorated with wood paneling and stucco that are rarely photographed in…
The TGV in the Alps – from France to Italy
The crossing of the Alps from France to Italy is an easy thing today, Aliénor d’Aquitaine and Napoleon would probably have appreciated the TGV 😉 A great opportunity to use the train as a travel…
Roman Votive Miniatures
God, athlete or family member The votive figurines have existed since prehistoric times but will take their large scale expansions among the Greeks. Made of terracotta, the Tanagras had a craze that exceeded the borders…
Tomb of Napoleon low reliefs
Napoleon idealized heroes in ten bas-reliefs decorating the crypt of his tomb in the Invalides, almost seem from the Roman or Greek era with the chlamys and the chitôns. The bas-relief of public works is…
Napoleon Bonaparte in front of the future
This magnificent bust of Napoleon Bonaparte from the Ben Weider collection at MBAM is positioned in the centre of one of the front colonnades of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, which offers a special urban…
Jean d’Aire
Jean d’Aire by Auguste Rodin, second model. 1885 (cast iron 1971). Jean d’Aire is one of six characters in the monumental and heroic ensemble commemorating the last symbolic act of the fall of Calais after…
Deluge scene by Joseph-Désiré Court
The Deluge Scene by Joseph-Desire Court interprets the human disarray of those condemned by the judgment of God who set off the deluge on earth because he was not satisfied. He saved only Noah, his…