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Courbet (other)
Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) was a French painter. Courbet may also refer to: *Courbet (surname), including a list of people with the name *French ship Courbet, French ship ''Courbet'' ** French ironclad Courbet, French ironclad ''Courbet'' ** French battleship Courbet (1911), French battleship ''Courbet'' (1911) ** French frigate Courbet, French frigate ''Courbet'', a French frigate * Courbet Peninsula, a peninsula in the northeastern portion of the island of Kerguelen * 8238 Courbet, a main-belt asteroid * Courbet (company), a French jewelry maison * Zemmouri, a town in Algeria formerly named Courbet between 1886 and 1962 {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustave Courbet
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet ( , , ; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists. His independence set an example that was important to later artists, such as the Impressionists and the Cubists. Courbet occupies an important place in 19th-century French painting as an innovator and as an artist willing to make bold social statements through his work. Courbet's paintings of the late 1840s and early 1850s brought him his first recognition. They challenged convention by depicting unidealized peasants and workers, often on a grand scale traditionally reserved for paintings of religious or historical subjects. Courbet's subsequent paintings were mostly of a less overtly political character: landscapes, seascapes, hunting scenes, nudes, and still lifes. Courbet, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Courbet (surname)
Courbet is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Amédée Courbet (1828–1885), French admiral *Félicien Courbet (1888–1967), Belgian water polo player and breaststroke swimmer who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics * Gustave Courbet (1819–1877), French painter * Julien Courbet (born 1965), French journalist See also * Curbet *Courbet (other) Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) was a French painter. Courbet may also refer to: *Courbet (surname), including a list of people with the name *French ship Courbet, French ship ''Courbet'' ** French ironclad Courbet, French ironclad ''Courbet'' ** Fr ... {{surname French-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Ship Courbet
Three ships of the French Navy have been named ''Courbet'' in honour of Amédée Courbet: * (1882–1909), an ironclad battleship * (1913–1944), lead dreadnought battleship of the * , in active service, a multi-mission frigate {{DEFAULTSORT:Courbet, French Ship French Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Ironclad Courbet
''Courbet'' was an central battery battleship of the French Navy. Design The were authorized under the naval construction Program of 1872, which began with the ironclad that year. Shortly thereafter, Italy began work on the very large s in the early 1870s, but the French initially ignored the development and instead chose to base the design for its next ironclad on that of ''Redoutable''. The new ship was to be enlarged significantly to incorporate a more powerful armament. The resulting design was ordered for two vessels, ''Dévastation'' and ''Courbet'', which were the largest central battery ships ever built by any navy. They are sometimes called the ''Courbet'' class, as she had begun construction first, though ''Dévastation'' was launched and completed earlier. ''Courbet'' was long overall, with a beam of and a draft of . She displaced . As was standard for French capital ships of the period, she had a pronounced ram bow. She was fitted with three pole mast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Battleship Courbet (1911)
''Courbet'' was the lead ship of her class of four dreadnought battleships, the first ones built for the French Navy. She was completed shortly before the start of World War I in August 1914. She spent the war in the Mediterranean, where she helped to sink an Austro-Hungarian cruiser, covered the Otranto Barrage that blockaded the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the Adriatic Sea, and often served as a flagship. Although upgraded several times before World War II, she was not considered to be a first-line battleship by the 1930s and spent much of that decade as a gunnery training ship. A few weeks after the German invasion of France on 10 May 1940, ''Courbet'' was hastily reactivated. She supported Allied troops in the defence of Cherbourg in mid-June, taking refuge in England shortly afterwards. As part of Operation Catapult, the ship was seized in Portsmouth by British forces on 3 July and was turned over to the Free French a week later. She was used as a stationary anti-aircraft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Frigate Courbet
''Courbet'' is a general purpose stealth frigate of the French Navy (''Marine Nationale'') of the . She is the third French vessel named after the 19th century admiral Amédée Courbet. Construction and career ''Courbet'' took part in Opération Baliste. On 3 October 2006, an Israeli fighter aircraft penetrated her defence perimeter without responding to radio calls, triggering a diplomatic incident. Israel apologised after official protests from the French government. Throughout September the ship was involved in anti-piracy operations off the coast of Somalia, helping to recapture a yacht taken by pirates on 2 September. In December 2009 ''Courbet'' escorted the French Navy cruiser on her final voyage. This was last trip of the helicopter carrier that served as a floating embassy and symbol of the French Navy for 46 years. ''Jeanne d'Arc''s last voyage in company with ''Courbet'' included visits to Africa, South America including Rio de Janeiro to Buenos Aires, the French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Courbet Peninsula
The Courbet Peninsula (french: Péninsule Courbet) is a peninsula in northeastern Grande Terre Island, the main island of the subantarctic Kerguelen Archipelago, Southern Indian Ocean. In the south of the peninsula is Port-aux-Français, the principal station of the archipelago. Geography On the south coast of the peninsula is the French research station of Port-aux-Français, the only permanent settlement in the archipelago. Molloy, 10 km to the west of Port-aux-Francais along the north shore of the Gulf of Morbihan, is the site of a former observatory, established on 7 September 1874, by an American expedition led by G. P. Ryan, to observe the 1874 Transit of Venus. The Courbet Peninsula occupies the northeastern portion of the main island. The eastern portion of the peninsula is relatively flat, with the surface composed mainly of alluvial deposits of glacial origin, and altitudes not exceeding 200 m. However, the western part is hillier and reaches 900 m at M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
8238 Courbet
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of the form , being an integer greater than 1. * the first number which is neither prime nor semiprime. * the base of the octal number system, which is mostly used with computers. In octal, one digit represents three bits. In modern computers, a byte is a grouping of eight bits, also called an octet. * a Fibonacci number, being plus . The next Fibonacci number is . 8 is the only positive Fibonacci number, aside from 1, that is a perfect cube. * the only nonzero perfect power that is one less than another perfect power, by Mihăilescu's Theorem. * the order of the smallest non-abelian group all of whose subgroups are normal. * the dimension of the octonions and is the highest possible dimension of a normed division algebra. * th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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