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Georges Vallon
Georges Vallon (1688-1767) was a French architect. Many of his buildings are listed as "monuments historiques". Biography Early life Georges Vallon was born in 1688. His father, Laurent Vallon (1652-1724), was a renowned architect.Albert Aynaud, ''Aix-en-Provence, ses fontaines et leurs secrets'', 10, bd Roi-René, 1969, p. 17/ref> He was trained in Languedoc The Province of Languedoc (; , ; oc, Lengadòc ) is a former province of France. Most of its territory is now contained in the modern-day region of Occitanie in Southern France. Its capital city was Toulouse. It had an area of approximately ..., Lyon and Paris. Career Like his father, he became a renowned architect. In Aix-en-Provence, he was commissioned by Jean-Baptiste d'Albertas (1716-1790) to design the Place d'Albertas, which has been listed since 2000. Additionally, he designed the Palais de l'université located on the Place de l'Université on the Rue Gaston de Saporta opposite the Cathédrale Saint-Sauveu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent Vallon
Laurent Vallon (1652-1724) was a French architect, mostly active in the Provence. Many of his buildings are now listed as ''monuments historiques''. Biography Early life Laurent Vallon was born in 1652. He received his training from Jacques and Jean Drusian. Career He designed several Hôtel particuliers. In Aix-en-Provence, he was commissioned by Henri Reynaud d'Albertas (1674-1746) to design the Hôtel d'Albertas with Jean Lombard, which is listed as Monument historique. It is located on the Place d'Albertas, which was designed by his son Georges and is also listed. Together with Jean Daret and Jean Jaubert, he also designed the Hôtel d'Olivary located at 10 rue du Quatre-Septembre, also listed. He also designed the facade of the Hôtel de Grimaldi-Régusse, a listed building located at 26, rue de l'Opéra. Additionally, he designed several Roman Catholic convents and a church. Together with Joseph Jaubert and Jean Vallon, he designed the Collège Mignet located on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hôtel D'Esmivy De Moissac
The Hôtel d'Esmivy de Moissac (a.k.a. Hôtel de Villars) is a listed hôtel particulier in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. Location It is located on the corner of the Cours Mirabeau and the Avenue Victor Hugo, in the centre of Aix-en-Provence. Its exact address is 4, Cours Mirabeau. History Construction began in 1710.André Bouyala d'Arnaud, ''Évocation du vieil Aix-en-Provence'', Les Éditions de Minuit, 1964, pp. 179-180 In 1757, its facade was designed by French architect Georges Vallon (1688-1767), who designed many other buildings in Aix, including the Hôtel du Poët at the top of the Cours Mirabeau. The hotel is three-story high. Its facade has two Doric columns supporting the balcony overlooking the Cours Mirabeau on the first floor. Inside, there is a grand staircase with a wrought-iron railing. On the ceilings, there is ornamental plasterwork representing angels. Its original owner was Lois d'Esmivy de Moissac, an Advisor to the "Cours des Comptes". In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1767 Deaths
Events January–March * January 1 – The first annual volume of ''The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris'', produced by British Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, gives navigators the means to find longitude at sea, using tables of lunar distance (navigation), lunar distance. * January 9 – William Tryon, governor of the Royal Colony of North Carolina, signs a contract with architect John Hawks (architect), John Hawks to build Tryon Palace, a lavish Georgian architecture, Georgian style governor's mansion on the New Bern waterfront. * February 16 – On orders from head of state Pasquale Paoli of the newly independent Corsican Republic, Republic of Corsica, a contingent of about 200 Corsican soldiers begins an invasion of the small island of Capraia off of the coast of northern Italy and territory of the Republic of Genoa. By May 31, the island is conquered as its defenders surrender.George Renwick, ''Romantic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1688 Births
Events January–March * January 2 – Fleeing from the Spanish Navy, French pirate Raveneau de Lussan and his 70 men arrive on the west coast of Nicaragua, sink their boats, and make a difficult 10 day march to the city of Ocotal. * January 5 – Pirates Charles Swan and William Dampier and the crew of the privateer ''Cygnet'' become the first Englishmen to set foot on the continent of Australia. * January 11 – The Patta Fort and the Avandha Fort, located in what is now India's Maharashtra state near Ahmednagar, are captured from the Maratha clan by Mughul Army commander Matabar Khan. The Mughal Empire rules the area 73 years. * January 17 – Ilona Zrínyi, who has defended the Palanok Castle in Hungary from Austrian Imperial forces since 1685, is forced to surrender to General Antonio Caraffa. * January 29 – Madame Jeanne Guyon, French mystic, is arrested in France and imprisoned for seven months. * January 30 (January 20, 1687 old styl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne ( , , ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne is said to have formed the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism. While his early works are still influenced by Romanticism – such as the murals in the Bastide du Jas de Bouffan, Jas de Bouffan country house – and Realism, he arrived at a new pictorial language through intensive examination of Impressionist forms of expression. He gave up the use of Perspective (graphical), perspective and broke with the established rules of Academic Art and strived for a renewal of traditional design methods on the basis of the impressionistic color space and color modulation principles. Cézanne's often re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaspard Truphème
Gaspard is a Francophone male given name or family name, and may refer to: People Given name * Gaspard II Schetz, Lord of Grobbendonk * Gaspard Abeille (1648–1718), French poet * Gaspard André (1840–1896), French architect * Gaspard Augé (born 1979), one half of French electronic music duo Justice * Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (1581–1638), French mathematician * Gaspard Bauhin (1560–1624), Swiss botanist * Gaspard Laurent Bayle (1774–1816), French physician * Gaspard Bobek (1593–1635), Croatian Roman Catholic prelate * Gaspard Auguste Brullé (1809–1873), French entomologist * Gaspard Jean-Baptiste Brunet (1734–1793), French military commander * Gaspard Bureau (died 1469), French ballistics expert and inventor * Gaspard de Chabrol (1773–1843), French politician and government official * Gaspard Adolphe Chatin (1813–1901), French physician, mycologist and botanist * Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (1763–1794), French Revolutionary leader * Gaspard I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bastide Du Jas De Bouffan
The Bastide du Jas de Bouffan (Granel-Corsy du Jas de Bouffan) is a historic bastide in Aix-en-Provence, France. Location The bastide is located at 17 route de Galice in Jas de Bouffan, a neighbourhood of Aix-en-Provence. History The bastide was built circa 1750 for Gaspard Truphème, an Advisor to the Court of Audits.Guillemette de la BorieÀ visiter : le Jas de Bouffan, la bastide de Cézanne ''La Croix'', July 22, 2014 He hired architect Georges Vallon, who designed many other historic buildings in the centre of Aix. The bastide is surrounded by a private garden with ponds, fountains and sculptures. It was inherited by Gaspard's son, Pierre, followed by his grandson, Joseph, whose daughter Gabrielle passed it to her son, Gabriel Joursin in 1854. The bastide was purchased by banker Louis-Auguste Cézanne, the father of famed painter Paul Cézanne, in 1859. In 1880, Paul Cézanne established an atelier in the attic. He also painted the walls of the living-room. Additionally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halle Aux Grains
Halle may refer to: Places Germany * Halle (Saale), also called Halle an der Saale, a city in Saxony-Anhalt ** Halle (region), a former administrative region in Saxony-Anhalt ** Bezirk Halle, a former administrative division of East Germany ** Halle-Neustadt, a former city * Halle (Westfalen), a town in North Rhine-Westphalia * Halle, Bentheim, in the district of Bentheim, Lower Saxony * Halle, Holzminden, in the district of Holzminden, Lower Saxony * Halle (Heve), a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Elsewhere * Halle, Belgium, a city and municipality * Halle, Netherlands, a village in the Netherlands * Halle Range, a mountain range in Greenland People * Halle (name), a given name and a surname (including a list of people with the name) * Halle (singer) (born 1986), Nigerian actress, singer-songwriter and dancer Other uses * Battle of Halle, a clash in 1806 at Halle, Saxony-Anhalt * ''Halle'' fireboat, one of the fireboats of Duluth * ''Halle'' (album), an album by the Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hôtel De Caumont
The Hôtel de Caumont is a listed hôtel particulier in Aix-en-Provence in France. Location It is located at 1 rue Joseph Cabassol, in the Quartier Mazarin of Aix-en-Provence. History It was designed by architects Robert de Cotte (1656–1735) and Georges Vallon (1688-1767), and built from 1715 to 1742 for François Rolland de Réauville de Tertulle, the Marquess of Cabannes. Sculptors Jean-Baptiste Rambot and Bernard Toro designed the atlas. Inside, the entrance has an indoor fountain, with two sets of stairs: one for the family, and another one for the staff. The hotel was inherited by Jean-Baptiste-François de Tertulle, son of François Rolland de Réauville de Tertulle. Upon his death, his widow sold it to François de Bruny de la Tour d'Aigues (1690-1772). It was inherited by his son, the Marseilles shipowner (1724-1794), who served as the Président à mortier of the Parliament of Aix-en-Provence. He bequeathed it on to his son Marie Jean Joseph (1768-1800), who aga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hôtel Particulier
An ''hôtel particulier'' () is a grand townhouse, comparable to the Townhouse (Great Britain), British townhouse or mansion. Whereas an ordinary ''maison'' (house) was built as part of a row, sharing party walls with the houses on either side and directly fronting on a street, an ''hôtel particulier'' was often free-standing and, by the 18th century, would always be located ''entre cour et jardin'' – between the ''cour d'honneur'' (an entrance court) and the garden behind. There are ''hôtels particuliers'' in many large cities in France. Etymology and meaning The word ''hôtel'' represents the Old French "hostel" from the Latin ''hospitālis'' "pertaining to guests", from ''hospes'', a stranger, thus a guest.Cassell's Latin Dictionary The adjective ''particulier'' means "personal" or "private". The English word ''hotel'' developed a more specific meaning as a commercial building accommodating travellers; modern French also uses ''hôtel'' in this sense. For example, the H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Aubert (architect)
Jean Aubert (ca. 1680 – 13 October 1741) was a French architect, the most successful of the ''Régence'' and designer of two of the most important buildings of the period: the stables of the Château de Chantilly and the Hôtel Biron in Paris. He also created innovative interior designs, the most notable, the separation of private and public spaces for the Palais Bourbon in Paris. Biography He was the son of Jean-Jacques Aubert, master carpenter in the Bâtiments du Roi, and was trained in the large atelier of Jules Hardouin-Mansart. Aubert was employed in the Bâtiments du Roi as a designer from 1703 (Kimball p 131); in 1707, Hardouin-Mansart had him appointed an ''architecte du Roi'' and attempted to get him seated in the second class of the Académie royale d'architecture. As a protégé of Hardouin-Mansart, Aubert may have come into conflict with Robert de Cotte, Hardouin-Mansart's successor as ''premier architecte'' though not as director at the Bâtiments du Roi. Divers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert De Cotte
Robert de Cotte (1656 – 15 July 1735) was a French architect-administrator, under whose design control of the royal buildings of France from 1699, the earliest notes presaging the Rococo style were introduced. First a pupil of Jules Hardouin-Mansart, he later became his brother-in-law and his collaborator. After Hardouin-Mansart's death, de Cotte completed his unfinished projects, notably the royal chapel at Versailles and the Grand Trianon. Biography Born in Paris, Robert de Cotte began his career as a contractor for masonry, working on important royal projects between 1682 and 1685, when he was made a member of the ''Académie royale d'architecture'' and architect of the Court, ranking third in importance after Mansart's seldom-credited assistant François Dorbay. On his return to France after a six-month sojourn in Italy (1689–1690), in the company of Jacques Gabriel, he became the director of the Manufacture des Gobelins, where not only the famous tapestries, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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