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Mariette Duval
Mariette may signify: ;Family name: *Auguste Mariette François Auguste Ferdinand Mariette (11 February 182118 January 1881) was a French scholar, archaeologist and Egyptologist, and the founder of the Egyptian Department of Antiquities, the forerunner of the Supreme Council of Antiquities. Early ... (1821–1881), pioneering Egyptologist. * Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694–1774), connoisseur and chronicler of artistic life in Paris ;Given name: * Mariette Bosch (died 2001), South African murderer executed by Botswana * Mariette Hansson (born 1983), sometimes MaryJet or simply mononym Mariette, Swedish singer and songwriter ;Others * ''Mariette'', a yacht built by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff in 1915 {{given name, type=both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguste Mariette
François Auguste Ferdinand Mariette (11 February 182118 January 1881) was a French scholar, archaeologist and Egyptologist, and the founder of the Egyptian Department of Antiquities, the forerunner of the Supreme Council of Antiquities. Early career Auguste Mariette was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer, where his father was town clerk. Educated at the Boulogne municipal college, where he distinguished himself and showed much artistic talent, he went to England in 1839 when eighteen as professor of French and drawing at a boys' school at Stratford-upon-Avon. In 1840 he became pattern-designer to a ribbon manufacturer in Coventry, but he returned the same year to Boulogne, and in 1841 took a degree at the University of Douai. Mariette proved to be a talented draftsman and designer, and he supplemented his salary as a teacher at Douai by giving private lessons and writing on historical and archaeological subjects for local periodicals. Meanwhile, his cousin Nestor L'Hôte, the friend and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre-Jean Mariette
Pierre-Jean Mariette (7 May 1694 – 10 September 1774) was a collector of and dealer in old master prints, a renowned connoisseur, especially of prints and drawings, and a chronicler of the careers of French Italian and Flemish artists. He was born and died in Paris, and was a central figure in the artistic culture of the city for decades. Early life and training Mariette was born to a long-established and highly successful family of engravers, book publishers and printsellers in Paris. His father was Jean Mariette (1660–1742). In 1657 his father's father, Pierre Mariette (ii) (1634–1716), had bought the family business from his ailing father, Pierre Mariette (i) (1596–1657), for 30,000 livres. Family connections put him in contact as a young man with antiquarians such as the comte de Caylus, for whom Mariette would write his ''Lettre sur Leonardo da Vinci'', printed as a preface to Caylus's book on Leonardo's caricatures, 1730. In 1722 he first met the imm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariette Bosch
Mariëtte Sonjaleen Bosch (1950 – 31 March 2001, later named Mariëtte Wolmarans) was a South African woman who was executed in Botswana on 31 March 2001.Penketh, Anne.America and the world's executioners join efforts to block UN moves to end death penalty" ''The Independent''. Thursday 15 November 2007. Retrieved on 26 March 2013. Bosch was convicted for the murder of Maria Magdalene "Ria" Wolmarans, both members of the white expatriate community in Gaborone, in June 1996.Bird, Maryann.Until Death Us Do Part" ''TIME''. Monday February 12, 2001. Retrieved on 26 March 2013. "Barring a presidential decree of clemency, Bosch—who still maintains she is innocent—would be the first white woman to be executed in Botswana's history."Bosch loses appeal " '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariette Hansson
Mariette Hansson (born 23 January 1983), sometimes credited as MaryJet or simply Mariette, is a Swedish singer and songwriter. Hansson participated in Sikta mot stjärnorna ''(Swedish pre-selection for European Soundmix Show)'' in 1999 imitating singer Amanda Marshall. She participated in Idol 2009 which was broadcast on TV4 (Sweden), TV4 and finished fourth. A year later, Hansson was announced as "homo of the year" at the QX Gaygala in Stockholm. In 2013, she played guitar in Magnus Ugglas band during his show "Magnus Den Store" at Hamburger Börs, Stockholm, Hamburger Börs in Stockholm. In 2014 she toured along with Ace Wilder who placed second in Melodifestivalen 2014, the Swedish pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2014, Eurovision Song Contest. She has taken part in Melodifestivalen, Sweden's pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, four times and qualified to the final each time. She first participated in Melodifestivalen 2015 with the song "Don't Stop Bel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariette (yacht)
''Mariette ''is a classic two-masted gaff schooner, designed and built by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff in 1915 for Harold S. Vanderbilt. She now sails out of Antibes, France, under the French flag. Design ''Mariette'' was built as "Project 698" by Nathanael Herreshoff, at his Bristol, Rhode Island yard, for prominent yachtsman Harold S. Vanderbilt. She was part of a series of seven large schooners built between 1903 and 1905 by the Herreshoff shipyard. ''Mariette'' and her sister-ship ''Vagrant'' are the last of this series still in service. The ships are smaller versions of the earlier ''Eleonora'' and ''Westward'', also by Herreshoff. History Skipper Jacob F. Brown sailed on ''Mariette'' until 1927. She was then sold to Francis B. Crowninshield, from a family with a sailing tradition, whose first ship was ''Cleopatra’s Barge''. In homage to this ship, they renamed ''Mariette'' to ''Cleopatra’s Barge II''. The rigging was modified into a Bermuda rig. Writer James A. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |