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Michel Serre
Michel Serre (1658–1733) was a Catalonia, Catalan-born France, French painter. Biography Early life Michel Serre was born on January 10, 1658 in Tarragona, Spain.''L'Artiste: journal de la littérature et des beaux-arts'', L'Artiste, 1849, pp. 100–10/ref>Alexandre Gueidon, ''Comte Godefroy de Montgrand: Armorial de la ville de Marseille'', Marseille, 1864, p. 181-183 His father was Jacques Serre and his mother, Marie Barbos. Career As a painter, he specialized in baroque painting, religious paintings and the Great Plague of Marseille. Many of his paintings can be found in Roman Catholic churches in Provence. In Marseille, three of his paintings are displayed in the Église Saint-Ferréol les Augustins: ''Sainte Marguerite'', ''La Vierge à l'enfant apparaissant à Saint Pierre'' and ''Saint Paul''. Another one is displayed in the Église des Chartreux (Marseille), Église des Chartreux: ''Madeleine enlevée par les anges''. Three are displayed in the Église Saint-Matthieu d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarragona
Tarragona (, ; Phoenician: ''Tarqon''; la, Tarraco) is a port city located in northeast Spain on the Costa Daurada by the Mediterranean Sea. Founded before the fifth century BC, it is the capital of the Province of Tarragona, and part of Tarragonès and Catalonia. Geographically, it is bordered on the north by the Province of Barcelona and the Province of Lleida. The city has a population of 201,199 (2014). History Origins One Catalan legend holds that Tarragona was named for ''Tarraho'', eldest son of Tubal in c. 2407 BC; another (derived from Strabo and Megasthenes) attributes the name to ' Tearcon the Ethiopian', a seventh-century BC pharaoh who campaigned in Spain. The real founding date of Tarragona is unknown. The city may have begun as an Iberian town called or , named for the Iberian tribe of the region, the Cossetans, though the identification of Tarragona with Kesse is not certain. William Smith suggests that the city was probably founded by the Phoenicians, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basilica Of Sainte Marie Madeleine (Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume)
In Ancient Roman architecture, a basilica is a large public building with multiple functions, typically built alongside the town's forum. The basilica was in the Latin West equivalent to a stoa in the Greek East. The building gave its name to the architectural form of the basilica. Originally, a basilica was an ancient Roman public building, where courts were held, as well as serving other official and public functions. Basilicas are typically rectangular buildings with a central nave flanked by two or more longitudinal aisles, with the roof at two levels, being higher in the centre over the nave to admit a clerestory and lower over the side-aisles. An apse at one end, or less frequently at both ends or on the side, usually contained the raised tribunal occupied by the Roman magistrates. The basilica was centrally located in every Roman town, usually adjacent to the forum and often opposite a temple in imperial-era forums. Basilicas were also built in private residence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume
Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume (; oc, Sant Maissemin de la Santa Bauma, links=https://www.google.fr/maps/@43.4574354,5.8556205,3a,51.6y,135.48h,69.75t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sYHiJO3wua5rplRFJ-jGpTQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) is a commune in the southeastern French department of Var, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Located east of Aix-en-Provence, the town lies at the foot of the Sainte-Baume mountains. ''Baume'' or ''bama'' is the Provençal equivalent of ''cave''. The town's basilica is dedicated to Mary Magdalene. History The Roman Villa Lata, remains of which have been identified beneath Place Malherbe in the center of the town, was one among numerous agricultural working Roman villas in the plain that was traversed by the via Aurelia. The Abbey of Saint Victor at Marseille had dependencies in the neighborhood: Saint-Maximin, Saint-Jean, Saint-Mitre, Sainte-Marie. The Romanesque parish church dedicated to Saint Maximin of Trier was demolished in the final stages of construc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri François Xavier De Belsunce De Castelmoron
Henri François Xavier de Belsunce de Castelmoron (3 December 1671 at the Château de la Force, in Périgord – 4 June 1755 in Marseilles) was a French Jesuit who became Bishop of Marseille. Belsunce is remembered for his tireless efforts to relieve the suffering during the Great Plague of Marseille of 1720-21. Early life He was the second son of Armand de Belsunce, Marquis de Castelmoron, and his wife Anne de Caumont de Lausun. His maternal uncle was courtier and soldier Antoine Nompar de Caumont, Duke of Lauzun. His Huguenot parents thought it more advantageous for him to be raised a Catholic.Jonas, Raymond et al.''France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart'', University of Californ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chapelle Notre-Dame De Beauvoir
Chapelle or La Chapelle may refer to: Communes in France * La Chapelle, Allier * La Chapelle, Ardennes * La Chapelle, Charente * La Chapelle, Savoie * Les Chapelles, Savoie department Other places * Église de la Chapelle or Kapellekerk, a church in Brussels * Quartier de La Chapelle, a neighborhood of Paris, France * La Chapelle (Paris Metro), a metro station in Paris, France * Porte de la Chapelle (Paris Metro), a metro station in Paris, France * Sainte-Chapelle, a Gothic chapel on the Île de la Cité, Paris, France * La Chapelle, Artibonite, a commune in Artibonite department, Haiti * La Chapelle, a commune of Plan-les-Ouates, Switzerland * Chapelle, Glâne, a municipality of the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland * Archbishop Chapelle High School, a high school in New Orleans, United States * Aix-la-Chapelle or Aachen, Germany Other uses * La Chapelle (Church), a Baptist Evangelical multi-site church based in Montreal, Canada. *Chapelle (surname) *Chapelle Jewellery, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Var (department)
Var (, ) is a department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of Southeastern France. It takes its name from the river Var, which flowed along its eastern boundary, until the boundary was moved in 1860 and the department is no longer associated with the river. The Var department is bordered on the east by the department of Alpes-Maritimes, to the west by Bouches-du-Rhône, to the north of the river Verdon by the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and to the south by the Mediterranean Sea. It had a population of 1,076,711 in 2019.Populations légales 2019: 83 Var INSEE is the largest city and administrative capital ( |
Le Beausset
Le Beausset (; oc, Lo Baucet) is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. Population See also *Communes of the Var department The following is a list of the 153 communes of the Var department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Official Web site Communes of Var (department) {{Var-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Église De La Madeleine (Aix-en-Provence)
The Église de la Madeleine is a Roman Catholic church in Aix-en-Provence. Location It is located on the town square of ''Place des Prêcheurs'' in Aix-en-Provence.Dominique Auzias, Le Petit Futé, 2008 p. 14/ref>Dominique Auzias, Jean-Paul Labourdette, ''Aix-en-Provence 2012'', Le Petit Futé, 2012, p. 29/ref> It is next door to the Collège des Prêcheurs, Couvent des Prêcheurs, now a secondary school, also listed. History A convent of the Dominican Order and a Gothic church was built in the 13th century on the Place des Prêcheurs. However, it was burned down in 1383. It was rebuilt, but came down in 1465. The current church building was constructed in its place in the seventeenth century. It was designed by architect Laurent Vallon (1652-1724), and it was built from 1691 to 1703. The facade was designed by architect Henri Révoil (1822-1900) from 1855 to 1860, and it serves as an example of Second Empire architecture. It was renamed in honour of Mary Magdalene in 1822. Over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Of Saint-Jean-de-Malte, Aix-en-Provence
Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship * Christian denomination, a Christian organization with distinct doctrine and practice * Christian Church, either the collective body of all Christian believers, or early Christianity Places United Kingdom * Church (Liverpool ward), a Liverpool City Council ward * Church (Reading ward), a Reading Borough Council ward * Church (Sefton ward), a Metropolitan Borough of Sefton ward * Church, Lancashire, England United States * Church, Iowa, an unincorporated community * Church Lake, a lake in Minnesota Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Church magazine'', a pastoral theology magazine published by the National Pastoral Life Center Fictional entities * Church (''Red vs. Blue''), a fictional character in the video web series ''Red vs. Blue'' * Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aix-en-Provence
Aix-en-Provence (, , ; oc, label= Provençal, Ais de Provença in classical norm, or in Mistralian norm, ; la, Aquae Sextiae), or simply Aix ( medieval Occitan: ''Aics''), is a city and commune in southern France, about north of Marseille. A former capital of Provence, it is the subprefecture of the arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence, in the department of Bouches-du-Rhône, in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. The population of Aix-en-Provence is approximately 145,000. Its inhabitants are called ''Aixois'' or, less commonly, ''Aquisextains''. History Aix (''Aquae Sextiae'') was founded in 123 BC by the Roman consul Sextius Calvinus, who gave his name to its springs, following the destruction of the nearby Gallic oppidum at Entremont. In 102 BC its vicinity was the scene of the Battle of Aquae Sextiae, where the Romans under Gaius Marius defeated the Ambrones and Teutones, with mass suicides among the captured women, which passed into Roman legends of Germani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allauch
Allauch (; oc, Alaug) is a French commune situated east of Marseille in the department of Bouches-du-Rhône in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France. The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Allaudiens'' or ''Allaudiennes'' in French. Geography Location Allauch is the seat of the canton of Allauch. It is a part of the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis. The commune had inhabitants as of 2019. It is located 12 km north-east of Marseille, 10 km north-east of Aubagne and 35 km south of Aix-en-Provence. Access to the commune is by the D908 road from Marseille in the south-west passing through the commune and continuing north to join the D96 north of La Bouilladisse. Access to the village is by the D48 branching off the D908 and looping back as the D48A. There is also the D4A road from the 11th arrondissement in the south, and the D44G from the 12th arrondissement in the south-west. As Allauch is located on the edge of the Marseille conurbation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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