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Quartier Mazarin
The quartier Mazarin is a district in the centre of Aix-en-Provence, directly to the south of the cours Mirabeau, the principal boulevard in Aix. On the initiative of Archbishop Michel Mazarin, brother of the Cardinal Jules Mazarin and Archbishop of Aix from 1645-8 and later himself a cardinal, city plans were devised in 1646 by Jean Lombard, director of public works, to extend the city ramparts to the south, incorporating land owned by the Archbishopric of Aix and by the Order of Saint-Jean-de-Malte. Following a grid plan of streets, the quartier contains a large number of '' hôtels particuliers'' originally built for the nobility and wealthy merchant class. History Notable monuments, buildings and residents :''The descriptions below are taken from and .'' Cours Mirabeau (south side) *Hôtel d'Esmivy de Moissac *Maison de Vacon *Hôtel d'Isoard-Vauvenargues *Former Benedictine monastery * Hôtel Raousset-Boulbon (Hôtel Fauris de Saint-Vincens) *Hôtel de Mougins-Roquef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hôtel De Gallifet
Hôtel de Gallifet is an 18th-century Hôtel Particulier located in the Quartier Mazarin of Aix-en-Provence in France. Today, it serves as a contemporary art center for the public. It is located at 52 rue Cardinale in the Mazarin district of Aix-en-Provence. History Hôtel de Gallifet was built in the early 18th century by Jean-Leon Leotard, the Lord of Entrages."L’Hôtel de Gallifet à Aix-en-Provence" ''Sortir en Provence''. Léotard bestowed the building onto the House of Gallifet, a noble family originating from the Dauphin region of the South of France, as part of a marriage agreement for his daughter Madeleine de Léotard d’Entrages to Simon Alexandre Jean de Galliffet, seigneur du Tholonet from 1716-1793. He was head of the eldest branch of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hôtel De Boisgelin (Aix-en-Provence)
The Hôtel de Boisgelin is a listed hôtel particulier in Aix-en-Provence. Location It is located at number 11 on the rue du Quatre Septembre, on the Place des Quatre Dauphins, in the Quartier Mazarin of Aix-en-Provence.''Provence'', Le Petit Futé, 2009 p. 16/ref> History It was designed by architects Pierre Pavillon (1612-1670) and Jean-Claude Rambot (1621-1694), and built for Louis Le Blanc de Montespin in 1650.René Borricand, ''Les Hôtels particuliers d'Aix-en-Provence'', 39 rue Espariat, 1971, p. 4/ref> In 1697, it was purchased by Pierre-Joseph Laurens-Brue. That year, he commissioned architect Laurent Vallon (1652-1724) to design a grand staircase inside. It was later inherited by the Boisgelin family. It comes with a courtyard and a garden. In the garden, there is a fountain under the foliage, thus always in the shade in daytime.Henri Dobler, ''Le cadre de la vie mondaine à Aix-en-Provence aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles: Boudoirs et jardins'', F. Detaille, 1928, p. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hôtel De Villeneuve D'Ansouis
The Hôtel de Villeneuve d'Ansouis is a listed hôtel particulier in Aix-en-Provence. Location It is located at number 9 on the rue du 4 septembre in the Quartier Mazarin of Aix-en-Provence.Monique Cubells, ''La Provence des lumières: les parlementaires d'Aix au 18ème siècle'', Maloine, 1984, p. 23/ref>François Monmarché, Denise Bernard-Folliot, ''Provence, Côte d'Azur'', Hachette, 1971, p. 33/ref> History The de Villeneuve d'Ansouis family lived in an old house as late as 1695. In 1740, it was torn down and this new hotel particulier was built for Théodore de Villeneuve d'Ansouis, who served as an Advisor to the Parliament of Aix-en-Provence. It was then renovated by Georges Vallon (1688-1767) in 1757. It is three stories high, with wrought iron balconies and mascarons sculpted on the facade. Additionally, the facade has three sets of windows in the center, each of which are surrounded by one window on each side, surrounded in turn by Doric columns. Above the main door, t ... [...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] |
Jean-Pierre-François De Ripert-Monclar
Jean-Pierre-François de Ripert-Monclar (1711–1773) was a French aristocrat, landowner and lawyer. Biography Early life Jean-Pierre-François de Ripert-Monclar was born in 1711 in the Château Royal de Saint-Saturnin, a family château in Saint-Saturnin-lès-Apt where his family spent their holidays.Ambroise Roux-Alphéran, ''Les Rues d'Aix''/ref>'Récits de la rue et de la ville:Aix-en-Provence', ''Rives méditerranéennes'', p. 91-10/ref> His father was General Prosecutor of the Parliament of Aix-en-Provence. He was educated at the College d'Harcourt in Paris.Monique Cubells, ''La Provence des lumières: les parlementaires d'Aix au 18ème siècle'', Maloine, 1984, p. 25/ref> Career A landowner, King Louis XV of France granted him (and all direct male heir) the marquisate of Monclar in 1769. Like his father, he served as General Prosecutor of the Parliament of Aix-en-Provence, in 1732. In his 1750 ''Mémoire théologique et politique sur les mariages clandestins des protesta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hôtel Silvy
The Hôtel Silvy (a.k.a. the Hôtel Ripert de Monclar or the Hôtel Bourguignon de Fabregoules) is a listed hôtel particulier in Aix-en-Provence. Location It is located at number 35 on the ''rue Roux Alpheran'' in the Quartier Mazarin of Aix-en-Provence. History The hotel was built in the seventeenth century for the Silvy family, a family of landowners and magistrates from Aix. In the garden, the fountain was built in the eighteenth century. It was the private residence of Jean-Pierre-François de Ripert-Monclar (1711-1773) and his wife, Catherine de Lisle. It was later the residence of Jean-Baptiste de Bourguignon de Fabregoules (1746-1838), an art collector who bequeathed his art collection to the Musée Granet in Aix. Heritage significance The fountain and the garden have been listed as ''monuments historiques ''Monument historique'' () is a designation given to some national heritage sites in France. It may also refer to the state procedure in France by which National He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambroise Roux-Alphéran
Ambroise Roux-Alphéran (1776–1858) was a French public official and historian. Biography Early life Ambroise(-Thomas) Roux-Alphéran was born on 29 December 1776 in Aix-en-Provence. Career He served as clerk of the court of Aix-en-Provence under the Bourbon Restoration in France, Restoration. Later, he quit his job and decided to spend his time studying and writing about the history of Aix-en-Provence. His numerous works are kept in the Bibliothèque Méjanes, the public library in Aix. Personal life He resided at 9, rue Longue-Saint-Jean, which was subsequently renamed in his honour. He died on 8 February 1858 in Aix-en-Provence. Works and themes *Ambroise Roux-Alphéran, ''Les Rues d'A ...[...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] |
Baptistin Baille
Baptistin Baille was born as Jean-Baptiste Baille in France, in 1841 and he died in 1918. He was a professor of optics and acoustics at the École de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles in Paris and a close friend of Paul Cézanne, the impressionist artist, and of Émile Zola who would later become a writer. "Les trois inséparables" Together, they were known as "les trois inséparables" (the three inseparables). The three boys met when they were at school and often swam together at the River Arc. Cézanne produced numerous paintings of male bathers based on these experiences, which Zola also remembered in his novel, ''L'Œuvre ''L'Œuvre'' is the fourteenth novel in the '' Rougon-Macquart'' series by Émile Zola. It was first serialized in the periodical ''Gil Blas'' beginning in December 1885 before being published in novel form by Charpentier in 1886. The title, t ...'', Another friend and classmate was Louis Marguery, future lawyer and writer for vaudeville. Reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émile Zola
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (, also , ; 2 April 184029 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in his renowned newspaper opinion headlined ''J'Accuse…!'' Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902. Early life Zola was born in Paris in 1840 to François Zola (originally Francesco Zolla) and Émilie Aubert. His father was an Italian engineer with some Greek ancestry, who was born in Venice in 1795, and engineered the Zola Dam in Aix-en-Provence; his mother was French. The family moved to Aix-en-Provence in the southeast when Émile was three years old. Four years later, in 1847, his father die ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musée Granet
The Musée Granet is a museum in the quartier Mazarin, Aix-en-Provence, France devoted to painting, sculpture and archeology. In 2011, the museum received 177,598 visitors. History The museum, adjacent to the Church of Saint-Jean-de-Malte, first opened in 1838 in buildings previously belonging to the priory of Saint-Jean-de-Malte. It still shares a common garden with the church. Permanent collection It recently underwent significant restoration and reorganization, prior to the international exhibition in 2006 marking the centenary of Cézanne's death. Due to lack of space, the large archeological collection, including many recent discoveries, will be displayed in a new museum, still in the planning stages. The museum contains major paintings by Jean-Dominique Ingres (among which the monumental " Jupiter and Thetis"), an authentic self-portrait by Rembrandt and works by Anthony van Dyck, Paul Cézanne, Alberto Giacometti and Nicolas de Staël. Planque collection In June 2011, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
