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Saint-Pierre Cemetery (Aix-en-Provence)
The Saint-Pierre Cemetery (French: "Cimetière Saint-Pierre") is a cemetery in Aix-en-Provence. It is home to the burials of many renowned painters and sculptors. Location It is located on the ''Avenue Des Déportés de la Résistance Aixoise'' in Aix-en-Provence. It is opposite the ''Stade Georges Carcassonne'', a sports stadium. History It was established in 1824. Centre Darius Milhaud: Cimetière Saint Pierre /ref> It was built upon two former private, adjacacent cemeteries: a Jewish one and a Protestant one. It spans seven hectares. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Due to its several coastal territories, France has the largest exclusive economic zone in the world. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Andorra, and Spain in continental Europe, as well as the Netherlands, Suriname, and Brazil in the Americas via its overseas territories in French Guiana and Saint Martin. Its eighteen integral regions (five of which are overseas) span a combined area of and contain clos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darius Milhaud
Darius Milhaud (; 4 September 1892 – 22 June 1974) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as ''The Group of Six''—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and Brazilian music and make extensive use of polytonality. Milhaud is considered one of the key modernist composers.Reinhold Brinkmann & Christoph Wolff, ''Driven into Paradise: The Musical Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Zola
François Zola (born Francesco Antonio Giuseppe Maria Zolla; 7 August 1796 – 27 March 1847) was an Italian-born French engineer. He built the Zola Dam, creating Lac Zola near Le Tholonet in Aix-en-Provence. Zola was an Italian engineer with some Greek ancestry, who was born in Venice in 1795; his mother was French. He lived in Paris with his wife Émilie Aubert when their son, the author 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 ..., was born in 1840. The family moved to Aix-en-Provence when Émile was three years old. François died four years later, in 1847. References 1796 births 1847 deaths Engineers from Venice People from Aix-en-Provence Italian emigrants to France Italian people of Greek descent French people of Greek descent {{F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Villevieille
Joseph Villevieille (1829–1916) was a French painter. Early life Joseph Villevieille was born on 6 August 1829 in Aix-en-Provence. He graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Career Villevieille taught painting in Aix-en-Provence. He became friends with Paul Cézanne, whose mother he painted shortly before she died. When the townhall of Aix-en-Provence was burgled on 22 August 1872, Villevieille was commissioned to do many paintings for its walls. Some of those paintings were portraits of prominent local painters like Jean-Baptiste van Loo and François Marius Granet, and local historian Scholastique Pitton. In 1900, he did a painting of Sextius Calvinus Gaius Sextius Calvinus was a consul of the Roman Republic in 124 BC. During his consulship, he joined M. Fulvius Flaccus in waging war against the Ligures, Saluvii, and Vocontii in the Mediterranean region of present-day France. He continued as ..., the founder of Aix-en-Provence, which is also in the collecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Félibrige
The ''Félibrige'' (; in classical Occitan, in Mistralian spelling, ) is a literary and cultural association founded in 1854 by Frédéric Mistral and other Provençal writers to defend and promote the Occitan language (also called the ) and literature. It is presided over by a (classical norm: ). Etymology The word '' félibrige'' is derived from '' félibre'', a Provençal word meaning pupil or follower. Origins Le Félibrige was founded at the Château de Font-Ségugne (located in Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne, Vaucluse) on 21 May 1854 (Saint Estelle's day), by seven young Provençal poets: Théodore Aubanel, Jean Brunet, Paul Giéra, Anselme Mathieu, Frédéric Mistral, Joseph Roumanille and Alphonse Tavan. Together, they aimed to restore the Provençal language and codify its orthography. Its symbol is a seven-pointed star which, as Frederic Mistral writes in ''Lou tresor dóu Felibrige'', is "a tribute to its seven founders". The movement was launched in Provence but qui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Vidal
François Vidal (14 July 1832 – 25 May 1911) was a French Provençal poet and activist. Early life François Vidal was born on 14 July 1832. Career François Vidal was one of the first Provençal activists to join the Félibrige. He had a deep knowledge of the Occitan language, and was the editor (pagesetting and revision) of Frédéric Mistral's Tresor dóu Felibrige. He was the curator of the Bibliothèque Méjanes, the public library in Aix-en-Provence. Vidal wrote poetry in Provençal. He revived the traditional use of the Provençal instrument known as "tambourin The tambourin is a low-pitched tenor drum of Provence, which has also lent its name to a Provençal dance accompanied by lively duple meter music. The dance is so named because the music imitates the drum (''tambour'' being a generic French term ...." In 1876, he became a "Majoral" (council member) of the Félibrige, a cultural and literary movement for the promotion of Provençal heritage. Death Vidal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Solari
Philippe Solari (2 May 1840 in Aix-en-Provence – 20 January 1906 in Aix-en-Provence) was a provencal sculptor, of Italian origin, a contemporary and friend of Paul Cézanne and Émile Zola. He acquired French nationality in 1870. Youth Born into a relatively poor family with six sisters, Philippe Solari was educated at the boarding school of Notre-Dame, where he got to know Émile Zola. The two became very close friends. Later, between 1860 and 1865, Solari would attend the regular Thursday soirées at Zola's home in Paris for discussions on art; other participants included the painters Paul Cézanne, another of Zola's boyhood friends, and Camille Pissarro. Drawn towards art, and sculpture in particular, Solari went on to attend the School of Fine Arts (Ecole des Beaux-Arts) in Aix. Career After winning the Prix Granet in Aix, he attended the Academy of Charles Suisse in Paris. This artist's studio, situated on the quai des Orfèvres on the Île de la Cité, also co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Émilien Rousseau
Henri Émilien Rousseau (17 December 1875, Cairo – 28 March 1933, Aix-en-Provence) was a French painter, graphic artist and illustrator; best known for his Orientialist scenes featuring horses and riders. Biography He was the eldest of nine children born to Léon Rousseau (1840-1911), an engineer who participated in the construction of the Suez Canal and, when Henri was three, became the General Director of Public Works for the Khedive, Isma'il Pasha.Biography by Marlène Lespes @ the ''Dictionnaire des orientalistes'' His family left Cairo after the , returned to France and, in 1885, settled in |
John Rewald
John Rewald (May 12, 1912 – February 2, 1994) was an American academic, author and art historian. He was known as a scholar of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cézanne, Renoir, Pissarro, Seurat, and other French painters of the late 19th century. He was recognized as a foremost authority on late 19th-century art. His ''History of Impressionism'' is a standard work. Biography He was born Gustav Rewald at Berlin, of a middle-class, professional family. Rewald came from a Jewish background. He completed his ''Abitur'' in Hamburg, and studied thereafter at several German universities, going to the Sorbonne in Paris in 1932. At the Sorbonne he wrote his dissertation on the friendship of Zola and Cézanne, having to persuade the academic authorities on this because Cézanne (died 1906) was considered too recent a figure. When France declared war on Germany in 1939, he was interned as an enemy alien. He emigrated to the United States in 1941 and Alfred Barr, director of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Ravaisou
Joseph Ravaisou (11 November 1865 – 22 December 1925) was a French landscape painter. Ravaisou was born in Bandol, Var. In 1878 he moved to Aix-en-Provence to work as a school teacher, and subsequently became a music conductor and a music critic. After seeing an exhibition in Paris with paintings by Camille Pissarro and Claude Monet, he returned to Aix and worked alongside Louise Germain. From 1899 to 1902 he also worked with Paul Cézanne, whom he admired. He died at Aix, aged 70. Some of his works are kept in the ''Musée Granet'' in Aix-en-Provence, as well as in Marseille, Martigues and Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma .... References External links''Bastide Aixoise,'' by Joseph Ravaisou 1865 births 1925 deaths People from Var (departme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Murat
Jean Murat (13 July 1888, in Périgueux – 5 January 1968, in Aix-en-Provence) was a French actor. He was married to the French actress Annabella. Selected filmography * ''Sex'' (1920) * ''La Galerie des monstres'' (1924), as Sveti * '' Carmen'' (1926), as Officier * ''Attorney for the Heart'' (1927), as Dr. Robert Lingh * ''The Prey of the Wind'' (1927), as The husband * '' The Duel'' (1927) * ''Valencia'' (1927), as Count Alfonso de Padilla * '' Homesick'' (1927) * '' Escape from Hell'' (1928), as Erik Ward * '' The Carousel of Death'' (1928) * '' Nile Water'' (1928) * ''Masks'' (1929), as Jonny * ''Venus'' (1929), as Capitaine Franqueville * ''The Divine Voyage'' (1929), as Jacques de Saint-Ermont * '' The Night Is Ours'' (1930), as Henri Brécourt * '' The Love Market'' (1930) * '' A Hole in the Wall'' (1930), as André de Kerdrec * '' La Femme d'une nuit'' (1931), as Jean d'Armont * '' The Typist'' (1931), as Paul Derval * ''Captain Craddock'' (1931), as Captain Craddock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
