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Bridge Between The Past Past And The Present France
674 wordsProvence has been called a bridge between the past and the present, where yesterday blends with today. This beautiful place lies in the southern part of France, and is bordered on the east by Italy, on the south by the Mediterranean Sea, and on the west by the Rhone River. The area abounds with flower fields, vineyards, orchards, and olive and mulberry groves. Along the seacoast is the French Rivera and the Ports of Marseille and Toulon. Provence has its own language The region originally formed...
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Philippe Auguste Paul Cezanne Art
1,052 wordsAfter fifty years of the most radical change in art from images to free abstraction, Czanne's painting, which looks old-fashioned today in its attachment to nature, maintains itself fresh and stimulating to young painters of our time. He has produced no school, but he has given an impulse directly or indirectly to almost every new movement since he died. His power to excite artists of different tendency and temperament is due, I think, to the fact that he realized with equal fullness so many dif...
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19 Th Century Mont Blanc
2,180 wordsThe Alps is a Europe's finest natural export, birthplace of downhill skiing, progenitor of the winter wonderland. In 2001, time of cheap flights and last-minute holidays, mini-skis and man-made mountains, the survival of the Alps' heritage is, you might say, nearing the point of no return. Evolving from a chain of valleys with distinct dialogues at the end of the 19 th century to the spa villages of the early 20 th, then from the jet-set destinations of the post-war years to the maximum-capacity...
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Jean Francois Impressionist Movement
1,493 wordsCezanne Paul Cezanne, who was the son of a wealthy banker, became a painter in the 1860 s in Paris when he quit his studies of Law. By 1874 he was painting landscapes in the Impressionist manner and had some of his work included in their first exhibition held during that very same year. He painted in the Impressionistic manner, but sheared off in a different direction to the main body of Impressionist painters. The main body of Impressionist painters were concerned with the fleeting effects of l...
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King Henry Ii Rest Of His Life
2,082 wordsNOSTRADAMUS (1503 - 1566) Nostradamus was a French physician and astrologer who wrote Centuries, a famous collection of prophecies published in 1555. The prophecies in Centuries appear in four-line rhyming verses called quatrains. In vague language, they describe events from the mid- 1500 s through the end of the world, which is predicted to come in AD 3797. Many people have interpreted the prophecies in Centuries, connecting certain ones with events that have taken place since Nostradamus time....
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Kings Death First Three
1,519 wordsThe following Nostradamus Biography The following is a biography of Michel de Nostredame, it is a excerpt from Erika Cheetham, The Prophecies of Nostradamus. Childhood Michel de Nostradamus, more commonly known as Nostradamus, was born on 14 th December 1503, in St. Remy de Provence. His parents were of simple lineage from around Avignon. Nostradamus was the oldest son, and had four brothers; of the first three we know little; the youngest, Jean, became Procureur of the Parliament of the Provenc...
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Paul Cezanne Painting Shows
380 wordsLa Montagne Sainte-Victoire Paul Cezanne 1887 Paul Cezanne created the painting La Montagne Sainte-Victoire in 1887. The painting consists of the actual mountain of Sainte-Victoire as the dominant feature of the landscape. Cezanne's hometown, Aix-en-Provence, is in front of the mountain. The painting begins with a view above the town looking in between two branches. The branch on the left side of the painting shows its base as you look on the left side of the painting. Cezanne had painted this s...
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Quot Route Tournante Quot Quot Route Tournante Colour
903 wordsPaul Cé zanne, who was the son of a wealthy banker, became a painter in the 1860 s in Paris when he quit his studies of Law. By 1874 he was painting landscapes in the Impressionist manner and had some of his work included in their first exhibition held during that very same year. He painted in the Impressionistic manner, but sheared off in a different direction to the main body of Impressionist painters. The main body of Impressionist painters were concerned with the fleeting effects of l...
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Alain De Botton Art Of Travel Travellers
1,033 wordsToothbrush, bikini and dead poet The Art of Travel Alain de Botton Hamish Hamilton? 14. 99, pp 272 Travel is now the worlds biggest industry, according to the World Trade Organisation. It beats arms and pharmaceuticals both in turnover and in numbers of people employed. Despite the post- 11 September dip, forecasts for the sector are measured not in billions of dollars but in trillions. Mans collective endeavours our god-like technology, our money, our precious time seem more and more directed a...
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