Mary Stevenson Cassatt (May 22, 1844 -- June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists.
Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children. LINK: Youtube
http://www.allpaintings.org/v/Impressionism/Mary+Cassatt/
Showing posts with label France. Show all posts
Showing posts with label France. Show all posts
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Mary Cassatt Paintings
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
NEW: World Record Carp 91lb Carp
Andy Komornicki, a cargo agent at London's Heathrow airport, has landed a new world record 91 lb mirror carp known as The Scar.
Andy Komornicki and his new world record carp at 91lb.
Despite its size, Andy took only 10 to15 minutes to land the fish. It's hard to describe how I felt, I was just so elated, the British Airways employee recalled. LINK: Youtube
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
Les Invalides: The Haunted Home of Napoleon’s Tomb
No visit to Paris is truly complete without time spent in Les Invalides. This complex of buildings in the 7th Arrondissement contains museums, mausoleums and military mementoes - all dedicated to the role that France and the French have played in the history of warfare. Lauren Axelrod takes us on a tour around this amazing site.
The place was founded in the seventeenth century, so as you can imagine with a country with such a rich history, Les Invalides can take a substantial amount of time to cover. However, the trip is well worthwhile as even if you are not a fan of military history this remarkable place gives you a glimpse in to the very essence of the French national character.
Lauren is no stranger to history - and by that I am not taking a pop at her age, believe me. If you would like to see more of her work, then take a trip over to her excellent blog, The Ancient Digger.
Les Invalides: The Haunted Home of Napoleon’s Tomb | Trifter
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Sunday, November 15, 2009
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Mickey Mouse comics drawn by concentration camp prisoner
Avi sez, "'Mickey Mouse in Gurs' is a tragic 'comic' book made by Horst Rosenthal in 1942 while incarcerated at the Gurs internment camp in France. Rosenthal uses Mickey Mouse as a kind of subversive Virgil to guide us through the hellish experiences of the concentration camp. Horst Rosenthal was murdered in Auschwitz in 1942."
Horst Rosenthal: Mickey Mouse in Gurs (Thanks, Avi!) Via: Boingboing
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Rodrigo y Gabriela "Hanuman" live @ Eurockéennes
Friday, August 28, 2009
Highest Dirt Ramp Jump
On a BMX, Benoit Mendiboure (France) jumped a record height of 4 m 80 cm using a dirt ramp on the set of LÉté De Tous Les Records in Argeles Gazost, France on 13 July 2004. LINK: Youtube
Thursday, March 05, 2009
Carcasonne
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Virtual Vacation: Beautiful France
Fantastic museums, gourmet dining, and romantic gardens--it's easy to see why France is the world's most popular tourist destination. Whether you spend your days wandering the world famous Louvre, driving out to the countryside to tour the magnificent castles, or ascending the Eiffel Tower for spectacular views of Paris, France surely has something for everyone. LINK
Friday, January 30, 2009
Broken Body Breakdancing
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
"How the mighty have fallen"
The Bay of Biscay windstorm that crossed France this past week took down a 223-year-old beech tree planted in 1786 to honor Marie Antoinette.
VERSAILLES, France - It survived the French Revolution and a devastating 1999 storm, but high winds have finally toppled a towering beech tree planted for Marie Antoinette more than two centuries ago at Versailles Palace.
The 82-foot (25-meter) high purple beech, one of the last trees in a hamlet dedicated to the former queen in the vast palace park, was felled Friday by an unusually fierce winter gust.
The 223-year-old tree's collapse, which also exhumed a jumble of roots, earth and grass, was the latest blow to the ex-queen's Versailles vegetation after her most cherished oak tree died in a 2003 heat wave.
LINK, Via: Neatorama
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Haunted Castles of Europe
magine staying in a castle built several hundred years ago. If these walls could talk! But some are rumored to do just that …or have ghosts of former residents walking the halls. This post details ten such locations. Pictured is Brissac Castle in France, which was suddenly sold by its owner, Jacques de Breze, after his wife Charlotte and her lover were killed there. Her ghost is said to have remained afterward. Link, Via: Neatorama
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Hotel Everland
Hotel Everland in Paris, France, is a project by Swiss artist-duo Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann. They are known for their installations that deal with architecture and space and invite the viewer to get involved and become part of the artwork.
Everland is a hotel with only one room including a bathroom, a king-size bed and a lounge. The bounteous dimensioned room represents the subjective dream of a hotel: the architecture, the playful details, as well as the request to steal the golden embroidered bath towels. LINK
Friday, May 02, 2008
The History Of The Cathars
High on a sacred mountain in Southern France, the whitened ruins of Montségur are a reminder of the last actively visible gnostic school in the West, the Cathari. Below Montségur lies a peaceful meadow, its name, 'Field of the Burned', the only indication of a grim event that took place there a little over 700 years ago. In March, 1244, 205 Cathars were burned alive on the site, rather than renounce their creed.
The name Cathari, means 'pure' in Greek. Cathars in general formed an anti-sacerdotal party in opposition to the Catholic Church, protesting what they perceived to be the moral, spiritual, and political corruption of the Church. They claimed an Apostolic succession from the founders of Christianity, and saw Rome as having betrayed and corrupted the original purity of the message.
The History of the Cathars. Via: Presurfer
Saturday, February 02, 2008
Beech Baron landing at Courchevel Airport, France
Landing a Beech Baron 58 at Courchevel Airport, France. The Air Show BBC2. LINK
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Another Set of Cool Research Facilities
Odeillo Solar Furnace, Odeillo, France.
Built in 1969, this brilliantly shiny oddity is the 8-Story high Odeillo solar furnace in France: at present the largest on the planet. the 63 smaller mirrors on the hillside reflect the sun onto the huge parabolic reflector you see in the photos, this in turn reflecting the solar radiation very precisely onto a point just 18 meters in front of the parabola. Using this method, temperatures can reach an unbelievably hot 3400°C. The incredible amount of heat generated by the furnace is used for research in many areas including high temperature solar engineering (advanced solar power systems, solar chemistry, etc.), photo-physics and chemistry applied physics. LINK
Saturday, December 01, 2007
"Mont St-Michel," Normandy France
Mont St-Michel Abbey perches on a rocky hill on the northern coast of France.
Mont Saint Michel (also written Mont-St-Michel) is a small rocky islet about 1 km from the north coast of France at the mouth of the Couesnon River, near Avranches in Normandy.
The mount is best known for the medieval Benedictine Abbey and steepled church that occupies most of the 1km-diameter clump of rocks jutting out of the waters of the English Channel. LINK
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