Mont-Saint-Michel from A to Z (ABCdaires)

Adrien Goetz

Henry Decaens

Gerard Guillier

Flammarion

La Villa Kérylos, c est une célèbre maison de la Côte d Azur, construite au début du xxe siècle par Théodore Reinach, le frère de Joseph et Salomon. J, S, T. Je Sais Tout. Ces trois inséparables frères, aussi moustachus qu érudits, ont fait de cette maison tout entière décorée en style grec, la caverne aux trésors de l érudition française. Elle a permis à Achille de sortir de son milieu. Il découvre ainsi un monde de rêve et de poésie.Achille. Quel Achille ? Mais bien sûr, le fils de la cuisinière des voisins, les Eiffel ! À force d études, il est devenu presque aussi savant que ses trois hôtes. Dans son grand âge, bien des années ayant passé, il revient à Kérylos. Pièce après pièce, il va à la redécouverte de son passé. Une porte s ouvre sur Alexandre le Grand ; une autre, sur le Mont Athos ; une autre, surtout, sur Ariane, son si cher amour...

Villa Kerylos (French Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

French and European Publications Inc

In 1890, Claude Monet bought a house at Giverny in Normandy. Soon he had laid out the first of the three studios in which he could paint. Now the garden that was to be a constant source of inspiration for those paintings claimed all his attention. In 1893, work started on the excavation of the famous pond that he would plant with water lilies, and over which he would build a Japanese bridge festooned with wisteria. Richly illustrated with photographs taken as the seasons unfold, this guide takes us on a tour of the house and gardens, inviting us to explore the settings in which Monet and his family spent their daily lives, from the iconic yellow dining room to the famous salon-studio. Adrien Goetz leads us through the gardens laid out by the father of Impressionism, where we can admire the dazzling planting schemes and successive flowerings that inspired the paintings that now hang in the world's greatest galleries and museums: drifts and avenues of iris, tulips and narcissi, wallflowers, peonies and forget-me-nots, roses and cascades of clematis and wisteria, not forgetting the legendary water lilies.

Monet at Giverny

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Gourcuff Gradenigo

Initially a castle then a royal palace and now, since the French Revolution, a museum, the Louvre was from very early on destined for art, housing first the royal and later the national collections. The museum has always set out to be encyclopaedic and today it embraces the civilisations of the ancient world-Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greek and Roman antiquity-and of the Islamic lands, as well as European art up until the mid-19th century. Instead of presenting this rich collection of works by civilisation, school or discipline, this book takes a novel approach, placing items from diverse cultures and periods side by side, creating juxtapositions that are often unexpected and invariably revealing. The works presented all touch on the eternal themes of art and range from paintings and sculptures to silverware and tapestry. The result is a thought-provoking meditation on the representation of human life since 3000 BC, from childhood to old age, encompassing moments of leisure and times of war, the totems of power and religious symbols, and our enduring love of beauty and decoration. To follow this journey through history is to relive mankind's quest for self-expression, his never-ending search for beauty, his needs for escape through nature, and his insatiable curiosity about the world around him. Erich Lessing's photographs and Adrien Goetz's text take us voyage of initiation, a visual adventure that leads us to the very heart of the vast universe of artistic creation.

Au louvre. the arts face a face (version anglaise)

Editions Hazan

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