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"The Hôtel Biron is a jewel of Parisian rocaille architecture, with its park that covers nearly three hectares, adding to its immense attraction and explaining the museum’s very high attendance. In total, it welcomes over 700,000 visitors every year.
Late in 2005, the architect Pierre Louis Faloci finished the restoration of the chapel building, making possible the reopening of a temporary exhibition room.
Stretching over three hectares, the grounds are divided into a rose garden, north of the Hôtel Biron, and a large ornamental garden, to the south, while a terrace and hornbeam hedge backing onto a trellis concealed a relaxation area, at the bottom of the garden. Pierced by three openings, this trellis reflects the design and proportions of the three bay windows on the mansion’s garden façade. Two thematic walks were also laid out: in the east, plants thrive amidst the rockery in the “Garden of Orpheus”, and, in the west, water is omnipresent in the “Garden of Springs”.
Rodin started to place selected works in the overgrown garden that he liked so much in 1908, together with some of the antiques from his personal collection. Male and female torsos, copies made in the Roman or modern period, after Greek works, were presented in these natural surroundings, their contours dappled by the sunlight: “Nature and Antiquity are the two great sources of life for an artist. In any event, Antiquity implies nature. It is its truth and its smile.” (Rodin)
The first bronzes were erected in the gardens before World War I. Since 1993, they have been regularly cleaned and treated so as to preserve their original patinas."
"The Musée Rodin in Paris, France, is a museum that was opened in 1919, dedicated to the works of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. It has two sites: the Hôtel Biron and surrounding grounds in central Paris and just outside Paris at Rodin's old home, the Villa des Brillants at Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine). The collection includes 6,600 sculptures, 8,000 drawings, 8,000 old photographs, and 7,000 objets d’art. The museum receives 700,000 visitors annually.
While living in the Villa des Brillants, Rodin used the Hôtel Biron as his workshop from 1908 and subsequently donated his entire collection of sculptures (along with paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Pierre-Auguste Renoir that he had acquired) to the French State on the condition that they turn the buildings into a museum dedicated to his works.
The Musée Rodin contains most of Rodin's significant creations, including The Thinker, The Kiss, and The Gates of Hell. Many of his sculptures are displayed in the museum's extensive garden. The museum is one of the most accessible museums in Paris. It is located near a Metro stop, Varenne, in a central neighborhood, and the entrance fee is very reasonable. The gardens around the museum building contain many of the famous sculptures in natural settings. Behind the museum building are a small lake and casual restaurant.
Additionally, the Metro stop, Varenne, features some of Rodin's sculptures on the platform. The building is served by Métro (line 13: Varenne or Invalides), RER (line C: Invalides), and bus (69, 82, 87, 92).
The museum has also a room dedicated to the works of Camille Claudel. Some paintings by Monet, Renoir, and Van Gogh that were in Rodin's personal collections are also presented. The Musée Rodin collections are very diverse, as Rodin used to collect besides being an artist."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musée_Rodin
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The boy is explaining the message to his younger brother - and me!
Can you see the message in this artwork?
Clue:
The artist is the owner of the adjacent art gallery and also their relative. I would never have guessed, or noticed, what it says had he not shown us. Very clever!
A woman tries to explain the passing of former Singapore prime minister Lee Kuan Yew to her son as they visit a tribute memorial outside the Istana palace in Singapore March 23, 2015. Lee passed away on early Monday morning aged 91. Photo by Tim Chong
Take a look at some of my other pictures to find out how this boy can float. There has not been used Photoshop to make or manipulate this picture... Lake Bosomtwe, Ghana.
Ok Grace, listen closely.
I need you to lie down on your right side facing the computer.
Just take a little nap.
You're really good at that!
Yay! Good girl!
Now, if you could just put your paw up on the computer.
Which one? Oh, your left one.
Yeah, and try not to look at me. Look at the computer.
Ok Grace, now you are just being silly!! :)
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Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
GST Voles day at Sandy Smith NR 7/3/2017
Mr T.: (rummaging in the back of the land rover).
Okay we haven't had a task in the Wet Fen before so before we start I just need to explain a few things. Firstly as you can see it's very wet here at the entrance so I will not be taking the land rover in. We will have to carry everything in from here. I want four of you strimming the few sparce areas of rushes to the right hand side and one of you mowing a few clearings on the left hand side. The rest of you can help me clear away various metal rubbish in the copse area and then start raking and forking up what's been cut. There are some drag bags here for you. Plus I shall be cutting down a small birch tree which can be cut up and burnt. So I'll need you to take......
Mr. T. turns around to see he is by himself, the voles having walked off into the distance, (well this is SSNR and we always walk off into the distance).
A little later in camp.
Mr. T.: Are you okay to strim *****? (name removed for legal reasons). Just make sure you don't break anything. Are you okay to use the mower ^^^^? (name removed for same reasons). Just make sure you don't break anything.
Right, I just need to go back and get a few things that you lot 'forgot' to bring over with you.
Mr T. returns.
*****: The strimmer's broke.
Mr. T.: Right, I just need to go back and get the tools to mend it for you.
Mr. T. returns.
^^^^: The mower's broke.
Mr. T.: Right, I just need to go back and get the tools to mend it for you.
Mr. T. returns.
Anon.: We haven't got any forks.
Mr. T.: Right, I just need to go back and get them for you.
Mr. T. returns.
Another Anon.: We need drag bags.
Mr. T.: Right, I just need to go back and get them for you.
Mr. T. returns.
Yet another Anon.: Must be time for a tea break.
Mr. T.: Right, I just need to go back and get my bag.
The voles settle down for a drink and a few cakes.
Anon anon anon.: Who's going to tell Mr. T. he's forgotten the donuts?
Sobbing could be heard in the distance.
Some time later on this long, drawn out morning.
Mr. T.: It's no good, the rushes are too damp to burn, we'll have to drag them into the copse and pile them there.
Mr. T. walks away.
^^^^, (don't worry Clarkie, no one will know it's you), immediately strips to the waist, covers his chest in cow dung, (last week's having dried out and beginning to flake off), turns and spits into the northeast wind. Rubbing the spittle off his face he calls out to Logi, the Norse god of fire. "Hey up lad we could do with a bit of help down here." So saying he sets light to a box of fire lighters and throws them into the smouldering embers. Flames immediately rise into the bright blue sky as the fire worshipper dances a merry jig and begins to feed the flames.
And so to lunch.
Mr. T.: No more cutting now we just need to rake up what's been cut and either burn it or pile it in the copse.
Volunteer Warden (no experience necessary): Nah, we can strim loads more, there's plenty of time.
Mr. T.: No, we need to let the fire burn down before we leave tonight.
Volunteer Warden (no experience attained): Nah, we'll have finished in half an hour.
Two hours later.
Mr. T.: Most people have left, how is the fire?
Volunteer Warden (basically no experience full stop): (kicking mud onto the flames) Nearly out, could have cut loads more. Gets dark quickly these nights doesn't it?
Any resemblance to the truth is purely coincidental and has nothing to do with the perpetrator of Myths and Legends in Bedfordshire, (out of print).
Thank you to everyone who came along and dragged their heels, ankles, toes, etc. in the mud. Special thanks to those who kept pulling Wendy out of the deep bits. Nice to see Maryla back with us for a short while (obviously having to build up to it again).
Malcolm
She said: she can't fall down ..she can open her arms
... "I have fun with him" she said... From the top.. she can see the birds..
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Pavel and I were drinking at a Czech hospoda. Here he explains how his spider tat woke him up that morning. We Care a Lot is playing on the jukebox.
One of the most enjoyable courses I ever took was the study of algae. We each had a pond (or still body of water) and every week we spent time seeing the changes in our "drops of water" from the samplings we took. Absolutely fascinating.
"Professor Peckam's Adventures in a Drop of Water" by George Malcolm-Smith. Illustrated by Keith Ward. Copyright 1931 by Rand McNally and Company.
Jason Gill (LMU Coach), Gary Powers (UNR Coach), Heath Jones (umpire), Joe Maiden (umpire), Rob Hansen (umpire).
Hayat Machala, 13, a member of Hygiene Club, explains the role of the club to Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, at Dima Guranda Primary School in Sebeta District in Oromia Region of Ethiopia, 1 February, 2014. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2014/Ose
grandma explains how great grandpa had a knack for picking out cows. aunt sarah compares this with picking out boyfriends/husbands.
(sorry for the poor quality. trying to figure out imovie and it wasn't working very well.)
Explainer Elizabeth Devine interviews Steven F. Udvar-Hazy at the 15th Anniversary Celebration of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA, December 15, 2018. (Smithsonian photo by Jim Preston)
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David Wegmuller, a member of the Bay Area LEGO Users' Group, explains his Technic models at the club's exhibit at Maker Faire, April 2006. Photo by Bill Ward.
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The crisis in Greece, the consequences of the Chernobyl meltdown, obsessive dieting & eating disorders, global warming, individuals drifting away from stable social structures—filmmakers offer up trenchant statements in this program.
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On April 13th, 2010 Los Angeles Fire Department - California Task Force 1 conducted a live *Heavy Extrication Drill* at FS 88's Disaster Village located at 5101 Sepulveda Blvd in Sherman Oaks at 10AM. This exercise was open to the media and public. Photo by © Mike Meadow
Auditor D. Michael Ingram from Green Collar Crew (greencollarcrews.com/) explains the home energy audit process to homeowner Cat Lazaroff.
Silver Spring, MD
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Casablanca, Hasan II Mosque, a place of many superlatives. Seeing the size of this place, I consider myself fortunate to have so very little company ion the middle of a December day.
PNNL's Chuck Peden (right) explains how scientists are using high-powered nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers to study catalysis to Energy Secretary Steven Chu (left) and Doug Ray (right), associate laboratory director for Fundamental & Computational Sciences. They toured the NMR facility in the Environmental Molecular Sciences laboratory during Chu's visit to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory on Aug. 10, 2009.
Press release: www.pnl.gov/news/release.asp?id=390
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Mr. Hughes of RAPAC, an NGO that works with the national park to help protect Salonga, explains the intricacies of jungle landings.
Garrett Brown explains the second pre-Steadicam prototype, with a parallelogram mechanism.
For more on Garrett Brown, see:
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