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“I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.”
―quote by Gustave Flaubert,
Created by Gustave Eiffel, the construction of the Eiffel Tower lasted just over two years and 250 workers worked there.
The artists of the moment considered it monstrous and the possibility of demolishing it on different occasions was raised.
With the advent of world wars on the twentieth century, the authorities found its usefulness as a broadcasting antenna and with it they captured messages that helped the allies decisively.
Nowadays, the Eiffel Tower is the most visited monument in the world with more than 7 million annual visitors.
Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894)
Flieder und Pfingstrosen in zwei Vasen, 1883
Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894)
Lilacs and Peonies in Two Vases, 1883
Stairway to Heaven: Life After Death for the Mysterious Gustave Moreau
For Gustave Moreau his greatest work may have been his death. He did not exhibit widely in his lifetime, and mostly stayed in solitude at his parents’ home on the Rue de la Rochefoucauld in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Yet the symbolist artist planned an entire posthumous museum that would only open after he had departed this world.
Moreau died of stomach cancer on April 18, 1898, but he still feels very present in the Musée Gustave Moreau. From the salmon-painted walls to the salon-style assemblage of unfinished work, it is almost exactly as he intended it to be experienced.
When Moreau met his end, he bequeathed not just all the art in his home, including over 4,000 drawings, 1,200 paintings, and hundreds of watercolors, to France, but all the objects in it as they were. Lodged in heavy wood frames all over the walls are wide-eyed unicorns, otherworldly biblical scenes, mystical symbolism, and roaming classical gods. The art is both mesmerizing and arcane, and almost all halted mid-thought. Backgrounds are blank, figures are half-formed. You can flip through whole cabinets of drawing studies, where feathers, snakes, bodies, and symbols are sketched in careful detail, but never finished. He’d decided on establishing these fragments as a museum in 1892, and what’s left is a collision of family heirlooms and priceless art.
Moreau’s father was an architect, and in designing the museum he collaborated with Albert Lafon to add two “grand ateliers” to the top floor, linked by a strange and stunning spiral staircase.
The staircase seems like a miracle, reminiscent in its shape of the spiral staircase at Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe, New Mexico. That American architectural oddity dates to 1878, and still is an unknown in how it was built with no central support, from a wood non-native to the area, and two 360 degree twists in its 20 feet. Moreau’s on the other hand is cast iron. With its tongue-like shape that slopes out of the ceiling it appears to have recently unraveled down to the floor.
On January 13, 1903, the Musée Gustave Moreau opened to the public for the first time. Gustave himself called it a ”small sentimental museum,” yet it feels like an artist, who was enamored with the esoteric, finding his own myth for himself in death.
Text taken from
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/stairway-to-heaven
Photo taken in May 2022
Happy Every Day Is Stairs Day 👍
A la grande demande voici mon bébé Gustave qui a eu 3 mois samedi ! C’est goldendoodle mini . Déjà un mois que nous sommes en amour avec toi mais aussi épuisé hahaha.
Eiffel Tower, French Tour Eiffel, Parisian landmark that is also a technological masterpiece in building-construction history. When the French government was organizing the International Exposition of 1889 to celebrate the centenary of the French Revolution, a competition was held for designs for a suitable monument. More than 100 plans were submitted, and the Centennial Committee accepted that of the noted bridge engineer Gustave Eiffel. Eiffel’s concept of a 300-metre (984-foot) tower built almost entirely of open-lattice wrought iron aroused amazement, skepticism, and no little opposition on aesthetic grounds. When completed, the tower served as the entrance gateway to the exposition. 1
Gustave Courbet, Beach in Normandy, French, 1819 - 1877, c. 1872/1875, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection
The neo-Gothic parish church was designed by the provincial architect Gustave Hansotte and consecrated on September 9, 1879. It was repaired on several occasions after the bombings of the First World War.
Photo shot in 2011 from the top of the Brusilia Residence.
Azimuth 320.3°, 17.2 km away (10.7 mi).
Address: Kouter - Nieuwbaan 71, 1785 Peizegem (Merchtem)
FR : Eglise Notre-Dame de l'Immaculée Conception de Peizegem
L'église paroissiale, de style néo-gothique, a été conçue par l'architecte provincial Gustave Hansotte et consacrée le 9 septembre 1879. Elle a été réparée à plusieurs occasions après les bombardements de la Première Guerre mondiale.
Photo prise en 2011 du haut de la Résidence Brusilia.
Azimut 320.3°, distance 17.2 km.
Adresse : Kouter - Nieuwbaan 71, 1785 Peizegem (Merchtem)
NL: Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Onbevlekt Ontvangen kerk van Peizegem
De neogotische parochiekerk werd ontworpen door de provinciale architect Gustave Hansotte en ingewijd op 9 september 1879. Het werd verschillende keren hersteld na de bombardementen van de eerste wereldoorlog.
Foto genomen in 2011 vanaf de top van de Brusilia Residentie.
Azimut 320.3°, 17.2 km ver.
Adres: Kouter - Nieuwbaan 71, 1785 Peizegem (Merchtem)
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Reproduction prohibited without my written consent.
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Reproductie verboden zonder mijn schriftelijke toestemming.
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Back in 1975, as a student at Pratt Institute, instead of writing a paper for an art history class, I did a series of drawings of French painters. At that time this one, of Courbet, was given to a good friend. Recently she has been downsizing her estate. I asked her if she would give me back my drawing. It arrived the other day. It’s one of my old favorites and it’s nice to have him back.
1885, Oil on Canvas, Private Collection.
Seen at the exhibition "Caillebotte, painter and gardener", Museum of Impressionisms, Giverny 2016
1885, Huile sur toile, collection particulière.
Vue à l'exposition "Caillebotte, peintre et jardinier" au Musée des Impressionnismes de Giverny en 2016
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"Les Héros de la Liberté"
5 sculptures de Phillip Ratner (1937 - 2023)
Sculptures de cinq personnes qui ont joué un grand rôle dans la création de la statue.
. Edouard de Laboulaye : qui l'a rêvée
. Auguste Bartholdi : qui l'a conçue
. Gustave Eiffel : qui l'a conçue
. Joseph Pulitzer : qui lui a donné une place pour se tenir debout
. Emma Lazarus : qui lui a donné son âme
À l’approche du centenaire de Lady Liberty dans les années 1980, le National Park Service a demandé à Ratner de créer des statues représentant les immigrants qui sont entrés dans le pays par Ellis Island entre 1892 et 1954, ainsi que des personnages centraux de l’histoire de la Statue de la Liberté, dont la poétesse juive Emma Lazarus – dont le poème « The New Collosus » a été la source de sa célèbre inscription commençant par « Donnez-moi votre fatigué, vos pauvres, vos masses entassées qui aspirent à respirer librement.
Ratner a dû collecter lui-même les fonds pour les sculptures, une tâche qu’il a acceptée avec plaisir.
to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois ;-)
Gustave Flaubert
HBW! Mission Accomplished...Resist!!
fragrant mahonia, grapeholly, 'Cantab', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
The Musée national Gustave Moreau is an art museum dedicated to the works of Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau.
Before his death, Moreau planned his studio as a museum. On 13 January 1903, the Musée Gustave Moreau opened to the public for the first time.
The studios on the 2nd and 3rd floor are separated by a superb spiral staircase which display the artist's major works.
The road bridge at Cressage spans fifty-two metres of the River Severn. Designed by the engineer Louis Gustave Mouchel, Cressage bridge was constructed in 1913.
Girona - Metalowy most przez rzekę Onyar zaprojektowany przez słynnego francuskiego inżyniera Gustave'a Eiffla, twórcę wieży Eiffla.
- Gustave Flaubert.
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During our winter trip to Valley of Fire State Park, I spent a lot of time exploring massive rocks balanced in precarious locations. A few at the park are well known, but once I started exploring, I noticed quite a few more. Some of them just needed a few creative compositions to appear more imposing. I found one near the popular Fire Wave Trailhead. From the main trail, it didn’t seem very interesting, but once I climbed a nearby rock, I could frame a shot that showed how the rock was positioned on the slope of a massive slick rock. If you look closely at the bush near the rock, you can spot a person on the horizon, which should give you a better sense of the size of this massive rock.