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Belvedere
Belvedere Castle. Garden Front of the Lower Belvedere.
Belvedere Palace stands supposedly on the foundations of a Roman camp that had been erected here for strategic reasons. In 1693 Prince Eugene of Savoy acquired field and vineyard grounds between today's Rennweg and today's Gürtel. In 1700 Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt began with the construction of a palace garden (Lower Belvedere), whose in French-style layed out park was equipped with large water basins, an orangery with precious foreign plants and a menagerie. Prince Eugene was a great animal lover, and some animals in his collection could be fed exclusively by himself.
1720 the Prince conceived the plan the summer palace to supplement by a another palace building on the hill of the garden.
The 1721 by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt begun works had been completed in 1724. The Upper Belvedere served in contrast to the Lower only representative purposes and was never meant to live.
The Prince and his architect managed a perfect symbiosis between architecture and garden. After the death of the Savoy (1736) inherited his niece Victoria of Savoy-Soisson, nee Princess Hildburghausen, all his possessions. From her the Habsburgs beginning of 1752 acquired the Belvedere. From 1755 Empress Maria Theresa moved the Arcierenleibgarde (Royal Company of the Archers) and the Galician Guard in the annex of the Belvedere. Besides, the castle stood almost empty.
Belvedere Castle. Engraving by Salomon Kleiner 1731/40 (left).
Vienna from the Belvedere. Coloured copper engraving by Carl Schütz, 1784 (right).
1770 Belvedere Palace was venue of brilliant festivities:
In castle and park the marriage of Archduchess Maria Antonia (Marie Antoinette) with the Dauphin of France by proxy (per procura) was celebrated. About 2,000 people were invited, more than 1,500 bottles of champagne, which was far from home in Vienna at that time,
were emptied. For hospitality of the guests, there were round tables, which were covered with silver. However, the Court of Vienna had a large part of the silver service to rent of nobles, because the stocks of the silver chamber were not sufficient. Finished was the festival by a magnificent fireworks.
1776, the imperial picture gallery from the Stallburg (home of the famous Lipizzan stallions) was transferred to the Upper Belvedere, the animals of the menagerie came to Schönbrunn. Shortly before the Congress of Vienna in 1814 in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection was exposed. During the war against Napoleon (1805-1809), much of the collection of paintings had to be outsourced. The Corsican claimed 400 masterpieces for himself, but which after his defeat at Waterloo to the Habsburgs have been restituted. The after the French wars completely neglected building has been restored 1850-1866.
Castle Park with Upper Belvedere. Photograph, around 1890.
1819 Emperor Franz II (I) the Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, had given spacious grounds for enlargement of the Botanical Garden at Rennweg. Franz was very interested in botany and in accordance with a Habsburg House bill - every Archduke must learn a civilian job - has been educated for gardener. In an adjoining garden of Schloß Belvedere he had from his private funds laid out a botanical garden ("Flora Austriaca") which was left to the Institute of Botany for use.
During the cholera epidemic of 1831, the Belvedere served as well as Schönbrunn Palace the imperial family as a refuge; supposedly one was there protected from the bad air, which was attributed to the onset of the disease. Both castles lay in the "countryside", the air was much better here than in the densely populated city. During wartime, a hospital was set up in the castle.
As the space for the imperial collections became too small, it was thought to expand the Upper Belvedere by wing buildings. This plan was dropped for aesthetic reasons, however. After the expansion of the city (razing of the bastions and glacis) arose on the ring road the newly created Court Museums; moved there in 1891 the major part of the paintings.
Archduke-Heir to the Throne Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este at folk and children's party in the park of the Belvedere Palace. Photograph, 1905.
To 1893/94 it is likely that Archduke Franz Ferdinand has chosen the Upper Belvedere to his residence in Vienna. Other sources say that it had been assigned to him by the Emperor Franz Joseph as a place to stay in Vienna. The rooms have been restored, adapted for residential purposes and supplemented with neo-Baroque furniture. The heir of the Este collections furnished his residence with numerous works of art. He had envisaged the castle for the accommodation of his collections; in 1893 were numerous boxes from India and Singapore in Belvedere stored. 1894 Emperor Franz Joseph could see the collection: "Yesterday I went to the Belvedere, where Franzi showed me his now quite and very nicely prepared collections. The same are as imposing as interesting by the incredible amount of objects and by the rarity and beauty of them. I believe that this exhibition would be interesting for you", wrote the monarch to his wife, Empress Elisabeth. That same year, Archduke Franz Ferdinand showed his collections his future wife, Sophie Chotková,
"Where I unaware of your fatigue with particular brutality you dragged from box to box" as he apologetically from Budweis wrote to the Countess.
Then the collections moved one the one hand to the Palais Modena in the Beatrixgasse, on the other hand to Konopischt. Only in 1898, Franz Ferdinand was granted by Emperor Franz Joseph to move into the Belvedere as Vienna Residence. More revitalization works were carried out and were also necessary. Technical modernization and preservation of the original building condition had priority - as always with the projects of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As furnishings served still preserved furnitures from Schloss Hof, which were supplemented by new ones in old style. The private rooms in addition to electric lighting were equipped with central heating.
Belvedere Castle. Staircase in the Upper Belvedere (left).
Marble plastic "Apotheosis of Prince Eugene" by Balthasar Permoser in Gold Cabinet of the Lower Belvedere (right).
If his presence was needed in Vienna, Franz Ferdinand here could lead a normal family life and escape the pressures of court ceremonial, in which the to him in morganatic marriage affiliated wife was exposed to the evils of the courtiers. When the heir to the throne invited guests to the Belvedere, he was sitting opposite his wife as a hostess while she was ranked in the Hofburg always after the latest unmarried Archduchess. About the cozy family life at Belvedere reported Prince von Clary-Aldringens:
"Aunt Sophie invited us ... to snack into a Belvedere, unexpectedly, suddenly appeared the Archduke - we literally froze in our Hab-Acht-position (stand at attention). He greeted us warmly ... [I got to know] the Archduke as a friendly landlord, who was playing and laughing with his Children..."
Between 1899 and 1914 in the Lower Belvedere the military bureau of the heir to the throne was housed. Other well-known Residents - but of outbuildings - were Anton Bruckner, who in 1896 died in the Kustodenwohnung (guardian house), and Richard Strauss, who lived here from 1925 to 1944.
After the assassination of the Archduke and his wife in Sarajevo, the Belvedere should serve as the residence of the new heir to the throne, Archduke Karl and his family. This, however, preferred living in Schönbrunn and especially in the villa Wartholz. In 1917, Charles' brother Archduke Maximilian moved with his family into the Belvedere.
During World War II the castle was badly damaged by bombs, but rebuilt after the war ended immediately. On 15 May 1955 was the Marble Hall venue of the signing of the Austrian State Treaty. Today, the Upper Belvedere houses important art collections.
Excerpts from
Thus lived the Habsburgs - Imperial and Royal Palaces in the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Ingrid Haslinger, Gerhard Trumler
Christian Brandstätter Verlag mbH
The publishing service for museums, businesses and
public bodies
www.brandstaetter - verlag.at
Denomination of the summer residence which Prince Eugene of Savoy himself had erected btw Rennweg and Swiss Garden. The term which refers to the unique view over Vienna dates from the time of Maria Theresa. Prinz Eugen bought in 1697 a plot of land at the Rennweg, which he extended to 1721 in four stages to the current area. Between 1714 and 1716 emerged the Lower Belvedere It is an elongated ground floor building, designed of a 7-axes central projection, two wings and two corner pavilions. The 3-axis central pavilion houses the Marble Hall. The castle the only rarely in Vienna sojourning builder served during the summer months as a pleasure palace.
Only in 1720 commenced construction works for the Upper Belvedere, first drawings for this existed already in 1717. The in it extent and form language compared to the Lower Belvedere especially magnificent Upper Belvedere served primarily as a representative setting for grand receptions and festivities. The architectural history of the example due to the loss of the Eugenianischen Bauarchivs (construction archiv of Prince Eugene) cannot be explored in detail without any gaps. 1723 (according to Rizzi 1721/22) the Upper Belvedere s is considered complete. The architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, who repeatedly worked for Prince Eugen, with the construction of the Belvedere has created his main work. It counts in its multiform architectonic as well as sculptural structure to the most important baroque buildings of the 18th century. The to the ensemble belonging, btw Upper and Lower Belvedere laying garden has been created by the Bavarian horticultural engineer D. Girard and today only in broad terms is original. The designs for the interior of the castle stem from C. le Fort du Plessy.
After the death of the prince the belvedere went into the possession of his sole heiress, Victoria Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen. She sold it in 1752 to Maria Theresa. At the behest of Joseph II from 1775 the imperial picture gallery was transferred here, which in 1781 for the first time was open to the public. had. Since 1806 was located in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection. Both collections were in 1890 in the Museum of Art History transferred. In 1894, the palace became residence for the heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
After the first World War I the Republic of Austria in Belvedere installed the Austrian Gallery. 1945 suffered the Belvedere severe war damage. In 1950, the "Gold Cabinet" in the north-eastern corner pavilion of the Upper Belvedere was destroyed by fire and replaced by a copy. The since 1988 ongoing general renovation should have been completed in 1996.
aeiou - the cultural information system of the bm: bwk
14,000 key words and 2000 pictures from history, geography, politics and business in Austria
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
The in the center of Vienna situated Belvedere palaces with their extensive parks form an impressive baroque Gesamtkunstwerk. The Museum in the Upper and Lower Castle
provides an excellent overview of the Austrian Art from the Middle Ages to the present. the collections of the 19th and 20th Century also include an exquisite inventory of international art. World Famous works by Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Renoir and Monet you can see in the upper
Belvedere, from where you can enjoy a spectacular view to the center of Vienna. In the historic rooms of the Lower Belvedere are shown works of art from the Middle Ages and Baroque.
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Phone +43 / ( 0) 1 / 79557-0
Fax +43 / (0) 1/79 84 337
Upper Belvedere
Collections of the 19th and 20th century
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Lower Belvedere
Baroque Museum, and Museum of Medieval Art
Rennweg 6a, A - 1030 Vienna
(further pictures and information you can see if you go to the end of page and by clicking on the link...)
Belvedere
Belvedere Castle. Garden Front of the Lower Belvedere.
Belvedere Palace stands supposedly on the foundations of a Roman camp that had been erected here for strategic reasons. In 1693 Prince Eugene of Savoy acquired field and vineyard grounds between today's Rennweg and today's Gürtel. In 1700 Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt began with the construction of a palace garden (Lower Belvedere), whose in French-style layed out park was equipped with large water basins, an orangery with precious foreign plants and a menagerie. Prince Eugene was a great animal lover, and some animals in his collection could be fed exclusively by himself.
1720 the Prince conceived the plan the summer palace to supplement by a another palace building on the hill of the garden.
The 1721 by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt begun works had been completed in 1724. The Upper Belvedere served in contrast to the Lower only representative purposes and was never meant to live.
The Prince and his architect managed a perfect symbiosis between architecture and garden. After the death of the Savoy (1736) inherited his niece Victoria of Savoy-Soisson, nee Princess Hildburghausen, all his possessions. From her the Habsburgs beginning of 1752 acquired the Belvedere. From 1755 Empress Maria Theresa moved the Arcierenleibgarde (Royal Company of the Archers) and the Galician Guard in the annex of the Belvedere. Besides, the castle stood almost empty.
Belvedere Castle. Engraving by Salomon Kleiner 1731/40 (left).
Vienna from the Belvedere. Coloured copper engraving by Carl Schütz, 1784 (right).
1770 Belvedere Palace was venue of brilliant festivities:
In castle and park the marriage of Archduchess Maria Antonia (Marie Antoinette) with the Dauphin of France by proxy (per procura) was celebrated. About 2,000 people were invited, more than 1,500 bottles of champagne, which was far from home in Vienna at that time,
were emptied. For hospitality of the guests, there were round tables, which were covered with silver. However, the Court of Vienna had a large part of the silver service to rent of nobles, because the stocks of the silver chamber were not sufficient. Finished was the festival by a magnificent fireworks.
1776, the imperial picture gallery from the Stallburg (home of the famous Lipizzan stallions) was transferred to the Upper Belvedere, the animals of the menagerie came to Schönbrunn. Shortly before the Congress of Vienna in 1814 in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection was exposed. During the war against Napoleon (1805-1809), much of the collection of paintings had to be outsourced. The Corsican claimed 400 masterpieces for himself, but which after his defeat at Waterloo to the Habsburgs have been restituted. The after the French wars completely neglected building has been restored 1850-1866.
Castle Park with Upper Belvedere. Photograph, around 1890.
1819 Emperor Franz II (I) the Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, had given spacious grounds for enlargement of the Botanical Garden at Rennweg. Franz was very interested in botany and in accordance with a Habsburg House bill - every Archduke must learn a civilian job - has been educated for gardener. In an adjoining garden of Schloß Belvedere he had from his private funds laid out a botanical garden ("Flora Austriaca") which was left to the Institute of Botany for use.
During the cholera epidemic of 1831, the Belvedere served as well as Schönbrunn Palace the imperial family as a refuge; supposedly one was there protected from the bad air, which was attributed to the onset of the disease. Both castles lay in the "countryside", the air was much better here than in the densely populated city. During wartime, a hospital was set up in the castle.
As the space for the imperial collections became too small, it was thought to expand the Upper Belvedere by wing buildings. This plan was dropped for aesthetic reasons, however. After the expansion of the city (razing of the bastions and glacis) arose on the ring road the newly created Court Museums; moved there in 1891 the major part of the paintings.
Archduke-Heir to the Throne Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este at folk and children's party in the park of the Belvedere Palace. Photograph, 1905.
To 1893/94 it is likely that Archduke Franz Ferdinand has chosen the Upper Belvedere to his residence in Vienna. Other sources say that it had been assigned to him by the Emperor Franz Joseph as a place to stay in Vienna. The rooms have been restored, adapted for residential purposes and supplemented with neo-Baroque furniture. The heir of the Este collections furnished his residence with numerous works of art. He had envisaged the castle for the accommodation of his collections; in 1893 were numerous boxes from India and Singapore in Belvedere stored. 1894 Emperor Franz Joseph could see the collection: "Yesterday I went to the Belvedere, where Franzi showed me his now quite and very nicely prepared collections. The same are as imposing as interesting by the incredible amount of objects and by the rarity and beauty of them. I believe that this exhibition would be interesting for you", wrote the monarch to his wife, Empress Elisabeth. That same year, Archduke Franz Ferdinand showed his collections his future wife, Sophie Chotková,
"Where I unaware of your fatigue with particular brutality you dragged from box to box" as he apologetically from Budweis wrote to the Countess.
Then the collections moved one the one hand to the Palais Modena in the Beatrixgasse, on the other hand to Konopischt. Only in 1898, Franz Ferdinand was granted by Emperor Franz Joseph to move into the Belvedere as Vienna Residence. More revitalization works were carried out and were also necessary. Technical modernization and preservation of the original building condition had priority - as always with the projects of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As furnishings served still preserved furnitures from Schloss Hof, which were supplemented by new ones in old style. The private rooms in addition to electric lighting were equipped with central heating.
Belvedere Castle. Staircase in the Upper Belvedere (left).
Marble plastic "Apotheosis of Prince Eugene" by Balthasar Permoser in Gold Cabinet of the Lower Belvedere (right).
If his presence was needed in Vienna, Franz Ferdinand here could lead a normal family life and escape the pressures of court ceremonial, in which the to him in morganatic marriage affiliated wife was exposed to the evils of the courtiers. When the heir to the throne invited guests to the Belvedere, he was sitting opposite his wife as a hostess while she was ranked in the Hofburg always after the latest unmarried Archduchess. About the cozy family life at Belvedere reported Prince von Clary-Aldringens:
"Aunt Sophie invited us ... to snack into a Belvedere, unexpectedly, suddenly appeared the Archduke - we literally froze in our Hab-Acht-position (stand at attention). He greeted us warmly ... [I got to know] the Archduke as a friendly landlord, who was playing and laughing with his Children..."
Between 1899 and 1914 in the Lower Belvedere the military bureau of the heir to the throne was housed. Other well-known Residents - but of outbuildings - were Anton Bruckner, who in 1896 died in the Kustodenwohnung (guardian house), and Richard Strauss, who lived here from 1925 to 1944.
After the assassination of the Archduke and his wife in Sarajevo, the Belvedere should serve as the residence of the new heir to the throne, Archduke Karl and his family. This, however, preferred living in Schönbrunn and especially in the villa Wartholz. In 1917, Charles' brother Archduke Maximilian moved with his family into the Belvedere.
During World War II the castle was badly damaged by bombs, but rebuilt after the war ended immediately. On 15 May 1955 was the Marble Hall venue of the signing of the Austrian State Treaty. Today, the Upper Belvedere houses important art collections.
Excerpts from
Thus lived the Habsburgs - Imperial and Royal Palaces in the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Ingrid Haslinger, Gerhard Trumler
Christian Brandstätter Verlag mbH
The publishing service for museums, businesses and
public bodies
www.brandstaetter - verlag.at
Denomination of the summer residence which Prince Eugene of Savoy himself had erected btw Rennweg and Swiss Garden. The term which refers to the unique view over Vienna dates from the time of Maria Theresa. Prinz Eugen bought in 1697 a plot of land at the Rennweg, which he extended to 1721 in four stages to the current area. Between 1714 and 1716 emerged the Lower Belvedere It is an elongated ground floor building, designed of a 7-axes central projection, two wings and two corner pavilions. The 3-axis central pavilion houses the Marble Hall. The castle the only rarely in Vienna sojourning builder served during the summer months as a pleasure palace.
Only in 1720 commenced construction works for the Upper Belvedere, first drawings for this existed already in 1717. The in it extent and form language compared to the Lower Belvedere especially magnificent Upper Belvedere served primarily as a representative setting for grand receptions and festivities. The architectural history of the example due to the loss of the Eugenianischen Bauarchivs (construction archiv of Prince Eugene) cannot be explored in detail without any gaps. 1723 (according to Rizzi 1721/22) the Upper Belvedere s is considered complete. The architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, who repeatedly worked for Prince Eugen, with the construction of the Belvedere has created his main work. It counts in its multiform architectonic as well as sculptural structure to the most important baroque buildings of the 18th century. The to the ensemble belonging, btw Upper and Lower Belvedere laying garden has been created by the Bavarian horticultural engineer D. Girard and today only in broad terms is original. The designs for the interior of the castle stem from C. le Fort du Plessy.
After the death of the prince the belvedere went into the possession of his sole heiress, Victoria Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen. She sold it in 1752 to Maria Theresa. At the behest of Joseph II from 1775 the imperial picture gallery was transferred here, which in 1781 for the first time was open to the public. had. Since 1806 was located in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection. Both collections were in 1890 in the Museum of Art History transferred. In 1894, the palace became residence for the heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
After the first World War I the Republic of Austria in Belvedere installed the Austrian Gallery. 1945 suffered the Belvedere severe war damage. In 1950, the "Gold Cabinet" in the north-eastern corner pavilion of the Upper Belvedere was destroyed by fire and replaced by a copy. The since 1988 ongoing general renovation should have been completed in 1996.
aeiou - the cultural information system of the bm: bwk
14,000 key words and 2000 pictures from history, geography, politics and business in Austria
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
The in the center of Vienna situated Belvedere palaces with their extensive parks form an impressive baroque Gesamtkunstwerk. The Museum in the Upper and Lower Castle
provides an excellent overview of the Austrian Art from the Middle Ages to the present. the collections of the 19th and 20th Century also include an exquisite inventory of international art. World Famous works by Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Renoir and Monet you can see in the upper
Belvedere, from where you can enjoy a spectacular view to the center of Vienna. In the historic rooms of the Lower Belvedere are shown works of art from the Middle Ages and Baroque.
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Phone 43 / ( 0) 1 / 79557-0
Fax 43 / (0) 1/79 84 337
Upper Belvedere
Collections of the 19th and 20th century
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Lower Belvedere
Baroque Museum, and Museum of Medieval Art
Rennweg 6a, A - 1030 Vienna
Le Tour de France sur le front de 14-18
hommage aux glorieux anciens qui roulaient plus souvent sur des chemins de boue que sur des routes asphaltées.
En 2014, la Grande Boucle rend hommage au centenaire de la Première Guerre mondiale. L'étape du 10 juillet Arras-Reims comprend 90 km dans l'Aisne, dont le Chemin des Dames.
Coucy-le-Château, Anizy, Brancourt-en-Laonnois et Pinon, le peloton entrera sur le fameux Chemin des Dames.
À Pinon Le Tour fera son entrée dans une côte. dans la rue du 52e-RI .
Reims_Un parfum de Paris-Roubaix.
C’est dans la ville des rois de France qu’est jugée l’arrivée de la 6e étape, partie d’Arras pour 194kilomètres. Du Nord-Pas-de-Calais à la Champagne-Ardennes,
il n’y a que du plat et le sprint paraît inévitable.
D’ailleurs, les trois derniers vainqueurs à Reims s’appellent Alessandro Petacchi (2010), Robbie McEwen (2002) et Djamolidine Abdoujaparov (1991) : trois fusées.
Tout le monde sur le pont à Reims pour le Tour de France ...
Le Tour de France est une manifestation qui demande l’implication de tous les services de la Ville
La pose de barrières reste la mission la plus prenante pour les agents municipaux.
le Tour de France est une très grosse « machine » qui demande une logistique considérable.
Si la société ASO (Amaury sport organisation) a ses propres équipes qui suivent tout le parcours pendant les 22 jours de la compétition,
les villes étapes doivent elles aussi accompagner le mouvement.
la ligne d’arrivée.
Dans la zone d’arrivée, sous la houlette du directeur de site, des barrières hautes sont posées autour de la "zone technique",
d’où émettent les camions radio et les télévisions. Doublet travaille depuis un an à la conception de barrières "repousse public" dotées d’arches,
qui empêcheront toute main de percuter malencontreusement un coureur. Suite à la chute de Laurent Jalabert à Armentières d’ailleurs,
les barrières ne laissent plus dépasser aucun panneau publicitaire. La réclame est directement intégrée à la clôture.
La caravane publicitaire
La caravane publicitaire, créée en 1930, s’est développée considérablement au fil des années, pour accueillir plus de 180 véhicules en 2012.
Le défilé d’ouverture, festif et créatif, a su conquérir les marques et le public, jusqu’à devenir une composante essentielle au spectacle du Tour
LCL, qui sera toujours parrain du maillot jaune du leader du classement général du Tour de France, comme c'est le cas depuis 1987.
La caravane publicitaire du Tour Alsace part une heure avant les coureurs. Elle est composée d'une quinzaine de véhicules publicitaires
et suit le parcours officiel du Tour. Elle distribue une multitude de goodies aux spectateurs au bord des routes.
47 % des spectateurs viennent en priorité pour la caravane
Le succès de la formule, avec un défilé de véhicules originaux qui « font de la réclame », en distribuant des cadeaux, est immédiat.
Les premiers annonceurs, comme la Vache qui rit, y gagnent la sympathie du public, qui se prête volontiers au jeu. Quatre-vingts ans plus tard,
la caravane publicitaire est devenue une composante à part entière du spectacle du Tour. Indissociable de la course qu’elle précède, la procession multiforme et multicolore
offre une animation de plus de 45 minutes. Jeunes et moins jeunes commentent sur le bord des routes la taille et l’inventivité des chars ; on s’y presse pour demander des cadeaux…
Au total, une étude réalisée auprès du public du Tour révèle que 47 % des spectateurs sont venus en priorité pour voir la caravane publicitaire.
lancer de saucissons Cochonou à la foule en délire.
Cochonou, la marque de saucissons distribuera bien sûr encore bobs et saucissons au bord de la route depuis ses fameuses 2CV, mais sera également présent sur internet,
avec son blog Cochonou et Vous tenu depuis quelques années par Thibault (qui avait repris le flambeau d'Adeline).
Le garage virtuel CochonouOriginalité cette année, la possibilité de créer sa propre 2CV dans le garage virtuel Cochonou et peut-être même la gagner et la tester pour
la première fois sur la célèbre Avenue des Champs-Elysées lors de l'arrivée de la dernière étape du Tour à Paris !
Le jeu-concours est ouvert jusqu'au 31 juillet mais le grand gagnant de la 2CV sera désigné le 15 juillet prochain sachant que par la suite on peut gagner l'un des autres
lots du jeu (2CV Cochonou miniatures, bobs, porte-clés et sacs cabas).
Vittel, l'eau officiel du Tour de France innove cette année en permettant à d'ordinaires spectateurs du Tour d'en devenir acteur !
ŠKODA qui reste parrain du maillot blanc de meilleur jeune et qui est toujours à la recherche des meilleures animations pour vous permettre, vous en tant que fan du Tour,
de remporter des prix avec le ŠKODA Fan Tour.
Il y a quelques mois, &ScaronKODA a d'ailleurs prolongé son contrat de partenariat avec A.S.O. et donc entre autres avec le Tour de France, jusqu'en 2018.
Banette a reconduit son partenariat pour 4 ans, jusqu'en 2017, et distribuera toujours des milliers de tartines préparées par les artisans boulangers Banette de la région alors
que la caravane continue à distribuer différents goodies et des bons de réduction. Banette communiquera sur son Tour de France sur sa page Facebook.
McCain, le producteur de frites surgelées, a rejoint le Tour en tant que fournisseur officiel pendant 3 ans et sera présent dans la caravane publicitaire du Tour avec un char-tracteur et 3 véhicules légers.
Belin fournira toujours l'apéro, mais ne valorise pas vraiment son partenariat. La seule chose qu'on peut donc vous dire, c'est que "les super z'héros" rejoignent la caravane de Belin :
Du samedi 5 juillet au dimanche 27 juillet 2014, le 101e Tour de France comprendra 21 étapes pour une distance de 3 664 kilomètres.
(further pictures and information you can see if you go to the end of page and by clicking on the link...)
Belvedere
Belvedere Castle. Garden Front of the Lower Belvedere.
Belvedere Palace stands supposedly on the foundations of a Roman camp that had been erected here for strategic reasons. In 1693 Prince Eugene of Savoy acquired field and vineyard grounds between today's Rennweg and today's Gürtel. In 1700 Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt began with the construction of a palace garden (Lower Belvedere), whose in French-style layed out park was equipped with large water basins, an orangery with precious foreign plants and a menagerie. Prince Eugene was a great animal lover, and some animals in his collection could be fed exclusively by himself.
1720 the Prince conceived the plan the summer palace to supplement by a another palace building on the hill of the garden.
The 1721 by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt begun works had been completed in 1724. The Upper Belvedere served in contrast to the Lower only representative purposes and was never meant to live.
The Prince and his architect managed a perfect symbiosis between architecture and garden. After the death of the Savoy (1736) inherited his niece Victoria of Savoy-Soisson, nee Princess Hildburghausen, all his possessions. From her the Habsburgs beginning of 1752 acquired the Belvedere. From 1755 Empress Maria Theresa moved the Arcierenleibgarde (Royal Company of the Archers) and the Galician Guard in the annex of the Belvedere. Besides, the castle stood almost empty.
Belvedere Castle. Engraving by Salomon Kleiner 1731/40 (left).
Vienna from the Belvedere. Coloured copper engraving by Carl Schütz, 1784 (right).
1770 Belvedere Palace was venue of brilliant festivities:
In castle and park the marriage of Archduchess Maria Antonia (Marie Antoinette) with the Dauphin of France by proxy (per procura) was celebrated. About 2,000 people were invited, more than 1,500 bottles of champagne, which was far from home in Vienna at that time,
were emptied. For hospitality of the guests, there were round tables, which were covered with silver. However, the Court of Vienna had a large part of the silver service to rent of nobles, because the stocks of the silver chamber were not sufficient. Finished was the festival by a magnificent fireworks.
1776, the imperial picture gallery from the Stallburg (home of the famous Lipizzan stallions) was transferred to the Upper Belvedere, the animals of the menagerie came to Schönbrunn. Shortly before the Congress of Vienna in 1814 in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection was exposed. During the war against Napoleon (1805-1809), much of the collection of paintings had to be outsourced. The Corsican claimed 400 masterpieces for himself, but which after his defeat at Waterloo to the Habsburgs have been restituted. The after the French wars completely neglected building has been restored 1850-1866.
Castle Park with Upper Belvedere. Photograph, around 1890.
1819 Emperor Franz II (I) the Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, had given spacious grounds for enlargement of the Botanical Garden at Rennweg. Franz was very interested in botany and in accordance with a Habsburg House bill - every Archduke must learn a civilian job - has been educated for gardener. In an adjoining garden of Schloß Belvedere he had from his private funds laid out a botanical garden ("Flora Austriaca") which was left to the Institute of Botany for use.
During the cholera epidemic of 1831, the Belvedere served as well as Schönbrunn Palace the imperial family as a refuge; supposedly one was there protected from the bad air, which was attributed to the onset of the disease. Both castles lay in the "countryside", the air was much better here than in the densely populated city. During wartime, a hospital was set up in the castle.
As the space for the imperial collections became too small, it was thought to expand the Upper Belvedere by wing buildings. This plan was dropped for aesthetic reasons, however. After the expansion of the city (razing of the bastions and glacis) arose on the ring road the newly created Court Museums; moved there in 1891 the major part of the paintings.
Archduke-Heir to the Throne Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este at folk and children's party in the park of the Belvedere Palace. Photograph, 1905.
To 1893/94 it is likely that Archduke Franz Ferdinand has chosen the Upper Belvedere to his residence in Vienna. Other sources say that it had been assigned to him by the Emperor Franz Joseph as a place to stay in Vienna. The rooms have been restored, adapted for residential purposes and supplemented with neo-Baroque furniture. The heir of the Este collections furnished his residence with numerous works of art. He had envisaged the castle for the accommodation of his collections; in 1893 were numerous boxes from India and Singapore in Belvedere stored. 1894 Emperor Franz Joseph could see the collection: "Yesterday I went to the Belvedere, where Franzi showed me his now quite and very nicely prepared collections. The same are as imposing as interesting by the incredible amount of objects and by the rarity and beauty of them. I believe that this exhibition would be interesting for you", wrote the monarch to his wife, Empress Elisabeth. That same year, Archduke Franz Ferdinand showed his collections his future wife, Sophie Chotková,
"Where I unaware of your fatigue with particular brutality you dragged from box to box" as he apologetically from Budweis wrote to the Countess.
Then the collections moved one the one hand to the Palais Modena in the Beatrixgasse, on the other hand to Konopischt. Only in 1898, Franz Ferdinand was granted by Emperor Franz Joseph to move into the Belvedere as Vienna Residence. More revitalization works were carried out and were also necessary. Technical modernization and preservation of the original building condition had priority - as always with the projects of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As furnishings served still preserved furnitures from Schloss Hof, which were supplemented by new ones in old style. The private rooms in addition to electric lighting were equipped with central heating.
Belvedere Castle. Staircase in the Upper Belvedere (left).
Marble plastic "Apotheosis of Prince Eugene" by Balthasar Permoser in Gold Cabinet of the Lower Belvedere (right).
If his presence was needed in Vienna, Franz Ferdinand here could lead a normal family life and escape the pressures of court ceremonial, in which the to him in morganatic marriage affiliated wife was exposed to the evils of the courtiers. When the heir to the throne invited guests to the Belvedere, he was sitting opposite his wife as a hostess while she was ranked in the Hofburg always after the latest unmarried Archduchess. About the cozy family life at Belvedere reported Prince von Clary-Aldringens:
"Aunt Sophie invited us ... to snack into a Belvedere, unexpectedly, suddenly appeared the Archduke - we literally froze in our Hab-Acht-position (stand at attention). He greeted us warmly ... [I got to know] the Archduke as a friendly landlord, who was playing and laughing with his Children..."
Between 1899 and 1914 in the Lower Belvedere the military bureau of the heir to the throne was housed. Other well-known Residents - but of outbuildings - were Anton Bruckner, who in 1896 died in the Kustodenwohnung (guardian house), and Richard Strauss, who lived here from 1925 to 1944.
After the assassination of the Archduke and his wife in Sarajevo, the Belvedere should serve as the residence of the new heir to the throne, Archduke Karl and his family. This, however, preferred living in Schönbrunn and especially in the villa Wartholz. In 1917, Charles' brother Archduke Maximilian moved with his family into the Belvedere.
During World War II the castle was badly damaged by bombs, but rebuilt after the war ended immediately. On 15 May 1955 was the Marble Hall venue of the signing of the Austrian State Treaty. Today, the Upper Belvedere houses important art collections.
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Denomination of the summer residence which Prince Eugene of Savoy himself had erected btw Rennweg and Swiss Garden. The term which refers to the unique view over Vienna dates from the time of Maria Theresa. Prinz Eugen bought in 1697 a plot of land at the Rennweg, which he extended to 1721 in four stages to the current area. Between 1714 and 1716 emerged the Lower Belvedere It is an elongated ground floor building, designed of a 7-axes central projection, two wings and two corner pavilions. The 3-axis central pavilion houses the Marble Hall. The castle the only rarely in Vienna sojourning builder served during the summer months as a pleasure palace.
Only in 1720 commenced construction works for the Upper Belvedere, first drawings for this existed already in 1717. The in it extent and form language compared to the Lower Belvedere especially magnificent Upper Belvedere served primarily as a representative setting for grand receptions and festivities. The architectural history of the example due to the loss of the Eugenianischen Bauarchivs (construction archiv of Prince Eugene) cannot be explored in detail without any gaps. 1723 (according to Rizzi 1721/22) the Upper Belvedere s is considered complete. The architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, who repeatedly worked for Prince Eugen, with the construction of the Belvedere has created his main work. It counts in its multiform architectonic as well as sculptural structure to the most important baroque buildings of the 18th century. The to the ensemble belonging, btw Upper and Lower Belvedere laying garden has been created by the Bavarian horticultural engineer D. Girard and today only in broad terms is original. The designs for the interior of the castle stem from C. le Fort du Plessy.
After the death of the prince the belvedere went into the possession of his sole heiress, Victoria Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen. She sold it in 1752 to Maria Theresa. At the behest of Joseph II from 1775 the imperial picture gallery was transferred here, which in 1781 for the first time was open to the public. had. Since 1806 was located in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection. Both collections were in 1890 in the Museum of Art History transferred. In 1894, the palace became residence for the heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
After the first World War I the Republic of Austria in Belvedere installed the Austrian Gallery. 1945 suffered the Belvedere severe war damage. In 1950, the "Gold Cabinet" in the north-eastern corner pavilion of the Upper Belvedere was destroyed by fire and replaced by a copy. The since 1988 ongoing general renovation should have been completed in 1996.
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Marco Mengoni , vincitore incontrastato della terza edizione di 'X Factor'. Presenza scenica da professionista consumato, lunatico, "permaloso quasi antipatico", ha conquistato la stima del pubblico (non è mai finito in ballottaggio per l'eliminazione) grazie a interpretazioni di grande spessore.
Il 4 dicembre 2009 esce “DOVE SI VOLA”, il suo primo Ep, che in poche settimane scala le classifiche di vendita con oltre 70 mila copie.
“Dove si vola”, brano che da il titolo all’Ep, è difficile da interpretare per un uomo, sia per la tonalità molto alta che per l’articolazione della melodia sull’armonia. La forza vocale di Marco regala al pezzo una magia unica che, durante le esibizioni fa letteralmente volare il pubblico, pubblico che l’ha votato e proclamato, quasi fin da subito, il vero talento della terza edizione di X Factor. All’interno dell’EP un altro brano inedito, “Lontanissimo da te”, firmato Massimo e Piero Calabrese e cinque tra le più emozionanti cover cantate da Marco durante il programma.
Marco nasce a Ronciglione (VT) il 25 dicembre 1988 (Capricorno), proprio nel giorno di Natale. Fin da bambino ama tutti i generi musicali: “Alla tenera 'altezza' di 70 cm. comincio ad ascoltare di tutto, dal pop all’r&b, soul, rock ed inizio ad approfondire la mia cultura musicale: scopro il karaoke e comincio a cantare di nascosto, per timidezza. Poi una volta i miei per caso mi ascoltano e si convincono di mandarmi ad una scuola di canto. Da quel momento capisco che la musica non è poi così semplice come pensavo: c'era da imparare molto…. tecniche di respirazione, maschera facciale, scale, vocalizzi di qualsiasi genere, per affinare la voce”.
Marco inizia a cantare all’età di 14 anni. Mentre studia all'Istituto per il Design, segue anche una scuola di canto dove impara le prime tecniche per la gestione e l'utilizzo dei propri mezzi vocali. Visto il talento di Marco, l’insegnante di canto lo inserisce in un piccolo quintetto vocale con cui si esibisce in serate di piazza e per le festività, facendo cover.
Dopo 2 anni ha inizio il suo percorso solista con un gruppo di musicisti con il quale suona nei club un po’ del suo repertorio originale e un po’ di cover, continuando quindi la sua gavetta. Iniziano tre anni di duro lavoro e provinaggio, per affinare lo stile e la personalità, ed anche per questo, Marco, figlio unico, lascia la famiglia per trasferirsi a Roma. Contemporaneamente si iscrive all’Università nella Facoltà di Lingue, e fa esperienza come fonico e programmatore, prendendo familiarità con gli studi di registrazione.
Il suo genere preferito resta il Brit Pop e la sua massima, e amatissima, influenza musicale sono i Beatles: tra le sue canzoni preferite dei Fab 4 ci sono 'Michelle' e 'The Fool on te hill'. Anche se il brano che gli ha cambiato la vita è 'La luce dell’est' di Lucio Battisti.
Vincendo X Factor Marco partecipa di diritto alla Sessantesima Edizione del Festival di Sanremo, nella categoria 'Artisti', interpretando “Credimi ancora”, brano che fa parte dell’EP “Re Matto” uscito il 19 febbraio 2010 su etichetta Rca/Sony Music.
Il 2010 è un anno davvero unico per quest’artista giovane ma pieno di talento. Mentre la sua paginaFacebook continua a crescere (superando ad oggi i 300 mila iscritti), Il 3 e 4 maggio parte dall’Alcatraz di Milano Il “Re Matto Tour, un viaggio nella “Mattità”, un’avventura vertiginosa nella mente colorata e multiforme di MARCO MENGONI. Lo spettacolo nasce da un’ idea di Marco, Luca Tommassini e Stella Fabiani. La regia è affidata a LUCA TOMMASSINI, la direzione artistica è di PIERO CALABRESE, la produzione è di F&P Group e dei “CANTIERI MUSICALI” che da sempre lavorano con MENGONI. Nel team creativo di Marco e del “RE MATTO TOUR” sono state coinvolte figure importanti a livello mondiale come lo stilista Neil Barrett, che finora ha solo disegnato abiti per artisti come Madonna, Justin Timberlake, Brad Pitt e Johnny Depp, e lo scultore Davide Orlandi Dormino, creatore di “Opera Scacchi”, la scultura che invade il palco. “IL RE MATTO TOUR” è ideato, sviluppato e strutturato all’insegna della totale libertà, della poesia, della sregolatezza e dell’improvvisazione rendendo ogni concerto un vero evento, con ospiti a sorpresa cheMARCO scopre insieme al pubblico…una sfida che solo un Re Matto poteva accettare.
Intanto l’8 maggio Marco partecipa ai Trl Awards e vince nella categoria “Man of the Year”.
Il “Re Matto tour” è un’esperienza straordinaria per Marco, che vive e si ciba dell’entusiasmo del pubblico. È un tour trionfale che colleziona un sold out dopo l’altro.
Il 2 giugno viene premiato ai Wind Music Awards e si aggiudica il doppio disco di platino per il suo primo Ep “Dove si vola”, che raccoglie l’omonima canzone e alcune delle cover cantate durante il programma di X Factor, e l’album “Re Matto”, superando le 160 mila copie vendute.
Il "Re Matto" del pop italiano non si fa mancare proprio nulla. Supera gli altri colleghi in gara agli Ema 2010 nella categoria dedicata agli artisti italiani: Malika Ayane, dARi, Sonohra e Nina Zilli.
Questo è un riconoscimento fondamentale per Marco Mengoni, artista italiano rivelazione del 2010, che ad MTV si è già aggiudicato il premio come "Man Of The Year" ai TRL Awards 2010 ed è arrivato secondo in una gara all'ultima edizione del Coca Cola Live @ MTV: The Summer Song. Grazie alla vittoria come Best Italian Act, Marco è entrato in nomination per il "Best European Act" in concorrenza con gli altri vincitori dei regional act. Marco partecipa inoltre all'ottava edizione di "O'Scia'", insieme ad altre star del pop italiano ed internazionale, organizzata da Claudio Baglioni a Lampedusa in cui si intende sensibilizzare fan, politici e cittadini sul problema della immigrazione clandestina.
Il 19 ottobre esce su etichetta Rca/Sony Music il Cd+Dvd “Re Matto live”. L’album debutta al 1° posto della classifica dei dischi più venduti (Gfk/Fimi) e al 1° posto della classifica di iTunes.
A novembre Marco Mengoni, dopo aver trionfato nella categoria Best Italian Act, si aggiudica anche il prestigioso titolo di Best European Act: un premio importante per lui e per l'Italia, considerando che in 17 edizioni nessun italiano era mai riuscito a raggiungere tale riconoscimento.
Il 2 settembre 2011 arriva in radio il singolo “Solo” che, anticipando l’uscita del nuovo disco, schizza alprimo posto della classica di iTunes. Il 27 settembre esce “Solo 2.0”, un vero e proprio concept album, che oltre alle tracce del disco e a un contenuto virtuale speciale (Il Comic 2.0), contamina anche la prima parte del Tour.
Dopo un’anteprima trionfante del “Solo Tour” con due date evento al Forum di Assago e al Palalottomatica di Roma, Marco Mengoni decide di cambiare veste allo spettacolo e di svelare al pubblico un’altra porzione d’anima, il suo lato più intimista, quasi introspettivo, non tralasciando mai la sua voglia di stupire e di emozionare. È un TOUR TEATRALE che fa della suggestione visiva e sonora il suo punto di forza.
Uno spettacolo in cui musica, movimento scenico, luci e scenografie compenetrano tra loro, per toccare ancor più da vicino l’anima di chi ascolta. L’essenza intimista dello spettacolo è rappresentata soprattutto dal suono. Una chiave di lettura inedita, con cui verranno reinterpretati molti tra i brani più noti del repertorio di Marco, insieme ad alcune cover, mai eseguite prima.
Il tour teatrale, ideato da Elisa, Marco Mengoni e Andrea Rigonat, parte dall’Arcimboldi di Milano il 19 aprile, passando dal Filarmonico di Verona, il Politeama di Palermo, il Gran Teatro di Roma e molti dei teatri più importanti d’Italia.
In radio intanto suona il nuovo singolo “Dall’inferno”, estratto dall’album Solo 2.0
Esce il 24 aprile, in esclusiva su iTunes, “Dall’Inferno EP”, l’EP digitale di Marco Mengoni contenente la title track, il videoclip e il backstage inedito di “Dall’inferno” e il video live di “Come ti senti”, girato durante lo showcase di presentazione dell’album “Solo 2.0”.
Marco è ospite dell’evento "Premio Leggio d'Oro", dove gli viene consegnato il Premio Speciale Voce Rivelazione Cartoon per il doppiaggio del personaggio Onceler nel cartone animato "Lorax il guardiano della foresta".
Marco prende parte al progetto "...Io Ci Sono", l'album tributo a Giorgio Gaber che celebra il grande artista a dieci anni dalla sua scomparsa, interpretando il brano "Destra-Sinistra".
Il 2013 si apre con la partecipazione di Marco alla 63^ Edizione del Festival di Sanremo con i brani “Bellissimo” e “L’Essenziale”, ed è proprio con quest’ultimo che Marco si classifica primo vincendo il Festival.
Entrambi i brani sono contenuti nel nuovo album di inediti (Sony Music) uscito il 19 marzo 2013:#PRONTOACORRERE ha superato di gran lunga il traguardo del disco di platino e "L’Essenziale" è addirittura multiplatino.
Marco ha rappresentato l’Italia all’Eurovision Song Contest a Malmö (Svezia) nel mese di maggio, dove ha ottenuto il settimo posto con "L’Essenziale".
L’8 maggio è partito "l’Essenziale Anteprima Tour" dal Teatro degli Arcimboldi di Milano: un’anteprima di 10 date, ideata per i più importanti teatri italiani che hanno registrato il sold out non appena aperte la prevendite.
Il 4 luglio è partito invece da Trento "L’Essenziale Tour", con un clamoroso successo di richieste, che continua ad imporre l’apertura di nuove date.
Marco Mengoni
Teatro Arcimboldi - Milano
26 Settembre 2013
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© All rights reserved. Do not use my photos without my written permission. If you would like to buy or use this photo PLEASE message me or email me at mairo.cinquetti@gmail.com
Marco Mengoni , vincitore incontrastato della terza edizione di 'X Factor'. Presenza scenica da professionista consumato, lunatico, "permaloso quasi antipatico", ha conquistato la stima del pubblico (non è mai finito in ballottaggio per l'eliminazione) grazie a interpretazioni di grande spessore.
Il 4 dicembre 2009 esce “DOVE SI VOLA”, il suo primo Ep, che in poche settimane scala le classifiche di vendita con oltre 70 mila copie.
“Dove si vola”, brano che da il titolo all’Ep, è difficile da interpretare per un uomo, sia per la tonalità molto alta che per l’articolazione della melodia sull’armonia. La forza vocale di Marco regala al pezzo una magia unica che, durante le esibizioni fa letteralmente volare il pubblico, pubblico che l’ha votato e proclamato, quasi fin da subito, il vero talento della terza edizione di X Factor. All’interno dell’EP un altro brano inedito, “Lontanissimo da te”, firmato Massimo e Piero Calabrese e cinque tra le più emozionanti cover cantate da Marco durante il programma.
Marco nasce a Ronciglione (VT) il 25 dicembre 1988 (Capricorno), proprio nel giorno di Natale. Fin da bambino ama tutti i generi musicali: “Alla tenera 'altezza' di 70 cm. comincio ad ascoltare di tutto, dal pop all’r&b, soul, rock ed inizio ad approfondire la mia cultura musicale: scopro il karaoke e comincio a cantare di nascosto, per timidezza. Poi una volta i miei per caso mi ascoltano e si convincono di mandarmi ad una scuola di canto. Da quel momento capisco che la musica non è poi così semplice come pensavo: c'era da imparare molto…. tecniche di respirazione, maschera facciale, scale, vocalizzi di qualsiasi genere, per affinare la voce”.
Marco inizia a cantare all’età di 14 anni. Mentre studia all'Istituto per il Design, segue anche una scuola di canto dove impara le prime tecniche per la gestione e l'utilizzo dei propri mezzi vocali. Visto il talento di Marco, l’insegnante di canto lo inserisce in un piccolo quintetto vocale con cui si esibisce in serate di piazza e per le festività, facendo cover.
Dopo 2 anni ha inizio il suo percorso solista con un gruppo di musicisti con il quale suona nei club un po’ del suo repertorio originale e un po’ di cover, continuando quindi la sua gavetta. Iniziano tre anni di duro lavoro e provinaggio, per affinare lo stile e la personalità, ed anche per questo, Marco, figlio unico, lascia la famiglia per trasferirsi a Roma. Contemporaneamente si iscrive all’Università nella Facoltà di Lingue, e fa esperienza come fonico e programmatore, prendendo familiarità con gli studi di registrazione.
Il suo genere preferito resta il Brit Pop e la sua massima, e amatissima, influenza musicale sono i Beatles: tra le sue canzoni preferite dei Fab 4 ci sono 'Michelle' e 'The Fool on te hill'. Anche se il brano che gli ha cambiato la vita è 'La luce dell’est' di Lucio Battisti.
Vincendo X Factor Marco partecipa di diritto alla Sessantesima Edizione del Festival di Sanremo, nella categoria 'Artisti', interpretando “Credimi ancora”, brano che fa parte dell’EP “Re Matto” uscito il 19 febbraio 2010 su etichetta Rca/Sony Music.
Il 2010 è un anno davvero unico per quest’artista giovane ma pieno di talento. Mentre la sua paginaFacebook continua a crescere (superando ad oggi i 300 mila iscritti), Il 3 e 4 maggio parte dall’Alcatraz di Milano Il “Re Matto Tour, un viaggio nella “Mattità”, un’avventura vertiginosa nella mente colorata e multiforme di MARCO MENGONI. Lo spettacolo nasce da un’ idea di Marco, Luca Tommassini e Stella Fabiani. La regia è affidata a LUCA TOMMASSINI, la direzione artistica è di PIERO CALABRESE, la produzione è di F&P Group e dei “CANTIERI MUSICALI” che da sempre lavorano con MENGONI. Nel team creativo di Marco e del “RE MATTO TOUR” sono state coinvolte figure importanti a livello mondiale come lo stilista Neil Barrett, che finora ha solo disegnato abiti per artisti come Madonna, Justin Timberlake, Brad Pitt e Johnny Depp, e lo scultore Davide Orlandi Dormino, creatore di “Opera Scacchi”, la scultura che invade il palco. “IL RE MATTO TOUR” è ideato, sviluppato e strutturato all’insegna della totale libertà, della poesia, della sregolatezza e dell’improvvisazione rendendo ogni concerto un vero evento, con ospiti a sorpresa cheMARCO scopre insieme al pubblico…una sfida che solo un Re Matto poteva accettare.
Intanto l’8 maggio Marco partecipa ai Trl Awards e vince nella categoria “Man of the Year”.
Il “Re Matto tour” è un’esperienza straordinaria per Marco, che vive e si ciba dell’entusiasmo del pubblico. È un tour trionfale che colleziona un sold out dopo l’altro.
Il 2 giugno viene premiato ai Wind Music Awards e si aggiudica il doppio disco di platino per il suo primo Ep “Dove si vola”, che raccoglie l’omonima canzone e alcune delle cover cantate durante il programma di X Factor, e l’album “Re Matto”, superando le 160 mila copie vendute.
Il "Re Matto" del pop italiano non si fa mancare proprio nulla. Supera gli altri colleghi in gara agli Ema 2010 nella categoria dedicata agli artisti italiani: Malika Ayane, dARi, Sonohra e Nina Zilli.
Questo è un riconoscimento fondamentale per Marco Mengoni, artista italiano rivelazione del 2010, che ad MTV si è già aggiudicato il premio come "Man Of The Year" ai TRL Awards 2010 ed è arrivato secondo in una gara all'ultima edizione del Coca Cola Live @ MTV: The Summer Song. Grazie alla vittoria come Best Italian Act, Marco è entrato in nomination per il "Best European Act" in concorrenza con gli altri vincitori dei regional act. Marco partecipa inoltre all'ottava edizione di "O'Scia'", insieme ad altre star del pop italiano ed internazionale, organizzata da Claudio Baglioni a Lampedusa in cui si intende sensibilizzare fan, politici e cittadini sul problema della immigrazione clandestina.
Il 19 ottobre esce su etichetta Rca/Sony Music il Cd+Dvd “Re Matto live”. L’album debutta al 1° posto della classifica dei dischi più venduti (Gfk/Fimi) e al 1° posto della classifica di iTunes.
A novembre Marco Mengoni, dopo aver trionfato nella categoria Best Italian Act, si aggiudica anche il prestigioso titolo di Best European Act: un premio importante per lui e per l'Italia, considerando che in 17 edizioni nessun italiano era mai riuscito a raggiungere tale riconoscimento.
Il 2 settembre 2011 arriva in radio il singolo “Solo” che, anticipando l’uscita del nuovo disco, schizza alprimo posto della classica di iTunes. Il 27 settembre esce “Solo 2.0”, un vero e proprio concept album, che oltre alle tracce del disco e a un contenuto virtuale speciale (Il Comic 2.0), contamina anche la prima parte del Tour.
Dopo un’anteprima trionfante del “Solo Tour” con due date evento al Forum di Assago e al Palalottomatica di Roma, Marco Mengoni decide di cambiare veste allo spettacolo e di svelare al pubblico un’altra porzione d’anima, il suo lato più intimista, quasi introspettivo, non tralasciando mai la sua voglia di stupire e di emozionare. È un TOUR TEATRALE che fa della suggestione visiva e sonora il suo punto di forza.
Uno spettacolo in cui musica, movimento scenico, luci e scenografie compenetrano tra loro, per toccare ancor più da vicino l’anima di chi ascolta. L’essenza intimista dello spettacolo è rappresentata soprattutto dal suono. Una chiave di lettura inedita, con cui verranno reinterpretati molti tra i brani più noti del repertorio di Marco, insieme ad alcune cover, mai eseguite prima.
Il tour teatrale, ideato da Elisa, Marco Mengoni e Andrea Rigonat, parte dall’Arcimboldi di Milano il 19 aprile, passando dal Filarmonico di Verona, il Politeama di Palermo, il Gran Teatro di Roma e molti dei teatri più importanti d’Italia.
In radio intanto suona il nuovo singolo “Dall’inferno”, estratto dall’album Solo 2.0
Esce il 24 aprile, in esclusiva su iTunes, “Dall’Inferno EP”, l’EP digitale di Marco Mengoni contenente la title track, il videoclip e il backstage inedito di “Dall’inferno” e il video live di “Come ti senti”, girato durante lo showcase di presentazione dell’album “Solo 2.0”.
Marco è ospite dell’evento "Premio Leggio d'Oro", dove gli viene consegnato il Premio Speciale Voce Rivelazione Cartoon per il doppiaggio del personaggio Onceler nel cartone animato "Lorax il guardiano della foresta".
Marco prende parte al progetto "...Io Ci Sono", l'album tributo a Giorgio Gaber che celebra il grande artista a dieci anni dalla sua scomparsa, interpretando il brano "Destra-Sinistra".
Il 2013 si apre con la partecipazione di Marco alla 63^ Edizione del Festival di Sanremo con i brani “Bellissimo” e “L’Essenziale”, ed è proprio con quest’ultimo che Marco si classifica primo vincendo il Festival.
Entrambi i brani sono contenuti nel nuovo album di inediti (Sony Music) uscito il 19 marzo 2013:#PRONTOACORRERE ha superato di gran lunga il traguardo del disco di platino e "L’Essenziale" è addirittura multiplatino.
Marco ha rappresentato l’Italia all’Eurovision Song Contest a Malmö (Svezia) nel mese di maggio, dove ha ottenuto il settimo posto con "L’Essenziale".
L’8 maggio è partito "l’Essenziale Anteprima Tour" dal Teatro degli Arcimboldi di Milano: un’anteprima di 10 date, ideata per i più importanti teatri italiani che hanno registrato il sold out non appena aperte la prevendite.
Il 4 luglio è partito invece da Trento "L’Essenziale Tour", con un clamoroso successo di richieste, che continua ad imporre l’apertura di nuove date.
(further pictures and information you can see if you go to the end of page and by clicking on the link...)
Belvedere
Belvedere Castle. Garden Front of the Lower Belvedere.
Belvedere Palace stands supposedly on the foundations of a Roman camp that had been erected here for strategic reasons. In 1693 Prince Eugene of Savoy acquired field and vineyard grounds between today's Rennweg and today's Gürtel. In 1700 Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt began with the construction of a palace garden (Lower Belvedere), whose in French-style layed out park was equipped with large water basins, an orangery with precious foreign plants and a menagerie. Prince Eugene was a great animal lover, and some animals in his collection could be fed exclusively by himself.
1720 the Prince conceived the plan the summer palace to supplement by a another palace building on the hill of the garden.
The 1721 by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt begun works had been completed in 1724. The Upper Belvedere served in contrast to the Lower only representative purposes and was never meant to live.
The Prince and his architect managed a perfect symbiosis between architecture and garden. After the death of the Savoy (1736) inherited his niece Victoria of Savoy-Soisson, nee Princess Hildburghausen, all his possessions. From her the Habsburgs beginning of 1752 acquired the Belvedere. From 1755 Empress Maria Theresa moved the Arcierenleibgarde (Royal Company of the Archers) and the Galician Guard in the annex of the Belvedere. Besides, the castle stood almost empty.
Belvedere Castle. Engraving by Salomon Kleiner 1731/40 (left).
Vienna from the Belvedere. Coloured copper engraving by Carl Schütz, 1784 (right).
1770 Belvedere Palace was venue of brilliant festivities:
In castle and park the marriage of Archduchess Maria Antonia (Marie Antoinette) with the Dauphin of France by proxy (per procura) was celebrated. About 2,000 people were invited, more than 1,500 bottles of champagne, which was far from home in Vienna at that time,
were emptied. For hospitality of the guests, there were round tables, which were covered with silver. However, the Court of Vienna had a large part of the silver service to rent of nobles, because the stocks of the silver chamber were not sufficient. Finished was the festival by a magnificent fireworks.
1776, the imperial picture gallery from the Stallburg (home of the famous Lipizzan stallions) was transferred to the Upper Belvedere, the animals of the menagerie came to Schönbrunn. Shortly before the Congress of Vienna in 1814 in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection was exposed. During the war against Napoleon (1805-1809), much of the collection of paintings had to be outsourced. The Corsican claimed 400 masterpieces for himself, but which after his defeat at Waterloo to the Habsburgs have been restituted. The after the French wars completely neglected building has been restored 1850-1866.
Castle Park with Upper Belvedere. Photograph, around 1890.
1819 Emperor Franz II (I) the Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, had given spacious grounds for enlargement of the Botanical Garden at Rennweg. Franz was very interested in botany and in accordance with a Habsburg House bill - every Archduke must learn a civilian job - has been educated for gardener. In an adjoining garden of Schloß Belvedere he had from his private funds laid out a botanical garden ("Flora Austriaca") which was left to the Institute of Botany for use.
During the cholera epidemic of 1831, the Belvedere served as well as Schönbrunn Palace the imperial family as a refuge; supposedly one was there protected from the bad air, which was attributed to the onset of the disease. Both castles lay in the "countryside", the air was much better here than in the densely populated city. During wartime, a hospital was set up in the castle.
As the space for the imperial collections became too small, it was thought to expand the Upper Belvedere by wing buildings. This plan was dropped for aesthetic reasons, however. After the expansion of the city (razing of the bastions and glacis) arose on the ring road the newly created Court Museums; moved there in 1891 the major part of the paintings.
Archduke-Heir to the Throne Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este at folk and children's party in the park of the Belvedere Palace. Photograph, 1905.
To 1893/94 it is likely that Archduke Franz Ferdinand has chosen the Upper Belvedere to his residence in Vienna. Other sources say that it had been assigned to him by the Emperor Franz Joseph as a place to stay in Vienna. The rooms have been restored, adapted for residential purposes and supplemented with neo-Baroque furniture. The heir of the Este collections furnished his residence with numerous works of art. He had envisaged the castle for the accommodation of his collections; in 1893 were numerous boxes from India and Singapore in Belvedere stored. 1894 Emperor Franz Joseph could see the collection: "Yesterday I went to the Belvedere, where Franzi showed me his now quite and very nicely prepared collections. The same are as imposing as interesting by the incredible amount of objects and by the rarity and beauty of them. I believe that this exhibition would be interesting for you", wrote the monarch to his wife, Empress Elisabeth. That same year, Archduke Franz Ferdinand showed his collections his future wife, Sophie Chotková,
"Where I unaware of your fatigue with particular brutality you dragged from box to box" as he apologetically from Budweis wrote to the Countess.
Then the collections moved one the one hand to the Palais Modena in the Beatrixgasse, on the other hand to Konopischt. Only in 1898, Franz Ferdinand was granted by Emperor Franz Joseph to move into the Belvedere as Vienna Residence. More revitalization works were carried out and were also necessary. Technical modernization and preservation of the original building condition had priority - as always with the projects of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As furnishings served still preserved furnitures from Schloss Hof, which were supplemented by new ones in old style. The private rooms in addition to electric lighting were equipped with central heating.
Belvedere Castle. Staircase in the Upper Belvedere (left).
Marble plastic "Apotheosis of Prince Eugene" by Balthasar Permoser in Gold Cabinet of the Lower Belvedere (right).
If his presence was needed in Vienna, Franz Ferdinand here could lead a normal family life and escape the pressures of court ceremonial, in which the to him in morganatic marriage affiliated wife was exposed to the evils of the courtiers. When the heir to the throne invited guests to the Belvedere, he was sitting opposite his wife as a hostess while she was ranked in the Hofburg always after the latest unmarried Archduchess. About the cozy family life at Belvedere reported Prince von Clary-Aldringens:
"Aunt Sophie invited us ... to snack into a Belvedere, unexpectedly, suddenly appeared the Archduke - we literally froze in our Hab-Acht-position (stand at attention). He greeted us warmly ... [I got to know] the Archduke as a friendly landlord, who was playing and laughing with his Children..."
Between 1899 and 1914 in the Lower Belvedere the military bureau of the heir to the throne was housed. Other well-known Residents - but of outbuildings - were Anton Bruckner, who in 1896 died in the Kustodenwohnung (guardian house), and Richard Strauss, who lived here from 1925 to 1944.
After the assassination of the Archduke and his wife in Sarajevo, the Belvedere should serve as the residence of the new heir to the throne, Archduke Karl and his family. This, however, preferred living in Schönbrunn and especially in the villa Wartholz. In 1917, Charles' brother Archduke Maximilian moved with his family into the Belvedere.
During World War II the castle was badly damaged by bombs, but rebuilt after the war ended immediately. On 15 May 1955 was the Marble Hall venue of the signing of the Austrian State Treaty. Today, the Upper Belvedere houses important art collections.
Excerpts from
Thus lived the Habsburgs - Imperial and Royal Palaces in the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Ingrid Haslinger, Gerhard Trumler
Christian Brandstätter Verlag mbH
The publishing service for museums, businesses and
public bodies
www.brandstaetter - verlag.at
Denomination of the summer residence which Prince Eugene of Savoy himself had erected btw Rennweg and Swiss Garden. The term which refers to the unique view over Vienna dates from the time of Maria Theresa. Prinz Eugen bought in 1697 a plot of land at the Rennweg, which he extended to 1721 in four stages to the current area. Between 1714 and 1716 emerged the Lower Belvedere It is an elongated ground floor building, designed of a 7-axes central projection, two wings and two corner pavilions. The 3-axis central pavilion houses the Marble Hall. The castle the only rarely in Vienna sojourning builder served during the summer months as a pleasure palace.
Only in 1720 commenced construction works for the Upper Belvedere, first drawings for this existed already in 1717. The in it extent and form language compared to the Lower Belvedere especially magnificent Upper Belvedere served primarily as a representative setting for grand receptions and festivities. The architectural history of the example due to the loss of the Eugenianischen Bauarchivs (construction archiv of Prince Eugene) cannot be explored in detail without any gaps. 1723 (according to Rizzi 1721/22) the Upper Belvedere s is considered complete. The architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, who repeatedly worked for Prince Eugen, with the construction of the Belvedere has created his main work. It counts in its multiform architectonic as well as sculptural structure to the most important baroque buildings of the 18th century. The to the ensemble belonging, btw Upper and Lower Belvedere laying garden has been created by the Bavarian horticultural engineer D. Girard and today only in broad terms is original. The designs for the interior of the castle stem from C. le Fort du Plessy.
After the death of the prince the belvedere went into the possession of his sole heiress, Victoria Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen. She sold it in 1752 to Maria Theresa. At the behest of Joseph II from 1775 the imperial picture gallery was transferred here, which in 1781 for the first time was open to the public. had. Since 1806 was located in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection. Both collections were in 1890 in the Museum of Art History transferred. In 1894, the palace became residence for the heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
After the first World War I the Republic of Austria in Belvedere installed the Austrian Gallery. 1945 suffered the Belvedere severe war damage. In 1950, the "Gold Cabinet" in the north-eastern corner pavilion of the Upper Belvedere was destroyed by fire and replaced by a copy. The since 1988 ongoing general renovation should have been completed in 1996.
aeiou - the cultural information system of the bm: bwk
14,000 key words and 2000 pictures from history, geography, politics and business in Austria
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
The in the center of Vienna situated Belvedere palaces with their extensive parks form an impressive baroque Gesamtkunstwerk. The Museum in the Upper and Lower Castle
provides an excellent overview of the Austrian Art from the Middle Ages to the present. the collections of the 19th and 20th Century also include an exquisite inventory of international art. World Famous works by Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Renoir and Monet you can see in the upper
Belvedere, from where you can enjoy a spectacular view to the center of Vienna. In the historic rooms of the Lower Belvedere are shown works of art from the Middle Ages and Baroque.
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Phone +43 / ( 0) 1 / 79557-0
Fax +43 / (0) 1/79 84 337
Upper Belvedere
Collections of the 19th and 20th century
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Lower Belvedere
Baroque Museum, and Museum of Medieval Art
Rennweg 6a, A - 1030 Vienna
(further pictures and information you can see if you go to the end of page and by clicking on the link...)
Belvedere
Belvedere Castle. Garden Front of the Lower Belvedere.
Belvedere Palace stands supposedly on the foundations of a Roman camp that had been erected here for strategic reasons. In 1693 Prince Eugene of Savoy acquired field and vineyard grounds between today's Rennweg and today's Gürtel. In 1700 Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt began with the construction of a palace garden (Lower Belvedere), whose in French-style layed out park was equipped with large water basins, an orangery with precious foreign plants and a menagerie. Prince Eugene was a great animal lover, and some animals in his collection could be fed exclusively by himself.
1720 the Prince conceived the plan the summer palace to supplement by a another palace building on the hill of the garden.
The 1721 by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt begun works had been completed in 1724. The Upper Belvedere served in contrast to the Lower only representative purposes and was never meant to live.
The Prince and his architect managed a perfect symbiosis between architecture and garden. After the death of the Savoy (1736) inherited his niece Victoria of Savoy-Soisson, nee Princess Hildburghausen, all his possessions. From her the Habsburgs beginning of 1752 acquired the Belvedere. From 1755 Empress Maria Theresa moved the Arcierenleibgarde (Royal Company of the Archers) and the Galician Guard in the annex of the Belvedere. Besides, the castle stood almost empty.
Belvedere Castle. Engraving by Salomon Kleiner 1731/40 (left).
Vienna from the Belvedere. Coloured copper engraving by Carl Schütz, 1784 (right).
1770 Belvedere Palace was venue of brilliant festivities:
In castle and park the marriage of Archduchess Maria Antonia (Marie Antoinette) with the Dauphin of France by proxy (per procura) was celebrated. About 2,000 people were invited, more than 1,500 bottles of champagne, which was far from home in Vienna at that time,
were emptied. For hospitality of the guests, there were round tables, which were covered with silver. However, the Court of Vienna had a large part of the silver service to rent of nobles, because the stocks of the silver chamber were not sufficient. Finished was the festival by a magnificent fireworks.
1776, the imperial picture gallery from the Stallburg (home of the famous Lipizzan stallions) was transferred to the Upper Belvedere, the animals of the menagerie came to Schönbrunn. Shortly before the Congress of Vienna in 1814 in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection was exposed. During the war against Napoleon (1805-1809), much of the collection of paintings had to be outsourced. The Corsican claimed 400 masterpieces for himself, but which after his defeat at Waterloo to the Habsburgs have been restituted. The after the French wars completely neglected building has been restored 1850-1866.
Castle Park with Upper Belvedere. Photograph, around 1890.
1819 Emperor Franz II (I) the Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, had given spacious grounds for enlargement of the Botanical Garden at Rennweg. Franz was very interested in botany and in accordance with a Habsburg House bill - every Archduke must learn a civilian job - has been educated for gardener. In an adjoining garden of Schloß Belvedere he had from his private funds laid out a botanical garden ("Flora Austriaca") which was left to the Institute of Botany for use.
During the cholera epidemic of 1831, the Belvedere served as well as Schönbrunn Palace the imperial family as a refuge; supposedly one was there protected from the bad air, which was attributed to the onset of the disease. Both castles lay in the "countryside", the air was much better here than in the densely populated city. During wartime, a hospital was set up in the castle.
As the space for the imperial collections became too small, it was thought to expand the Upper Belvedere by wing buildings. This plan was dropped for aesthetic reasons, however. After the expansion of the city (razing of the bastions and glacis) arose on the ring road the newly created Court Museums; moved there in 1891 the major part of the paintings.
Archduke-Heir to the Throne Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este at folk and children's party in the park of the Belvedere Palace. Photograph, 1905.
To 1893/94 it is likely that Archduke Franz Ferdinand has chosen the Upper Belvedere to his residence in Vienna. Other sources say that it had been assigned to him by the Emperor Franz Joseph as a place to stay in Vienna. The rooms have been restored, adapted for residential purposes and supplemented with neo-Baroque furniture. The heir of the Este collections furnished his residence with numerous works of art. He had envisaged the castle for the accommodation of his collections; in 1893 were numerous boxes from India and Singapore in Belvedere stored. 1894 Emperor Franz Joseph could see the collection: "Yesterday I went to the Belvedere, where Franzi showed me his now quite and very nicely prepared collections. The same are as imposing as interesting by the incredible amount of objects and by the rarity and beauty of them. I believe that this exhibition would be interesting for you", wrote the monarch to his wife, Empress Elisabeth. That same year, Archduke Franz Ferdinand showed his collections his future wife, Sophie Chotková,
"Where I unaware of your fatigue with particular brutality you dragged from box to box" as he apologetically from Budweis wrote to the Countess.
Then the collections moved one the one hand to the Palais Modena in the Beatrixgasse, on the other hand to Konopischt. Only in 1898, Franz Ferdinand was granted by Emperor Franz Joseph to move into the Belvedere as Vienna Residence. More revitalization works were carried out and were also necessary. Technical modernization and preservation of the original building condition had priority - as always with the projects of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As furnishings served still preserved furnitures from Schloss Hof, which were supplemented by new ones in old style. The private rooms in addition to electric lighting were equipped with central heating.
Belvedere Castle. Staircase in the Upper Belvedere (left).
Marble plastic "Apotheosis of Prince Eugene" by Balthasar Permoser in Gold Cabinet of the Lower Belvedere (right).
If his presence was needed in Vienna, Franz Ferdinand here could lead a normal family life and escape the pressures of court ceremonial, in which the to him in morganatic marriage affiliated wife was exposed to the evils of the courtiers. When the heir to the throne invited guests to the Belvedere, he was sitting opposite his wife as a hostess while she was ranked in the Hofburg always after the latest unmarried Archduchess. About the cozy family life at Belvedere reported Prince von Clary-Aldringens:
"Aunt Sophie invited us ... to snack into a Belvedere, unexpectedly, suddenly appeared the Archduke - we literally froze in our Hab-Acht-position (stand at attention). He greeted us warmly ... [I got to know] the Archduke as a friendly landlord, who was playing and laughing with his Children..."
Between 1899 and 1914 in the Lower Belvedere the military bureau of the heir to the throne was housed. Other well-known Residents - but of outbuildings - were Anton Bruckner, who in 1896 died in the Kustodenwohnung (guardian house), and Richard Strauss, who lived here from 1925 to 1944.
After the assassination of the Archduke and his wife in Sarajevo, the Belvedere should serve as the residence of the new heir to the throne, Archduke Karl and his family. This, however, preferred living in Schönbrunn and especially in the villa Wartholz. In 1917, Charles' brother Archduke Maximilian moved with his family into the Belvedere.
During World War II the castle was badly damaged by bombs, but rebuilt after the war ended immediately. On 15 May 1955 was the Marble Hall venue of the signing of the Austrian State Treaty. Today, the Upper Belvedere houses important art collections.
Excerpts from
Thus lived the Habsburgs - Imperial and Royal Palaces in the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Ingrid Haslinger, Gerhard Trumler
Christian Brandstätter Verlag mbH
The publishing service for museums, businesses and
public bodies
www.brandstaetter - verlag.at
Denomination of the summer residence which Prince Eugene of Savoy himself had erected btw Rennweg and Swiss Garden. The term which refers to the unique view over Vienna dates from the time of Maria Theresa. Prinz Eugen bought in 1697 a plot of land at the Rennweg, which he extended to 1721 in four stages to the current area. Between 1714 and 1716 emerged the Lower Belvedere It is an elongated ground floor building, designed of a 7-axes central projection, two wings and two corner pavilions. The 3-axis central pavilion houses the Marble Hall. The castle the only rarely in Vienna sojourning builder served during the summer months as a pleasure palace.
Only in 1720 commenced construction works for the Upper Belvedere, first drawings for this existed already in 1717. The in it extent and form language compared to the Lower Belvedere especially magnificent Upper Belvedere served primarily as a representative setting for grand receptions and festivities. The architectural history of the example due to the loss of the Eugenianischen Bauarchivs (construction archiv of Prince Eugene) cannot be explored in detail without any gaps. 1723 (according to Rizzi 1721/22) the Upper Belvedere s is considered complete. The architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, who repeatedly worked for Prince Eugen, with the construction of the Belvedere has created his main work. It counts in its multiform architectonic as well as sculptural structure to the most important baroque buildings of the 18th century. The to the ensemble belonging, btw Upper and Lower Belvedere laying garden has been created by the Bavarian horticultural engineer D. Girard and today only in broad terms is original. The designs for the interior of the castle stem from C. le Fort du Plessy.
After the death of the prince the belvedere went into the possession of his sole heiress, Victoria Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen. She sold it in 1752 to Maria Theresa. At the behest of Joseph II from 1775 the imperial picture gallery was transferred here, which in 1781 for the first time was open to the public. had. Since 1806 was located in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection. Both collections were in 1890 in the Museum of Art History transferred. In 1894, the palace became residence for the heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
After the first World War I the Republic of Austria in Belvedere installed the Austrian Gallery. 1945 suffered the Belvedere severe war damage. In 1950, the "Gold Cabinet" in the north-eastern corner pavilion of the Upper Belvedere was destroyed by fire and replaced by a copy. The since 1988 ongoing general renovation should have been completed in 1996.
aeiou - the cultural information system of the bm: bwk
14,000 key words and 2000 pictures from history, geography, politics and business in Austria
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
The in the center of Vienna situated Belvedere palaces with their extensive parks form an impressive baroque Gesamtkunstwerk. The Museum in the Upper and Lower Castle
provides an excellent overview of the Austrian Art from the Middle Ages to the present. the collections of the 19th and 20th Century also include an exquisite inventory of international art. World Famous works by Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Renoir and Monet you can see in the upper
Belvedere, from where you can enjoy a spectacular view to the center of Vienna. In the historic rooms of the Lower Belvedere are shown works of art from the Middle Ages and Baroque.
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Phone +43 / ( 0) 1 / 79557-0
Fax +43 / (0) 1/79 84 337
Upper Belvedere
Collections of the 19th and 20th century
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Lower Belvedere
Baroque Museum, and Museum of Medieval Art
Rennweg 6a, A - 1030 Vienna
(further pictures and information you can see if you go to the end of page and by clicking on the link...)
Belvedere
Belvedere Castle. Garden Front of the Lower Belvedere.
Belvedere Palace stands supposedly on the foundations of a Roman camp that had been erected here for strategic reasons. In 1693 Prince Eugene of Savoy acquired field and vineyard grounds between today's Rennweg and today's Gürtel. In 1700 Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt began with the construction of a palace garden (Lower Belvedere), whose in French-style layed out park was equipped with large water basins, an orangery with precious foreign plants and a menagerie. Prince Eugene was a great animal lover, and some animals in his collection could be fed exclusively by himself.
1720 the Prince conceived the plan the summer palace to supplement by a another palace building on the hill of the garden.
The 1721 by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt begun works had been completed in 1724. The Upper Belvedere served in contrast to the Lower only representative purposes and was never meant to live.
The Prince and his architect managed a perfect symbiosis between architecture and garden. After the death of the Savoy (1736) inherited his niece Victoria of Savoy-Soisson, nee Princess Hildburghausen, all his possessions. From her the Habsburgs beginning of 1752 acquired the Belvedere. From 1755 Empress Maria Theresa moved the Arcierenleibgarde (Royal Company of the Archers) and the Galician Guard in the annex of the Belvedere. Besides, the castle stood almost empty.
Belvedere Castle. Engraving by Salomon Kleiner 1731/40 (left).
Vienna from the Belvedere. Coloured copper engraving by Carl Schütz, 1784 (right).
1770 Belvedere Palace was venue of brilliant festivities:
In castle and park the marriage of Archduchess Maria Antonia (Marie Antoinette) with the Dauphin of France by proxy (per procura) was celebrated. About 2,000 people were invited, more than 1,500 bottles of champagne, which was far from home in Vienna at that time,
were emptied. For hospitality of the guests, there were round tables, which were covered with silver. However, the Court of Vienna had a large part of the silver service to rent of nobles, because the stocks of the silver chamber were not sufficient. Finished was the festival by a magnificent fireworks.
1776, the imperial picture gallery from the Stallburg (home of the famous Lipizzan stallions) was transferred to the Upper Belvedere, the animals of the menagerie came to Schönbrunn. Shortly before the Congress of Vienna in 1814 in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection was exposed. During the war against Napoleon (1805-1809), much of the collection of paintings had to be outsourced. The Corsican claimed 400 masterpieces for himself, but which after his defeat at Waterloo to the Habsburgs have been restituted. The after the French wars completely neglected building has been restored 1850-1866.
Castle Park with Upper Belvedere. Photograph, around 1890.
1819 Emperor Franz II (I) the Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, had given spacious grounds for enlargement of the Botanical Garden at Rennweg. Franz was very interested in botany and in accordance with a Habsburg House bill - every Archduke must learn a civilian job - has been educated for gardener. In an adjoining garden of Schloß Belvedere he had from his private funds laid out a botanical garden ("Flora Austriaca") which was left to the Institute of Botany for use.
During the cholera epidemic of 1831, the Belvedere served as well as Schönbrunn Palace the imperial family as a refuge; supposedly one was there protected from the bad air, which was attributed to the onset of the disease. Both castles lay in the "countryside", the air was much better here than in the densely populated city. During wartime, a hospital was set up in the castle.
As the space for the imperial collections became too small, it was thought to expand the Upper Belvedere by wing buildings. This plan was dropped for aesthetic reasons, however. After the expansion of the city (razing of the bastions and glacis) arose on the ring road the newly created Court Museums; moved there in 1891 the major part of the paintings.
Archduke-Heir to the Throne Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este at folk and children's party in the park of the Belvedere Palace. Photograph, 1905.
To 1893/94 it is likely that Archduke Franz Ferdinand has chosen the Upper Belvedere to his residence in Vienna. Other sources say that it had been assigned to him by the Emperor Franz Joseph as a place to stay in Vienna. The rooms have been restored, adapted for residential purposes and supplemented with neo-Baroque furniture. The heir of the Este collections furnished his residence with numerous works of art. He had envisaged the castle for the accommodation of his collections; in 1893 were numerous boxes from India and Singapore in Belvedere stored. 1894 Emperor Franz Joseph could see the collection: "Yesterday I went to the Belvedere, where Franzi showed me his now quite and very nicely prepared collections. The same are as imposing as interesting by the incredible amount of objects and by the rarity and beauty of them. I believe that this exhibition would be interesting for you", wrote the monarch to his wife, Empress Elisabeth. That same year, Archduke Franz Ferdinand showed his collections his future wife, Sophie Chotková,
"Where I unaware of your fatigue with particular brutality you dragged from box to box" as he apologetically from Budweis wrote to the Countess.
Then the collections moved one the one hand to the Palais Modena in the Beatrixgasse, on the other hand to Konopischt. Only in 1898, Franz Ferdinand was granted by Emperor Franz Joseph to move into the Belvedere as Vienna Residence. More revitalization works were carried out and were also necessary. Technical modernization and preservation of the original building condition had priority - as always with the projects of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As furnishings served still preserved furnitures from Schloss Hof, which were supplemented by new ones in old style. The private rooms in addition to electric lighting were equipped with central heating.
Belvedere Castle. Staircase in the Upper Belvedere (left).
Marble plastic "Apotheosis of Prince Eugene" by Balthasar Permoser in Gold Cabinet of the Lower Belvedere (right).
If his presence was needed in Vienna, Franz Ferdinand here could lead a normal family life and escape the pressures of court ceremonial, in which the to him in morganatic marriage affiliated wife was exposed to the evils of the courtiers. When the heir to the throne invited guests to the Belvedere, he was sitting opposite his wife as a hostess while she was ranked in the Hofburg always after the latest unmarried Archduchess. About the cozy family life at Belvedere reported Prince von Clary-Aldringens:
"Aunt Sophie invited us ... to snack into a Belvedere, unexpectedly, suddenly appeared the Archduke - we literally froze in our Hab-Acht-position (stand at attention). He greeted us warmly ... [I got to know] the Archduke as a friendly landlord, who was playing and laughing with his Children..."
Between 1899 and 1914 in the Lower Belvedere the military bureau of the heir to the throne was housed. Other well-known Residents - but of outbuildings - were Anton Bruckner, who in 1896 died in the Kustodenwohnung (guardian house), and Richard Strauss, who lived here from 1925 to 1944.
After the assassination of the Archduke and his wife in Sarajevo, the Belvedere should serve as the residence of the new heir to the throne, Archduke Karl and his family. This, however, preferred living in Schönbrunn and especially in the villa Wartholz. In 1917, Charles' brother Archduke Maximilian moved with his family into the Belvedere.
During World War II the castle was badly damaged by bombs, but rebuilt after the war ended immediately. On 15 May 1955 was the Marble Hall venue of the signing of the Austrian State Treaty. Today, the Upper Belvedere houses important art collections.
Excerpts from
Thus lived the Habsburgs - Imperial and Royal Palaces in the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Ingrid Haslinger, Gerhard Trumler
Christian Brandstätter Verlag mbH
The publishing service for museums, businesses and
public bodies
www.brandstaetter - verlag.at
Denomination of the summer residence which Prince Eugene of Savoy himself had erected btw Rennweg and Swiss Garden. The term which refers to the unique view over Vienna dates from the time of Maria Theresa. Prinz Eugen bought in 1697 a plot of land at the Rennweg, which he extended to 1721 in four stages to the current area. Between 1714 and 1716 emerged the Lower Belvedere It is an elongated ground floor building, designed of a 7-axes central projection, two wings and two corner pavilions. The 3-axis central pavilion houses the Marble Hall. The castle the only rarely in Vienna sojourning builder served during the summer months as a pleasure palace.
Only in 1720 commenced construction works for the Upper Belvedere, first drawings for this existed already in 1717. The in it extent and form language compared to the Lower Belvedere especially magnificent Upper Belvedere served primarily as a representative setting for grand receptions and festivities. The architectural history of the example due to the loss of the Eugenianischen Bauarchivs (construction archiv of Prince Eugene) cannot be explored in detail without any gaps. 1723 (according to Rizzi 1721/22) the Upper Belvedere s is considered complete. The architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, who repeatedly worked for Prince Eugen, with the construction of the Belvedere has created his main work. It counts in its multiform architectonic as well as sculptural structure to the most important baroque buildings of the 18th century. The to the ensemble belonging, btw Upper and Lower Belvedere laying garden has been created by the Bavarian horticultural engineer D. Girard and today only in broad terms is original. The designs for the interior of the castle stem from C. le Fort du Plessy.
After the death of the prince the belvedere went into the possession of his sole heiress, Victoria Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen. She sold it in 1752 to Maria Theresa. At the behest of Joseph II from 1775 the imperial picture gallery was transferred here, which in 1781 for the first time was open to the public. had. Since 1806 was located in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection. Both collections were in 1890 in the Museum of Art History transferred. In 1894, the palace became residence for the heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
After the first World War I the Republic of Austria in Belvedere installed the Austrian Gallery. 1945 suffered the Belvedere severe war damage. In 1950, the "Gold Cabinet" in the north-eastern corner pavilion of the Upper Belvedere was destroyed by fire and replaced by a copy. The since 1988 ongoing general renovation should have been completed in 1996.
aeiou - the cultural information system of the bm: bwk
14,000 key words and 2000 pictures from history, geography, politics and business in Austria
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
The in the center of Vienna situated Belvedere palaces with their extensive parks form an impressive baroque Gesamtkunstwerk. The Museum in the Upper and Lower Castle
provides an excellent overview of the Austrian Art from the Middle Ages to the present. the collections of the 19th and 20th Century also include an exquisite inventory of international art. World Famous works by Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Renoir and Monet you can see in the upper
Belvedere, from where you can enjoy a spectacular view to the center of Vienna. In the historic rooms of the Lower Belvedere are shown works of art from the Middle Ages and Baroque.
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Phone +43 / ( 0) 1 / 79557-0
Fax +43 / (0) 1/79 84 337
Upper Belvedere
Collections of the 19th and 20th century
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Lower Belvedere
Baroque Museum, and Museum of Medieval Art
Rennweg 6a, A - 1030 Vienna
(further pictures and information you can see if you go to the end of page and by clicking on the link...)
Belvedere
Belvedere Castle. Garden Front of the Lower Belvedere.
Belvedere Palace stands supposedly on the foundations of a Roman camp that had been erected here for strategic reasons. In 1693 Prince Eugene of Savoy acquired field and vineyard grounds between today's Rennweg and today's Gürtel. In 1700 Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt began with the construction of a palace garden (Lower Belvedere), whose in French-style layed out park was equipped with large water basins, an orangery with precious foreign plants and a menagerie. Prince Eugene was a great animal lover, and some animals in his collection could be fed exclusively by himself.
1720 the Prince conceived the plan the summer palace to supplement by a another palace building on the hill of the garden.
The 1721 by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt begun works had been completed in 1724. The Upper Belvedere served in contrast to the Lower only representative purposes and was never meant to live.
The Prince and his architect managed a perfect symbiosis between architecture and garden. After the death of the Savoy (1736) inherited his niece Victoria of Savoy-Soisson, nee Princess Hildburghausen, all his possessions. From her the Habsburgs beginning of 1752 acquired the Belvedere. From 1755 Empress Maria Theresa moved the Arcierenleibgarde (Royal Company of the Archers) and the Galician Guard in the annex of the Belvedere. Besides, the castle stood almost empty.
Belvedere Castle. Engraving by Salomon Kleiner 1731/40 (left).
Vienna from the Belvedere. Coloured copper engraving by Carl Schütz, 1784 (right).
1770 Belvedere Palace was venue of brilliant festivities:
In castle and park the marriage of Archduchess Maria Antonia (Marie Antoinette) with the Dauphin of France by proxy (per procura) was celebrated. About 2,000 people were invited, more than 1,500 bottles of champagne, which was far from home in Vienna at that time,
were emptied. For hospitality of the guests, there were round tables, which were covered with silver. However, the Court of Vienna had a large part of the silver service to rent of nobles, because the stocks of the silver chamber were not sufficient. Finished was the festival by a magnificent fireworks.
1776, the imperial picture gallery from the Stallburg (home of the famous Lipizzan stallions) was transferred to the Upper Belvedere, the animals of the menagerie came to Schönbrunn. Shortly before the Congress of Vienna in 1814 in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection was exposed. During the war against Napoleon (1805-1809), much of the collection of paintings had to be outsourced. The Corsican claimed 400 masterpieces for himself, but which after his defeat at Waterloo to the Habsburgs have been restituted. The after the French wars completely neglected building has been restored 1850-1866.
Castle Park with Upper Belvedere. Photograph, around 1890.
1819 Emperor Franz II (I) the Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, had given spacious grounds for enlargement of the Botanical Garden at Rennweg. Franz was very interested in botany and in accordance with a Habsburg House bill - every Archduke must learn a civilian job - has been educated for gardener. In an adjoining garden of Schloß Belvedere he had from his private funds laid out a botanical garden ("Flora Austriaca") which was left to the Institute of Botany for use.
During the cholera epidemic of 1831, the Belvedere served as well as Schönbrunn Palace the imperial family as a refuge; supposedly one was there protected from the bad air, which was attributed to the onset of the disease. Both castles lay in the "countryside", the air was much better here than in the densely populated city. During wartime, a hospital was set up in the castle.
As the space for the imperial collections became too small, it was thought to expand the Upper Belvedere by wing buildings. This plan was dropped for aesthetic reasons, however. After the expansion of the city (razing of the bastions and glacis) arose on the ring road the newly created Court Museums; moved there in 1891 the major part of the paintings.
Archduke-Heir to the Throne Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este at folk and children's party in the park of the Belvedere Palace. Photograph, 1905.
To 1893/94 it is likely that Archduke Franz Ferdinand has chosen the Upper Belvedere to his residence in Vienna. Other sources say that it had been assigned to him by the Emperor Franz Joseph as a place to stay in Vienna. The rooms have been restored, adapted for residential purposes and supplemented with neo-Baroque furniture. The heir of the Este collections furnished his residence with numerous works of art. He had envisaged the castle for the accommodation of his collections; in 1893 were numerous boxes from India and Singapore in Belvedere stored. 1894 Emperor Franz Joseph could see the collection: "Yesterday I went to the Belvedere, where Franzi showed me his now quite and very nicely prepared collections. The same are as imposing as interesting by the incredible amount of objects and by the rarity and beauty of them. I believe that this exhibition would be interesting for you", wrote the monarch to his wife, Empress Elisabeth. That same year, Archduke Franz Ferdinand showed his collections his future wife, Sophie Chotková,
"Where I unaware of your fatigue with particular brutality you dragged from box to box" as he apologetically from Budweis wrote to the Countess.
Then the collections moved one the one hand to the Palais Modena in the Beatrixgasse, on the other hand to Konopischt. Only in 1898, Franz Ferdinand was granted by Emperor Franz Joseph to move into the Belvedere as Vienna Residence. More revitalization works were carried out and were also necessary. Technical modernization and preservation of the original building condition had priority - as always with the projects of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As furnishings served still preserved furnitures from Schloss Hof, which were supplemented by new ones in old style. The private rooms in addition to electric lighting were equipped with central heating.
Belvedere Castle. Staircase in the Upper Belvedere (left).
Marble plastic "Apotheosis of Prince Eugene" by Balthasar Permoser in Gold Cabinet of the Lower Belvedere (right).
If his presence was needed in Vienna, Franz Ferdinand here could lead a normal family life and escape the pressures of court ceremonial, in which the to him in morganatic marriage affiliated wife was exposed to the evils of the courtiers. When the heir to the throne invited guests to the Belvedere, he was sitting opposite his wife as a hostess while she was ranked in the Hofburg always after the latest unmarried Archduchess. About the cozy family life at Belvedere reported Prince von Clary-Aldringens:
"Aunt Sophie invited us ... to snack into a Belvedere, unexpectedly, suddenly appeared the Archduke - we literally froze in our Hab-Acht-position (stand at attention). He greeted us warmly ... [I got to know] the Archduke as a friendly landlord, who was playing and laughing with his Children..."
Between 1899 and 1914 in the Lower Belvedere the military bureau of the heir to the throne was housed. Other well-known Residents - but of outbuildings - were Anton Bruckner, who in 1896 died in the Kustodenwohnung (guardian house), and Richard Strauss, who lived here from 1925 to 1944.
After the assassination of the Archduke and his wife in Sarajevo, the Belvedere should serve as the residence of the new heir to the throne, Archduke Karl and his family. This, however, preferred living in Schönbrunn and especially in the villa Wartholz. In 1917, Charles' brother Archduke Maximilian moved with his family into the Belvedere.
During World War II the castle was badly damaged by bombs, but rebuilt after the war ended immediately. On 15 May 1955 was the Marble Hall venue of the signing of the Austrian State Treaty. Today, the Upper Belvedere houses important art collections.
Excerpts from
Thus lived the Habsburgs - Imperial and Royal Palaces in the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Ingrid Haslinger, Gerhard Trumler
Christian Brandstätter Verlag mbH
The publishing service for museums, businesses and
public bodies
www.brandstaetter - verlag.at
Denomination of the summer residence which Prince Eugene of Savoy himself had erected btw Rennweg and Swiss Garden. The term which refers to the unique view over Vienna dates from the time of Maria Theresa. Prinz Eugen bought in 1697 a plot of land at the Rennweg, which he extended to 1721 in four stages to the current area. Between 1714 and 1716 emerged the Lower Belvedere It is an elongated ground floor building, designed of a 7-axes central projection, two wings and two corner pavilions. The 3-axis central pavilion houses the Marble Hall. The castle the only rarely in Vienna sojourning builder served during the summer months as a pleasure palace.
Only in 1720 commenced construction works for the Upper Belvedere, first drawings for this existed already in 1717. The in it extent and form language compared to the Lower Belvedere especially magnificent Upper Belvedere served primarily as a representative setting for grand receptions and festivities. The architectural history of the example due to the loss of the Eugenianischen Bauarchivs (construction archiv of Prince Eugene) cannot be explored in detail without any gaps. 1723 (according to Rizzi 1721/22) the Upper Belvedere s is considered complete. The architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, who repeatedly worked for Prince Eugen, with the construction of the Belvedere has created his main work. It counts in its multiform architectonic as well as sculptural structure to the most important baroque buildings of the 18th century. The to the ensemble belonging, btw Upper and Lower Belvedere laying garden has been created by the Bavarian horticultural engineer D. Girard and today only in broad terms is original. The designs for the interior of the castle stem from C. le Fort du Plessy.
After the death of the prince the belvedere went into the possession of his sole heiress, Victoria Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen. She sold it in 1752 to Maria Theresa. At the behest of Joseph II from 1775 the imperial picture gallery was transferred here, which in 1781 for the first time was open to the public. had. Since 1806 was located in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection. Both collections were in 1890 in the Museum of Art History transferred. In 1894, the palace became residence for the heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
After the first World War I the Republic of Austria in Belvedere installed the Austrian Gallery. 1945 suffered the Belvedere severe war damage. In 1950, the "Gold Cabinet" in the north-eastern corner pavilion of the Upper Belvedere was destroyed by fire and replaced by a copy. The since 1988 ongoing general renovation should have been completed in 1996.
aeiou - the cultural information system of the bm: bwk
14,000 key words and 2000 pictures from history, geography, politics and business in Austria
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
The in the center of Vienna situated Belvedere palaces with their extensive parks form an impressive baroque Gesamtkunstwerk. The Museum in the Upper and Lower Castle
provides an excellent overview of the Austrian Art from the Middle Ages to the present. the collections of the 19th and 20th Century also include an exquisite inventory of international art. World Famous works by Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Renoir and Monet you can see in the upper
Belvedere, from where you can enjoy a spectacular view to the center of Vienna. In the historic rooms of the Lower Belvedere are shown works of art from the Middle Ages and Baroque.
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Phone +43 / ( 0) 1 / 79557-0
Fax +43 / (0) 1/79 84 337
Upper Belvedere
Collections of the 19th and 20th century
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Lower Belvedere
Baroque Museum, and Museum of Medieval Art
Rennweg 6a, A - 1030 Vienna
Francisco Salamone fue un Arquitecto Italo-Argentino, que vivió y trabajó en Argentina; construyó en apenas cuatro años, entre 1936 y 1940, más de 60 edificios en 25 municipios de la Provincia de Buenos Aires.
Las torres de la llanura
Las obras del arquitecto Francisco Salamone, creadas en los años 30, sorprenden al viajero en pueblos y ciudades bonaerenses. Un fuerte símbolo del avance de la civilización sobre el desierto que combina Art Deco y futurismo.
Torres altísimas y facetadas con terminaciones multiformes, ángeles de piedra con rasgos geométricos y fuentes con extraño aspecto de pastel parecen pistas diseminadas por la provincia de Buenos Aires para descubrir la puerta de entrada a una futurista y misteriosa Ciudad Gótica. Se trata, en verdad, de la expresión material de los sueños de poder y grandeza que reinaban en el país en los años 30, plasmados en ornamentos de edificios municipales, cementerios y mataderos construidos hace más de 60 años por el arquitecto Francisco Salamone.
En Foto:El Cementerio de Azul- El matader
Foto:Pablo Avincetto
Le Tour de France sur le front de 14-18
hommage aux glorieux anciens qui roulaient plus souvent sur des chemins de boue que sur des routes asphaltées.
En 2014, la Grande Boucle rend hommage au centenaire de la Première Guerre mondiale. L'étape du 10 juillet Arras-Reims comprend 90 km dans l'Aisne, dont le Chemin des Dames.
Coucy-le-Château, Anizy, Brancourt-en-Laonnois et Pinon, le peloton entrera sur le fameux Chemin des Dames.
À Pinon Le Tour fera son entrée dans une côte. dans la rue du 52e-RI .
Reims_Un parfum de Paris-Roubaix.
C’est dans la ville des rois de France qu’est jugée l’arrivée de la 6e étape, partie d’Arras pour 194kilomètres. Du Nord-Pas-de-Calais à la Champagne-Ardennes,
il n’y a que du plat et le sprint paraît inévitable.
D’ailleurs, les trois derniers vainqueurs à Reims s’appellent Alessandro Petacchi (2010), Robbie McEwen (2002) et Djamolidine Abdoujaparov (1991) : trois fusées.
Tout le monde sur le pont à Reims pour le Tour de France ...
Le Tour de France est une manifestation qui demande l’implication de tous les services de la Ville
La pose de barrières reste la mission la plus prenante pour les agents municipaux.
le Tour de France est une très grosse « machine » qui demande une logistique considérable.
Si la société ASO (Amaury sport organisation) a ses propres équipes qui suivent tout le parcours pendant les 22 jours de la compétition,
les villes étapes doivent elles aussi accompagner le mouvement.
la ligne d’arrivée.
Dans la zone d’arrivée, sous la houlette du directeur de site, des barrières hautes sont posées autour de la "zone technique",
d’où émettent les camions radio et les télévisions. Doublet travaille depuis un an à la conception de barrières "repousse public" dotées d’arches,
qui empêcheront toute main de percuter malencontreusement un coureur. Suite à la chute de Laurent Jalabert à Armentières d’ailleurs,
les barrières ne laissent plus dépasser aucun panneau publicitaire. La réclame est directement intégrée à la clôture.
La caravane publicitaire
La caravane publicitaire, créée en 1930, s’est développée considérablement au fil des années, pour accueillir plus de 180 véhicules en 2012.
Le défilé d’ouverture, festif et créatif, a su conquérir les marques et le public, jusqu’à devenir une composante essentielle au spectacle du Tour
LCL, qui sera toujours parrain du maillot jaune du leader du classement général du Tour de France, comme c'est le cas depuis 1987.
La caravane publicitaire du Tour Alsace part une heure avant les coureurs. Elle est composée d'une quinzaine de véhicules publicitaires
et suit le parcours officiel du Tour. Elle distribue une multitude de goodies aux spectateurs au bord des routes.
47 % des spectateurs viennent en priorité pour la caravane
Le succès de la formule, avec un défilé de véhicules originaux qui « font de la réclame », en distribuant des cadeaux, est immédiat.
Les premiers annonceurs, comme la Vache qui rit, y gagnent la sympathie du public, qui se prête volontiers au jeu. Quatre-vingts ans plus tard,
la caravane publicitaire est devenue une composante à part entière du spectacle du Tour. Indissociable de la course qu’elle précède, la procession multiforme et multicolore
offre une animation de plus de 45 minutes. Jeunes et moins jeunes commentent sur le bord des routes la taille et l’inventivité des chars ; on s’y presse pour demander des cadeaux…
Au total, une étude réalisée auprès du public du Tour révèle que 47 % des spectateurs sont venus en priorité pour voir la caravane publicitaire.
lancer de saucissons Cochonou à la foule en délire.
Cochonou, la marque de saucissons distribuera bien sûr encore bobs et saucissons au bord de la route depuis ses fameuses 2CV, mais sera également présent sur internet,
avec son blog Cochonou et Vous tenu depuis quelques années par Thibault (qui avait repris le flambeau d'Adeline).
Le garage virtuel CochonouOriginalité cette année, la possibilité de créer sa propre 2CV dans le garage virtuel Cochonou et peut-être même la gagner et la tester pour
la première fois sur la célèbre Avenue des Champs-Elysées lors de l'arrivée de la dernière étape du Tour à Paris !
Le jeu-concours est ouvert jusqu'au 31 juillet mais le grand gagnant de la 2CV sera désigné le 15 juillet prochain sachant que par la suite on peut gagner l'un des autres
lots du jeu (2CV Cochonou miniatures, bobs, porte-clés et sacs cabas).
Vittel, l'eau officiel du Tour de France innove cette année en permettant à d'ordinaires spectateurs du Tour d'en devenir acteur !
ŠKODA qui reste parrain du maillot blanc de meilleur jeune et qui est toujours à la recherche des meilleures animations pour vous permettre, vous en tant que fan du Tour,
de remporter des prix avec le ŠKODA Fan Tour.
Il y a quelques mois, &ScaronKODA a d'ailleurs prolongé son contrat de partenariat avec A.S.O. et donc entre autres avec le Tour de France, jusqu'en 2018.
Banette a reconduit son partenariat pour 4 ans, jusqu'en 2017, et distribuera toujours des milliers de tartines préparées par les artisans boulangers Banette de la région alors
que la caravane continue à distribuer différents goodies et des bons de réduction. Banette communiquera sur son Tour de France sur sa page Facebook.
McCain, le producteur de frites surgelées, a rejoint le Tour en tant que fournisseur officiel pendant 3 ans et sera présent dans la caravane publicitaire du Tour avec un char-tracteur et 3 véhicules légers.
Belin fournira toujours l'apéro, mais ne valorise pas vraiment son partenariat. La seule chose qu'on peut donc vous dire, c'est que "les super z'héros" rejoignent la caravane de Belin :
Du samedi 5 juillet au dimanche 27 juillet 2014, le 101e Tour de France comprendra 21 étapes pour une distance de 3 664 kilomètres.
Marco Mengoni
Teatro Arcimboldi - Milano
26 Settembre 2013
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Marco Mengoni , vincitore incontrastato della terza edizione di 'X Factor'. Presenza scenica da professionista consumato, lunatico, "permaloso quasi antipatico", ha conquistato la stima del pubblico (non è mai finito in ballottaggio per l'eliminazione) grazie a interpretazioni di grande spessore.
Il 4 dicembre 2009 esce “DOVE SI VOLA”, il suo primo Ep, che in poche settimane scala le classifiche di vendita con oltre 70 mila copie.
“Dove si vola”, brano che da il titolo all’Ep, è difficile da interpretare per un uomo, sia per la tonalità molto alta che per l’articolazione della melodia sull’armonia. La forza vocale di Marco regala al pezzo una magia unica che, durante le esibizioni fa letteralmente volare il pubblico, pubblico che l’ha votato e proclamato, quasi fin da subito, il vero talento della terza edizione di X Factor. All’interno dell’EP un altro brano inedito, “Lontanissimo da te”, firmato Massimo e Piero Calabrese e cinque tra le più emozionanti cover cantate da Marco durante il programma.
Marco nasce a Ronciglione (VT) il 25 dicembre 1988 (Capricorno), proprio nel giorno di Natale. Fin da bambino ama tutti i generi musicali: “Alla tenera 'altezza' di 70 cm. comincio ad ascoltare di tutto, dal pop all’r&b, soul, rock ed inizio ad approfondire la mia cultura musicale: scopro il karaoke e comincio a cantare di nascosto, per timidezza. Poi una volta i miei per caso mi ascoltano e si convincono di mandarmi ad una scuola di canto. Da quel momento capisco che la musica non è poi così semplice come pensavo: c'era da imparare molto…. tecniche di respirazione, maschera facciale, scale, vocalizzi di qualsiasi genere, per affinare la voce”.
Marco inizia a cantare all’età di 14 anni. Mentre studia all'Istituto per il Design, segue anche una scuola di canto dove impara le prime tecniche per la gestione e l'utilizzo dei propri mezzi vocali. Visto il talento di Marco, l’insegnante di canto lo inserisce in un piccolo quintetto vocale con cui si esibisce in serate di piazza e per le festività, facendo cover.
Dopo 2 anni ha inizio il suo percorso solista con un gruppo di musicisti con il quale suona nei club un po’ del suo repertorio originale e un po’ di cover, continuando quindi la sua gavetta. Iniziano tre anni di duro lavoro e provinaggio, per affinare lo stile e la personalità, ed anche per questo, Marco, figlio unico, lascia la famiglia per trasferirsi a Roma. Contemporaneamente si iscrive all’Università nella Facoltà di Lingue, e fa esperienza come fonico e programmatore, prendendo familiarità con gli studi di registrazione.
Il suo genere preferito resta il Brit Pop e la sua massima, e amatissima, influenza musicale sono i Beatles: tra le sue canzoni preferite dei Fab 4 ci sono 'Michelle' e 'The Fool on te hill'. Anche se il brano che gli ha cambiato la vita è 'La luce dell’est' di Lucio Battisti.
Vincendo X Factor Marco partecipa di diritto alla Sessantesima Edizione del Festival di Sanremo, nella categoria 'Artisti', interpretando “Credimi ancora”, brano che fa parte dell’EP “Re Matto” uscito il 19 febbraio 2010 su etichetta Rca/Sony Music.
Il 2010 è un anno davvero unico per quest’artista giovane ma pieno di talento. Mentre la sua paginaFacebook continua a crescere (superando ad oggi i 300 mila iscritti), Il 3 e 4 maggio parte dall’Alcatraz di Milano Il “Re Matto Tour, un viaggio nella “Mattità”, un’avventura vertiginosa nella mente colorata e multiforme di MARCO MENGONI. Lo spettacolo nasce da un’ idea di Marco, Luca Tommassini e Stella Fabiani. La regia è affidata a LUCA TOMMASSINI, la direzione artistica è di PIERO CALABRESE, la produzione è di F&P Group e dei “CANTIERI MUSICALI” che da sempre lavorano con MENGONI. Nel team creativo di Marco e del “RE MATTO TOUR” sono state coinvolte figure importanti a livello mondiale come lo stilista Neil Barrett, che finora ha solo disegnato abiti per artisti come Madonna, Justin Timberlake, Brad Pitt e Johnny Depp, e lo scultore Davide Orlandi Dormino, creatore di “Opera Scacchi”, la scultura che invade il palco. “IL RE MATTO TOUR” è ideato, sviluppato e strutturato all’insegna della totale libertà, della poesia, della sregolatezza e dell’improvvisazione rendendo ogni concerto un vero evento, con ospiti a sorpresa cheMARCO scopre insieme al pubblico…una sfida che solo un Re Matto poteva accettare.
Intanto l’8 maggio Marco partecipa ai Trl Awards e vince nella categoria “Man of the Year”.
Il “Re Matto tour” è un’esperienza straordinaria per Marco, che vive e si ciba dell’entusiasmo del pubblico. È un tour trionfale che colleziona un sold out dopo l’altro.
Il 2 giugno viene premiato ai Wind Music Awards e si aggiudica il doppio disco di platino per il suo primo Ep “Dove si vola”, che raccoglie l’omonima canzone e alcune delle cover cantate durante il programma di X Factor, e l’album “Re Matto”, superando le 160 mila copie vendute.
Il "Re Matto" del pop italiano non si fa mancare proprio nulla. Supera gli altri colleghi in gara agli Ema 2010 nella categoria dedicata agli artisti italiani: Malika Ayane, dARi, Sonohra e Nina Zilli.
Questo è un riconoscimento fondamentale per Marco Mengoni, artista italiano rivelazione del 2010, che ad MTV si è già aggiudicato il premio come "Man Of The Year" ai TRL Awards 2010 ed è arrivato secondo in una gara all'ultima edizione del Coca Cola Live @ MTV: The Summer Song. Grazie alla vittoria come Best Italian Act, Marco è entrato in nomination per il "Best European Act" in concorrenza con gli altri vincitori dei regional act. Marco partecipa inoltre all'ottava edizione di "O'Scia'", insieme ad altre star del pop italiano ed internazionale, organizzata da Claudio Baglioni a Lampedusa in cui si intende sensibilizzare fan, politici e cittadini sul problema della immigrazione clandestina.
Il 19 ottobre esce su etichetta Rca/Sony Music il Cd+Dvd “Re Matto live”. L’album debutta al 1° posto della classifica dei dischi più venduti (Gfk/Fimi) e al 1° posto della classifica di iTunes.
A novembre Marco Mengoni, dopo aver trionfato nella categoria Best Italian Act, si aggiudica anche il prestigioso titolo di Best European Act: un premio importante per lui e per l'Italia, considerando che in 17 edizioni nessun italiano era mai riuscito a raggiungere tale riconoscimento.
Il 2 settembre 2011 arriva in radio il singolo “Solo” che, anticipando l’uscita del nuovo disco, schizza alprimo posto della classica di iTunes. Il 27 settembre esce “Solo 2.0”, un vero e proprio concept album, che oltre alle tracce del disco e a un contenuto virtuale speciale (Il Comic 2.0), contamina anche la prima parte del Tour.
Dopo un’anteprima trionfante del “Solo Tour” con due date evento al Forum di Assago e al Palalottomatica di Roma, Marco Mengoni decide di cambiare veste allo spettacolo e di svelare al pubblico un’altra porzione d’anima, il suo lato più intimista, quasi introspettivo, non tralasciando mai la sua voglia di stupire e di emozionare. È un TOUR TEATRALE che fa della suggestione visiva e sonora il suo punto di forza.
Uno spettacolo in cui musica, movimento scenico, luci e scenografie compenetrano tra loro, per toccare ancor più da vicino l’anima di chi ascolta. L’essenza intimista dello spettacolo è rappresentata soprattutto dal suono. Una chiave di lettura inedita, con cui verranno reinterpretati molti tra i brani più noti del repertorio di Marco, insieme ad alcune cover, mai eseguite prima.
Il tour teatrale, ideato da Elisa, Marco Mengoni e Andrea Rigonat, parte dall’Arcimboldi di Milano il 19 aprile, passando dal Filarmonico di Verona, il Politeama di Palermo, il Gran Teatro di Roma e molti dei teatri più importanti d’Italia.
In radio intanto suona il nuovo singolo “Dall’inferno”, estratto dall’album Solo 2.0
Esce il 24 aprile, in esclusiva su iTunes, “Dall’Inferno EP”, l’EP digitale di Marco Mengoni contenente la title track, il videoclip e il backstage inedito di “Dall’inferno” e il video live di “Come ti senti”, girato durante lo showcase di presentazione dell’album “Solo 2.0”.
Marco è ospite dell’evento "Premio Leggio d'Oro", dove gli viene consegnato il Premio Speciale Voce Rivelazione Cartoon per il doppiaggio del personaggio Onceler nel cartone animato "Lorax il guardiano della foresta".
Marco prende parte al progetto "...Io Ci Sono", l'album tributo a Giorgio Gaber che celebra il grande artista a dieci anni dalla sua scomparsa, interpretando il brano "Destra-Sinistra".
Il 2013 si apre con la partecipazione di Marco alla 63^ Edizione del Festival di Sanremo con i brani “Bellissimo” e “L’Essenziale”, ed è proprio con quest’ultimo che Marco si classifica primo vincendo il Festival.
Entrambi i brani sono contenuti nel nuovo album di inediti (Sony Music) uscito il 19 marzo 2013:#PRONTOACORRERE ha superato di gran lunga il traguardo del disco di platino e "L’Essenziale" è addirittura multiplatino.
Marco ha rappresentato l’Italia all’Eurovision Song Contest a Malmö (Svezia) nel mese di maggio, dove ha ottenuto il settimo posto con "L’Essenziale".
L’8 maggio è partito "l’Essenziale Anteprima Tour" dal Teatro degli Arcimboldi di Milano: un’anteprima di 10 date, ideata per i più importanti teatri italiani che hanno registrato il sold out non appena aperte la prevendite.
Il 4 luglio è partito invece da Trento "L’Essenziale Tour", con un clamoroso successo di richieste, che continua ad imporre l’apertura di nuove date.
Belvedere Palace stands supposedly on the foundations of a Roman camp that had been erected here for strategic reasons. In 1693 Prince Eugene of Savoy acquired field and vineyard grounds between today's Rennweg and today's Gürtel. In 1700 Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt began with the construction of a palace garden (Lower Belvedere), whose in French-style layed out park was equipped with large water basins, an orangery with precious foreign plants and a menagerie. Prince Eugene was a great animal lover, and some animals in his collection could be fed exclusively by himself.
1720 the Prince conceived the plan the summer palace to supplement by a another palace building on the hill of the garden.
The 1721 by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt begun works had been completed in 1724. The Upper Belvedere served in contrast to the Lower only representative purposes and was never meant to live.
The Prince and his architect managed a perfect symbiosis between architecture and garden. After the death of the Savoy (1736) inherited his niece Victoria of Savoy-Soisson, nee Princess Hildburghausen, all his possessions. From her the Habsburgs beginning of 1752 acquired the Belvedere. From 1755 Empress Maria Theresa moved the Arcierenleibgarde (Royal Company of the Archers) and the Galician Guard in the annex of the Belvedere. Besides, the castle stood almost empty.
Belvedere Castle. Engraving by Salomon Kleiner 1731/40 (left).
Vienna from the Belvedere. Coloured copper engraving by Carl Schütz, 1784 (right).
1770 Belvedere Palace was venue of brilliant festivities:
In castle and park the marriage of Archduchess Maria Antonia (Marie Antoinette) with the Dauphin of France by proxy (per procura) was celebrated. About 2,000 people were invited, more than 1,500 bottles of champagne, which was far from home in Vienna at that time,
were emptied. For hospitality of the guests, there were round tables, which were covered with silver. However, the Court of Vienna had a large part of the silver service to rent of nobles, because the stocks of the silver chamber were not sufficient. Finished was the festival by a magnificent fireworks.
1776, the imperial picture gallery from the Stallburg (home of the famous Lipizzan stallions) was transferred to the Upper Belvedere, the animals of the menagerie came to Schönbrunn. Shortly before the Congress of Vienna in 1814 in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection was exposed. During the war against Napoleon (1805-1809), much of the collection of paintings had to be outsourced. The Corsican claimed 400 masterpieces for himself, but which after his defeat at Waterloo to the Habsburgs have been restituted. The after the French wars completely neglected building has been restored 1850-1866.
Castle Park with Upper Belvedere. Photograph, around 1890.
1819 Emperor Franz II (I) the Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, had given spacious grounds for enlargement of the Botanical Garden at Rennweg. Franz was very interested in botany and in accordance with a Habsburg House bill - every Archduke must learn a civilian job - has been educated for gardener. In an adjoining garden of Schloß Belvedere he had from his private funds laid out a botanical garden ("Flora Austriaca") which was left to the Institute of Botany for use.
During the cholera epidemic of 1831, the Belvedere served as well as Schönbrunn Palace the imperial family as a refuge; supposedly one was there protected from the bad air, which was attributed to the onset of the disease. Both castles lay in the "countryside", the air was much better here than in the densely populated city. During wartime, a hospital was set up in the castle.
As the space for the imperial collections became too small, it was thought to expand the Upper Belvedere by wing buildings. This plan was dropped for aesthetic reasons, however. After the expansion of the city (razing of the bastions and glacis) arose on the ring road the newly created Court Museums; moved there in 1891 the major part of the paintings.
Archduke-Heir to the Throne Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este at folk and children's party in the park of the Belvedere Palace. Photograph, 1905.
To 1893/94 it is likely that Archduke Franz Ferdinand has chosen the Upper Belvedere to his residence in Vienna. Other sources say that it had been assigned to him by the Emperor Franz Joseph as a place to stay in Vienna. The rooms have been restored, adapted for residential purposes and supplemented with neo-Baroque furniture. The heir of the Este collections furnished his residence with numerous works of art. He had envisaged the castle for the accommodation of his collections; in 1893 were numerous boxes from India and Singapore in Belvedere stored. 1894 Emperor Franz Joseph could see the collection: "Yesterday I went to the Belvedere, where Franzi showed me his now quite and very nicely prepared collections. The same are as imposing as interesting by the incredible amount of objects and by the rarity and beauty of them. I believe that this exhibition would be interesting for you", wrote the monarch to his wife, Empress Elisabeth. That same year, Archduke Franz Ferdinand showed his collections his future wife, Sophie Chotková,
"Where I unaware of your fatigue with particular brutality you dragged from box to box" as he apologetically from Budweis wrote to the Countess.
Then the collections moved one the one hand to the Palais Modena in the Beatrixgasse, on the other hand to Konopischt. Only in 1898, Franz Ferdinand was granted by Emperor Franz Joseph to move into the Belvedere as Vienna Residence. More revitalization works were carried out and were also necessary. Technical modernization and preservation of the original building condition had priority - as always with the projects of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As furnishings served still preserved furnitures from Schloss Hof, which were supplemented by new ones in old style. The private rooms in addition to electric lighting were equipped with central heating.
Belvedere Castle. Staircase in the Upper Belvedere (left).
Marble plastic "Apotheosis of Prince Eugene" by Balthasar Permoser in Gold Cabinet of the Lower Belvedere (right).
If his presence was needed in Vienna, Franz Ferdinand here could lead a normal family life and escape the pressures of court ceremonial, in which the to him in morganatic marriage affiliated wife was exposed to the evils of the courtiers. When the heir to the throne invited guests to the Belvedere, he was sitting opposite his wife as a hostess while she was ranked in the Hofburg always after the latest unmarried Archduchess. About the cozy family life at Belvedere reported Prince von Clary-Aldringens:
"Aunt Sophie invited us ... to snack into a Belvedere, unexpectedly, suddenly appeared the Archduke - we literally froze in our Hab-Acht-position (stand at attention). He greeted us warmly ... [I got to know] the Archduke as a friendly landlord, who was playing and laughing with his Children..."
Between 1899 and 1914 in the Lower Belvedere the military bureau of the heir to the throne was housed. Other well-known Residents - but of outbuildings - were Anton Bruckner, who in 1896 died in the Kustodenwohnung (guardian house), and Richard Strauss, who lived here from 1925 to 1944.
After the assassination of the Archduke and his wife in Sarajevo, the Belvedere should serve as the residence of the new heir to the throne, Archduke Karl and his family. This, however, preferred living in Schönbrunn and especially in the villa Wartholz. In 1917, Charles' brother Archduke Maximilian moved with his family into the Belvedere.
During World War II the castle was badly damaged by bombs, but rebuilt after the war ended immediately. On 15 May 1955 was the Marble Hall venue of the signing of the Austrian State Treaty. Today, the Upper Belvedere houses important art collections.
Excerpts from
Thus lived the Habsburgs - Imperial and Royal Palaces in the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Ingrid Haslinger, Gerhard Trumler
Christian Brandstätter Verlag mbH
The publishing service for museums, businesses and
public bodies
www.brandstaetter - verlag.at
Denomination of the summer residence which Prince Eugene of Savoy himself had erected btw Rennweg and Swiss Garden. The term which refers to the unique view over Vienna dates from the time of Maria Theresa. Prinz Eugen bought in 1697 a plot of land at the Rennweg, which he extended to 1721 in four stages to the current area. Between 1714 and 1716 emerged the Lower Belvedere It is an elongated ground floor building, designed of a 7-axes central projection, two wings and two corner pavilions. The 3-axis central pavilion houses the Marble Hall. The castle the only rarely in Vienna sojourning builder served during the summer months as a pleasure palace.
Only in 1720 commenced construction works for the Upper Belvedere, first drawings for this existed already in 1717. The in it extent and form language compared to the Lower Belvedere especially magnificent Upper Belvedere served primarily as a representative setting for grand receptions and festivities. The architectural history of the example due to the loss of the Eugenianischen Bauarchivs (construction archiv of Prince Eugene) cannot be explored in detail without any gaps. 1723 (according to Rizzi 1721/22) the Upper Belvedere s is considered complete. The architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, who repeatedly worked for Prince Eugen, with the construction of the Belvedere has created his main work. It counts in its multiform architectonic as well as sculptural structure to the most important baroque buildings of the 18th century. The to the ensemble belonging, btw Upper and Lower Belvedere laying garden has been created by the Bavarian horticultural engineer D. Girard and today only in broad terms is original. The designs for the interior of the castle stem from C. le Fort du Plessy.
After the death of the prince the belvedere went into the possession of his sole heiress, Victoria Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen. She sold it in 1752 to Maria Theresa. At the behest of Joseph II from 1775 the imperial picture gallery was transferred here, which in 1781 for the first time was open to the public. had. Since 1806 was located in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection. Both collections were in 1890 in the Museum of Art History transferred. In 1894, the palace became residence for the heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
After the first World War I the Republic of Austria in Belvedere installed the Austrian Gallery. 1945 suffered the Belvedere severe war damage. In 1950, the "Gold Cabinet" in the north-eastern corner pavilion of the Upper Belvedere was destroyed by fire and replaced by a copy. The since 1988 ongoing general renovation should have been completed in 1996.
aeiou - the cultural information system of the bm: bwk
14,000 key words and 2000 pictures from history, geography, politics and business in Austria
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
The in the center of Vienna situated Belvedere palaces with their extensive parks form an impressive baroque Gesamtkunstwerk. The Museum in the Upper and Lower Castle
provides an excellent overview of the Austrian Art from the Middle Ages to the present. the collections of the 19th and 20th Century also include an exquisite inventory of international art. World Famous works by Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Renoir and Monet you can see in the upper
Belvedere, from where you can enjoy a spectacular view to the center of Vienna. In the historic rooms of the Lower Belvedere are shown works of art from the Middle Ages and Baroque.
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Phone 43 / ( 0) 1 / 79557-0
Fax 43 / (0) 1/79 84 337
Upper Belvedere
Collections of the 19th and 20th century
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Lower Belvedere
Baroque Museum, and Museum of Medieval Art
Rennweg 6a, A - 1030 Vienna
(further pictures and information you can see if you go to the end of page and by clicking on the link...)
Belvedere
Belvedere Castle. Garden Front of the Lower Belvedere.
Belvedere Palace stands supposedly on the foundations of a Roman camp that had been erected here for strategic reasons. In 1693 Prince Eugene of Savoy acquired field and vineyard grounds between today's Rennweg and today's Gürtel. In 1700 Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt began with the construction of a palace garden (Lower Belvedere), whose in French-style layed out park was equipped with large water basins, an orangery with precious foreign plants and a menagerie. Prince Eugene was a great animal lover, and some animals in his collection could be fed exclusively by himself.
1720 the Prince conceived the plan the summer palace to supplement by a another palace building on the hill of the garden.
The 1721 by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt begun works had been completed in 1724. The Upper Belvedere served in contrast to the Lower only representative purposes and was never meant to live.
The Prince and his architect managed a perfect symbiosis between architecture and garden. After the death of the Savoy (1736) inherited his niece Victoria of Savoy-Soisson, nee Princess Hildburghausen, all his possessions. From her the Habsburgs beginning of 1752 acquired the Belvedere. From 1755 Empress Maria Theresa moved the Arcierenleibgarde (Royal Company of the Archers) and the Galician Guard in the annex of the Belvedere. Besides, the castle stood almost empty.
Belvedere Castle. Engraving by Salomon Kleiner 1731/40 (left).
Vienna from the Belvedere. Coloured copper engraving by Carl Schütz, 1784 (right).
1770 Belvedere Palace was venue of brilliant festivities:
In castle and park the marriage of Archduchess Maria Antonia (Marie Antoinette) with the Dauphin of France by proxy (per procura) was celebrated. About 2,000 people were invited, more than 1,500 bottles of champagne, which was far from home in Vienna at that time,
were emptied. For hospitality of the guests, there were round tables, which were covered with silver. However, the Court of Vienna had a large part of the silver service to rent of nobles, because the stocks of the silver chamber were not sufficient. Finished was the festival by a magnificent fireworks.
1776, the imperial picture gallery from the Stallburg (home of the famous Lipizzan stallions) was transferred to the Upper Belvedere, the animals of the menagerie came to Schönbrunn. Shortly before the Congress of Vienna in 1814 in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection was exposed. During the war against Napoleon (1805-1809), much of the collection of paintings had to be outsourced. The Corsican claimed 400 masterpieces for himself, but which after his defeat at Waterloo to the Habsburgs have been restituted. The after the French wars completely neglected building has been restored 1850-1866.
Castle Park with Upper Belvedere. Photograph, around 1890.
1819 Emperor Franz II (I) the Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, had given spacious grounds for enlargement of the Botanical Garden at Rennweg. Franz was very interested in botany and in accordance with a Habsburg House bill - every Archduke must learn a civilian job - has been educated for gardener. In an adjoining garden of Schloß Belvedere he had from his private funds laid out a botanical garden ("Flora Austriaca") which was left to the Institute of Botany for use.
During the cholera epidemic of 1831, the Belvedere served as well as Schönbrunn Palace the imperial family as a refuge; supposedly one was there protected from the bad air, which was attributed to the onset of the disease. Both castles lay in the "countryside", the air was much better here than in the densely populated city. During wartime, a hospital was set up in the castle.
As the space for the imperial collections became too small, it was thought to expand the Upper Belvedere by wing buildings. This plan was dropped for aesthetic reasons, however. After the expansion of the city (razing of the bastions and glacis) arose on the ring road the newly created Court Museums; moved there in 1891 the major part of the paintings.
Archduke-Heir to the Throne Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este at folk and children's party in the park of the Belvedere Palace. Photograph, 1905.
To 1893/94 it is likely that Archduke Franz Ferdinand has chosen the Upper Belvedere to his residence in Vienna. Other sources say that it had been assigned to him by the Emperor Franz Joseph as a place to stay in Vienna. The rooms have been restored, adapted for residential purposes and supplemented with neo-Baroque furniture. The heir of the Este collections furnished his residence with numerous works of art. He had envisaged the castle for the accommodation of his collections; in 1893 were numerous boxes from India and Singapore in Belvedere stored. 1894 Emperor Franz Joseph could see the collection: "Yesterday I went to the Belvedere, where Franzi showed me his now quite and very nicely prepared collections. The same are as imposing as interesting by the incredible amount of objects and by the rarity and beauty of them. I believe that this exhibition would be interesting for you", wrote the monarch to his wife, Empress Elisabeth. That same year, Archduke Franz Ferdinand showed his collections his future wife, Sophie Chotková,
"Where I unaware of your fatigue with particular brutality you dragged from box to box" as he apologetically from Budweis wrote to the Countess.
Then the collections moved one the one hand to the Palais Modena in the Beatrixgasse, on the other hand to Konopischt. Only in 1898, Franz Ferdinand was granted by Emperor Franz Joseph to move into the Belvedere as Vienna Residence. More revitalization works were carried out and were also necessary. Technical modernization and preservation of the original building condition had priority - as always with the projects of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As furnishings served still preserved furnitures from Schloss Hof, which were supplemented by new ones in old style. The private rooms in addition to electric lighting were equipped with central heating.
Belvedere Castle. Staircase in the Upper Belvedere (left).
Marble plastic "Apotheosis of Prince Eugene" by Balthasar Permoser in Gold Cabinet of the Lower Belvedere (right).
If his presence was needed in Vienna, Franz Ferdinand here could lead a normal family life and escape the pressures of court ceremonial, in which the to him in morganatic marriage affiliated wife was exposed to the evils of the courtiers. When the heir to the throne invited guests to the Belvedere, he was sitting opposite his wife as a hostess while she was ranked in the Hofburg always after the latest unmarried Archduchess. About the cozy family life at Belvedere reported Prince von Clary-Aldringens:
"Aunt Sophie invited us ... to snack into a Belvedere, unexpectedly, suddenly appeared the Archduke - we literally froze in our Hab-Acht-position (stand at attention). He greeted us warmly ... [I got to know] the Archduke as a friendly landlord, who was playing and laughing with his Children..."
Between 1899 and 1914 in the Lower Belvedere the military bureau of the heir to the throne was housed. Other well-known Residents - but of outbuildings - were Anton Bruckner, who in 1896 died in the Kustodenwohnung (guardian house), and Richard Strauss, who lived here from 1925 to 1944.
After the assassination of the Archduke and his wife in Sarajevo, the Belvedere should serve as the residence of the new heir to the throne, Archduke Karl and his family. This, however, preferred living in Schönbrunn and especially in the villa Wartholz. In 1917, Charles' brother Archduke Maximilian moved with his family into the Belvedere.
During World War II the castle was badly damaged by bombs, but rebuilt after the war ended immediately. On 15 May 1955 was the Marble Hall venue of the signing of the Austrian State Treaty. Today, the Upper Belvedere houses important art collections.
Excerpts from
Thus lived the Habsburgs - Imperial and Royal Palaces in the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Ingrid Haslinger, Gerhard Trumler
Christian Brandstätter Verlag mbH
The publishing service for museums, businesses and
public bodies
www.brandstaetter - verlag.at
Denomination of the summer residence which Prince Eugene of Savoy himself had erected btw Rennweg and Swiss Garden. The term which refers to the unique view over Vienna dates from the time of Maria Theresa. Prinz Eugen bought in 1697 a plot of land at the Rennweg, which he extended to 1721 in four stages to the current area. Between 1714 and 1716 emerged the Lower Belvedere It is an elongated ground floor building, designed of a 7-axes central projection, two wings and two corner pavilions. The 3-axis central pavilion houses the Marble Hall. The castle the only rarely in Vienna sojourning builder served during the summer months as a pleasure palace.
Only in 1720 commenced construction works for the Upper Belvedere, first drawings for this existed already in 1717. The in it extent and form language compared to the Lower Belvedere especially magnificent Upper Belvedere served primarily as a representative setting for grand receptions and festivities. The architectural history of the example due to the loss of the Eugenianischen Bauarchivs (construction archiv of Prince Eugene) cannot be explored in detail without any gaps. 1723 (according to Rizzi 1721/22) the Upper Belvedere s is considered complete. The architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, who repeatedly worked for Prince Eugen, with the construction of the Belvedere has created his main work. It counts in its multiform architectonic as well as sculptural structure to the most important baroque buildings of the 18th century. The to the ensemble belonging, btw Upper and Lower Belvedere laying garden has been created by the Bavarian horticultural engineer D. Girard and today only in broad terms is original. The designs for the interior of the castle stem from C. le Fort du Plessy.
After the death of the prince the belvedere went into the possession of his sole heiress, Victoria Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen. She sold it in 1752 to Maria Theresa. At the behest of Joseph II from 1775 the imperial picture gallery was transferred here, which in 1781 for the first time was open to the public. had. Since 1806 was located in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection. Both collections were in 1890 in the Museum of Art History transferred. In 1894, the palace became residence for the heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
After the first World War I the Republic of Austria in Belvedere installed the Austrian Gallery. 1945 suffered the Belvedere severe war damage. In 1950, the "Gold Cabinet" in the north-eastern corner pavilion of the Upper Belvedere was destroyed by fire and replaced by a copy. The since 1988 ongoing general renovation should have been completed in 1996.
aeiou - the cultural information system of the bm: bwk
14,000 key words and 2000 pictures from history, geography, politics and business in Austria
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
The in the center of Vienna situated Belvedere palaces with their extensive parks form an impressive baroque Gesamtkunstwerk. The Museum in the Upper and Lower Castle
provides an excellent overview of the Austrian Art from the Middle Ages to the present. the collections of the 19th and 20th Century also include an exquisite inventory of international art. World Famous works by Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Renoir and Monet you can see in the upper
Belvedere, from where you can enjoy a spectacular view to the center of Vienna. In the historic rooms of the Lower Belvedere are shown works of art from the Middle Ages and Baroque.
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Phone +43 / ( 0) 1 / 79557-0
Fax +43 / (0) 1/79 84 337
Upper Belvedere
Collections of the 19th and 20th century
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Lower Belvedere
Baroque Museum, and Museum of Medieval Art
Rennweg 6a, A - 1030 Vienna
(further pictures and information you can see if you go to the end of page and by clicking on the link...)
Belvedere
Belvedere Castle. Garden Front of the Lower Belvedere.
Belvedere Palace stands supposedly on the foundations of a Roman camp that had been erected here for strategic reasons. In 1693 Prince Eugene of Savoy acquired field and vineyard grounds between today's Rennweg and today's Gürtel. In 1700 Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt began with the construction of a palace garden (Lower Belvedere), whose in French-style layed out park was equipped with large water basins, an orangery with precious foreign plants and a menagerie. Prince Eugene was a great animal lover, and some animals in his collection could be fed exclusively by himself.
1720 the Prince conceived the plan the summer palace to supplement by a another palace building on the hill of the garden.
The 1721 by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt begun works had been completed in 1724. The Upper Belvedere served in contrast to the Lower only representative purposes and was never meant to live.
The Prince and his architect managed a perfect symbiosis between architecture and garden. After the death of the Savoy (1736) inherited his niece Victoria of Savoy-Soisson, nee Princess Hildburghausen, all his possessions. From her the Habsburgs beginning of 1752 acquired the Belvedere. From 1755 Empress Maria Theresa moved the Arcierenleibgarde (Royal Company of the Archers) and the Galician Guard in the annex of the Belvedere. Besides, the castle stood almost empty.
Belvedere Castle. Engraving by Salomon Kleiner 1731/40 (left).
Vienna from the Belvedere. Coloured copper engraving by Carl Schütz, 1784 (right).
1770 Belvedere Palace was venue of brilliant festivities:
In castle and park the marriage of Archduchess Maria Antonia (Marie Antoinette) with the Dauphin of France by proxy (per procura) was celebrated. About 2,000 people were invited, more than 1,500 bottles of champagne, which was far from home in Vienna at that time,
were emptied. For hospitality of the guests, there were round tables, which were covered with silver. However, the Court of Vienna had a large part of the silver service to rent of nobles, because the stocks of the silver chamber were not sufficient. Finished was the festival by a magnificent fireworks.
1776, the imperial picture gallery from the Stallburg (home of the famous Lipizzan stallions) was transferred to the Upper Belvedere, the animals of the menagerie came to Schönbrunn. Shortly before the Congress of Vienna in 1814 in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection was exposed. During the war against Napoleon (1805-1809), much of the collection of paintings had to be outsourced. The Corsican claimed 400 masterpieces for himself, but which after his defeat at Waterloo to the Habsburgs have been restituted. The after the French wars completely neglected building has been restored 1850-1866.
Castle Park with Upper Belvedere. Photograph, around 1890.
1819 Emperor Franz II (I) the Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, had given spacious grounds for enlargement of the Botanical Garden at Rennweg. Franz was very interested in botany and in accordance with a Habsburg House bill - every Archduke must learn a civilian job - has been educated for gardener. In an adjoining garden of Schloß Belvedere he had from his private funds laid out a botanical garden ("Flora Austriaca") which was left to the Institute of Botany for use.
During the cholera epidemic of 1831, the Belvedere served as well as Schönbrunn Palace the imperial family as a refuge; supposedly one was there protected from the bad air, which was attributed to the onset of the disease. Both castles lay in the "countryside", the air was much better here than in the densely populated city. During wartime, a hospital was set up in the castle.
As the space for the imperial collections became too small, it was thought to expand the Upper Belvedere by wing buildings. This plan was dropped for aesthetic reasons, however. After the expansion of the city (razing of the bastions and glacis) arose on the ring road the newly created Court Museums; moved there in 1891 the major part of the paintings.
Archduke-Heir to the Throne Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este at folk and children's party in the park of the Belvedere Palace. Photograph, 1905.
To 1893/94 it is likely that Archduke Franz Ferdinand has chosen the Upper Belvedere to his residence in Vienna. Other sources say that it had been assigned to him by the Emperor Franz Joseph as a place to stay in Vienna. The rooms have been restored, adapted for residential purposes and supplemented with neo-Baroque furniture. The heir of the Este collections furnished his residence with numerous works of art. He had envisaged the castle for the accommodation of his collections; in 1893 were numerous boxes from India and Singapore in Belvedere stored. 1894 Emperor Franz Joseph could see the collection: "Yesterday I went to the Belvedere, where Franzi showed me his now quite and very nicely prepared collections. The same are as imposing as interesting by the incredible amount of objects and by the rarity and beauty of them. I believe that this exhibition would be interesting for you", wrote the monarch to his wife, Empress Elisabeth. That same year, Archduke Franz Ferdinand showed his collections his future wife, Sophie Chotková,
"Where I unaware of your fatigue with particular brutality you dragged from box to box" as he apologetically from Budweis wrote to the Countess.
Then the collections moved one the one hand to the Palais Modena in the Beatrixgasse, on the other hand to Konopischt. Only in 1898, Franz Ferdinand was granted by Emperor Franz Joseph to move into the Belvedere as Vienna Residence. More revitalization works were carried out and were also necessary. Technical modernization and preservation of the original building condition had priority - as always with the projects of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As furnishings served still preserved furnitures from Schloss Hof, which were supplemented by new ones in old style. The private rooms in addition to electric lighting were equipped with central heating.
Belvedere Castle. Staircase in the Upper Belvedere (left).
Marble plastic "Apotheosis of Prince Eugene" by Balthasar Permoser in Gold Cabinet of the Lower Belvedere (right).
If his presence was needed in Vienna, Franz Ferdinand here could lead a normal family life and escape the pressures of court ceremonial, in which the to him in morganatic marriage affiliated wife was exposed to the evils of the courtiers. When the heir to the throne invited guests to the Belvedere, he was sitting opposite his wife as a hostess while she was ranked in the Hofburg always after the latest unmarried Archduchess. About the cozy family life at Belvedere reported Prince von Clary-Aldringens:
"Aunt Sophie invited us ... to snack into a Belvedere, unexpectedly, suddenly appeared the Archduke - we literally froze in our Hab-Acht-position (stand at attention). He greeted us warmly ... [I got to know] the Archduke as a friendly landlord, who was playing and laughing with his Children..."
Between 1899 and 1914 in the Lower Belvedere the military bureau of the heir to the throne was housed. Other well-known Residents - but of outbuildings - were Anton Bruckner, who in 1896 died in the Kustodenwohnung (guardian house), and Richard Strauss, who lived here from 1925 to 1944.
After the assassination of the Archduke and his wife in Sarajevo, the Belvedere should serve as the residence of the new heir to the throne, Archduke Karl and his family. This, however, preferred living in Schönbrunn and especially in the villa Wartholz. In 1917, Charles' brother Archduke Maximilian moved with his family into the Belvedere.
During World War II the castle was badly damaged by bombs, but rebuilt after the war ended immediately. On 15 May 1955 was the Marble Hall venue of the signing of the Austrian State Treaty. Today, the Upper Belvedere houses important art collections.
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Denomination of the summer residence which Prince Eugene of Savoy himself had erected btw Rennweg and Swiss Garden. The term which refers to the unique view over Vienna dates from the time of Maria Theresa. Prinz Eugen bought in 1697 a plot of land at the Rennweg, which he extended to 1721 in four stages to the current area. Between 1714 and 1716 emerged the Lower Belvedere It is an elongated ground floor building, designed of a 7-axes central projection, two wings and two corner pavilions. The 3-axis central pavilion houses the Marble Hall. The castle the only rarely in Vienna sojourning builder served during the summer months as a pleasure palace.
Only in 1720 commenced construction works for the Upper Belvedere, first drawings for this existed already in 1717. The in it extent and form language compared to the Lower Belvedere especially magnificent Upper Belvedere served primarily as a representative setting for grand receptions and festivities. The architectural history of the example due to the loss of the Eugenianischen Bauarchivs (construction archiv of Prince Eugene) cannot be explored in detail without any gaps. 1723 (according to Rizzi 1721/22) the Upper Belvedere s is considered complete. The architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, who repeatedly worked for Prince Eugen, with the construction of the Belvedere has created his main work. It counts in its multiform architectonic as well as sculptural structure to the most important baroque buildings of the 18th century. The to the ensemble belonging, btw Upper and Lower Belvedere laying garden has been created by the Bavarian horticultural engineer D. Girard and today only in broad terms is original. The designs for the interior of the castle stem from C. le Fort du Plessy.
After the death of the prince the belvedere went into the possession of his sole heiress, Victoria Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen. She sold it in 1752 to Maria Theresa. At the behest of Joseph II from 1775 the imperial picture gallery was transferred here, which in 1781 for the first time was open to the public. had. Since 1806 was located in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection. Both collections were in 1890 in the Museum of Art History transferred. In 1894, the palace became residence for the heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
After the first World War I the Republic of Austria in Belvedere installed the Austrian Gallery. 1945 suffered the Belvedere severe war damage. In 1950, the "Gold Cabinet" in the north-eastern corner pavilion of the Upper Belvedere was destroyed by fire and replaced by a copy. The since 1988 ongoing general renovation should have been completed in 1996.
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Marco Mengoni , vincitore incontrastato della terza edizione di 'X Factor'. Presenza scenica da professionista consumato, lunatico, "permaloso quasi antipatico", ha conquistato la stima del pubblico (non è mai finito in ballottaggio per l'eliminazione) grazie a interpretazioni di grande spessore.
Il 4 dicembre 2009 esce “DOVE SI VOLA”, il suo primo Ep, che in poche settimane scala le classifiche di vendita con oltre 70 mila copie.
“Dove si vola”, brano che da il titolo all’Ep, è difficile da interpretare per un uomo, sia per la tonalità molto alta che per l’articolazione della melodia sull’armonia. La forza vocale di Marco regala al pezzo una magia unica che, durante le esibizioni fa letteralmente volare il pubblico, pubblico che l’ha votato e proclamato, quasi fin da subito, il vero talento della terza edizione di X Factor. All’interno dell’EP un altro brano inedito, “Lontanissimo da te”, firmato Massimo e Piero Calabrese e cinque tra le più emozionanti cover cantate da Marco durante il programma.
Marco nasce a Ronciglione (VT) il 25 dicembre 1988 (Capricorno), proprio nel giorno di Natale. Fin da bambino ama tutti i generi musicali: “Alla tenera 'altezza' di 70 cm. comincio ad ascoltare di tutto, dal pop all’r&b, soul, rock ed inizio ad approfondire la mia cultura musicale: scopro il karaoke e comincio a cantare di nascosto, per timidezza. Poi una volta i miei per caso mi ascoltano e si convincono di mandarmi ad una scuola di canto. Da quel momento capisco che la musica non è poi così semplice come pensavo: c'era da imparare molto…. tecniche di respirazione, maschera facciale, scale, vocalizzi di qualsiasi genere, per affinare la voce”.
Marco inizia a cantare all’età di 14 anni. Mentre studia all'Istituto per il Design, segue anche una scuola di canto dove impara le prime tecniche per la gestione e l'utilizzo dei propri mezzi vocali. Visto il talento di Marco, l’insegnante di canto lo inserisce in un piccolo quintetto vocale con cui si esibisce in serate di piazza e per le festività, facendo cover.
Dopo 2 anni ha inizio il suo percorso solista con un gruppo di musicisti con il quale suona nei club un po’ del suo repertorio originale e un po’ di cover, continuando quindi la sua gavetta. Iniziano tre anni di duro lavoro e provinaggio, per affinare lo stile e la personalità, ed anche per questo, Marco, figlio unico, lascia la famiglia per trasferirsi a Roma. Contemporaneamente si iscrive all’Università nella Facoltà di Lingue, e fa esperienza come fonico e programmatore, prendendo familiarità con gli studi di registrazione.
Il suo genere preferito resta il Brit Pop e la sua massima, e amatissima, influenza musicale sono i Beatles: tra le sue canzoni preferite dei Fab 4 ci sono 'Michelle' e 'The Fool on te hill'. Anche se il brano che gli ha cambiato la vita è 'La luce dell’est' di Lucio Battisti.
Vincendo X Factor Marco partecipa di diritto alla Sessantesima Edizione del Festival di Sanremo, nella categoria 'Artisti', interpretando “Credimi ancora”, brano che fa parte dell’EP “Re Matto” uscito il 19 febbraio 2010 su etichetta Rca/Sony Music.
Il 2010 è un anno davvero unico per quest’artista giovane ma pieno di talento. Mentre la sua paginaFacebook continua a crescere (superando ad oggi i 300 mila iscritti), Il 3 e 4 maggio parte dall’Alcatraz di Milano Il “Re Matto Tour, un viaggio nella “Mattità”, un’avventura vertiginosa nella mente colorata e multiforme di MARCO MENGONI. Lo spettacolo nasce da un’ idea di Marco, Luca Tommassini e Stella Fabiani. La regia è affidata a LUCA TOMMASSINI, la direzione artistica è di PIERO CALABRESE, la produzione è di F&P Group e dei “CANTIERI MUSICALI” che da sempre lavorano con MENGONI. Nel team creativo di Marco e del “RE MATTO TOUR” sono state coinvolte figure importanti a livello mondiale come lo stilista Neil Barrett, che finora ha solo disegnato abiti per artisti come Madonna, Justin Timberlake, Brad Pitt e Johnny Depp, e lo scultore Davide Orlandi Dormino, creatore di “Opera Scacchi”, la scultura che invade il palco. “IL RE MATTO TOUR” è ideato, sviluppato e strutturato all’insegna della totale libertà, della poesia, della sregolatezza e dell’improvvisazione rendendo ogni concerto un vero evento, con ospiti a sorpresa cheMARCO scopre insieme al pubblico…una sfida che solo un Re Matto poteva accettare.
Intanto l’8 maggio Marco partecipa ai Trl Awards e vince nella categoria “Man of the Year”.
Il “Re Matto tour” è un’esperienza straordinaria per Marco, che vive e si ciba dell’entusiasmo del pubblico. È un tour trionfale che colleziona un sold out dopo l’altro.
Il 2 giugno viene premiato ai Wind Music Awards e si aggiudica il doppio disco di platino per il suo primo Ep “Dove si vola”, che raccoglie l’omonima canzone e alcune delle cover cantate durante il programma di X Factor, e l’album “Re Matto”, superando le 160 mila copie vendute.
Il "Re Matto" del pop italiano non si fa mancare proprio nulla. Supera gli altri colleghi in gara agli Ema 2010 nella categoria dedicata agli artisti italiani: Malika Ayane, dARi, Sonohra e Nina Zilli.
Questo è un riconoscimento fondamentale per Marco Mengoni, artista italiano rivelazione del 2010, che ad MTV si è già aggiudicato il premio come "Man Of The Year" ai TRL Awards 2010 ed è arrivato secondo in una gara all'ultima edizione del Coca Cola Live @ MTV: The Summer Song. Grazie alla vittoria come Best Italian Act, Marco è entrato in nomination per il "Best European Act" in concorrenza con gli altri vincitori dei regional act. Marco partecipa inoltre all'ottava edizione di "O'Scia'", insieme ad altre star del pop italiano ed internazionale, organizzata da Claudio Baglioni a Lampedusa in cui si intende sensibilizzare fan, politici e cittadini sul problema della immigrazione clandestina.
Il 19 ottobre esce su etichetta Rca/Sony Music il Cd+Dvd “Re Matto live”. L’album debutta al 1° posto della classifica dei dischi più venduti (Gfk/Fimi) e al 1° posto della classifica di iTunes.
A novembre Marco Mengoni, dopo aver trionfato nella categoria Best Italian Act, si aggiudica anche il prestigioso titolo di Best European Act: un premio importante per lui e per l'Italia, considerando che in 17 edizioni nessun italiano era mai riuscito a raggiungere tale riconoscimento.
Il 2 settembre 2011 arriva in radio il singolo “Solo” che, anticipando l’uscita del nuovo disco, schizza alprimo posto della classica di iTunes. Il 27 settembre esce “Solo 2.0”, un vero e proprio concept album, che oltre alle tracce del disco e a un contenuto virtuale speciale (Il Comic 2.0), contamina anche la prima parte del Tour.
Dopo un’anteprima trionfante del “Solo Tour” con due date evento al Forum di Assago e al Palalottomatica di Roma, Marco Mengoni decide di cambiare veste allo spettacolo e di svelare al pubblico un’altra porzione d’anima, il suo lato più intimista, quasi introspettivo, non tralasciando mai la sua voglia di stupire e di emozionare. È un TOUR TEATRALE che fa della suggestione visiva e sonora il suo punto di forza.
Uno spettacolo in cui musica, movimento scenico, luci e scenografie compenetrano tra loro, per toccare ancor più da vicino l’anima di chi ascolta. L’essenza intimista dello spettacolo è rappresentata soprattutto dal suono. Una chiave di lettura inedita, con cui verranno reinterpretati molti tra i brani più noti del repertorio di Marco, insieme ad alcune cover, mai eseguite prima.
Il tour teatrale, ideato da Elisa, Marco Mengoni e Andrea Rigonat, parte dall’Arcimboldi di Milano il 19 aprile, passando dal Filarmonico di Verona, il Politeama di Palermo, il Gran Teatro di Roma e molti dei teatri più importanti d’Italia.
In radio intanto suona il nuovo singolo “Dall’inferno”, estratto dall’album Solo 2.0
Esce il 24 aprile, in esclusiva su iTunes, “Dall’Inferno EP”, l’EP digitale di Marco Mengoni contenente la title track, il videoclip e il backstage inedito di “Dall’inferno” e il video live di “Come ti senti”, girato durante lo showcase di presentazione dell’album “Solo 2.0”.
Marco è ospite dell’evento "Premio Leggio d'Oro", dove gli viene consegnato il Premio Speciale Voce Rivelazione Cartoon per il doppiaggio del personaggio Onceler nel cartone animato "Lorax il guardiano della foresta".
Marco prende parte al progetto "...Io Ci Sono", l'album tributo a Giorgio Gaber che celebra il grande artista a dieci anni dalla sua scomparsa, interpretando il brano "Destra-Sinistra".
Il 2013 si apre con la partecipazione di Marco alla 63^ Edizione del Festival di Sanremo con i brani “Bellissimo” e “L’Essenziale”, ed è proprio con quest’ultimo che Marco si classifica primo vincendo il Festival.
Entrambi i brani sono contenuti nel nuovo album di inediti (Sony Music) uscito il 19 marzo 2013:#PRONTOACORRERE ha superato di gran lunga il traguardo del disco di platino e "L’Essenziale" è addirittura multiplatino.
Marco ha rappresentato l’Italia all’Eurovision Song Contest a Malmö (Svezia) nel mese di maggio, dove ha ottenuto il settimo posto con "L’Essenziale".
L’8 maggio è partito "l’Essenziale Anteprima Tour" dal Teatro degli Arcimboldi di Milano: un’anteprima di 10 date, ideata per i più importanti teatri italiani che hanno registrato il sold out non appena aperte la prevendite.
Il 4 luglio è partito invece da Trento "L’Essenziale Tour", con un clamoroso successo di richieste, che continua ad imporre l’apertura di nuove date.
Marco Mengoni
Teatro Arcimboldi - Milano
26 Settembre 2013
ph © Mairo Cinquetti
© All rights reserved. Do not use my photos without my written permission. If you would like to buy or use this photo PLEASE message me or email me at mairo.cinquetti@gmail.com
Marco Mengoni , vincitore incontrastato della terza edizione di 'X Factor'. Presenza scenica da professionista consumato, lunatico, "permaloso quasi antipatico", ha conquistato la stima del pubblico (non è mai finito in ballottaggio per l'eliminazione) grazie a interpretazioni di grande spessore.
Il 4 dicembre 2009 esce “DOVE SI VOLA”, il suo primo Ep, che in poche settimane scala le classifiche di vendita con oltre 70 mila copie.
“Dove si vola”, brano che da il titolo all’Ep, è difficile da interpretare per un uomo, sia per la tonalità molto alta che per l’articolazione della melodia sull’armonia. La forza vocale di Marco regala al pezzo una magia unica che, durante le esibizioni fa letteralmente volare il pubblico, pubblico che l’ha votato e proclamato, quasi fin da subito, il vero talento della terza edizione di X Factor. All’interno dell’EP un altro brano inedito, “Lontanissimo da te”, firmato Massimo e Piero Calabrese e cinque tra le più emozionanti cover cantate da Marco durante il programma.
Marco nasce a Ronciglione (VT) il 25 dicembre 1988 (Capricorno), proprio nel giorno di Natale. Fin da bambino ama tutti i generi musicali: “Alla tenera 'altezza' di 70 cm. comincio ad ascoltare di tutto, dal pop all’r&b, soul, rock ed inizio ad approfondire la mia cultura musicale: scopro il karaoke e comincio a cantare di nascosto, per timidezza. Poi una volta i miei per caso mi ascoltano e si convincono di mandarmi ad una scuola di canto. Da quel momento capisco che la musica non è poi così semplice come pensavo: c'era da imparare molto…. tecniche di respirazione, maschera facciale, scale, vocalizzi di qualsiasi genere, per affinare la voce”.
Marco inizia a cantare all’età di 14 anni. Mentre studia all'Istituto per il Design, segue anche una scuola di canto dove impara le prime tecniche per la gestione e l'utilizzo dei propri mezzi vocali. Visto il talento di Marco, l’insegnante di canto lo inserisce in un piccolo quintetto vocale con cui si esibisce in serate di piazza e per le festività, facendo cover.
Dopo 2 anni ha inizio il suo percorso solista con un gruppo di musicisti con il quale suona nei club un po’ del suo repertorio originale e un po’ di cover, continuando quindi la sua gavetta. Iniziano tre anni di duro lavoro e provinaggio, per affinare lo stile e la personalità, ed anche per questo, Marco, figlio unico, lascia la famiglia per trasferirsi a Roma. Contemporaneamente si iscrive all’Università nella Facoltà di Lingue, e fa esperienza come fonico e programmatore, prendendo familiarità con gli studi di registrazione.
Il suo genere preferito resta il Brit Pop e la sua massima, e amatissima, influenza musicale sono i Beatles: tra le sue canzoni preferite dei Fab 4 ci sono 'Michelle' e 'The Fool on te hill'. Anche se il brano che gli ha cambiato la vita è 'La luce dell’est' di Lucio Battisti.
Vincendo X Factor Marco partecipa di diritto alla Sessantesima Edizione del Festival di Sanremo, nella categoria 'Artisti', interpretando “Credimi ancora”, brano che fa parte dell’EP “Re Matto” uscito il 19 febbraio 2010 su etichetta Rca/Sony Music.
Il 2010 è un anno davvero unico per quest’artista giovane ma pieno di talento. Mentre la sua paginaFacebook continua a crescere (superando ad oggi i 300 mila iscritti), Il 3 e 4 maggio parte dall’Alcatraz di Milano Il “Re Matto Tour, un viaggio nella “Mattità”, un’avventura vertiginosa nella mente colorata e multiforme di MARCO MENGONI. Lo spettacolo nasce da un’ idea di Marco, Luca Tommassini e Stella Fabiani. La regia è affidata a LUCA TOMMASSINI, la direzione artistica è di PIERO CALABRESE, la produzione è di F&P Group e dei “CANTIERI MUSICALI” che da sempre lavorano con MENGONI. Nel team creativo di Marco e del “RE MATTO TOUR” sono state coinvolte figure importanti a livello mondiale come lo stilista Neil Barrett, che finora ha solo disegnato abiti per artisti come Madonna, Justin Timberlake, Brad Pitt e Johnny Depp, e lo scultore Davide Orlandi Dormino, creatore di “Opera Scacchi”, la scultura che invade il palco. “IL RE MATTO TOUR” è ideato, sviluppato e strutturato all’insegna della totale libertà, della poesia, della sregolatezza e dell’improvvisazione rendendo ogni concerto un vero evento, con ospiti a sorpresa cheMARCO scopre insieme al pubblico…una sfida che solo un Re Matto poteva accettare.
Intanto l’8 maggio Marco partecipa ai Trl Awards e vince nella categoria “Man of the Year”.
Il “Re Matto tour” è un’esperienza straordinaria per Marco, che vive e si ciba dell’entusiasmo del pubblico. È un tour trionfale che colleziona un sold out dopo l’altro.
Il 2 giugno viene premiato ai Wind Music Awards e si aggiudica il doppio disco di platino per il suo primo Ep “Dove si vola”, che raccoglie l’omonima canzone e alcune delle cover cantate durante il programma di X Factor, e l’album “Re Matto”, superando le 160 mila copie vendute.
Il "Re Matto" del pop italiano non si fa mancare proprio nulla. Supera gli altri colleghi in gara agli Ema 2010 nella categoria dedicata agli artisti italiani: Malika Ayane, dARi, Sonohra e Nina Zilli.
Questo è un riconoscimento fondamentale per Marco Mengoni, artista italiano rivelazione del 2010, che ad MTV si è già aggiudicato il premio come "Man Of The Year" ai TRL Awards 2010 ed è arrivato secondo in una gara all'ultima edizione del Coca Cola Live @ MTV: The Summer Song. Grazie alla vittoria come Best Italian Act, Marco è entrato in nomination per il "Best European Act" in concorrenza con gli altri vincitori dei regional act. Marco partecipa inoltre all'ottava edizione di "O'Scia'", insieme ad altre star del pop italiano ed internazionale, organizzata da Claudio Baglioni a Lampedusa in cui si intende sensibilizzare fan, politici e cittadini sul problema della immigrazione clandestina.
Il 19 ottobre esce su etichetta Rca/Sony Music il Cd+Dvd “Re Matto live”. L’album debutta al 1° posto della classifica dei dischi più venduti (Gfk/Fimi) e al 1° posto della classifica di iTunes.
A novembre Marco Mengoni, dopo aver trionfato nella categoria Best Italian Act, si aggiudica anche il prestigioso titolo di Best European Act: un premio importante per lui e per l'Italia, considerando che in 17 edizioni nessun italiano era mai riuscito a raggiungere tale riconoscimento.
Il 2 settembre 2011 arriva in radio il singolo “Solo” che, anticipando l’uscita del nuovo disco, schizza alprimo posto della classica di iTunes. Il 27 settembre esce “Solo 2.0”, un vero e proprio concept album, che oltre alle tracce del disco e a un contenuto virtuale speciale (Il Comic 2.0), contamina anche la prima parte del Tour.
Dopo un’anteprima trionfante del “Solo Tour” con due date evento al Forum di Assago e al Palalottomatica di Roma, Marco Mengoni decide di cambiare veste allo spettacolo e di svelare al pubblico un’altra porzione d’anima, il suo lato più intimista, quasi introspettivo, non tralasciando mai la sua voglia di stupire e di emozionare. È un TOUR TEATRALE che fa della suggestione visiva e sonora il suo punto di forza.
Uno spettacolo in cui musica, movimento scenico, luci e scenografie compenetrano tra loro, per toccare ancor più da vicino l’anima di chi ascolta. L’essenza intimista dello spettacolo è rappresentata soprattutto dal suono. Una chiave di lettura inedita, con cui verranno reinterpretati molti tra i brani più noti del repertorio di Marco, insieme ad alcune cover, mai eseguite prima.
Il tour teatrale, ideato da Elisa, Marco Mengoni e Andrea Rigonat, parte dall’Arcimboldi di Milano il 19 aprile, passando dal Filarmonico di Verona, il Politeama di Palermo, il Gran Teatro di Roma e molti dei teatri più importanti d’Italia.
In radio intanto suona il nuovo singolo “Dall’inferno”, estratto dall’album Solo 2.0
Esce il 24 aprile, in esclusiva su iTunes, “Dall’Inferno EP”, l’EP digitale di Marco Mengoni contenente la title track, il videoclip e il backstage inedito di “Dall’inferno” e il video live di “Come ti senti”, girato durante lo showcase di presentazione dell’album “Solo 2.0”.
Marco è ospite dell’evento "Premio Leggio d'Oro", dove gli viene consegnato il Premio Speciale Voce Rivelazione Cartoon per il doppiaggio del personaggio Onceler nel cartone animato "Lorax il guardiano della foresta".
Marco prende parte al progetto "...Io Ci Sono", l'album tributo a Giorgio Gaber che celebra il grande artista a dieci anni dalla sua scomparsa, interpretando il brano "Destra-Sinistra".
Il 2013 si apre con la partecipazione di Marco alla 63^ Edizione del Festival di Sanremo con i brani “Bellissimo” e “L’Essenziale”, ed è proprio con quest’ultimo che Marco si classifica primo vincendo il Festival.
Entrambi i brani sono contenuti nel nuovo album di inediti (Sony Music) uscito il 19 marzo 2013:#PRONTOACORRERE ha superato di gran lunga il traguardo del disco di platino e "L’Essenziale" è addirittura multiplatino.
Marco ha rappresentato l’Italia all’Eurovision Song Contest a Malmö (Svezia) nel mese di maggio, dove ha ottenuto il settimo posto con "L’Essenziale".
L’8 maggio è partito "l’Essenziale Anteprima Tour" dal Teatro degli Arcimboldi di Milano: un’anteprima di 10 date, ideata per i più importanti teatri italiani che hanno registrato il sold out non appena aperte la prevendite.
Il 4 luglio è partito invece da Trento "L’Essenziale Tour", con un clamoroso successo di richieste, che continua ad imporre l’apertura di nuove date.
(further pictures and information you can see if you go to the end of page and by clicking on the link...)
Belvedere
Belvedere Castle. Garden Front of the Lower Belvedere.
Belvedere Palace stands supposedly on the foundations of a Roman camp that had been erected here for strategic reasons. In 1693 Prince Eugene of Savoy acquired field and vineyard grounds between today's Rennweg and today's Gürtel. In 1700 Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt began with the construction of a palace garden (Lower Belvedere), whose in French-style layed out park was equipped with large water basins, an orangery with precious foreign plants and a menagerie. Prince Eugene was a great animal lover, and some animals in his collection could be fed exclusively by himself.
1720 the Prince conceived the plan the summer palace to supplement by a another palace building on the hill of the garden.
The 1721 by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt begun works had been completed in 1724. The Upper Belvedere served in contrast to the Lower only representative purposes and was never meant to live.
The Prince and his architect managed a perfect symbiosis between architecture and garden. After the death of the Savoy (1736) inherited his niece Victoria of Savoy-Soisson, nee Princess Hildburghausen, all his possessions. From her the Habsburgs beginning of 1752 acquired the Belvedere. From 1755 Empress Maria Theresa moved the Arcierenleibgarde (Royal Company of the Archers) and the Galician Guard in the annex of the Belvedere. Besides, the castle stood almost empty.
Belvedere Castle. Engraving by Salomon Kleiner 1731/40 (left).
Vienna from the Belvedere. Coloured copper engraving by Carl Schütz, 1784 (right).
1770 Belvedere Palace was venue of brilliant festivities:
In castle and park the marriage of Archduchess Maria Antonia (Marie Antoinette) with the Dauphin of France by proxy (per procura) was celebrated. About 2,000 people were invited, more than 1,500 bottles of champagne, which was far from home in Vienna at that time,
were emptied. For hospitality of the guests, there were round tables, which were covered with silver. However, the Court of Vienna had a large part of the silver service to rent of nobles, because the stocks of the silver chamber were not sufficient. Finished was the festival by a magnificent fireworks.
1776, the imperial picture gallery from the Stallburg (home of the famous Lipizzan stallions) was transferred to the Upper Belvedere, the animals of the menagerie came to Schönbrunn. Shortly before the Congress of Vienna in 1814 in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection was exposed. During the war against Napoleon (1805-1809), much of the collection of paintings had to be outsourced. The Corsican claimed 400 masterpieces for himself, but which after his defeat at Waterloo to the Habsburgs have been restituted. The after the French wars completely neglected building has been restored 1850-1866.
Castle Park with Upper Belvedere. Photograph, around 1890.
1819 Emperor Franz II (I) the Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, had given spacious grounds for enlargement of the Botanical Garden at Rennweg. Franz was very interested in botany and in accordance with a Habsburg House bill - every Archduke must learn a civilian job - has been educated for gardener. In an adjoining garden of Schloß Belvedere he had from his private funds laid out a botanical garden ("Flora Austriaca") which was left to the Institute of Botany for use.
During the cholera epidemic of 1831, the Belvedere served as well as Schönbrunn Palace the imperial family as a refuge; supposedly one was there protected from the bad air, which was attributed to the onset of the disease. Both castles lay in the "countryside", the air was much better here than in the densely populated city. During wartime, a hospital was set up in the castle.
As the space for the imperial collections became too small, it was thought to expand the Upper Belvedere by wing buildings. This plan was dropped for aesthetic reasons, however. After the expansion of the city (razing of the bastions and glacis) arose on the ring road the newly created Court Museums; moved there in 1891 the major part of the paintings.
Archduke-Heir to the Throne Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este at folk and children's party in the park of the Belvedere Palace. Photograph, 1905.
To 1893/94 it is likely that Archduke Franz Ferdinand has chosen the Upper Belvedere to his residence in Vienna. Other sources say that it had been assigned to him by the Emperor Franz Joseph as a place to stay in Vienna. The rooms have been restored, adapted for residential purposes and supplemented with neo-Baroque furniture. The heir of the Este collections furnished his residence with numerous works of art. He had envisaged the castle for the accommodation of his collections; in 1893 were numerous boxes from India and Singapore in Belvedere stored. 1894 Emperor Franz Joseph could see the collection: "Yesterday I went to the Belvedere, where Franzi showed me his now quite and very nicely prepared collections. The same are as imposing as interesting by the incredible amount of objects and by the rarity and beauty of them. I believe that this exhibition would be interesting for you", wrote the monarch to his wife, Empress Elisabeth. That same year, Archduke Franz Ferdinand showed his collections his future wife, Sophie Chotková,
"Where I unaware of your fatigue with particular brutality you dragged from box to box" as he apologetically from Budweis wrote to the Countess.
Then the collections moved one the one hand to the Palais Modena in the Beatrixgasse, on the other hand to Konopischt. Only in 1898, Franz Ferdinand was granted by Emperor Franz Joseph to move into the Belvedere as Vienna Residence. More revitalization works were carried out and were also necessary. Technical modernization and preservation of the original building condition had priority - as always with the projects of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As furnishings served still preserved furnitures from Schloss Hof, which were supplemented by new ones in old style. The private rooms in addition to electric lighting were equipped with central heating.
Belvedere Castle. Staircase in the Upper Belvedere (left).
Marble plastic "Apotheosis of Prince Eugene" by Balthasar Permoser in Gold Cabinet of the Lower Belvedere (right).
If his presence was needed in Vienna, Franz Ferdinand here could lead a normal family life and escape the pressures of court ceremonial, in which the to him in morganatic marriage affiliated wife was exposed to the evils of the courtiers. When the heir to the throne invited guests to the Belvedere, he was sitting opposite his wife as a hostess while she was ranked in the Hofburg always after the latest unmarried Archduchess. About the cozy family life at Belvedere reported Prince von Clary-Aldringens:
"Aunt Sophie invited us ... to snack into a Belvedere, unexpectedly, suddenly appeared the Archduke - we literally froze in our Hab-Acht-position (stand at attention). He greeted us warmly ... [I got to know] the Archduke as a friendly landlord, who was playing and laughing with his Children..."
Between 1899 and 1914 in the Lower Belvedere the military bureau of the heir to the throne was housed. Other well-known Residents - but of outbuildings - were Anton Bruckner, who in 1896 died in the Kustodenwohnung (guardian house), and Richard Strauss, who lived here from 1925 to 1944.
After the assassination of the Archduke and his wife in Sarajevo, the Belvedere should serve as the residence of the new heir to the throne, Archduke Karl and his family. This, however, preferred living in Schönbrunn and especially in the villa Wartholz. In 1917, Charles' brother Archduke Maximilian moved with his family into the Belvedere.
During World War II the castle was badly damaged by bombs, but rebuilt after the war ended immediately. On 15 May 1955 was the Marble Hall venue of the signing of the Austrian State Treaty. Today, the Upper Belvedere houses important art collections.
Excerpts from
Thus lived the Habsburgs - Imperial and Royal Palaces in the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Ingrid Haslinger, Gerhard Trumler
Christian Brandstätter Verlag mbH
The publishing service for museums, businesses and
public bodies
www.brandstaetter - verlag.at
Denomination of the summer residence which Prince Eugene of Savoy himself had erected btw Rennweg and Swiss Garden. The term which refers to the unique view over Vienna dates from the time of Maria Theresa. Prinz Eugen bought in 1697 a plot of land at the Rennweg, which he extended to 1721 in four stages to the current area. Between 1714 and 1716 emerged the Lower Belvedere It is an elongated ground floor building, designed of a 7-axes central projection, two wings and two corner pavilions. The 3-axis central pavilion houses the Marble Hall. The castle the only rarely in Vienna sojourning builder served during the summer months as a pleasure palace.
Only in 1720 commenced construction works for the Upper Belvedere, first drawings for this existed already in 1717. The in it extent and form language compared to the Lower Belvedere especially magnificent Upper Belvedere served primarily as a representative setting for grand receptions and festivities. The architectural history of the example due to the loss of the Eugenianischen Bauarchivs (construction archiv of Prince Eugene) cannot be explored in detail without any gaps. 1723 (according to Rizzi 1721/22) the Upper Belvedere s is considered complete. The architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, who repeatedly worked for Prince Eugen, with the construction of the Belvedere has created his main work. It counts in its multiform architectonic as well as sculptural structure to the most important baroque buildings of the 18th century. The to the ensemble belonging, btw Upper and Lower Belvedere laying garden has been created by the Bavarian horticultural engineer D. Girard and today only in broad terms is original. The designs for the interior of the castle stem from C. le Fort du Plessy.
After the death of the prince the belvedere went into the possession of his sole heiress, Victoria Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen. She sold it in 1752 to Maria Theresa. At the behest of Joseph II from 1775 the imperial picture gallery was transferred here, which in 1781 for the first time was open to the public. had. Since 1806 was located in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection. Both collections were in 1890 in the Museum of Art History transferred. In 1894, the palace became residence for the heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
After the first World War I the Republic of Austria in Belvedere installed the Austrian Gallery. 1945 suffered the Belvedere severe war damage. In 1950, the "Gold Cabinet" in the north-eastern corner pavilion of the Upper Belvedere was destroyed by fire and replaced by a copy. The since 1988 ongoing general renovation should have been completed in 1996.
aeiou - the cultural information system of the bm: bwk
14,000 key words and 2000 pictures from history, geography, politics and business in Austria
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
The in the center of Vienna situated Belvedere palaces with their extensive parks form an impressive baroque Gesamtkunstwerk. The Museum in the Upper and Lower Castle
provides an excellent overview of the Austrian Art from the Middle Ages to the present. the collections of the 19th and 20th Century also include an exquisite inventory of international art. World Famous works by Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Renoir and Monet you can see in the upper
Belvedere, from where you can enjoy a spectacular view to the center of Vienna. In the historic rooms of the Lower Belvedere are shown works of art from the Middle Ages and Baroque.
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Phone 43 / ( 0) 1 / 79557-0
Fax 43 / (0) 1/79 84 337
Upper Belvedere
Collections of the 19th and 20th century
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Lower Belvedere
Baroque Museum, and Museum of Medieval Art
Rennweg 6a, A - 1030 Vienna
(further pictures and information you can see if you go to the end of page and by clicking on the link...)
Belvedere
Belvedere Castle. Garden Front of the Lower Belvedere.
Belvedere Palace stands supposedly on the foundations of a Roman camp that had been erected here for strategic reasons. In 1693 Prince Eugene of Savoy acquired field and vineyard grounds between today's Rennweg and today's Gürtel. In 1700 Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt began with the construction of a palace garden (Lower Belvedere), whose in French-style layed out park was equipped with large water basins, an orangery with precious foreign plants and a menagerie. Prince Eugene was a great animal lover, and some animals in his collection could be fed exclusively by himself.
1720 the Prince conceived the plan the summer palace to supplement by a another palace building on the hill of the garden.
The 1721 by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt begun works had been completed in 1724. The Upper Belvedere served in contrast to the Lower only representative purposes and was never meant to live.
The Prince and his architect managed a perfect symbiosis between architecture and garden. After the death of the Savoy (1736) inherited his niece Victoria of Savoy-Soisson, nee Princess Hildburghausen, all his possessions. From her the Habsburgs beginning of 1752 acquired the Belvedere. From 1755 Empress Maria Theresa moved the Arcierenleibgarde (Royal Company of the Archers) and the Galician Guard in the annex of the Belvedere. Besides, the castle stood almost empty.
Belvedere Castle. Engraving by Salomon Kleiner 1731/40 (left).
Vienna from the Belvedere. Coloured copper engraving by Carl Schütz, 1784 (right).
1770 Belvedere Palace was venue of brilliant festivities:
In castle and park the marriage of Archduchess Maria Antonia (Marie Antoinette) with the Dauphin of France by proxy (per procura) was celebrated. About 2,000 people were invited, more than 1,500 bottles of champagne, which was far from home in Vienna at that time,
were emptied. For hospitality of the guests, there were round tables, which were covered with silver. However, the Court of Vienna had a large part of the silver service to rent of nobles, because the stocks of the silver chamber were not sufficient. Finished was the festival by a magnificent fireworks.
1776, the imperial picture gallery from the Stallburg (home of the famous Lipizzan stallions) was transferred to the Upper Belvedere, the animals of the menagerie came to Schönbrunn. Shortly before the Congress of Vienna in 1814 in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection was exposed. During the war against Napoleon (1805-1809), much of the collection of paintings had to be outsourced. The Corsican claimed 400 masterpieces for himself, but which after his defeat at Waterloo to the Habsburgs have been restituted. The after the French wars completely neglected building has been restored 1850-1866.
Castle Park with Upper Belvedere. Photograph, around 1890.
1819 Emperor Franz II (I) the Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, had given spacious grounds for enlargement of the Botanical Garden at Rennweg. Franz was very interested in botany and in accordance with a Habsburg House bill - every Archduke must learn a civilian job - has been educated for gardener. In an adjoining garden of Schloß Belvedere he had from his private funds laid out a botanical garden ("Flora Austriaca") which was left to the Institute of Botany for use.
During the cholera epidemic of 1831, the Belvedere served as well as Schönbrunn Palace the imperial family as a refuge; supposedly one was there protected from the bad air, which was attributed to the onset of the disease. Both castles lay in the "countryside", the air was much better here than in the densely populated city. During wartime, a hospital was set up in the castle.
As the space for the imperial collections became too small, it was thought to expand the Upper Belvedere by wing buildings. This plan was dropped for aesthetic reasons, however. After the expansion of the city (razing of the bastions and glacis) arose on the ring road the newly created Court Museums; moved there in 1891 the major part of the paintings.
Archduke-Heir to the Throne Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este at folk and children's party in the park of the Belvedere Palace. Photograph, 1905.
To 1893/94 it is likely that Archduke Franz Ferdinand has chosen the Upper Belvedere to his residence in Vienna. Other sources say that it had been assigned to him by the Emperor Franz Joseph as a place to stay in Vienna. The rooms have been restored, adapted for residential purposes and supplemented with neo-Baroque furniture. The heir of the Este collections furnished his residence with numerous works of art. He had envisaged the castle for the accommodation of his collections; in 1893 were numerous boxes from India and Singapore in Belvedere stored. 1894 Emperor Franz Joseph could see the collection: "Yesterday I went to the Belvedere, where Franzi showed me his now quite and very nicely prepared collections. The same are as imposing as interesting by the incredible amount of objects and by the rarity and beauty of them. I believe that this exhibition would be interesting for you", wrote the monarch to his wife, Empress Elisabeth. That same year, Archduke Franz Ferdinand showed his collections his future wife, Sophie Chotková,
"Where I unaware of your fatigue with particular brutality you dragged from box to box" as he apologetically from Budweis wrote to the Countess.
Then the collections moved one the one hand to the Palais Modena in the Beatrixgasse, on the other hand to Konopischt. Only in 1898, Franz Ferdinand was granted by Emperor Franz Joseph to move into the Belvedere as Vienna Residence. More revitalization works were carried out and were also necessary. Technical modernization and preservation of the original building condition had priority - as always with the projects of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As furnishings served still preserved furnitures from Schloss Hof, which were supplemented by new ones in old style. The private rooms in addition to electric lighting were equipped with central heating.
Belvedere Castle. Staircase in the Upper Belvedere (left).
Marble plastic "Apotheosis of Prince Eugene" by Balthasar Permoser in Gold Cabinet of the Lower Belvedere (right).
If his presence was needed in Vienna, Franz Ferdinand here could lead a normal family life and escape the pressures of court ceremonial, in which the to him in morganatic marriage affiliated wife was exposed to the evils of the courtiers. When the heir to the throne invited guests to the Belvedere, he was sitting opposite his wife as a hostess while she was ranked in the Hofburg always after the latest unmarried Archduchess. About the cozy family life at Belvedere reported Prince von Clary-Aldringens:
"Aunt Sophie invited us ... to snack into a Belvedere, unexpectedly, suddenly appeared the Archduke - we literally froze in our Hab-Acht-position (stand at attention). He greeted us warmly ... [I got to know] the Archduke as a friendly landlord, who was playing and laughing with his Children..."
Between 1899 and 1914 in the Lower Belvedere the military bureau of the heir to the throne was housed. Other well-known Residents - but of outbuildings - were Anton Bruckner, who in 1896 died in the Kustodenwohnung (guardian house), and Richard Strauss, who lived here from 1925 to 1944.
After the assassination of the Archduke and his wife in Sarajevo, the Belvedere should serve as the residence of the new heir to the throne, Archduke Karl and his family. This, however, preferred living in Schönbrunn and especially in the villa Wartholz. In 1917, Charles' brother Archduke Maximilian moved with his family into the Belvedere.
During World War II the castle was badly damaged by bombs, but rebuilt after the war ended immediately. On 15 May 1955 was the Marble Hall venue of the signing of the Austrian State Treaty. Today, the Upper Belvedere houses important art collections.
Excerpts from
Thus lived the Habsburgs - Imperial and Royal Palaces in the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Ingrid Haslinger, Gerhard Trumler
Christian Brandstätter Verlag mbH
The publishing service for museums, businesses and
public bodies
www.brandstaetter - verlag.at
Denomination of the summer residence which Prince Eugene of Savoy himself had erected btw Rennweg and Swiss Garden. The term which refers to the unique view over Vienna dates from the time of Maria Theresa. Prinz Eugen bought in 1697 a plot of land at the Rennweg, which he extended to 1721 in four stages to the current area. Between 1714 and 1716 emerged the Lower Belvedere It is an elongated ground floor building, designed of a 7-axes central projection, two wings and two corner pavilions. The 3-axis central pavilion houses the Marble Hall. The castle the only rarely in Vienna sojourning builder served during the summer months as a pleasure palace.
Only in 1720 commenced construction works for the Upper Belvedere, first drawings for this existed already in 1717. The in it extent and form language compared to the Lower Belvedere especially magnificent Upper Belvedere served primarily as a representative setting for grand receptions and festivities. The architectural history of the example due to the loss of the Eugenianischen Bauarchivs (construction archiv of Prince Eugene) cannot be explored in detail without any gaps. 1723 (according to Rizzi 1721/22) the Upper Belvedere s is considered complete. The architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, who repeatedly worked for Prince Eugen, with the construction of the Belvedere has created his main work. It counts in its multiform architectonic as well as sculptural structure to the most important baroque buildings of the 18th century. The to the ensemble belonging, btw Upper and Lower Belvedere laying garden has been created by the Bavarian horticultural engineer D. Girard and today only in broad terms is original. The designs for the interior of the castle stem from C. le Fort du Plessy.
After the death of the prince the belvedere went into the possession of his sole heiress, Victoria Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen. She sold it in 1752 to Maria Theresa. At the behest of Joseph II from 1775 the imperial picture gallery was transferred here, which in 1781 for the first time was open to the public. had. Since 1806 was located in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection. Both collections were in 1890 in the Museum of Art History transferred. In 1894, the palace became residence for the heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
After the first World War I the Republic of Austria in Belvedere installed the Austrian Gallery. 1945 suffered the Belvedere severe war damage. In 1950, the "Gold Cabinet" in the north-eastern corner pavilion of the Upper Belvedere was destroyed by fire and replaced by a copy. The since 1988 ongoing general renovation should have been completed in 1996.
aeiou - the cultural information system of the bm: bwk
14,000 key words and 2000 pictures from history, geography, politics and business in Austria
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
The in the center of Vienna situated Belvedere palaces with their extensive parks form an impressive baroque Gesamtkunstwerk. The Museum in the Upper and Lower Castle
provides an excellent overview of the Austrian Art from the Middle Ages to the present. the collections of the 19th and 20th Century also include an exquisite inventory of international art. World Famous works by Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Renoir and Monet you can see in the upper
Belvedere, from where you can enjoy a spectacular view to the center of Vienna. In the historic rooms of the Lower Belvedere are shown works of art from the Middle Ages and Baroque.
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Phone +43 / ( 0) 1 / 79557-0
Fax +43 / (0) 1/79 84 337
Upper Belvedere
Collections of the 19th and 20th century
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Lower Belvedere
Baroque Museum, and Museum of Medieval Art
Rennweg 6a, A - 1030 Vienna
Marco Mengoni
Teatro Arcimboldi - Milano
26 Settembre 2013
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Marco Mengoni , vincitore incontrastato della terza edizione di 'X Factor'. Presenza scenica da professionista consumato, lunatico, "permaloso quasi antipatico", ha conquistato la stima del pubblico (non è mai finito in ballottaggio per l'eliminazione) grazie a interpretazioni di grande spessore.
Il 4 dicembre 2009 esce “DOVE SI VOLA”, il suo primo Ep, che in poche settimane scala le classifiche di vendita con oltre 70 mila copie.
“Dove si vola”, brano che da il titolo all’Ep, è difficile da interpretare per un uomo, sia per la tonalità molto alta che per l’articolazione della melodia sull’armonia. La forza vocale di Marco regala al pezzo una magia unica che, durante le esibizioni fa letteralmente volare il pubblico, pubblico che l’ha votato e proclamato, quasi fin da subito, il vero talento della terza edizione di X Factor. All’interno dell’EP un altro brano inedito, “Lontanissimo da te”, firmato Massimo e Piero Calabrese e cinque tra le più emozionanti cover cantate da Marco durante il programma.
Marco nasce a Ronciglione (VT) il 25 dicembre 1988 (Capricorno), proprio nel giorno di Natale. Fin da bambino ama tutti i generi musicali: “Alla tenera 'altezza' di 70 cm. comincio ad ascoltare di tutto, dal pop all’r&b, soul, rock ed inizio ad approfondire la mia cultura musicale: scopro il karaoke e comincio a cantare di nascosto, per timidezza. Poi una volta i miei per caso mi ascoltano e si convincono di mandarmi ad una scuola di canto. Da quel momento capisco che la musica non è poi così semplice come pensavo: c'era da imparare molto…. tecniche di respirazione, maschera facciale, scale, vocalizzi di qualsiasi genere, per affinare la voce”.
Marco inizia a cantare all’età di 14 anni. Mentre studia all'Istituto per il Design, segue anche una scuola di canto dove impara le prime tecniche per la gestione e l'utilizzo dei propri mezzi vocali. Visto il talento di Marco, l’insegnante di canto lo inserisce in un piccolo quintetto vocale con cui si esibisce in serate di piazza e per le festività, facendo cover.
Dopo 2 anni ha inizio il suo percorso solista con un gruppo di musicisti con il quale suona nei club un po’ del suo repertorio originale e un po’ di cover, continuando quindi la sua gavetta. Iniziano tre anni di duro lavoro e provinaggio, per affinare lo stile e la personalità, ed anche per questo, Marco, figlio unico, lascia la famiglia per trasferirsi a Roma. Contemporaneamente si iscrive all’Università nella Facoltà di Lingue, e fa esperienza come fonico e programmatore, prendendo familiarità con gli studi di registrazione.
Il suo genere preferito resta il Brit Pop e la sua massima, e amatissima, influenza musicale sono i Beatles: tra le sue canzoni preferite dei Fab 4 ci sono 'Michelle' e 'The Fool on te hill'. Anche se il brano che gli ha cambiato la vita è 'La luce dell’est' di Lucio Battisti.
Vincendo X Factor Marco partecipa di diritto alla Sessantesima Edizione del Festival di Sanremo, nella categoria 'Artisti', interpretando “Credimi ancora”, brano che fa parte dell’EP “Re Matto” uscito il 19 febbraio 2010 su etichetta Rca/Sony Music.
Il 2010 è un anno davvero unico per quest’artista giovane ma pieno di talento. Mentre la sua paginaFacebook continua a crescere (superando ad oggi i 300 mila iscritti), Il 3 e 4 maggio parte dall’Alcatraz di Milano Il “Re Matto Tour, un viaggio nella “Mattità”, un’avventura vertiginosa nella mente colorata e multiforme di MARCO MENGONI. Lo spettacolo nasce da un’ idea di Marco, Luca Tommassini e Stella Fabiani. La regia è affidata a LUCA TOMMASSINI, la direzione artistica è di PIERO CALABRESE, la produzione è di F&P Group e dei “CANTIERI MUSICALI” che da sempre lavorano con MENGONI. Nel team creativo di Marco e del “RE MATTO TOUR” sono state coinvolte figure importanti a livello mondiale come lo stilista Neil Barrett, che finora ha solo disegnato abiti per artisti come Madonna, Justin Timberlake, Brad Pitt e Johnny Depp, e lo scultore Davide Orlandi Dormino, creatore di “Opera Scacchi”, la scultura che invade il palco. “IL RE MATTO TOUR” è ideato, sviluppato e strutturato all’insegna della totale libertà, della poesia, della sregolatezza e dell’improvvisazione rendendo ogni concerto un vero evento, con ospiti a sorpresa cheMARCO scopre insieme al pubblico…una sfida che solo un Re Matto poteva accettare.
Intanto l’8 maggio Marco partecipa ai Trl Awards e vince nella categoria “Man of the Year”.
Il “Re Matto tour” è un’esperienza straordinaria per Marco, che vive e si ciba dell’entusiasmo del pubblico. È un tour trionfale che colleziona un sold out dopo l’altro.
Il 2 giugno viene premiato ai Wind Music Awards e si aggiudica il doppio disco di platino per il suo primo Ep “Dove si vola”, che raccoglie l’omonima canzone e alcune delle cover cantate durante il programma di X Factor, e l’album “Re Matto”, superando le 160 mila copie vendute.
Il "Re Matto" del pop italiano non si fa mancare proprio nulla. Supera gli altri colleghi in gara agli Ema 2010 nella categoria dedicata agli artisti italiani: Malika Ayane, dARi, Sonohra e Nina Zilli.
Questo è un riconoscimento fondamentale per Marco Mengoni, artista italiano rivelazione del 2010, che ad MTV si è già aggiudicato il premio come "Man Of The Year" ai TRL Awards 2010 ed è arrivato secondo in una gara all'ultima edizione del Coca Cola Live @ MTV: The Summer Song. Grazie alla vittoria come Best Italian Act, Marco è entrato in nomination per il "Best European Act" in concorrenza con gli altri vincitori dei regional act. Marco partecipa inoltre all'ottava edizione di "O'Scia'", insieme ad altre star del pop italiano ed internazionale, organizzata da Claudio Baglioni a Lampedusa in cui si intende sensibilizzare fan, politici e cittadini sul problema della immigrazione clandestina.
Il 19 ottobre esce su etichetta Rca/Sony Music il Cd+Dvd “Re Matto live”. L’album debutta al 1° posto della classifica dei dischi più venduti (Gfk/Fimi) e al 1° posto della classifica di iTunes.
A novembre Marco Mengoni, dopo aver trionfato nella categoria Best Italian Act, si aggiudica anche il prestigioso titolo di Best European Act: un premio importante per lui e per l'Italia, considerando che in 17 edizioni nessun italiano era mai riuscito a raggiungere tale riconoscimento.
Il 2 settembre 2011 arriva in radio il singolo “Solo” che, anticipando l’uscita del nuovo disco, schizza alprimo posto della classica di iTunes. Il 27 settembre esce “Solo 2.0”, un vero e proprio concept album, che oltre alle tracce del disco e a un contenuto virtuale speciale (Il Comic 2.0), contamina anche la prima parte del Tour.
Dopo un’anteprima trionfante del “Solo Tour” con due date evento al Forum di Assago e al Palalottomatica di Roma, Marco Mengoni decide di cambiare veste allo spettacolo e di svelare al pubblico un’altra porzione d’anima, il suo lato più intimista, quasi introspettivo, non tralasciando mai la sua voglia di stupire e di emozionare. È un TOUR TEATRALE che fa della suggestione visiva e sonora il suo punto di forza.
Uno spettacolo in cui musica, movimento scenico, luci e scenografie compenetrano tra loro, per toccare ancor più da vicino l’anima di chi ascolta. L’essenza intimista dello spettacolo è rappresentata soprattutto dal suono. Una chiave di lettura inedita, con cui verranno reinterpretati molti tra i brani più noti del repertorio di Marco, insieme ad alcune cover, mai eseguite prima.
Il tour teatrale, ideato da Elisa, Marco Mengoni e Andrea Rigonat, parte dall’Arcimboldi di Milano il 19 aprile, passando dal Filarmonico di Verona, il Politeama di Palermo, il Gran Teatro di Roma e molti dei teatri più importanti d’Italia.
In radio intanto suona il nuovo singolo “Dall’inferno”, estratto dall’album Solo 2.0
Esce il 24 aprile, in esclusiva su iTunes, “Dall’Inferno EP”, l’EP digitale di Marco Mengoni contenente la title track, il videoclip e il backstage inedito di “Dall’inferno” e il video live di “Come ti senti”, girato durante lo showcase di presentazione dell’album “Solo 2.0”.
Marco è ospite dell’evento "Premio Leggio d'Oro", dove gli viene consegnato il Premio Speciale Voce Rivelazione Cartoon per il doppiaggio del personaggio Onceler nel cartone animato "Lorax il guardiano della foresta".
Marco prende parte al progetto "...Io Ci Sono", l'album tributo a Giorgio Gaber che celebra il grande artista a dieci anni dalla sua scomparsa, interpretando il brano "Destra-Sinistra".
Il 2013 si apre con la partecipazione di Marco alla 63^ Edizione del Festival di Sanremo con i brani “Bellissimo” e “L’Essenziale”, ed è proprio con quest’ultimo che Marco si classifica primo vincendo il Festival.
Entrambi i brani sono contenuti nel nuovo album di inediti (Sony Music) uscito il 19 marzo 2013:#PRONTOACORRERE ha superato di gran lunga il traguardo del disco di platino e "L’Essenziale" è addirittura multiplatino.
Marco ha rappresentato l’Italia all’Eurovision Song Contest a Malmö (Svezia) nel mese di maggio, dove ha ottenuto il settimo posto con "L’Essenziale".
L’8 maggio è partito "l’Essenziale Anteprima Tour" dal Teatro degli Arcimboldi di Milano: un’anteprima di 10 date, ideata per i più importanti teatri italiani che hanno registrato il sold out non appena aperte la prevendite.
Il 4 luglio è partito invece da Trento "L’Essenziale Tour", con un clamoroso successo di richieste, che continua ad imporre l’apertura di nuove date.
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Belvedere
Belvedere Castle. Garden Front of the Lower Belvedere.
Belvedere Palace stands supposedly on the foundations of a Roman camp that had been erected here for strategic reasons. In 1693 Prince Eugene of Savoy acquired field and vineyard grounds between today's Rennweg and today's Gürtel. In 1700 Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt began with the construction of a palace garden (Lower Belvedere), whose in French-style layed out park was equipped with large water basins, an orangery with precious foreign plants and a menagerie. Prince Eugene was a great animal lover, and some animals in his collection could be fed exclusively by himself.
1720 the Prince conceived the plan the summer palace to supplement by a another palace building on the hill of the garden.
The 1721 by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt begun works had been completed in 1724. The Upper Belvedere served in contrast to the Lower only representative purposes and was never meant to live.
The Prince and his architect managed a perfect symbiosis between architecture and garden. After the death of the Savoy (1736) inherited his niece Victoria of Savoy-Soisson, nee Princess Hildburghausen, all his possessions. From her the Habsburgs beginning of 1752 acquired the Belvedere. From 1755 Empress Maria Theresa moved the Arcierenleibgarde (Royal Company of the Archers) and the Galician Guard in the annex of the Belvedere. Besides, the castle stood almost empty.
Belvedere Castle. Engraving by Salomon Kleiner 1731/40 (left).
Vienna from the Belvedere. Coloured copper engraving by Carl Schütz, 1784 (right).
1770 Belvedere Palace was venue of brilliant festivities:
In castle and park the marriage of Archduchess Maria Antonia (Marie Antoinette) with the Dauphin of France by proxy (per procura) was celebrated. About 2,000 people were invited, more than 1,500 bottles of champagne, which was far from home in Vienna at that time,
were emptied. For hospitality of the guests, there were round tables, which were covered with silver. However, the Court of Vienna had a large part of the silver service to rent of nobles, because the stocks of the silver chamber were not sufficient. Finished was the festival by a magnificent fireworks.
1776, the imperial picture gallery from the Stallburg (home of the famous Lipizzan stallions) was transferred to the Upper Belvedere, the animals of the menagerie came to Schönbrunn. Shortly before the Congress of Vienna in 1814 in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection was exposed. During the war against Napoleon (1805-1809), much of the collection of paintings had to be outsourced. The Corsican claimed 400 masterpieces for himself, but which after his defeat at Waterloo to the Habsburgs have been restituted. The after the French wars completely neglected building has been restored 1850-1866.
Castle Park with Upper Belvedere. Photograph, around 1890.
1819 Emperor Franz II (I) the Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, had given spacious grounds for enlargement of the Botanical Garden at Rennweg. Franz was very interested in botany and in accordance with a Habsburg House bill - every Archduke must learn a civilian job - has been educated for gardener. In an adjoining garden of Schloß Belvedere he had from his private funds laid out a botanical garden ("Flora Austriaca") which was left to the Institute of Botany for use.
During the cholera epidemic of 1831, the Belvedere served as well as Schönbrunn Palace the imperial family as a refuge; supposedly one was there protected from the bad air, which was attributed to the onset of the disease. Both castles lay in the "countryside", the air was much better here than in the densely populated city. During wartime, a hospital was set up in the castle.
As the space for the imperial collections became too small, it was thought to expand the Upper Belvedere by wing buildings. This plan was dropped for aesthetic reasons, however. After the expansion of the city (razing of the bastions and glacis) arose on the ring road the newly created Court Museums; moved there in 1891 the major part of the paintings.
Archduke-Heir to the Throne Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este at folk and children's party in the park of the Belvedere Palace. Photograph, 1905.
To 1893/94 it is likely that Archduke Franz Ferdinand has chosen the Upper Belvedere to his residence in Vienna. Other sources say that it had been assigned to him by the Emperor Franz Joseph as a place to stay in Vienna. The rooms have been restored, adapted for residential purposes and supplemented with neo-Baroque furniture. The heir of the Este collections furnished his residence with numerous works of art. He had envisaged the castle for the accommodation of his collections; in 1893 were numerous boxes from India and Singapore in Belvedere stored. 1894 Emperor Franz Joseph could see the collection: "Yesterday I went to the Belvedere, where Franzi showed me his now quite and very nicely prepared collections. The same are as imposing as interesting by the incredible amount of objects and by the rarity and beauty of them. I believe that this exhibition would be interesting for you", wrote the monarch to his wife, Empress Elisabeth. That same year, Archduke Franz Ferdinand showed his collections his future wife, Sophie Chotková,
"Where I unaware of your fatigue with particular brutality you dragged from box to box" as he apologetically from Budweis wrote to the Countess.
Then the collections moved one the one hand to the Palais Modena in the Beatrixgasse, on the other hand to Konopischt. Only in 1898, Franz Ferdinand was granted by Emperor Franz Joseph to move into the Belvedere as Vienna Residence. More revitalization works were carried out and were also necessary. Technical modernization and preservation of the original building condition had priority - as always with the projects of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As furnishings served still preserved furnitures from Schloss Hof, which were supplemented by new ones in old style. The private rooms in addition to electric lighting were equipped with central heating.
Belvedere Castle. Staircase in the Upper Belvedere (left).
Marble plastic "Apotheosis of Prince Eugene" by Balthasar Permoser in Gold Cabinet of the Lower Belvedere (right).
If his presence was needed in Vienna, Franz Ferdinand here could lead a normal family life and escape the pressures of court ceremonial, in which the to him in morganatic marriage affiliated wife was exposed to the evils of the courtiers. When the heir to the throne invited guests to the Belvedere, he was sitting opposite his wife as a hostess while she was ranked in the Hofburg always after the latest unmarried Archduchess. About the cozy family life at Belvedere reported Prince von Clary-Aldringens:
"Aunt Sophie invited us ... to snack into a Belvedere, unexpectedly, suddenly appeared the Archduke - we literally froze in our Hab-Acht-position (stand at attention). He greeted us warmly ... [I got to know] the Archduke as a friendly landlord, who was playing and laughing with his Children..."
Between 1899 and 1914 in the Lower Belvedere the military bureau of the heir to the throne was housed. Other well-known Residents - but of outbuildings - were Anton Bruckner, who in 1896 died in the Kustodenwohnung (guardian house), and Richard Strauss, who lived here from 1925 to 1944.
After the assassination of the Archduke and his wife in Sarajevo, the Belvedere should serve as the residence of the new heir to the throne, Archduke Karl and his family. This, however, preferred living in Schönbrunn and especially in the villa Wartholz. In 1917, Charles' brother Archduke Maximilian moved with his family into the Belvedere.
During World War II the castle was badly damaged by bombs, but rebuilt after the war ended immediately. On 15 May 1955 was the Marble Hall venue of the signing of the Austrian State Treaty. Today, the Upper Belvedere houses important art collections.
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Denomination of the summer residence which Prince Eugene of Savoy himself had erected btw Rennweg and Swiss Garden. The term which refers to the unique view over Vienna dates from the time of Maria Theresa. Prinz Eugen bought in 1697 a plot of land at the Rennweg, which he extended to 1721 in four stages to the current area. Between 1714 and 1716 emerged the Lower Belvedere It is an elongated ground floor building, designed of a 7-axes central projection, two wings and two corner pavilions. The 3-axis central pavilion houses the Marble Hall. The castle the only rarely in Vienna sojourning builder served during the summer months as a pleasure palace.
Only in 1720 commenced construction works for the Upper Belvedere, first drawings for this existed already in 1717. The in it extent and form language compared to the Lower Belvedere especially magnificent Upper Belvedere served primarily as a representative setting for grand receptions and festivities. The architectural history of the example due to the loss of the Eugenianischen Bauarchivs (construction archiv of Prince Eugene) cannot be explored in detail without any gaps. 1723 (according to Rizzi 1721/22) the Upper Belvedere s is considered complete. The architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, who repeatedly worked for Prince Eugen, with the construction of the Belvedere has created his main work. It counts in its multiform architectonic as well as sculptural structure to the most important baroque buildings of the 18th century. The to the ensemble belonging, btw Upper and Lower Belvedere laying garden has been created by the Bavarian horticultural engineer D. Girard and today only in broad terms is original. The designs for the interior of the castle stem from C. le Fort du Plessy.
After the death of the prince the belvedere went into the possession of his sole heiress, Victoria Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen. She sold it in 1752 to Maria Theresa. At the behest of Joseph II from 1775 the imperial picture gallery was transferred here, which in 1781 for the first time was open to the public. had. Since 1806 was located in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection. Both collections were in 1890 in the Museum of Art History transferred. In 1894, the palace became residence for the heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
After the first World War I the Republic of Austria in Belvedere installed the Austrian Gallery. 1945 suffered the Belvedere severe war damage. In 1950, the "Gold Cabinet" in the north-eastern corner pavilion of the Upper Belvedere was destroyed by fire and replaced by a copy. The since 1988 ongoing general renovation should have been completed in 1996.
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Austrian Gallery Belvedere
The in the center of Vienna situated Belvedere palaces with their extensive parks form an impressive baroque Gesamtkunstwerk. The Museum in the Upper and Lower Castle
provides an excellent overview of the Austrian Art from the Middle Ages to the present. the collections of the 19th and 20th Century also include an exquisite inventory of international art. World Famous works by Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Renoir and Monet you can see in the upper
Belvedere, from where you can enjoy a spectacular view to the center of Vienna. In the historic rooms of the Lower Belvedere are shown works of art from the Middle Ages and Baroque.
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
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Upper Belvedere
Collections of the 19th and 20th century
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Lower Belvedere
Baroque Museum, and Museum of Medieval Art
Rennweg 6a, A - 1030 Vienna
This is the same Modular Star from the "Vase" model derived from Multiform Model posted earlier here - www.flickr.com/photos/61236172@N08/31083710900/in/datepos...
I simply repeated the same folds applied on the front of the model to the back. The model will now have the same pattern for both the front and the back. The 8 modules are folded from 7.5cm Kami squares.
Le Tour de France sur le front de 14-18
hommage aux glorieux anciens qui roulaient plus souvent sur des chemins de boue que sur des routes asphaltées.
En 2014, la Grande Boucle rend hommage au centenaire de la Première Guerre mondiale. L'étape du 10 juillet Arras-Reims comprend 90 km dans l'Aisne, dont le Chemin des Dames.
Coucy-le-Château, Anizy, Brancourt-en-Laonnois et Pinon, le peloton entrera sur le fameux Chemin des Dames.
À Pinon Le Tour fera son entrée dans une côte. dans la rue du 52e-RI .
Reims_Un parfum de Paris-Roubaix.
C’est dans la ville des rois de France qu’est jugée l’arrivée de la 6e étape, partie d’Arras pour 194kilomètres. Du Nord-Pas-de-Calais à la Champagne-Ardennes,
il n’y a que du plat et le sprint paraît inévitable.
D’ailleurs, les trois derniers vainqueurs à Reims s’appellent Alessandro Petacchi (2010), Robbie McEwen (2002) et Djamolidine Abdoujaparov (1991) : trois fusées.
Tout le monde sur le pont à Reims pour le Tour de France ...
Le Tour de France est une manifestation qui demande l’implication de tous les services de la Ville
La pose de barrières reste la mission la plus prenante pour les agents municipaux.
le Tour de France est une très grosse « machine » qui demande une logistique considérable.
Si la société ASO (Amaury sport organisation) a ses propres équipes qui suivent tout le parcours pendant les 22 jours de la compétition,
les villes étapes doivent elles aussi accompagner le mouvement.
la ligne d’arrivée.
Dans la zone d’arrivée, sous la houlette du directeur de site, des barrières hautes sont posées autour de la "zone technique",
d’où émettent les camions radio et les télévisions. Doublet travaille depuis un an à la conception de barrières "repousse public" dotées d’arches,
qui empêcheront toute main de percuter malencontreusement un coureur. Suite à la chute de Laurent Jalabert à Armentières d’ailleurs,
les barrières ne laissent plus dépasser aucun panneau publicitaire. La réclame est directement intégrée à la clôture.
La caravane publicitaire
La caravane publicitaire, créée en 1930, s’est développée considérablement au fil des années, pour accueillir plus de 180 véhicules en 2012.
Le défilé d’ouverture, festif et créatif, a su conquérir les marques et le public, jusqu’à devenir une composante essentielle au spectacle du Tour
LCL, qui sera toujours parrain du maillot jaune du leader du classement général du Tour de France, comme c'est le cas depuis 1987.
La caravane publicitaire du Tour Alsace part une heure avant les coureurs. Elle est composée d'une quinzaine de véhicules publicitaires
et suit le parcours officiel du Tour. Elle distribue une multitude de goodies aux spectateurs au bord des routes.
47 % des spectateurs viennent en priorité pour la caravane
Le succès de la formule, avec un défilé de véhicules originaux qui « font de la réclame », en distribuant des cadeaux, est immédiat.
Les premiers annonceurs, comme la Vache qui rit, y gagnent la sympathie du public, qui se prête volontiers au jeu. Quatre-vingts ans plus tard,
la caravane publicitaire est devenue une composante à part entière du spectacle du Tour. Indissociable de la course qu’elle précède, la procession multiforme et multicolore
offre une animation de plus de 45 minutes. Jeunes et moins jeunes commentent sur le bord des routes la taille et l’inventivité des chars ; on s’y presse pour demander des cadeaux…
Au total, une étude réalisée auprès du public du Tour révèle que 47 % des spectateurs sont venus en priorité pour voir la caravane publicitaire.
lancer de saucissons Cochonou à la foule en délire.
Cochonou, la marque de saucissons distribuera bien sûr encore bobs et saucissons au bord de la route depuis ses fameuses 2CV, mais sera également présent sur internet,
avec son blog Cochonou et Vous tenu depuis quelques années par Thibault (qui avait repris le flambeau d'Adeline).
Le garage virtuel CochonouOriginalité cette année, la possibilité de créer sa propre 2CV dans le garage virtuel Cochonou et peut-être même la gagner et la tester pour
la première fois sur la célèbre Avenue des Champs-Elysées lors de l'arrivée de la dernière étape du Tour à Paris !
Le jeu-concours est ouvert jusqu'au 31 juillet mais le grand gagnant de la 2CV sera désigné le 15 juillet prochain sachant que par la suite on peut gagner l'un des autres
lots du jeu (2CV Cochonou miniatures, bobs, porte-clés et sacs cabas).
Vittel, l'eau officiel du Tour de France innove cette année en permettant à d'ordinaires spectateurs du Tour d'en devenir acteur !
ŠKODA qui reste parrain du maillot blanc de meilleur jeune et qui est toujours à la recherche des meilleures animations pour vous permettre, vous en tant que fan du Tour,
de remporter des prix avec le ŠKODA Fan Tour.
Il y a quelques mois, &ScaronKODA a d'ailleurs prolongé son contrat de partenariat avec A.S.O. et donc entre autres avec le Tour de France, jusqu'en 2018.
Banette a reconduit son partenariat pour 4 ans, jusqu'en 2017, et distribuera toujours des milliers de tartines préparées par les artisans boulangers Banette de la région alors
que la caravane continue à distribuer différents goodies et des bons de réduction. Banette communiquera sur son Tour de France sur sa page Facebook.
McCain, le producteur de frites surgelées, a rejoint le Tour en tant que fournisseur officiel pendant 3 ans et sera présent dans la caravane publicitaire du Tour avec un char-tracteur et 3 véhicules légers.
Belin fournira toujours l'apéro, mais ne valorise pas vraiment son partenariat. La seule chose qu'on peut donc vous dire, c'est que "les super z'héros" rejoignent la caravane de Belin :
Du samedi 5 juillet au dimanche 27 juillet 2014, le 101e Tour de France comprendra 21 étapes pour une distance de 3 664 kilomètres.
Marco Mengoni
Teatro Arcimboldi - Milano
26 Settembre 2013
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Marco Mengoni , vincitore incontrastato della terza edizione di 'X Factor'. Presenza scenica da professionista consumato, lunatico, "permaloso quasi antipatico", ha conquistato la stima del pubblico (non è mai finito in ballottaggio per l'eliminazione) grazie a interpretazioni di grande spessore.
Il 4 dicembre 2009 esce “DOVE SI VOLA”, il suo primo Ep, che in poche settimane scala le classifiche di vendita con oltre 70 mila copie.
“Dove si vola”, brano che da il titolo all’Ep, è difficile da interpretare per un uomo, sia per la tonalità molto alta che per l’articolazione della melodia sull’armonia. La forza vocale di Marco regala al pezzo una magia unica che, durante le esibizioni fa letteralmente volare il pubblico, pubblico che l’ha votato e proclamato, quasi fin da subito, il vero talento della terza edizione di X Factor. All’interno dell’EP un altro brano inedito, “Lontanissimo da te”, firmato Massimo e Piero Calabrese e cinque tra le più emozionanti cover cantate da Marco durante il programma.
Marco nasce a Ronciglione (VT) il 25 dicembre 1988 (Capricorno), proprio nel giorno di Natale. Fin da bambino ama tutti i generi musicali: “Alla tenera 'altezza' di 70 cm. comincio ad ascoltare di tutto, dal pop all’r&b, soul, rock ed inizio ad approfondire la mia cultura musicale: scopro il karaoke e comincio a cantare di nascosto, per timidezza. Poi una volta i miei per caso mi ascoltano e si convincono di mandarmi ad una scuola di canto. Da quel momento capisco che la musica non è poi così semplice come pensavo: c'era da imparare molto…. tecniche di respirazione, maschera facciale, scale, vocalizzi di qualsiasi genere, per affinare la voce”.
Marco inizia a cantare all’età di 14 anni. Mentre studia all'Istituto per il Design, segue anche una scuola di canto dove impara le prime tecniche per la gestione e l'utilizzo dei propri mezzi vocali. Visto il talento di Marco, l’insegnante di canto lo inserisce in un piccolo quintetto vocale con cui si esibisce in serate di piazza e per le festività, facendo cover.
Dopo 2 anni ha inizio il suo percorso solista con un gruppo di musicisti con il quale suona nei club un po’ del suo repertorio originale e un po’ di cover, continuando quindi la sua gavetta. Iniziano tre anni di duro lavoro e provinaggio, per affinare lo stile e la personalità, ed anche per questo, Marco, figlio unico, lascia la famiglia per trasferirsi a Roma. Contemporaneamente si iscrive all’Università nella Facoltà di Lingue, e fa esperienza come fonico e programmatore, prendendo familiarità con gli studi di registrazione.
Il suo genere preferito resta il Brit Pop e la sua massima, e amatissima, influenza musicale sono i Beatles: tra le sue canzoni preferite dei Fab 4 ci sono 'Michelle' e 'The Fool on te hill'. Anche se il brano che gli ha cambiato la vita è 'La luce dell’est' di Lucio Battisti.
Vincendo X Factor Marco partecipa di diritto alla Sessantesima Edizione del Festival di Sanremo, nella categoria 'Artisti', interpretando “Credimi ancora”, brano che fa parte dell’EP “Re Matto” uscito il 19 febbraio 2010 su etichetta Rca/Sony Music.
Il 2010 è un anno davvero unico per quest’artista giovane ma pieno di talento. Mentre la sua paginaFacebook continua a crescere (superando ad oggi i 300 mila iscritti), Il 3 e 4 maggio parte dall’Alcatraz di Milano Il “Re Matto Tour, un viaggio nella “Mattità”, un’avventura vertiginosa nella mente colorata e multiforme di MARCO MENGONI. Lo spettacolo nasce da un’ idea di Marco, Luca Tommassini e Stella Fabiani. La regia è affidata a LUCA TOMMASSINI, la direzione artistica è di PIERO CALABRESE, la produzione è di F&P Group e dei “CANTIERI MUSICALI” che da sempre lavorano con MENGONI. Nel team creativo di Marco e del “RE MATTO TOUR” sono state coinvolte figure importanti a livello mondiale come lo stilista Neil Barrett, che finora ha solo disegnato abiti per artisti come Madonna, Justin Timberlake, Brad Pitt e Johnny Depp, e lo scultore Davide Orlandi Dormino, creatore di “Opera Scacchi”, la scultura che invade il palco. “IL RE MATTO TOUR” è ideato, sviluppato e strutturato all’insegna della totale libertà, della poesia, della sregolatezza e dell’improvvisazione rendendo ogni concerto un vero evento, con ospiti a sorpresa cheMARCO scopre insieme al pubblico…una sfida che solo un Re Matto poteva accettare.
Intanto l’8 maggio Marco partecipa ai Trl Awards e vince nella categoria “Man of the Year”.
Il “Re Matto tour” è un’esperienza straordinaria per Marco, che vive e si ciba dell’entusiasmo del pubblico. È un tour trionfale che colleziona un sold out dopo l’altro.
Il 2 giugno viene premiato ai Wind Music Awards e si aggiudica il doppio disco di platino per il suo primo Ep “Dove si vola”, che raccoglie l’omonima canzone e alcune delle cover cantate durante il programma di X Factor, e l’album “Re Matto”, superando le 160 mila copie vendute.
Il "Re Matto" del pop italiano non si fa mancare proprio nulla. Supera gli altri colleghi in gara agli Ema 2010 nella categoria dedicata agli artisti italiani: Malika Ayane, dARi, Sonohra e Nina Zilli.
Questo è un riconoscimento fondamentale per Marco Mengoni, artista italiano rivelazione del 2010, che ad MTV si è già aggiudicato il premio come "Man Of The Year" ai TRL Awards 2010 ed è arrivato secondo in una gara all'ultima edizione del Coca Cola Live @ MTV: The Summer Song. Grazie alla vittoria come Best Italian Act, Marco è entrato in nomination per il "Best European Act" in concorrenza con gli altri vincitori dei regional act. Marco partecipa inoltre all'ottava edizione di "O'Scia'", insieme ad altre star del pop italiano ed internazionale, organizzata da Claudio Baglioni a Lampedusa in cui si intende sensibilizzare fan, politici e cittadini sul problema della immigrazione clandestina.
Il 19 ottobre esce su etichetta Rca/Sony Music il Cd+Dvd “Re Matto live”. L’album debutta al 1° posto della classifica dei dischi più venduti (Gfk/Fimi) e al 1° posto della classifica di iTunes.
A novembre Marco Mengoni, dopo aver trionfato nella categoria Best Italian Act, si aggiudica anche il prestigioso titolo di Best European Act: un premio importante per lui e per l'Italia, considerando che in 17 edizioni nessun italiano era mai riuscito a raggiungere tale riconoscimento.
Il 2 settembre 2011 arriva in radio il singolo “Solo” che, anticipando l’uscita del nuovo disco, schizza alprimo posto della classica di iTunes. Il 27 settembre esce “Solo 2.0”, un vero e proprio concept album, che oltre alle tracce del disco e a un contenuto virtuale speciale (Il Comic 2.0), contamina anche la prima parte del Tour.
Dopo un’anteprima trionfante del “Solo Tour” con due date evento al Forum di Assago e al Palalottomatica di Roma, Marco Mengoni decide di cambiare veste allo spettacolo e di svelare al pubblico un’altra porzione d’anima, il suo lato più intimista, quasi introspettivo, non tralasciando mai la sua voglia di stupire e di emozionare. È un TOUR TEATRALE che fa della suggestione visiva e sonora il suo punto di forza.
Uno spettacolo in cui musica, movimento scenico, luci e scenografie compenetrano tra loro, per toccare ancor più da vicino l’anima di chi ascolta. L’essenza intimista dello spettacolo è rappresentata soprattutto dal suono. Una chiave di lettura inedita, con cui verranno reinterpretati molti tra i brani più noti del repertorio di Marco, insieme ad alcune cover, mai eseguite prima.
Il tour teatrale, ideato da Elisa, Marco Mengoni e Andrea Rigonat, parte dall’Arcimboldi di Milano il 19 aprile, passando dal Filarmonico di Verona, il Politeama di Palermo, il Gran Teatro di Roma e molti dei teatri più importanti d’Italia.
In radio intanto suona il nuovo singolo “Dall’inferno”, estratto dall’album Solo 2.0
Esce il 24 aprile, in esclusiva su iTunes, “Dall’Inferno EP”, l’EP digitale di Marco Mengoni contenente la title track, il videoclip e il backstage inedito di “Dall’inferno” e il video live di “Come ti senti”, girato durante lo showcase di presentazione dell’album “Solo 2.0”.
Marco è ospite dell’evento "Premio Leggio d'Oro", dove gli viene consegnato il Premio Speciale Voce Rivelazione Cartoon per il doppiaggio del personaggio Onceler nel cartone animato "Lorax il guardiano della foresta".
Marco prende parte al progetto "...Io Ci Sono", l'album tributo a Giorgio Gaber che celebra il grande artista a dieci anni dalla sua scomparsa, interpretando il brano "Destra-Sinistra".
Il 2013 si apre con la partecipazione di Marco alla 63^ Edizione del Festival di Sanremo con i brani “Bellissimo” e “L’Essenziale”, ed è proprio con quest’ultimo che Marco si classifica primo vincendo il Festival.
Entrambi i brani sono contenuti nel nuovo album di inediti (Sony Music) uscito il 19 marzo 2013:#PRONTOACORRERE ha superato di gran lunga il traguardo del disco di platino e "L’Essenziale" è addirittura multiplatino.
Marco ha rappresentato l’Italia all’Eurovision Song Contest a Malmö (Svezia) nel mese di maggio, dove ha ottenuto il settimo posto con "L’Essenziale".
L’8 maggio è partito "l’Essenziale Anteprima Tour" dal Teatro degli Arcimboldi di Milano: un’anteprima di 10 date, ideata per i più importanti teatri italiani che hanno registrato il sold out non appena aperte la prevendite.
Il 4 luglio è partito invece da Trento "L’Essenziale Tour", con un clamoroso successo di richieste, che continua ad imporre l’apertura di nuove date.
Marco Mengoni
Teatro Arcimboldi - Milano
26 Settembre 2013
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Marco Mengoni , vincitore incontrastato della terza edizione di 'X Factor'. Presenza scenica da professionista consumato, lunatico, "permaloso quasi antipatico", ha conquistato la stima del pubblico (non è mai finito in ballottaggio per l'eliminazione) grazie a interpretazioni di grande spessore.
Il 4 dicembre 2009 esce “DOVE SI VOLA”, il suo primo Ep, che in poche settimane scala le classifiche di vendita con oltre 70 mila copie.
“Dove si vola”, brano che da il titolo all’Ep, è difficile da interpretare per un uomo, sia per la tonalità molto alta che per l’articolazione della melodia sull’armonia. La forza vocale di Marco regala al pezzo una magia unica che, durante le esibizioni fa letteralmente volare il pubblico, pubblico che l’ha votato e proclamato, quasi fin da subito, il vero talento della terza edizione di X Factor. All’interno dell’EP un altro brano inedito, “Lontanissimo da te”, firmato Massimo e Piero Calabrese e cinque tra le più emozionanti cover cantate da Marco durante il programma.
Marco nasce a Ronciglione (VT) il 25 dicembre 1988 (Capricorno), proprio nel giorno di Natale. Fin da bambino ama tutti i generi musicali: “Alla tenera 'altezza' di 70 cm. comincio ad ascoltare di tutto, dal pop all’r&b, soul, rock ed inizio ad approfondire la mia cultura musicale: scopro il karaoke e comincio a cantare di nascosto, per timidezza. Poi una volta i miei per caso mi ascoltano e si convincono di mandarmi ad una scuola di canto. Da quel momento capisco che la musica non è poi così semplice come pensavo: c'era da imparare molto…. tecniche di respirazione, maschera facciale, scale, vocalizzi di qualsiasi genere, per affinare la voce”.
Marco inizia a cantare all’età di 14 anni. Mentre studia all'Istituto per il Design, segue anche una scuola di canto dove impara le prime tecniche per la gestione e l'utilizzo dei propri mezzi vocali. Visto il talento di Marco, l’insegnante di canto lo inserisce in un piccolo quintetto vocale con cui si esibisce in serate di piazza e per le festività, facendo cover.
Dopo 2 anni ha inizio il suo percorso solista con un gruppo di musicisti con il quale suona nei club un po’ del suo repertorio originale e un po’ di cover, continuando quindi la sua gavetta. Iniziano tre anni di duro lavoro e provinaggio, per affinare lo stile e la personalità, ed anche per questo, Marco, figlio unico, lascia la famiglia per trasferirsi a Roma. Contemporaneamente si iscrive all’Università nella Facoltà di Lingue, e fa esperienza come fonico e programmatore, prendendo familiarità con gli studi di registrazione.
Il suo genere preferito resta il Brit Pop e la sua massima, e amatissima, influenza musicale sono i Beatles: tra le sue canzoni preferite dei Fab 4 ci sono 'Michelle' e 'The Fool on te hill'. Anche se il brano che gli ha cambiato la vita è 'La luce dell’est' di Lucio Battisti.
Vincendo X Factor Marco partecipa di diritto alla Sessantesima Edizione del Festival di Sanremo, nella categoria 'Artisti', interpretando “Credimi ancora”, brano che fa parte dell’EP “Re Matto” uscito il 19 febbraio 2010 su etichetta Rca/Sony Music.
Il 2010 è un anno davvero unico per quest’artista giovane ma pieno di talento. Mentre la sua paginaFacebook continua a crescere (superando ad oggi i 300 mila iscritti), Il 3 e 4 maggio parte dall’Alcatraz di Milano Il “Re Matto Tour, un viaggio nella “Mattità”, un’avventura vertiginosa nella mente colorata e multiforme di MARCO MENGONI. Lo spettacolo nasce da un’ idea di Marco, Luca Tommassini e Stella Fabiani. La regia è affidata a LUCA TOMMASSINI, la direzione artistica è di PIERO CALABRESE, la produzione è di F&P Group e dei “CANTIERI MUSICALI” che da sempre lavorano con MENGONI. Nel team creativo di Marco e del “RE MATTO TOUR” sono state coinvolte figure importanti a livello mondiale come lo stilista Neil Barrett, che finora ha solo disegnato abiti per artisti come Madonna, Justin Timberlake, Brad Pitt e Johnny Depp, e lo scultore Davide Orlandi Dormino, creatore di “Opera Scacchi”, la scultura che invade il palco. “IL RE MATTO TOUR” è ideato, sviluppato e strutturato all’insegna della totale libertà, della poesia, della sregolatezza e dell’improvvisazione rendendo ogni concerto un vero evento, con ospiti a sorpresa cheMARCO scopre insieme al pubblico…una sfida che solo un Re Matto poteva accettare.
Intanto l’8 maggio Marco partecipa ai Trl Awards e vince nella categoria “Man of the Year”.
Il “Re Matto tour” è un’esperienza straordinaria per Marco, che vive e si ciba dell’entusiasmo del pubblico. È un tour trionfale che colleziona un sold out dopo l’altro.
Il 2 giugno viene premiato ai Wind Music Awards e si aggiudica il doppio disco di platino per il suo primo Ep “Dove si vola”, che raccoglie l’omonima canzone e alcune delle cover cantate durante il programma di X Factor, e l’album “Re Matto”, superando le 160 mila copie vendute.
Il "Re Matto" del pop italiano non si fa mancare proprio nulla. Supera gli altri colleghi in gara agli Ema 2010 nella categoria dedicata agli artisti italiani: Malika Ayane, dARi, Sonohra e Nina Zilli.
Questo è un riconoscimento fondamentale per Marco Mengoni, artista italiano rivelazione del 2010, che ad MTV si è già aggiudicato il premio come "Man Of The Year" ai TRL Awards 2010 ed è arrivato secondo in una gara all'ultima edizione del Coca Cola Live @ MTV: The Summer Song. Grazie alla vittoria come Best Italian Act, Marco è entrato in nomination per il "Best European Act" in concorrenza con gli altri vincitori dei regional act. Marco partecipa inoltre all'ottava edizione di "O'Scia'", insieme ad altre star del pop italiano ed internazionale, organizzata da Claudio Baglioni a Lampedusa in cui si intende sensibilizzare fan, politici e cittadini sul problema della immigrazione clandestina.
Il 19 ottobre esce su etichetta Rca/Sony Music il Cd+Dvd “Re Matto live”. L’album debutta al 1° posto della classifica dei dischi più venduti (Gfk/Fimi) e al 1° posto della classifica di iTunes.
A novembre Marco Mengoni, dopo aver trionfato nella categoria Best Italian Act, si aggiudica anche il prestigioso titolo di Best European Act: un premio importante per lui e per l'Italia, considerando che in 17 edizioni nessun italiano era mai riuscito a raggiungere tale riconoscimento.
Il 2 settembre 2011 arriva in radio il singolo “Solo” che, anticipando l’uscita del nuovo disco, schizza alprimo posto della classica di iTunes. Il 27 settembre esce “Solo 2.0”, un vero e proprio concept album, che oltre alle tracce del disco e a un contenuto virtuale speciale (Il Comic 2.0), contamina anche la prima parte del Tour.
Dopo un’anteprima trionfante del “Solo Tour” con due date evento al Forum di Assago e al Palalottomatica di Roma, Marco Mengoni decide di cambiare veste allo spettacolo e di svelare al pubblico un’altra porzione d’anima, il suo lato più intimista, quasi introspettivo, non tralasciando mai la sua voglia di stupire e di emozionare. È un TOUR TEATRALE che fa della suggestione visiva e sonora il suo punto di forza.
Uno spettacolo in cui musica, movimento scenico, luci e scenografie compenetrano tra loro, per toccare ancor più da vicino l’anima di chi ascolta. L’essenza intimista dello spettacolo è rappresentata soprattutto dal suono. Una chiave di lettura inedita, con cui verranno reinterpretati molti tra i brani più noti del repertorio di Marco, insieme ad alcune cover, mai eseguite prima.
Il tour teatrale, ideato da Elisa, Marco Mengoni e Andrea Rigonat, parte dall’Arcimboldi di Milano il 19 aprile, passando dal Filarmonico di Verona, il Politeama di Palermo, il Gran Teatro di Roma e molti dei teatri più importanti d’Italia.
In radio intanto suona il nuovo singolo “Dall’inferno”, estratto dall’album Solo 2.0
Esce il 24 aprile, in esclusiva su iTunes, “Dall’Inferno EP”, l’EP digitale di Marco Mengoni contenente la title track, il videoclip e il backstage inedito di “Dall’inferno” e il video live di “Come ti senti”, girato durante lo showcase di presentazione dell’album “Solo 2.0”.
Marco è ospite dell’evento "Premio Leggio d'Oro", dove gli viene consegnato il Premio Speciale Voce Rivelazione Cartoon per il doppiaggio del personaggio Onceler nel cartone animato "Lorax il guardiano della foresta".
Marco prende parte al progetto "...Io Ci Sono", l'album tributo a Giorgio Gaber che celebra il grande artista a dieci anni dalla sua scomparsa, interpretando il brano "Destra-Sinistra".
Il 2013 si apre con la partecipazione di Marco alla 63^ Edizione del Festival di Sanremo con i brani “Bellissimo” e “L’Essenziale”, ed è proprio con quest’ultimo che Marco si classifica primo vincendo il Festival.
Entrambi i brani sono contenuti nel nuovo album di inediti (Sony Music) uscito il 19 marzo 2013:#PRONTOACORRERE ha superato di gran lunga il traguardo del disco di platino e "L’Essenziale" è addirittura multiplatino.
Marco ha rappresentato l’Italia all’Eurovision Song Contest a Malmö (Svezia) nel mese di maggio, dove ha ottenuto il settimo posto con "L’Essenziale".
L’8 maggio è partito "l’Essenziale Anteprima Tour" dal Teatro degli Arcimboldi di Milano: un’anteprima di 10 date, ideata per i più importanti teatri italiani che hanno registrato il sold out non appena aperte la prevendite.
Il 4 luglio è partito invece da Trento "L’Essenziale Tour", con un clamoroso successo di richieste, che continua ad imporre l’apertura di nuove date.
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Belvedere
Belvedere Castle. Garden Front of the Lower Belvedere.
Belvedere Palace stands supposedly on the foundations of a Roman camp that had been erected here for strategic reasons. In 1693 Prince Eugene of Savoy acquired field and vineyard grounds between today's Rennweg and today's Gürtel. In 1700 Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt began with the construction of a palace garden (Lower Belvedere), whose in French-style layed out park was equipped with large water basins, an orangery with precious foreign plants and a menagerie. Prince Eugene was a great animal lover, and some animals in his collection could be fed exclusively by himself.
1720 the Prince conceived the plan the summer palace to supplement by a another palace building on the hill of the garden.
The 1721 by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt begun works had been completed in 1724. The Upper Belvedere served in contrast to the Lower only representative purposes and was never meant to live.
The Prince and his architect managed a perfect symbiosis between architecture and garden. After the death of the Savoy (1736) inherited his niece Victoria of Savoy-Soisson, nee Princess Hildburghausen, all his possessions. From her the Habsburgs beginning of 1752 acquired the Belvedere. From 1755 Empress Maria Theresa moved the Arcierenleibgarde (Royal Company of the Archers) and the Galician Guard in the annex of the Belvedere. Besides, the castle stood almost empty.
Belvedere Castle. Engraving by Salomon Kleiner 1731/40 (left).
Vienna from the Belvedere. Coloured copper engraving by Carl Schütz, 1784 (right).
1770 Belvedere Palace was venue of brilliant festivities:
In castle and park the marriage of Archduchess Maria Antonia (Marie Antoinette) with the Dauphin of France by proxy (per procura) was celebrated. About 2,000 people were invited, more than 1,500 bottles of champagne, which was far from home in Vienna at that time,
were emptied. For hospitality of the guests, there were round tables, which were covered with silver. However, the Court of Vienna had a large part of the silver service to rent of nobles, because the stocks of the silver chamber were not sufficient. Finished was the festival by a magnificent fireworks.
1776, the imperial picture gallery from the Stallburg (home of the famous Lipizzan stallions) was transferred to the Upper Belvedere, the animals of the menagerie came to Schönbrunn. Shortly before the Congress of Vienna in 1814 in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection was exposed. During the war against Napoleon (1805-1809), much of the collection of paintings had to be outsourced. The Corsican claimed 400 masterpieces for himself, but which after his defeat at Waterloo to the Habsburgs have been restituted. The after the French wars completely neglected building has been restored 1850-1866.
Castle Park with Upper Belvedere. Photograph, around 1890.
1819 Emperor Franz II (I) the Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, had given spacious grounds for enlargement of the Botanical Garden at Rennweg. Franz was very interested in botany and in accordance with a Habsburg House bill - every Archduke must learn a civilian job - has been educated for gardener. In an adjoining garden of Schloß Belvedere he had from his private funds laid out a botanical garden ("Flora Austriaca") which was left to the Institute of Botany for use.
During the cholera epidemic of 1831, the Belvedere served as well as Schönbrunn Palace the imperial family as a refuge; supposedly one was there protected from the bad air, which was attributed to the onset of the disease. Both castles lay in the "countryside", the air was much better here than in the densely populated city. During wartime, a hospital was set up in the castle.
As the space for the imperial collections became too small, it was thought to expand the Upper Belvedere by wing buildings. This plan was dropped for aesthetic reasons, however. After the expansion of the city (razing of the bastions and glacis) arose on the ring road the newly created Court Museums; moved there in 1891 the major part of the paintings.
Archduke-Heir to the Throne Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este at folk and children's party in the park of the Belvedere Palace. Photograph, 1905.
To 1893/94 it is likely that Archduke Franz Ferdinand has chosen the Upper Belvedere to his residence in Vienna. Other sources say that it had been assigned to him by the Emperor Franz Joseph as a place to stay in Vienna. The rooms have been restored, adapted for residential purposes and supplemented with neo-Baroque furniture. The heir of the Este collections furnished his residence with numerous works of art. He had envisaged the castle for the accommodation of his collections; in 1893 were numerous boxes from India and Singapore in Belvedere stored. 1894 Emperor Franz Joseph could see the collection: "Yesterday I went to the Belvedere, where Franzi showed me his now quite and very nicely prepared collections. The same are as imposing as interesting by the incredible amount of objects and by the rarity and beauty of them. I believe that this exhibition would be interesting for you", wrote the monarch to his wife, Empress Elisabeth. That same year, Archduke Franz Ferdinand showed his collections his future wife, Sophie Chotková,
"Where I unaware of your fatigue with particular brutality you dragged from box to box" as he apologetically from Budweis wrote to the Countess.
Then the collections moved one the one hand to the Palais Modena in the Beatrixgasse, on the other hand to Konopischt. Only in 1898, Franz Ferdinand was granted by Emperor Franz Joseph to move into the Belvedere as Vienna Residence. More revitalization works were carried out and were also necessary. Technical modernization and preservation of the original building condition had priority - as always with the projects of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As furnishings served still preserved furnitures from Schloss Hof, which were supplemented by new ones in old style. The private rooms in addition to electric lighting were equipped with central heating.
Belvedere Castle. Staircase in the Upper Belvedere (left).
Marble plastic "Apotheosis of Prince Eugene" by Balthasar Permoser in Gold Cabinet of the Lower Belvedere (right).
If his presence was needed in Vienna, Franz Ferdinand here could lead a normal family life and escape the pressures of court ceremonial, in which the to him in morganatic marriage affiliated wife was exposed to the evils of the courtiers. When the heir to the throne invited guests to the Belvedere, he was sitting opposite his wife as a hostess while she was ranked in the Hofburg always after the latest unmarried Archduchess. About the cozy family life at Belvedere reported Prince von Clary-Aldringens:
"Aunt Sophie invited us ... to snack into a Belvedere, unexpectedly, suddenly appeared the Archduke - we literally froze in our Hab-Acht-position (stand at attention). He greeted us warmly ... [I got to know] the Archduke as a friendly landlord, who was playing and laughing with his Children..."
Between 1899 and 1914 in the Lower Belvedere the military bureau of the heir to the throne was housed. Other well-known Residents - but of outbuildings - were Anton Bruckner, who in 1896 died in the Kustodenwohnung (guardian house), and Richard Strauss, who lived here from 1925 to 1944.
After the assassination of the Archduke and his wife in Sarajevo, the Belvedere should serve as the residence of the new heir to the throne, Archduke Karl and his family. This, however, preferred living in Schönbrunn and especially in the villa Wartholz. In 1917, Charles' brother Archduke Maximilian moved with his family into the Belvedere.
During World War II the castle was badly damaged by bombs, but rebuilt after the war ended immediately. On 15 May 1955 was the Marble Hall venue of the signing of the Austrian State Treaty. Today, the Upper Belvedere houses important art collections.
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Denomination of the summer residence which Prince Eugene of Savoy himself had erected btw Rennweg and Swiss Garden. The term which refers to the unique view over Vienna dates from the time of Maria Theresa. Prinz Eugen bought in 1697 a plot of land at the Rennweg, which he extended to 1721 in four stages to the current area. Between 1714 and 1716 emerged the Lower Belvedere It is an elongated ground floor building, designed of a 7-axes central projection, two wings and two corner pavilions. The 3-axis central pavilion houses the Marble Hall. The castle the only rarely in Vienna sojourning builder served during the summer months as a pleasure palace.
Only in 1720 commenced construction works for the Upper Belvedere, first drawings for this existed already in 1717. The in it extent and form language compared to the Lower Belvedere especially magnificent Upper Belvedere served primarily as a representative setting for grand receptions and festivities. The architectural history of the example due to the loss of the Eugenianischen Bauarchivs (construction archiv of Prince Eugene) cannot be explored in detail without any gaps. 1723 (according to Rizzi 1721/22) the Upper Belvedere s is considered complete. The architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, who repeatedly worked for Prince Eugen, with the construction of the Belvedere has created his main work. It counts in its multiform architectonic as well as sculptural structure to the most important baroque buildings of the 18th century. The to the ensemble belonging, btw Upper and Lower Belvedere laying garden has been created by the Bavarian horticultural engineer D. Girard and today only in broad terms is original. The designs for the interior of the castle stem from C. le Fort du Plessy.
After the death of the prince the belvedere went into the possession of his sole heiress, Victoria Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen. She sold it in 1752 to Maria Theresa. At the behest of Joseph II from 1775 the imperial picture gallery was transferred here, which in 1781 for the first time was open to the public. had. Since 1806 was located in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection. Both collections were in 1890 in the Museum of Art History transferred. In 1894, the palace became residence for the heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
After the first World War I the Republic of Austria in Belvedere installed the Austrian Gallery. 1945 suffered the Belvedere severe war damage. In 1950, the "Gold Cabinet" in the north-eastern corner pavilion of the Upper Belvedere was destroyed by fire and replaced by a copy. The since 1988 ongoing general renovation should have been completed in 1996.
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Austrian Gallery Belvedere
The in the center of Vienna situated Belvedere palaces with their extensive parks form an impressive baroque Gesamtkunstwerk. The Museum in the Upper and Lower Castle
provides an excellent overview of the Austrian Art from the Middle Ages to the present. the collections of the 19th and 20th Century also include an exquisite inventory of international art. World Famous works by Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Renoir and Monet you can see in the upper
Belvedere, from where you can enjoy a spectacular view to the center of Vienna. In the historic rooms of the Lower Belvedere are shown works of art from the Middle Ages and Baroque.
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
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Upper Belvedere
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Lower Belvedere
Baroque Museum, and Museum of Medieval Art
Rennweg 6a, A - 1030 Vienna
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Belvedere
Belvedere Castle. Garden Front of the Lower Belvedere.
Belvedere Palace stands supposedly on the foundations of a Roman camp that had been erected here for strategic reasons. In 1693 Prince Eugene of Savoy acquired field and vineyard grounds between today's Rennweg and today's Gürtel. In 1700 Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt began with the construction of a palace garden (Lower Belvedere), whose in French-style layed out park was equipped with large water basins, an orangery with precious foreign plants and a menagerie. Prince Eugene was a great animal lover, and some animals in his collection could be fed exclusively by himself.
1720 the Prince conceived the plan the summer palace to supplement by a another palace building on the hill of the garden.
The 1721 by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt begun works had been completed in 1724. The Upper Belvedere served in contrast to the Lower only representative purposes and was never meant to live.
The Prince and his architect managed a perfect symbiosis between architecture and garden. After the death of the Savoy (1736) inherited his niece Victoria of Savoy-Soisson, nee Princess Hildburghausen, all his possessions. From her the Habsburgs beginning of 1752 acquired the Belvedere. From 1755 Empress Maria Theresa moved the Arcierenleibgarde (Royal Company of the Archers) and the Galician Guard in the annex of the Belvedere. Besides, the castle stood almost empty.
Belvedere Castle. Engraving by Salomon Kleiner 1731/40 (left).
Vienna from the Belvedere. Coloured copper engraving by Carl Schütz, 1784 (right).
1770 Belvedere Palace was venue of brilliant festivities:
In castle and park the marriage of Archduchess Maria Antonia (Marie Antoinette) with the Dauphin of France by proxy (per procura) was celebrated. About 2,000 people were invited, more than 1,500 bottles of champagne, which was far from home in Vienna at that time,
were emptied. For hospitality of the guests, there were round tables, which were covered with silver. However, the Court of Vienna had a large part of the silver service to rent of nobles, because the stocks of the silver chamber were not sufficient. Finished was the festival by a magnificent fireworks.
1776, the imperial picture gallery from the Stallburg (home of the famous Lipizzan stallions) was transferred to the Upper Belvedere, the animals of the menagerie came to Schönbrunn. Shortly before the Congress of Vienna in 1814 in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection was exposed. During the war against Napoleon (1805-1809), much of the collection of paintings had to be outsourced. The Corsican claimed 400 masterpieces for himself, but which after his defeat at Waterloo to the Habsburgs have been restituted. The after the French wars completely neglected building has been restored 1850-1866.
Castle Park with Upper Belvedere. Photograph, around 1890.
1819 Emperor Franz II (I) the Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, had given spacious grounds for enlargement of the Botanical Garden at Rennweg. Franz was very interested in botany and in accordance with a Habsburg House bill - every Archduke must learn a civilian job - has been educated for gardener. In an adjoining garden of Schloß Belvedere he had from his private funds laid out a botanical garden ("Flora Austriaca") which was left to the Institute of Botany for use.
During the cholera epidemic of 1831, the Belvedere served as well as Schönbrunn Palace the imperial family as a refuge; supposedly one was there protected from the bad air, which was attributed to the onset of the disease. Both castles lay in the "countryside", the air was much better here than in the densely populated city. During wartime, a hospital was set up in the castle.
As the space for the imperial collections became too small, it was thought to expand the Upper Belvedere by wing buildings. This plan was dropped for aesthetic reasons, however. After the expansion of the city (razing of the bastions and glacis) arose on the ring road the newly created Court Museums; moved there in 1891 the major part of the paintings.
Archduke-Heir to the Throne Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este at folk and children's party in the park of the Belvedere Palace. Photograph, 1905.
To 1893/94 it is likely that Archduke Franz Ferdinand has chosen the Upper Belvedere to his residence in Vienna. Other sources say that it had been assigned to him by the Emperor Franz Joseph as a place to stay in Vienna. The rooms have been restored, adapted for residential purposes and supplemented with neo-Baroque furniture. The heir of the Este collections furnished his residence with numerous works of art. He had envisaged the castle for the accommodation of his collections; in 1893 were numerous boxes from India and Singapore in Belvedere stored. 1894 Emperor Franz Joseph could see the collection: "Yesterday I went to the Belvedere, where Franzi showed me his now quite and very nicely prepared collections. The same are as imposing as interesting by the incredible amount of objects and by the rarity and beauty of them. I believe that this exhibition would be interesting for you", wrote the monarch to his wife, Empress Elisabeth. That same year, Archduke Franz Ferdinand showed his collections his future wife, Sophie Chotková,
"Where I unaware of your fatigue with particular brutality you dragged from box to box" as he apologetically from Budweis wrote to the Countess.
Then the collections moved one the one hand to the Palais Modena in the Beatrixgasse, on the other hand to Konopischt. Only in 1898, Franz Ferdinand was granted by Emperor Franz Joseph to move into the Belvedere as Vienna Residence. More revitalization works were carried out and were also necessary. Technical modernization and preservation of the original building condition had priority - as always with the projects of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As furnishings served still preserved furnitures from Schloss Hof, which were supplemented by new ones in old style. The private rooms in addition to electric lighting were equipped with central heating.
Belvedere Castle. Staircase in the Upper Belvedere (left).
Marble plastic "Apotheosis of Prince Eugene" by Balthasar Permoser in Gold Cabinet of the Lower Belvedere (right).
If his presence was needed in Vienna, Franz Ferdinand here could lead a normal family life and escape the pressures of court ceremonial, in which the to him in morganatic marriage affiliated wife was exposed to the evils of the courtiers. When the heir to the throne invited guests to the Belvedere, he was sitting opposite his wife as a hostess while she was ranked in the Hofburg always after the latest unmarried Archduchess. About the cozy family life at Belvedere reported Prince von Clary-Aldringens:
"Aunt Sophie invited us ... to snack into a Belvedere, unexpectedly, suddenly appeared the Archduke - we literally froze in our Hab-Acht-position (stand at attention). He greeted us warmly ... [I got to know] the Archduke as a friendly landlord, who was playing and laughing with his Children..."
Between 1899 and 1914 in the Lower Belvedere the military bureau of the heir to the throne was housed. Other well-known Residents - but of outbuildings - were Anton Bruckner, who in 1896 died in the Kustodenwohnung (guardian house), and Richard Strauss, who lived here from 1925 to 1944.
After the assassination of the Archduke and his wife in Sarajevo, the Belvedere should serve as the residence of the new heir to the throne, Archduke Karl and his family. This, however, preferred living in Schönbrunn and especially in the villa Wartholz. In 1917, Charles' brother Archduke Maximilian moved with his family into the Belvedere.
During World War II the castle was badly damaged by bombs, but rebuilt after the war ended immediately. On 15 May 1955 was the Marble Hall venue of the signing of the Austrian State Treaty. Today, the Upper Belvedere houses important art collections.
Excerpts from
Thus lived the Habsburgs - Imperial and Royal Palaces in the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Ingrid Haslinger, Gerhard Trumler
Christian Brandstätter Verlag mbH
The publishing service for museums, businesses and
public bodies
www.brandstaetter - verlag.at
Denomination of the summer residence which Prince Eugene of Savoy himself had erected btw Rennweg and Swiss Garden. The term which refers to the unique view over Vienna dates from the time of Maria Theresa. Prinz Eugen bought in 1697 a plot of land at the Rennweg, which he extended to 1721 in four stages to the current area. Between 1714 and 1716 emerged the Lower Belvedere It is an elongated ground floor building, designed of a 7-axes central projection, two wings and two corner pavilions. The 3-axis central pavilion houses the Marble Hall. The castle the only rarely in Vienna sojourning builder served during the summer months as a pleasure palace.
Only in 1720 commenced construction works for the Upper Belvedere, first drawings for this existed already in 1717. The in it extent and form language compared to the Lower Belvedere especially magnificent Upper Belvedere served primarily as a representative setting for grand receptions and festivities. The architectural history of the example due to the loss of the Eugenianischen Bauarchivs (construction archiv of Prince Eugene) cannot be explored in detail without any gaps. 1723 (according to Rizzi 1721/22) the Upper Belvedere s is considered complete. The architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, who repeatedly worked for Prince Eugen, with the construction of the Belvedere has created his main work. It counts in its multiform architectonic as well as sculptural structure to the most important baroque buildings of the 18th century. The to the ensemble belonging, btw Upper and Lower Belvedere laying garden has been created by the Bavarian horticultural engineer D. Girard and today only in broad terms is original. The designs for the interior of the castle stem from C. le Fort du Plessy.
After the death of the prince the belvedere went into the possession of his sole heiress, Victoria Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen. She sold it in 1752 to Maria Theresa. At the behest of Joseph II from 1775 the imperial picture gallery was transferred here, which in 1781 for the first time was open to the public. had. Since 1806 was located in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection. Both collections were in 1890 in the Museum of Art History transferred. In 1894, the palace became residence for the heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
After the first World War I the Republic of Austria in Belvedere installed the Austrian Gallery. 1945 suffered the Belvedere severe war damage. In 1950, the "Gold Cabinet" in the north-eastern corner pavilion of the Upper Belvedere was destroyed by fire and replaced by a copy. The since 1988 ongoing general renovation should have been completed in 1996.
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Austrian Gallery Belvedere
The in the center of Vienna situated Belvedere palaces with their extensive parks form an impressive baroque Gesamtkunstwerk. The Museum in the Upper and Lower Castle
provides an excellent overview of the Austrian Art from the Middle Ages to the present. the collections of the 19th and 20th Century also include an exquisite inventory of international art. World Famous works by Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Renoir and Monet you can see in the upper
Belvedere, from where you can enjoy a spectacular view to the center of Vienna. In the historic rooms of the Lower Belvedere are shown works of art from the Middle Ages and Baroque.
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Phone +43 / ( 0) 1 / 79557-0
Fax +43 / (0) 1/79 84 337
Upper Belvedere
Collections of the 19th and 20th century
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Lower Belvedere
Baroque Museum, and Museum of Medieval Art
Rennweg 6a, A - 1030 Vienna
Marco Mengoni
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26 Settembre 2013
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Marco Mengoni , vincitore incontrastato della terza edizione di 'X Factor'. Presenza scenica da professionista consumato, lunatico, "permaloso quasi antipatico", ha conquistato la stima del pubblico (non è mai finito in ballottaggio per l'eliminazione) grazie a interpretazioni di grande spessore.
Il 4 dicembre 2009 esce “DOVE SI VOLA”, il suo primo Ep, che in poche settimane scala le classifiche di vendita con oltre 70 mila copie.
“Dove si vola”, brano che da il titolo all’Ep, è difficile da interpretare per un uomo, sia per la tonalità molto alta che per l’articolazione della melodia sull’armonia. La forza vocale di Marco regala al pezzo una magia unica che, durante le esibizioni fa letteralmente volare il pubblico, pubblico che l’ha votato e proclamato, quasi fin da subito, il vero talento della terza edizione di X Factor. All’interno dell’EP un altro brano inedito, “Lontanissimo da te”, firmato Massimo e Piero Calabrese e cinque tra le più emozionanti cover cantate da Marco durante il programma.
Marco nasce a Ronciglione (VT) il 25 dicembre 1988 (Capricorno), proprio nel giorno di Natale. Fin da bambino ama tutti i generi musicali: “Alla tenera 'altezza' di 70 cm. comincio ad ascoltare di tutto, dal pop all’r&b, soul, rock ed inizio ad approfondire la mia cultura musicale: scopro il karaoke e comincio a cantare di nascosto, per timidezza. Poi una volta i miei per caso mi ascoltano e si convincono di mandarmi ad una scuola di canto. Da quel momento capisco che la musica non è poi così semplice come pensavo: c'era da imparare molto…. tecniche di respirazione, maschera facciale, scale, vocalizzi di qualsiasi genere, per affinare la voce”.
Marco inizia a cantare all’età di 14 anni. Mentre studia all'Istituto per il Design, segue anche una scuola di canto dove impara le prime tecniche per la gestione e l'utilizzo dei propri mezzi vocali. Visto il talento di Marco, l’insegnante di canto lo inserisce in un piccolo quintetto vocale con cui si esibisce in serate di piazza e per le festività, facendo cover.
Dopo 2 anni ha inizio il suo percorso solista con un gruppo di musicisti con il quale suona nei club un po’ del suo repertorio originale e un po’ di cover, continuando quindi la sua gavetta. Iniziano tre anni di duro lavoro e provinaggio, per affinare lo stile e la personalità, ed anche per questo, Marco, figlio unico, lascia la famiglia per trasferirsi a Roma. Contemporaneamente si iscrive all’Università nella Facoltà di Lingue, e fa esperienza come fonico e programmatore, prendendo familiarità con gli studi di registrazione.
Il suo genere preferito resta il Brit Pop e la sua massima, e amatissima, influenza musicale sono i Beatles: tra le sue canzoni preferite dei Fab 4 ci sono 'Michelle' e 'The Fool on te hill'. Anche se il brano che gli ha cambiato la vita è 'La luce dell’est' di Lucio Battisti.
Vincendo X Factor Marco partecipa di diritto alla Sessantesima Edizione del Festival di Sanremo, nella categoria 'Artisti', interpretando “Credimi ancora”, brano che fa parte dell’EP “Re Matto” uscito il 19 febbraio 2010 su etichetta Rca/Sony Music.
Il 2010 è un anno davvero unico per quest’artista giovane ma pieno di talento. Mentre la sua paginaFacebook continua a crescere (superando ad oggi i 300 mila iscritti), Il 3 e 4 maggio parte dall’Alcatraz di Milano Il “Re Matto Tour, un viaggio nella “Mattità”, un’avventura vertiginosa nella mente colorata e multiforme di MARCO MENGONI. Lo spettacolo nasce da un’ idea di Marco, Luca Tommassini e Stella Fabiani. La regia è affidata a LUCA TOMMASSINI, la direzione artistica è di PIERO CALABRESE, la produzione è di F&P Group e dei “CANTIERI MUSICALI” che da sempre lavorano con MENGONI. Nel team creativo di Marco e del “RE MATTO TOUR” sono state coinvolte figure importanti a livello mondiale come lo stilista Neil Barrett, che finora ha solo disegnato abiti per artisti come Madonna, Justin Timberlake, Brad Pitt e Johnny Depp, e lo scultore Davide Orlandi Dormino, creatore di “Opera Scacchi”, la scultura che invade il palco. “IL RE MATTO TOUR” è ideato, sviluppato e strutturato all’insegna della totale libertà, della poesia, della sregolatezza e dell’improvvisazione rendendo ogni concerto un vero evento, con ospiti a sorpresa cheMARCO scopre insieme al pubblico…una sfida che solo un Re Matto poteva accettare.
Intanto l’8 maggio Marco partecipa ai Trl Awards e vince nella categoria “Man of the Year”.
Il “Re Matto tour” è un’esperienza straordinaria per Marco, che vive e si ciba dell’entusiasmo del pubblico. È un tour trionfale che colleziona un sold out dopo l’altro.
Il 2 giugno viene premiato ai Wind Music Awards e si aggiudica il doppio disco di platino per il suo primo Ep “Dove si vola”, che raccoglie l’omonima canzone e alcune delle cover cantate durante il programma di X Factor, e l’album “Re Matto”, superando le 160 mila copie vendute.
Il "Re Matto" del pop italiano non si fa mancare proprio nulla. Supera gli altri colleghi in gara agli Ema 2010 nella categoria dedicata agli artisti italiani: Malika Ayane, dARi, Sonohra e Nina Zilli.
Questo è un riconoscimento fondamentale per Marco Mengoni, artista italiano rivelazione del 2010, che ad MTV si è già aggiudicato il premio come "Man Of The Year" ai TRL Awards 2010 ed è arrivato secondo in una gara all'ultima edizione del Coca Cola Live @ MTV: The Summer Song. Grazie alla vittoria come Best Italian Act, Marco è entrato in nomination per il "Best European Act" in concorrenza con gli altri vincitori dei regional act. Marco partecipa inoltre all'ottava edizione di "O'Scia'", insieme ad altre star del pop italiano ed internazionale, organizzata da Claudio Baglioni a Lampedusa in cui si intende sensibilizzare fan, politici e cittadini sul problema della immigrazione clandestina.
Il 19 ottobre esce su etichetta Rca/Sony Music il Cd+Dvd “Re Matto live”. L’album debutta al 1° posto della classifica dei dischi più venduti (Gfk/Fimi) e al 1° posto della classifica di iTunes.
A novembre Marco Mengoni, dopo aver trionfato nella categoria Best Italian Act, si aggiudica anche il prestigioso titolo di Best European Act: un premio importante per lui e per l'Italia, considerando che in 17 edizioni nessun italiano era mai riuscito a raggiungere tale riconoscimento.
Il 2 settembre 2011 arriva in radio il singolo “Solo” che, anticipando l’uscita del nuovo disco, schizza alprimo posto della classica di iTunes. Il 27 settembre esce “Solo 2.0”, un vero e proprio concept album, che oltre alle tracce del disco e a un contenuto virtuale speciale (Il Comic 2.0), contamina anche la prima parte del Tour.
Dopo un’anteprima trionfante del “Solo Tour” con due date evento al Forum di Assago e al Palalottomatica di Roma, Marco Mengoni decide di cambiare veste allo spettacolo e di svelare al pubblico un’altra porzione d’anima, il suo lato più intimista, quasi introspettivo, non tralasciando mai la sua voglia di stupire e di emozionare. È un TOUR TEATRALE che fa della suggestione visiva e sonora il suo punto di forza.
Uno spettacolo in cui musica, movimento scenico, luci e scenografie compenetrano tra loro, per toccare ancor più da vicino l’anima di chi ascolta. L’essenza intimista dello spettacolo è rappresentata soprattutto dal suono. Una chiave di lettura inedita, con cui verranno reinterpretati molti tra i brani più noti del repertorio di Marco, insieme ad alcune cover, mai eseguite prima.
Il tour teatrale, ideato da Elisa, Marco Mengoni e Andrea Rigonat, parte dall’Arcimboldi di Milano il 19 aprile, passando dal Filarmonico di Verona, il Politeama di Palermo, il Gran Teatro di Roma e molti dei teatri più importanti d’Italia.
In radio intanto suona il nuovo singolo “Dall’inferno”, estratto dall’album Solo 2.0
Esce il 24 aprile, in esclusiva su iTunes, “Dall’Inferno EP”, l’EP digitale di Marco Mengoni contenente la title track, il videoclip e il backstage inedito di “Dall’inferno” e il video live di “Come ti senti”, girato durante lo showcase di presentazione dell’album “Solo 2.0”.
Marco è ospite dell’evento "Premio Leggio d'Oro", dove gli viene consegnato il Premio Speciale Voce Rivelazione Cartoon per il doppiaggio del personaggio Onceler nel cartone animato "Lorax il guardiano della foresta".
Marco prende parte al progetto "...Io Ci Sono", l'album tributo a Giorgio Gaber che celebra il grande artista a dieci anni dalla sua scomparsa, interpretando il brano "Destra-Sinistra".
Il 2013 si apre con la partecipazione di Marco alla 63^ Edizione del Festival di Sanremo con i brani “Bellissimo” e “L’Essenziale”, ed è proprio con quest’ultimo che Marco si classifica primo vincendo il Festival.
Entrambi i brani sono contenuti nel nuovo album di inediti (Sony Music) uscito il 19 marzo 2013:#PRONTOACORRERE ha superato di gran lunga il traguardo del disco di platino e "L’Essenziale" è addirittura multiplatino.
Marco ha rappresentato l’Italia all’Eurovision Song Contest a Malmö (Svezia) nel mese di maggio, dove ha ottenuto il settimo posto con "L’Essenziale".
L’8 maggio è partito "l’Essenziale Anteprima Tour" dal Teatro degli Arcimboldi di Milano: un’anteprima di 10 date, ideata per i più importanti teatri italiani che hanno registrato il sold out non appena aperte la prevendite.
Il 4 luglio è partito invece da Trento "L’Essenziale Tour", con un clamoroso successo di richieste, che continua ad imporre l’apertura di nuove date.
(further pictures and information you can see if you go to the end of page and by clicking on the link...)
Belvedere
Belvedere Castle. Garden Front of the Lower Belvedere.
Belvedere Palace stands supposedly on the foundations of a Roman camp that had been erected here for strategic reasons. In 1693 Prince Eugene of Savoy acquired field and vineyard grounds between today's Rennweg and today's Gürtel. In 1700 Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt began with the construction of a palace garden (Lower Belvedere), whose in French-style layed out park was equipped with large water basins, an orangery with precious foreign plants and a menagerie. Prince Eugene was a great animal lover, and some animals in his collection could be fed exclusively by himself.
1720 the Prince conceived the plan the summer palace to supplement by a another palace building on the hill of the garden.
The 1721 by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt begun works had been completed in 1724. The Upper Belvedere served in contrast to the Lower only representative purposes and was never meant to live.
The Prince and his architect managed a perfect symbiosis between architecture and garden. After the death of the Savoy (1736) inherited his niece Victoria of Savoy-Soisson, nee Princess Hildburghausen, all his possessions. From her the Habsburgs beginning of 1752 acquired the Belvedere. From 1755 Empress Maria Theresa moved the Arcierenleibgarde (Royal Company of the Archers) and the Galician Guard in the annex of the Belvedere. Besides, the castle stood almost empty.
Belvedere Castle. Engraving by Salomon Kleiner 1731/40 (left).
Vienna from the Belvedere. Coloured copper engraving by Carl Schütz, 1784 (right).
1770 Belvedere Palace was venue of brilliant festivities:
In castle and park the marriage of Archduchess Maria Antonia (Marie Antoinette) with the Dauphin of France by proxy (per procura) was celebrated. About 2,000 people were invited, more than 1,500 bottles of champagne, which was far from home in Vienna at that time,
were emptied. For hospitality of the guests, there were round tables, which were covered with silver. However, the Court of Vienna had a large part of the silver service to rent of nobles, because the stocks of the silver chamber were not sufficient. Finished was the festival by a magnificent fireworks.
1776, the imperial picture gallery from the Stallburg (home of the famous Lipizzan stallions) was transferred to the Upper Belvedere, the animals of the menagerie came to Schönbrunn. Shortly before the Congress of Vienna in 1814 in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection was exposed. During the war against Napoleon (1805-1809), much of the collection of paintings had to be outsourced. The Corsican claimed 400 masterpieces for himself, but which after his defeat at Waterloo to the Habsburgs have been restituted. The after the French wars completely neglected building has been restored 1850-1866.
Castle Park with Upper Belvedere. Photograph, around 1890.
1819 Emperor Franz II (I) the Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, had given spacious grounds for enlargement of the Botanical Garden at Rennweg. Franz was very interested in botany and in accordance with a Habsburg House bill - every Archduke must learn a civilian job - has been educated for gardener. In an adjoining garden of Schloß Belvedere he had from his private funds laid out a botanical garden ("Flora Austriaca") which was left to the Institute of Botany for use.
During the cholera epidemic of 1831, the Belvedere served as well as Schönbrunn Palace the imperial family as a refuge; supposedly one was there protected from the bad air, which was attributed to the onset of the disease. Both castles lay in the "countryside", the air was much better here than in the densely populated city. During wartime, a hospital was set up in the castle.
As the space for the imperial collections became too small, it was thought to expand the Upper Belvedere by wing buildings. This plan was dropped for aesthetic reasons, however. After the expansion of the city (razing of the bastions and glacis) arose on the ring road the newly created Court Museums; moved there in 1891 the major part of the paintings.
Archduke-Heir to the Throne Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este at folk and children's party in the park of the Belvedere Palace. Photograph, 1905.
To 1893/94 it is likely that Archduke Franz Ferdinand has chosen the Upper Belvedere to his residence in Vienna. Other sources say that it had been assigned to him by the Emperor Franz Joseph as a place to stay in Vienna. The rooms have been restored, adapted for residential purposes and supplemented with neo-Baroque furniture. The heir of the Este collections furnished his residence with numerous works of art. He had envisaged the castle for the accommodation of his collections; in 1893 were numerous boxes from India and Singapore in Belvedere stored. 1894 Emperor Franz Joseph could see the collection: "Yesterday I went to the Belvedere, where Franzi showed me his now quite and very nicely prepared collections. The same are as imposing as interesting by the incredible amount of objects and by the rarity and beauty of them. I believe that this exhibition would be interesting for you", wrote the monarch to his wife, Empress Elisabeth. That same year, Archduke Franz Ferdinand showed his collections his future wife, Sophie Chotková,
"Where I unaware of your fatigue with particular brutality you dragged from box to box" as he apologetically from Budweis wrote to the Countess.
Then the collections moved one the one hand to the Palais Modena in the Beatrixgasse, on the other hand to Konopischt. Only in 1898, Franz Ferdinand was granted by Emperor Franz Joseph to move into the Belvedere as Vienna Residence. More revitalization works were carried out and were also necessary. Technical modernization and preservation of the original building condition had priority - as always with the projects of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As furnishings served still preserved furnitures from Schloss Hof, which were supplemented by new ones in old style. The private rooms in addition to electric lighting were equipped with central heating.
Belvedere Castle. Staircase in the Upper Belvedere (left).
Marble plastic "Apotheosis of Prince Eugene" by Balthasar Permoser in Gold Cabinet of the Lower Belvedere (right).
If his presence was needed in Vienna, Franz Ferdinand here could lead a normal family life and escape the pressures of court ceremonial, in which the to him in morganatic marriage affiliated wife was exposed to the evils of the courtiers. When the heir to the throne invited guests to the Belvedere, he was sitting opposite his wife as a hostess while she was ranked in the Hofburg always after the latest unmarried Archduchess. About the cozy family life at Belvedere reported Prince von Clary-Aldringens:
"Aunt Sophie invited us ... to snack into a Belvedere, unexpectedly, suddenly appeared the Archduke - we literally froze in our Hab-Acht-position (stand at attention). He greeted us warmly ... [I got to know] the Archduke as a friendly landlord, who was playing and laughing with his Children..."
Between 1899 and 1914 in the Lower Belvedere the military bureau of the heir to the throne was housed. Other well-known Residents - but of outbuildings - were Anton Bruckner, who in 1896 died in the Kustodenwohnung (guardian house), and Richard Strauss, who lived here from 1925 to 1944.
After the assassination of the Archduke and his wife in Sarajevo, the Belvedere should serve as the residence of the new heir to the throne, Archduke Karl and his family. This, however, preferred living in Schönbrunn and especially in the villa Wartholz. In 1917, Charles' brother Archduke Maximilian moved with his family into the Belvedere.
During World War II the castle was badly damaged by bombs, but rebuilt after the war ended immediately. On 15 May 1955 was the Marble Hall venue of the signing of the Austrian State Treaty. Today, the Upper Belvedere houses important art collections.
Excerpts from
Thus lived the Habsburgs - Imperial and Royal Palaces in the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Ingrid Haslinger, Gerhard Trumler
Christian Brandstätter Verlag mbH
The publishing service for museums, businesses and
public bodies
www.brandstaetter - verlag.at
Denomination of the summer residence which Prince Eugene of Savoy himself had erected btw Rennweg and Swiss Garden. The term which refers to the unique view over Vienna dates from the time of Maria Theresa. Prinz Eugen bought in 1697 a plot of land at the Rennweg, which he extended to 1721 in four stages to the current area. Between 1714 and 1716 emerged the Lower Belvedere It is an elongated ground floor building, designed of a 7-axes central projection, two wings and two corner pavilions. The 3-axis central pavilion houses the Marble Hall. The castle the only rarely in Vienna sojourning builder served during the summer months as a pleasure palace.
Only in 1720 commenced construction works for the Upper Belvedere, first drawings for this existed already in 1717. The in it extent and form language compared to the Lower Belvedere especially magnificent Upper Belvedere served primarily as a representative setting for grand receptions and festivities. The architectural history of the example due to the loss of the Eugenianischen Bauarchivs (construction archiv of Prince Eugene) cannot be explored in detail without any gaps. 1723 (according to Rizzi 1721/22) the Upper Belvedere s is considered complete. The architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, who repeatedly worked for Prince Eugen, with the construction of the Belvedere has created his main work. It counts in its multiform architectonic as well as sculptural structure to the most important baroque buildings of the 18th century. The to the ensemble belonging, btw Upper and Lower Belvedere laying garden has been created by the Bavarian horticultural engineer D. Girard and today only in broad terms is original. The designs for the interior of the castle stem from C. le Fort du Plessy.
After the death of the prince the belvedere went into the possession of his sole heiress, Victoria Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen. She sold it in 1752 to Maria Theresa. At the behest of Joseph II from 1775 the imperial picture gallery was transferred here, which in 1781 for the first time was open to the public. had. Since 1806 was located in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection. Both collections were in 1890 in the Museum of Art History transferred. In 1894, the palace became residence for the heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
After the first World War I the Republic of Austria in Belvedere installed the Austrian Gallery. 1945 suffered the Belvedere severe war damage. In 1950, the "Gold Cabinet" in the north-eastern corner pavilion of the Upper Belvedere was destroyed by fire and replaced by a copy. The since 1988 ongoing general renovation should have been completed in 1996.
aeiou - the cultural information system of the bm: bwk
14,000 key words and 2000 pictures from history, geography, politics and business in Austria
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
The in the center of Vienna situated Belvedere palaces with their extensive parks form an impressive baroque Gesamtkunstwerk. The Museum in the Upper and Lower Castle
provides an excellent overview of the Austrian Art from the Middle Ages to the present. the collections of the 19th and 20th Century also include an exquisite inventory of international art. World Famous works by Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Renoir and Monet you can see in the upper
Belvedere, from where you can enjoy a spectacular view to the center of Vienna. In the historic rooms of the Lower Belvedere are shown works of art from the Middle Ages and Baroque.
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Phone +43 / ( 0) 1 / 79557-0
Fax +43 / (0) 1/79 84 337
Upper Belvedere
Collections of the 19th and 20th century
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Lower Belvedere
Baroque Museum, and Museum of Medieval Art
Rennweg 6a, A - 1030 Vienna
(further pictures and information you can see if you go to the end of page and by clicking on the link...)
Belvedere
Belvedere Castle. Garden Front of the Lower Belvedere.
Belvedere Palace stands supposedly on the foundations of a Roman camp that had been erected here for strategic reasons. In 1693 Prince Eugene of Savoy acquired field and vineyard grounds between today's Rennweg and today's Gürtel. In 1700 Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt began with the construction of a palace garden (Lower Belvedere), whose in French-style layed out park was equipped with large water basins, an orangery with precious foreign plants and a menagerie. Prince Eugene was a great animal lover, and some animals in his collection could be fed exclusively by himself.
1720 the Prince conceived the plan the summer palace to supplement by a another palace building on the hill of the garden.
The 1721 by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt begun works had been completed in 1724. The Upper Belvedere served in contrast to the Lower only representative purposes and was never meant to live.
The Prince and his architect managed a perfect symbiosis between architecture and garden. After the death of the Savoy (1736) inherited his niece Victoria of Savoy-Soisson, nee Princess Hildburghausen, all his possessions. From her the Habsburgs beginning of 1752 acquired the Belvedere. From 1755 Empress Maria Theresa moved the Arcierenleibgarde (Royal Company of the Archers) and the Galician Guard in the annex of the Belvedere. Besides, the castle stood almost empty.
Belvedere Castle. Engraving by Salomon Kleiner 1731/40 (left).
Vienna from the Belvedere. Coloured copper engraving by Carl Schütz, 1784 (right).
1770 Belvedere Palace was venue of brilliant festivities:
In castle and park the marriage of Archduchess Maria Antonia (Marie Antoinette) with the Dauphin of France by proxy (per procura) was celebrated. About 2,000 people were invited, more than 1,500 bottles of champagne, which was far from home in Vienna at that time,
were emptied. For hospitality of the guests, there were round tables, which were covered with silver. However, the Court of Vienna had a large part of the silver service to rent of nobles, because the stocks of the silver chamber were not sufficient. Finished was the festival by a magnificent fireworks.
1776, the imperial picture gallery from the Stallburg (home of the famous Lipizzan stallions) was transferred to the Upper Belvedere, the animals of the menagerie came to Schönbrunn. Shortly before the Congress of Vienna in 1814 in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection was exposed. During the war against Napoleon (1805-1809), much of the collection of paintings had to be outsourced. The Corsican claimed 400 masterpieces for himself, but which after his defeat at Waterloo to the Habsburgs have been restituted. The after the French wars completely neglected building has been restored 1850-1866.
Castle Park with Upper Belvedere. Photograph, around 1890.
1819 Emperor Franz II (I) the Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, had given spacious grounds for enlargement of the Botanical Garden at Rennweg. Franz was very interested in botany and in accordance with a Habsburg House bill - every Archduke must learn a civilian job - has been educated for gardener. In an adjoining garden of Schloß Belvedere he had from his private funds laid out a botanical garden ("Flora Austriaca") which was left to the Institute of Botany for use.
During the cholera epidemic of 1831, the Belvedere served as well as Schönbrunn Palace the imperial family as a refuge; supposedly one was there protected from the bad air, which was attributed to the onset of the disease. Both castles lay in the "countryside", the air was much better here than in the densely populated city. During wartime, a hospital was set up in the castle.
As the space for the imperial collections became too small, it was thought to expand the Upper Belvedere by wing buildings. This plan was dropped for aesthetic reasons, however. After the expansion of the city (razing of the bastions and glacis) arose on the ring road the newly created Court Museums; moved there in 1891 the major part of the paintings.
Archduke-Heir to the Throne Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este at folk and children's party in the park of the Belvedere Palace. Photograph, 1905.
To 1893/94 it is likely that Archduke Franz Ferdinand has chosen the Upper Belvedere to his residence in Vienna. Other sources say that it had been assigned to him by the Emperor Franz Joseph as a place to stay in Vienna. The rooms have been restored, adapted for residential purposes and supplemented with neo-Baroque furniture. The heir of the Este collections furnished his residence with numerous works of art. He had envisaged the castle for the accommodation of his collections; in 1893 were numerous boxes from India and Singapore in Belvedere stored. 1894 Emperor Franz Joseph could see the collection: "Yesterday I went to the Belvedere, where Franzi showed me his now quite and very nicely prepared collections. The same are as imposing as interesting by the incredible amount of objects and by the rarity and beauty of them. I believe that this exhibition would be interesting for you", wrote the monarch to his wife, Empress Elisabeth. That same year, Archduke Franz Ferdinand showed his collections his future wife, Sophie Chotková,
"Where I unaware of your fatigue with particular brutality you dragged from box to box" as he apologetically from Budweis wrote to the Countess.
Then the collections moved one the one hand to the Palais Modena in the Beatrixgasse, on the other hand to Konopischt. Only in 1898, Franz Ferdinand was granted by Emperor Franz Joseph to move into the Belvedere as Vienna Residence. More revitalization works were carried out and were also necessary. Technical modernization and preservation of the original building condition had priority - as always with the projects of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As furnishings served still preserved furnitures from Schloss Hof, which were supplemented by new ones in old style. The private rooms in addition to electric lighting were equipped with central heating.
Belvedere Castle. Staircase in the Upper Belvedere (left).
Marble plastic "Apotheosis of Prince Eugene" by Balthasar Permoser in Gold Cabinet of the Lower Belvedere (right).
If his presence was needed in Vienna, Franz Ferdinand here could lead a normal family life and escape the pressures of court ceremonial, in which the to him in morganatic marriage affiliated wife was exposed to the evils of the courtiers. When the heir to the throne invited guests to the Belvedere, he was sitting opposite his wife as a hostess while she was ranked in the Hofburg always after the latest unmarried Archduchess. About the cozy family life at Belvedere reported Prince von Clary-Aldringens:
"Aunt Sophie invited us ... to snack into a Belvedere, unexpectedly, suddenly appeared the Archduke - we literally froze in our Hab-Acht-position (stand at attention). He greeted us warmly ... [I got to know] the Archduke as a friendly landlord, who was playing and laughing with his Children..."
Between 1899 and 1914 in the Lower Belvedere the military bureau of the heir to the throne was housed. Other well-known Residents - but of outbuildings - were Anton Bruckner, who in 1896 died in the Kustodenwohnung (guardian house), and Richard Strauss, who lived here from 1925 to 1944.
After the assassination of the Archduke and his wife in Sarajevo, the Belvedere should serve as the residence of the new heir to the throne, Archduke Karl and his family. This, however, preferred living in Schönbrunn and especially in the villa Wartholz. In 1917, Charles' brother Archduke Maximilian moved with his family into the Belvedere.
During World War II the castle was badly damaged by bombs, but rebuilt after the war ended immediately. On 15 May 1955 was the Marble Hall venue of the signing of the Austrian State Treaty. Today, the Upper Belvedere houses important art collections.
Excerpts from
Thus lived the Habsburgs - Imperial and Royal Palaces in the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Ingrid Haslinger, Gerhard Trumler
Christian Brandstätter Verlag mbH
The publishing service for museums, businesses and
public bodies
www.brandstaetter - verlag.at
Denomination of the summer residence which Prince Eugene of Savoy himself had erected btw Rennweg and Swiss Garden. The term which refers to the unique view over Vienna dates from the time of Maria Theresa. Prinz Eugen bought in 1697 a plot of land at the Rennweg, which he extended to 1721 in four stages to the current area. Between 1714 and 1716 emerged the Lower Belvedere It is an elongated ground floor building, designed of a 7-axes central projection, two wings and two corner pavilions. The 3-axis central pavilion houses the Marble Hall. The castle the only rarely in Vienna sojourning builder served during the summer months as a pleasure palace.
Only in 1720 commenced construction works for the Upper Belvedere, first drawings for this existed already in 1717. The in it extent and form language compared to the Lower Belvedere especially magnificent Upper Belvedere served primarily as a representative setting for grand receptions and festivities. The architectural history of the example due to the loss of the Eugenianischen Bauarchivs (construction archiv of Prince Eugene) cannot be explored in detail without any gaps. 1723 (according to Rizzi 1721/22) the Upper Belvedere s is considered complete. The architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, who repeatedly worked for Prince Eugen, with the construction of the Belvedere has created his main work. It counts in its multiform architectonic as well as sculptural structure to the most important baroque buildings of the 18th century. The to the ensemble belonging, btw Upper and Lower Belvedere laying garden has been created by the Bavarian horticultural engineer D. Girard and today only in broad terms is original. The designs for the interior of the castle stem from C. le Fort du Plessy.
After the death of the prince the belvedere went into the possession of his sole heiress, Victoria Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen. She sold it in 1752 to Maria Theresa. At the behest of Joseph II from 1775 the imperial picture gallery was transferred here, which in 1781 for the first time was open to the public. had. Since 1806 was located in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection. Both collections were in 1890 in the Museum of Art History transferred. In 1894, the palace became residence for the heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
After the first World War I the Republic of Austria in Belvedere installed the Austrian Gallery. 1945 suffered the Belvedere severe war damage. In 1950, the "Gold Cabinet" in the north-eastern corner pavilion of the Upper Belvedere was destroyed by fire and replaced by a copy. The since 1988 ongoing general renovation should have been completed in 1996.
aeiou - the cultural information system of the bm: bwk
14,000 key words and 2000 pictures from history, geography, politics and business in Austria
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
The in the center of Vienna situated Belvedere palaces with their extensive parks form an impressive baroque Gesamtkunstwerk. The Museum in the Upper and Lower Castle
provides an excellent overview of the Austrian Art from the Middle Ages to the present. the collections of the 19th and 20th Century also include an exquisite inventory of international art. World Famous works by Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Renoir and Monet you can see in the upper
Belvedere, from where you can enjoy a spectacular view to the center of Vienna. In the historic rooms of the Lower Belvedere are shown works of art from the Middle Ages and Baroque.
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Phone +43 / ( 0) 1 / 79557-0
Fax +43 / (0) 1/79 84 337
Upper Belvedere
Collections of the 19th and 20th century
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Lower Belvedere
Baroque Museum, and Museum of Medieval Art
Rennweg 6a, A - 1030 Vienna
(further pictures and information you can see if you go to the end of page and by clicking on the link...)
Belvedere
Belvedere Castle. Garden Front of the Lower Belvedere.
Belvedere Palace stands supposedly on the foundations of a Roman camp that had been erected here for strategic reasons. In 1693 Prince Eugene of Savoy acquired field and vineyard grounds between today's Rennweg and today's Gürtel. In 1700 Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt began with the construction of a palace garden (Lower Belvedere), whose in French-style layed out park was equipped with large water basins, an orangery with precious foreign plants and a menagerie. Prince Eugene was a great animal lover, and some animals in his collection could be fed exclusively by himself.
1720 the Prince conceived the plan the summer palace to supplement by a another palace building on the hill of the garden.
The 1721 by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt begun works had been completed in 1724. The Upper Belvedere served in contrast to the Lower only representative purposes and was never meant to live.
The Prince and his architect managed a perfect symbiosis between architecture and garden. After the death of the Savoy (1736) inherited his niece Victoria of Savoy-Soisson, nee Princess Hildburghausen, all his possessions. From her the Habsburgs beginning of 1752 acquired the Belvedere. From 1755 Empress Maria Theresa moved the Arcierenleibgarde (Royal Company of the Archers) and the Galician Guard in the annex of the Belvedere. Besides, the castle stood almost empty.
Belvedere Castle. Engraving by Salomon Kleiner 1731/40 (left).
Vienna from the Belvedere. Coloured copper engraving by Carl Schütz, 1784 (right).
1770 Belvedere Palace was venue of brilliant festivities:
In castle and park the marriage of Archduchess Maria Antonia (Marie Antoinette) with the Dauphin of France by proxy (per procura) was celebrated. About 2,000 people were invited, more than 1,500 bottles of champagne, which was far from home in Vienna at that time,
were emptied. For hospitality of the guests, there were round tables, which were covered with silver. However, the Court of Vienna had a large part of the silver service to rent of nobles, because the stocks of the silver chamber were not sufficient. Finished was the festival by a magnificent fireworks.
1776, the imperial picture gallery from the Stallburg (home of the famous Lipizzan stallions) was transferred to the Upper Belvedere, the animals of the menagerie came to Schönbrunn. Shortly before the Congress of Vienna in 1814 in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection was exposed. During the war against Napoleon (1805-1809), much of the collection of paintings had to be outsourced. The Corsican claimed 400 masterpieces for himself, but which after his defeat at Waterloo to the Habsburgs have been restituted. The after the French wars completely neglected building has been restored 1850-1866.
Castle Park with Upper Belvedere. Photograph, around 1890.
1819 Emperor Franz II (I) the Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, had given spacious grounds for enlargement of the Botanical Garden at Rennweg. Franz was very interested in botany and in accordance with a Habsburg House bill - every Archduke must learn a civilian job - has been educated for gardener. In an adjoining garden of Schloß Belvedere he had from his private funds laid out a botanical garden ("Flora Austriaca") which was left to the Institute of Botany for use.
During the cholera epidemic of 1831, the Belvedere served as well as Schönbrunn Palace the imperial family as a refuge; supposedly one was there protected from the bad air, which was attributed to the onset of the disease. Both castles lay in the "countryside", the air was much better here than in the densely populated city. During wartime, a hospital was set up in the castle.
As the space for the imperial collections became too small, it was thought to expand the Upper Belvedere by wing buildings. This plan was dropped for aesthetic reasons, however. After the expansion of the city (razing of the bastions and glacis) arose on the ring road the newly created Court Museums; moved there in 1891 the major part of the paintings.
Archduke-Heir to the Throne Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este at folk and children's party in the park of the Belvedere Palace. Photograph, 1905.
To 1893/94 it is likely that Archduke Franz Ferdinand has chosen the Upper Belvedere to his residence in Vienna. Other sources say that it had been assigned to him by the Emperor Franz Joseph as a place to stay in Vienna. The rooms have been restored, adapted for residential purposes and supplemented with neo-Baroque furniture. The heir of the Este collections furnished his residence with numerous works of art. He had envisaged the castle for the accommodation of his collections; in 1893 were numerous boxes from India and Singapore in Belvedere stored. 1894 Emperor Franz Joseph could see the collection: "Yesterday I went to the Belvedere, where Franzi showed me his now quite and very nicely prepared collections. The same are as imposing as interesting by the incredible amount of objects and by the rarity and beauty of them. I believe that this exhibition would be interesting for you", wrote the monarch to his wife, Empress Elisabeth. That same year, Archduke Franz Ferdinand showed his collections his future wife, Sophie Chotková,
"Where I unaware of your fatigue with particular brutality you dragged from box to box" as he apologetically from Budweis wrote to the Countess.
Then the collections moved one the one hand to the Palais Modena in the Beatrixgasse, on the other hand to Konopischt. Only in 1898, Franz Ferdinand was granted by Emperor Franz Joseph to move into the Belvedere as Vienna Residence. More revitalization works were carried out and were also necessary. Technical modernization and preservation of the original building condition had priority - as always with the projects of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As furnishings served still preserved furnitures from Schloss Hof, which were supplemented by new ones in old style. The private rooms in addition to electric lighting were equipped with central heating.
Belvedere Castle. Staircase in the Upper Belvedere (left).
Marble plastic "Apotheosis of Prince Eugene" by Balthasar Permoser in Gold Cabinet of the Lower Belvedere (right).
If his presence was needed in Vienna, Franz Ferdinand here could lead a normal family life and escape the pressures of court ceremonial, in which the to him in morganatic marriage affiliated wife was exposed to the evils of the courtiers. When the heir to the throne invited guests to the Belvedere, he was sitting opposite his wife as a hostess while she was ranked in the Hofburg always after the latest unmarried Archduchess. About the cozy family life at Belvedere reported Prince von Clary-Aldringens:
"Aunt Sophie invited us ... to snack into a Belvedere, unexpectedly, suddenly appeared the Archduke - we literally froze in our Hab-Acht-position (stand at attention). He greeted us warmly ... [I got to know] the Archduke as a friendly landlord, who was playing and laughing with his Children..."
Between 1899 and 1914 in the Lower Belvedere the military bureau of the heir to the throne was housed. Other well-known Residents - but of outbuildings - were Anton Bruckner, who in 1896 died in the Kustodenwohnung (guardian house), and Richard Strauss, who lived here from 1925 to 1944.
After the assassination of the Archduke and his wife in Sarajevo, the Belvedere should serve as the residence of the new heir to the throne, Archduke Karl and his family. This, however, preferred living in Schönbrunn and especially in the villa Wartholz. In 1917, Charles' brother Archduke Maximilian moved with his family into the Belvedere.
During World War II the castle was badly damaged by bombs, but rebuilt after the war ended immediately. On 15 May 1955 was the Marble Hall venue of the signing of the Austrian State Treaty. Today, the Upper Belvedere houses important art collections.
Excerpts from
Thus lived the Habsburgs - Imperial and Royal Palaces in the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Ingrid Haslinger, Gerhard Trumler
Christian Brandstätter Verlag mbH
The publishing service for museums, businesses and
public bodies
www.brandstaetter - verlag.at
Denomination of the summer residence which Prince Eugene of Savoy himself had erected btw Rennweg and Swiss Garden. The term which refers to the unique view over Vienna dates from the time of Maria Theresa. Prinz Eugen bought in 1697 a plot of land at the Rennweg, which he extended to 1721 in four stages to the current area. Between 1714 and 1716 emerged the Lower Belvedere It is an elongated ground floor building, designed of a 7-axes central projection, two wings and two corner pavilions. The 3-axis central pavilion houses the Marble Hall. The castle the only rarely in Vienna sojourning builder served during the summer months as a pleasure palace.
Only in 1720 commenced construction works for the Upper Belvedere, first drawings for this existed already in 1717. The in it extent and form language compared to the Lower Belvedere especially magnificent Upper Belvedere served primarily as a representative setting for grand receptions and festivities. The architectural history of the example due to the loss of the Eugenianischen Bauarchivs (construction archiv of Prince Eugene) cannot be explored in detail without any gaps. 1723 (according to Rizzi 1721/22) the Upper Belvedere s is considered complete. The architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, who repeatedly worked for Prince Eugen, with the construction of the Belvedere has created his main work. It counts in its multiform architectonic as well as sculptural structure to the most important baroque buildings of the 18th century. The to the ensemble belonging, btw Upper and Lower Belvedere laying garden has been created by the Bavarian horticultural engineer D. Girard and today only in broad terms is original. The designs for the interior of the castle stem from C. le Fort du Plessy.
After the death of the prince the belvedere went into the possession of his sole heiress, Victoria Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen. She sold it in 1752 to Maria Theresa. At the behest of Joseph II from 1775 the imperial picture gallery was transferred here, which in 1781 for the first time was open to the public. had. Since 1806 was located in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection. Both collections were in 1890 in the Museum of Art History transferred. In 1894, the palace became residence for the heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
After the first World War I the Republic of Austria in Belvedere installed the Austrian Gallery. 1945 suffered the Belvedere severe war damage. In 1950, the "Gold Cabinet" in the north-eastern corner pavilion of the Upper Belvedere was destroyed by fire and replaced by a copy. The since 1988 ongoing general renovation should have been completed in 1996.
aeiou - the cultural information system of the bm: bwk
14,000 key words and 2000 pictures from history, geography, politics and business in Austria
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
The in the center of Vienna situated Belvedere palaces with their extensive parks form an impressive baroque Gesamtkunstwerk. The Museum in the Upper and Lower Castle
provides an excellent overview of the Austrian Art from the Middle Ages to the present. the collections of the 19th and 20th Century also include an exquisite inventory of international art. World Famous works by Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Renoir and Monet you can see in the upper
Belvedere, from where you can enjoy a spectacular view to the center of Vienna. In the historic rooms of the Lower Belvedere are shown works of art from the Middle Ages and Baroque.
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Phone +43 / ( 0) 1 / 79557-0
Fax +43 / (0) 1/79 84 337
Upper Belvedere
Collections of the 19th and 20th century
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Lower Belvedere
Baroque Museum, and Museum of Medieval Art
Rennweg 6a, A - 1030 Vienna
(further pictures and information you can see if you go to the end of page and by clicking on the link...)
Belvedere
Belvedere Castle. Garden Front of the Lower Belvedere.
Belvedere Palace stands supposedly on the foundations of a Roman camp that had been erected here for strategic reasons. In 1693 Prince Eugene of Savoy acquired field and vineyard grounds between today's Rennweg and today's Gürtel. In 1700 Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt began with the construction of a palace garden (Lower Belvedere), whose in French-style layed out park was equipped with large water basins, an orangery with precious foreign plants and a menagerie. Prince Eugene was a great animal lover, and some animals in his collection could be fed exclusively by himself.
1720 the Prince conceived the plan the summer palace to supplement by a another palace building on the hill of the garden.
The 1721 by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt begun works had been completed in 1724. The Upper Belvedere served in contrast to the Lower only representative purposes and was never meant to live.
The Prince and his architect managed a perfect symbiosis between architecture and garden. After the death of the Savoy (1736) inherited his niece Victoria of Savoy-Soisson, nee Princess Hildburghausen, all his possessions. From her the Habsburgs beginning of 1752 acquired the Belvedere. From 1755 Empress Maria Theresa moved the Arcierenleibgarde (Royal Company of the Archers) and the Galician Guard in the annex of the Belvedere. Besides, the castle stood almost empty.
Belvedere Castle. Engraving by Salomon Kleiner 1731/40 (left).
Vienna from the Belvedere. Coloured copper engraving by Carl Schütz, 1784 (right).
1770 Belvedere Palace was venue of brilliant festivities:
In castle and park the marriage of Archduchess Maria Antonia (Marie Antoinette) with the Dauphin of France by proxy (per procura) was celebrated. About 2,000 people were invited, more than 1,500 bottles of champagne, which was far from home in Vienna at that time,
were emptied. For hospitality of the guests, there were round tables, which were covered with silver. However, the Court of Vienna had a large part of the silver service to rent of nobles, because the stocks of the silver chamber were not sufficient. Finished was the festival by a magnificent fireworks.
1776, the imperial picture gallery from the Stallburg (home of the famous Lipizzan stallions) was transferred to the Upper Belvedere, the animals of the menagerie came to Schönbrunn. Shortly before the Congress of Vienna in 1814 in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection was exposed. During the war against Napoleon (1805-1809), much of the collection of paintings had to be outsourced. The Corsican claimed 400 masterpieces for himself, but which after his defeat at Waterloo to the Habsburgs have been restituted. The after the French wars completely neglected building has been restored 1850-1866.
Castle Park with Upper Belvedere. Photograph, around 1890.
1819 Emperor Franz II (I) the Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, had given spacious grounds for enlargement of the Botanical Garden at Rennweg. Franz was very interested in botany and in accordance with a Habsburg House bill - every Archduke must learn a civilian job - has been educated for gardener. In an adjoining garden of Schloß Belvedere he had from his private funds laid out a botanical garden ("Flora Austriaca") which was left to the Institute of Botany for use.
During the cholera epidemic of 1831, the Belvedere served as well as Schönbrunn Palace the imperial family as a refuge; supposedly one was there protected from the bad air, which was attributed to the onset of the disease. Both castles lay in the "countryside", the air was much better here than in the densely populated city. During wartime, a hospital was set up in the castle.
As the space for the imperial collections became too small, it was thought to expand the Upper Belvedere by wing buildings. This plan was dropped for aesthetic reasons, however. After the expansion of the city (razing of the bastions and glacis) arose on the ring road the newly created Court Museums; moved there in 1891 the major part of the paintings.
Archduke-Heir to the Throne Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este at folk and children's party in the park of the Belvedere Palace. Photograph, 1905.
To 1893/94 it is likely that Archduke Franz Ferdinand has chosen the Upper Belvedere to his residence in Vienna. Other sources say that it had been assigned to him by the Emperor Franz Joseph as a place to stay in Vienna. The rooms have been restored, adapted for residential purposes and supplemented with neo-Baroque furniture. The heir of the Este collections furnished his residence with numerous works of art. He had envisaged the castle for the accommodation of his collections; in 1893 were numerous boxes from India and Singapore in Belvedere stored. 1894 Emperor Franz Joseph could see the collection: "Yesterday I went to the Belvedere, where Franzi showed me his now quite and very nicely prepared collections. The same are as imposing as interesting by the incredible amount of objects and by the rarity and beauty of them. I believe that this exhibition would be interesting for you", wrote the monarch to his wife, Empress Elisabeth. That same year, Archduke Franz Ferdinand showed his collections his future wife, Sophie Chotková,
"Where I unaware of your fatigue with particular brutality you dragged from box to box" as he apologetically from Budweis wrote to the Countess.
Then the collections moved one the one hand to the Palais Modena in the Beatrixgasse, on the other hand to Konopischt. Only in 1898, Franz Ferdinand was granted by Emperor Franz Joseph to move into the Belvedere as Vienna Residence. More revitalization works were carried out and were also necessary. Technical modernization and preservation of the original building condition had priority - as always with the projects of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As furnishings served still preserved furnitures from Schloss Hof, which were supplemented by new ones in old style. The private rooms in addition to electric lighting were equipped with central heating.
Belvedere Castle. Staircase in the Upper Belvedere (left).
Marble plastic "Apotheosis of Prince Eugene" by Balthasar Permoser in Gold Cabinet of the Lower Belvedere (right).
If his presence was needed in Vienna, Franz Ferdinand here could lead a normal family life and escape the pressures of court ceremonial, in which the to him in morganatic marriage affiliated wife was exposed to the evils of the courtiers. When the heir to the throne invited guests to the Belvedere, he was sitting opposite his wife as a hostess while she was ranked in the Hofburg always after the latest unmarried Archduchess. About the cozy family life at Belvedere reported Prince von Clary-Aldringens:
"Aunt Sophie invited us ... to snack into a Belvedere, unexpectedly, suddenly appeared the Archduke - we literally froze in our Hab-Acht-position (stand at attention). He greeted us warmly ... [I got to know] the Archduke as a friendly landlord, who was playing and laughing with his Children..."
Between 1899 and 1914 in the Lower Belvedere the military bureau of the heir to the throne was housed. Other well-known Residents - but of outbuildings - were Anton Bruckner, who in 1896 died in the Kustodenwohnung (guardian house), and Richard Strauss, who lived here from 1925 to 1944.
After the assassination of the Archduke and his wife in Sarajevo, the Belvedere should serve as the residence of the new heir to the throne, Archduke Karl and his family. This, however, preferred living in Schönbrunn and especially in the villa Wartholz. In 1917, Charles' brother Archduke Maximilian moved with his family into the Belvedere.
During World War II the castle was badly damaged by bombs, but rebuilt after the war ended immediately. On 15 May 1955 was the Marble Hall venue of the signing of the Austrian State Treaty. Today, the Upper Belvedere houses important art collections.
Excerpts from
Thus lived the Habsburgs - Imperial and Royal Palaces in the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Ingrid Haslinger, Gerhard Trumler
Christian Brandstätter Verlag mbH
The publishing service for museums, businesses and
public bodies
www.brandstaetter - verlag.at
Denomination of the summer residence which Prince Eugene of Savoy himself had erected btw Rennweg and Swiss Garden. The term which refers to the unique view over Vienna dates from the time of Maria Theresa. Prinz Eugen bought in 1697 a plot of land at the Rennweg, which he extended to 1721 in four stages to the current area. Between 1714 and 1716 emerged the Lower Belvedere It is an elongated ground floor building, designed of a 7-axes central projection, two wings and two corner pavilions. The 3-axis central pavilion houses the Marble Hall. The castle the only rarely in Vienna sojourning builder served during the summer months as a pleasure palace.
Only in 1720 commenced construction works for the Upper Belvedere, first drawings for this existed already in 1717. The in it extent and form language compared to the Lower Belvedere especially magnificent Upper Belvedere served primarily as a representative setting for grand receptions and festivities. The architectural history of the example due to the loss of the Eugenianischen Bauarchivs (construction archiv of Prince Eugene) cannot be explored in detail without any gaps. 1723 (according to Rizzi 1721/22) the Upper Belvedere s is considered complete. The architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, who repeatedly worked for Prince Eugen, with the construction of the Belvedere has created his main work. It counts in its multiform architectonic as well as sculptural structure to the most important baroque buildings of the 18th century. The to the ensemble belonging, btw Upper and Lower Belvedere laying garden has been created by the Bavarian horticultural engineer D. Girard and today only in broad terms is original. The designs for the interior of the castle stem from C. le Fort du Plessy.
After the death of the prince the belvedere went into the possession of his sole heiress, Victoria Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen. She sold it in 1752 to Maria Theresa. At the behest of Joseph II from 1775 the imperial picture gallery was transferred here, which in 1781 for the first time was open to the public. had. Since 1806 was located in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection. Both collections were in 1890 in the Museum of Art History transferred. In 1894, the palace became residence for the heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
After the first World War I the Republic of Austria in Belvedere installed the Austrian Gallery. 1945 suffered the Belvedere severe war damage. In 1950, the "Gold Cabinet" in the north-eastern corner pavilion of the Upper Belvedere was destroyed by fire and replaced by a copy. The since 1988 ongoing general renovation should have been completed in 1996.
aeiou - the cultural information system of the bm: bwk
14,000 key words and 2000 pictures from history, geography, politics and business in Austria
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
The in the center of Vienna situated Belvedere palaces with their extensive parks form an impressive baroque Gesamtkunstwerk. The Museum in the Upper and Lower Castle
provides an excellent overview of the Austrian Art from the Middle Ages to the present. the collections of the 19th and 20th Century also include an exquisite inventory of international art. World Famous works by Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Renoir and Monet you can see in the upper
Belvedere, from where you can enjoy a spectacular view to the center of Vienna. In the historic rooms of the Lower Belvedere are shown works of art from the Middle Ages and Baroque.
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Phone 43 / ( 0) 1 / 79557-0
Fax 43 / (0) 1/79 84 337
Upper Belvedere
Collections of the 19th and 20th century
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Lower Belvedere
Baroque Museum, and Museum of Medieval Art
Rennweg 6a, A - 1030 Vienna
Kinshasa, RD Congo: Le gynécologue de l’hôpital de Panzi à Bukavu (Sud-Kivu) docteur Denis Mukwege était hier mardi 15 mars à Kinshasa, invité par le directeur de l’Institut français pour une conférence au cours de laquelle, il plaidé pour une justice efficace et une alternance du pouvoir dans le délai constitutionnel afin d’éviter des crises multiformes au pays.
«On ne peut pas parler du développement, si on est dans la confusion et que la constitution n’est pas respectée», a-t-il déclaré. Enfin, l’acteur du film «L’homme qui répare les femmes, colère d’Hippocrate » estime que les Congolais ont beaucoup souffert et il est temps qu’ils parlent du développement. Photo MONUSCO/Michael Ali
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: Kinshasa, DR Congo: The gynecologist of the Panzi Hospital in Bukavu (South Kivu) Dr. Denis Mukwege was in Kinshasa yesterday, Tuesday 15th March, invited by the director of the French Institute for a conference during which he called for an effective justice system and an alternation of power within the constitutional deadline in order to avoid multifaceted crises in the country. "We cannot talk about development, if we are in a state of confusion and that the constitution is not respected," he said. Finally, the actor of the movie "The man who mends women – the wrath of Hippocrates” considers that the Congolese people have suffered a lot and that it is time they speak about development. Photo MONUSCO/Michael Ali
Le Tour de France sur le front de 14-18
hommage aux glorieux anciens qui roulaient plus souvent sur des chemins de boue que sur des routes asphaltées.
En 2014, la Grande Boucle rend hommage au centenaire de la Première Guerre mondiale. L'étape du 10 juillet Arras-Reims comprend 90 km dans l'Aisne, dont le Chemin des Dames.
Coucy-le-Château, Anizy, Brancourt-en-Laonnois et Pinon, le peloton entrera sur le fameux Chemin des Dames.
À Pinon Le Tour fera son entrée dans une côte. dans la rue du 52e-RI .
Reims_Un parfum de Paris-Roubaix.
C’est dans la ville des rois de France qu’est jugée l’arrivée de la 6e étape, partie d’Arras pour 194kilomètres. Du Nord-Pas-de-Calais à la Champagne-Ardennes,
il n’y a que du plat et le sprint paraît inévitable.
D’ailleurs, les trois derniers vainqueurs à Reims s’appellent Alessandro Petacchi (2010), Robbie McEwen (2002) et Djamolidine Abdoujaparov (1991) : trois fusées.
Tout le monde sur le pont à Reims pour le Tour de France ...
Le Tour de France est une manifestation qui demande l’implication de tous les services de la Ville
La pose de barrières reste la mission la plus prenante pour les agents municipaux.
le Tour de France est une très grosse « machine » qui demande une logistique considérable.
Si la société ASO (Amaury sport organisation) a ses propres équipes qui suivent tout le parcours pendant les 22 jours de la compétition,
les villes étapes doivent elles aussi accompagner le mouvement.
la ligne d’arrivée.
Dans la zone d’arrivée, sous la houlette du directeur de site, des barrières hautes sont posées autour de la "zone technique",
d’où émettent les camions radio et les télévisions. Doublet travaille depuis un an à la conception de barrières "repousse public" dotées d’arches,
qui empêcheront toute main de percuter malencontreusement un coureur. Suite à la chute de Laurent Jalabert à Armentières d’ailleurs,
les barrières ne laissent plus dépasser aucun panneau publicitaire. La réclame est directement intégrée à la clôture.
La caravane publicitaire
La caravane publicitaire, créée en 1930, s’est développée considérablement au fil des années, pour accueillir plus de 180 véhicules en 2012.
Le défilé d’ouverture, festif et créatif, a su conquérir les marques et le public, jusqu’à devenir une composante essentielle au spectacle du Tour
LCL, qui sera toujours parrain du maillot jaune du leader du classement général du Tour de France, comme c'est le cas depuis 1987.
La caravane publicitaire du Tour Alsace part une heure avant les coureurs. Elle est composée d'une quinzaine de véhicules publicitaires
et suit le parcours officiel du Tour. Elle distribue une multitude de goodies aux spectateurs au bord des routes.
47 % des spectateurs viennent en priorité pour la caravane
Le succès de la formule, avec un défilé de véhicules originaux qui « font de la réclame », en distribuant des cadeaux, est immédiat.
Les premiers annonceurs, comme la Vache qui rit, y gagnent la sympathie du public, qui se prête volontiers au jeu. Quatre-vingts ans plus tard,
la caravane publicitaire est devenue une composante à part entière du spectacle du Tour. Indissociable de la course qu’elle précède, la procession multiforme et multicolore
offre une animation de plus de 45 minutes. Jeunes et moins jeunes commentent sur le bord des routes la taille et l’inventivité des chars ; on s’y presse pour demander des cadeaux…
Au total, une étude réalisée auprès du public du Tour révèle que 47 % des spectateurs sont venus en priorité pour voir la caravane publicitaire.
lancer de saucissons Cochonou à la foule en délire.
Cochonou, la marque de saucissons distribuera bien sûr encore bobs et saucissons au bord de la route depuis ses fameuses 2CV, mais sera également présent sur internet,
avec son blog Cochonou et Vous tenu depuis quelques années par Thibault (qui avait repris le flambeau d'Adeline).
Le garage virtuel CochonouOriginalité cette année, la possibilité de créer sa propre 2CV dans le garage virtuel Cochonou et peut-être même la gagner et la tester pour
la première fois sur la célèbre Avenue des Champs-Elysées lors de l'arrivée de la dernière étape du Tour à Paris !
Le jeu-concours est ouvert jusqu'au 31 juillet mais le grand gagnant de la 2CV sera désigné le 15 juillet prochain sachant que par la suite on peut gagner l'un des autres
lots du jeu (2CV Cochonou miniatures, bobs, porte-clés et sacs cabas).
Vittel, l'eau officiel du Tour de France innove cette année en permettant à d'ordinaires spectateurs du Tour d'en devenir acteur !
ŠKODA qui reste parrain du maillot blanc de meilleur jeune et qui est toujours à la recherche des meilleures animations pour vous permettre, vous en tant que fan du Tour,
de remporter des prix avec le ŠKODA Fan Tour.
Il y a quelques mois, &ScaronKODA a d'ailleurs prolongé son contrat de partenariat avec A.S.O. et donc entre autres avec le Tour de France, jusqu'en 2018.
Banette a reconduit son partenariat pour 4 ans, jusqu'en 2017, et distribuera toujours des milliers de tartines préparées par les artisans boulangers Banette de la région alors
que la caravane continue à distribuer différents goodies et des bons de réduction. Banette communiquera sur son Tour de France sur sa page Facebook.
McCain, le producteur de frites surgelées, a rejoint le Tour en tant que fournisseur officiel pendant 3 ans et sera présent dans la caravane publicitaire du Tour avec un char-tracteur et 3 véhicules légers.
Belin fournira toujours l'apéro, mais ne valorise pas vraiment son partenariat. La seule chose qu'on peut donc vous dire, c'est que "les super z'héros" rejoignent la caravane de Belin :
Du samedi 5 juillet au dimanche 27 juillet 2014, le 101e Tour de France comprendra 21 étapes pour une distance de 3 664 kilomètres.
Belvedere Castle.
Belvedere Palace stands supposedly on the foundations of a Roman camp that had been erected here for strategic reasons. In 1693 Prince Eugene of Savoy acquired field and vineyard grounds between today's Rennweg and today's Gürtel. In 1700 Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt began with the construction of a palace garden (Lower Belvedere), whose in French-style layed out park was equipped with large water basins, an orangery with precious foreign plants and a menagerie. Prince Eugene was a great animal lover, and some animals in his collection could be fed exclusively by himself.
1720 the Prince conceived the plan the summer palace to supplement by a another palace building on the hill of the garden.
The 1721 by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt begun works had been completed in 1724. The Upper Belvedere served in contrast to the Lower only representative purposes and was never meant to live.
The Prince and his architect managed a perfect symbiosis between architecture and garden. After the death of the Savoy (1736) inherited his niece Victoria of Savoy-Soisson, nee Princess Hildburghausen, all his possessions. From her the Habsburgs beginning of 1752 acquired the Belvedere. From 1755 Empress Maria Theresa moved the Arcierenleibgarde (Royal Company of the Archers) and the Galician Guard in the annex of the Belvedere. Besides, the castle stood almost empty.
1770 Belvedere Palace was venue of brilliant festivities:
In castle and park the marriage of Archduchess Maria Antonia (Marie Antoinette) with the Dauphin of France by proxy (per procura) was celebrated. About 2,000 people were invited, more than 1,500 bottles of champagne, which was far from home in Vienna at that time, were emptied. For hospitality of the guests, there were round tables, which were covered with silver. However, the Court of Vienna had a large part of the silver service to rent of nobles, because the stocks of the silver chamber were not sufficient. Finished was the festival by a magnificent fireworks.
1776, the imperial picture gallery from the Stallburg (home of the famous Lipizzan stallions) was transferred to the Upper Belvedere, the animals of the menagerie came to Schönbrunn. Shortly before the Congress of Vienna in 1814 in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection was exposed. During the war against Napoleon (1805-1809), much of the collection of paintings had to be outsourced. The Corsican claimed 400 masterpieces for himself, but which after his defeat at Waterloo to the Habsburgs have been restituted. The after the French wars completely neglected building has been restored 1850-1866.
1819 Emperor Franz II (I) the Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, had given spacious grounds for enlargement of the Botanical Garden at Rennweg. Franz was very interested in botany and in accordance with a Habsburg House bill - every Archduke must learn a civilian job - has been educated for gardener. In an adjoining garden of Schloß Belvedere he had from his private funds laid out a botanical garden ("Flora Austriaca") which was left to the Institute of Botany for use.
During the cholera epidemic of 1831, the Belvedere served as well as Schönbrunn Palace the imperial family as a refuge; supposedly one was there protected from the bad air, which was attributed to the onset of the disease. Both castles lay in the "countryside", the air was much better here than in the densely populated city. During wartime, a hospital was set up in the castle.
As the space for the imperial collections became too small, it was thought to expand the Upper Belvedere by wing buildings. This plan was dropped for aesthetic reasons, however. After the expansion of the city (razing of the bastions and glacis) arose on the ring road the newly created Court Museums; moved there in 1891 the major part of the paintings.
To 1893/94 it is likely that Archduke Franz Ferdinand has chosen the Upper Belvedere to his residence in Vienna. Other sources say that it had been assigned to him by the Emperor Franz Joseph as a place to stay in Vienna. The rooms have been restored, adapted for residential purposes and supplemented with neo-Baroque furniture. The heir of the Este collections furnished his residence with numerous works of art. He had envisaged the castle for the accommodation of his collections; in 1893 were numerous boxes from India and Singapore in Belvedere stored. 1894 Emperor Franz Joseph could see the collection: "Yesterday I went to the Belvedere, where Franzi showed me his now quite and very nicely prepared collections. The same are as imposing as interesting by the incredible amount of objects and by the rarity and beauty of them. I believe that this exhibition would be interesting for you", wrote the monarch to his wife, Empress Elisabeth. That same year, Archduke Franz Ferdinand showed his collections his future wife, Sophie Chotková,
"Where I unaware of your fatigue with particular brutality you dragged from box to box" as he apologetically from Budweis wrote to the Countess.
Then the collections moved one the one hand to the Palais Modena in the Beatrixgasse, on the other hand to Konopischt. Only in 1898, Franz Ferdinand was granted by Emperor Franz Joseph to move into the Belvedere as Vienna Residence. More revitalization works were carried out and were also necessary. Technical modernization and preservation of the original building condition had priority - as always with the projects of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As furnishings served still preserved furnitures from Schloss Hof, which were supplemented by new ones in old style. The private rooms in addition to electric lighting were equipped with central heating.
If his presence was needed in Vienna, Franz Ferdinand here could lead a normal family life and escape the pressures of court ceremonial, in which the to him in morganatic marriage affiliated wife was exposed to the evils of the courtiers. When the heir to the throne invited guests to the Belvedere, he was sitting opposite his wife as a hostess while she was ranked in the Hofburg always after the latest unmarried Archduchess. About the cozy family life at Belvedere reported Prince von Clary-Aldringens:
"Aunt Sophie invited us ... to snack into a Belvedere, unexpectedly, suddenly appeared the Archduke - we literally froze in our Hab-Acht-position (stand at attention). He greeted us warmly ... [I got to know] the Archduke as a friendly landlord, who was playing and laughing with his Children..."
Between 1899 and 1914 in the Lower Belvedere the military bureau of the heir to the throne was housed. Other well-known Residents - but of outbuildings - were Anton Bruckner, who in 1896 died in the Kustodenwohnung (guardian house), and Richard Strauss, who lived here from 1925 to 1944.
After the assassination of the Archduke and his wife in Sarajevo, the Belvedere should serve as the residence of the new heir to the throne, Archduke Karl and his family. This, however, preferred living in Schönbrunn and especially in the villa Wartholz. In 1917, Charles' brother Archduke Maximilian moved with his family into the Belvedere.
During World War II the castle was badly damaged by bombs, but rebuilt after the war ended immediately. On 15 May 1955 was the Marble Hall venue of the signing of the Austrian State Treaty. Today, the Upper Belvedere houses important art collections.
Excerpts from
Thus lived the Habsburgs - Imperial and Royal Palaces in the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Ingrid Haslinger, Gerhard Trumler
Christian Brandstätter Verlag mbH
The publishing service for museums, businesses and
public bodies
www.brandstaetter - verlag.at
Denomination of the summer residence which Prince Eugene of Savoy himself had erected btw Rennweg and Swiss Garden. The term which refers to the unique view over Vienna dates from the time of Maria Theresa. Prinz Eugen bought in 1697 a plot of land at the Rennweg, which he extended to 1721 in four stages to the current area. Between 1714 and 1716 emerged the Lower Belvedere It is an elongated ground floor building, designed of a 7-axes central projection, two wings and two corner pavilions. The 3-axis central pavilion houses the Marble Hall. The castle the only rarely in Vienna sojourning builder served during the summer months as a pleasure palace.
Only in 1720 commenced construction works for the Upper Belvedere, first drawings for this existed already in 1717. The in it extent and form language compared to the Lower Belvedere especially magnificent Upper Belvedere served primarily as a representative setting for grand receptions and festivities. The architectural history of the example due to the loss of the Eugenianischen Bauarchivs (construction archiv of Prince Eugene) cannot be explored in detail without any gaps. 1723 (according to Rizzi 1721/22) the Upper Belvedere s is considered complete. The architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, who repeatedly worked for Prince Eugen, with the construction of the Belvedere has created his main work. It counts in its multiform architectonic as well as sculptural structure to the most important baroque buildings of the 18th century. The to the ensemble belonging, btw Upper and Lower Belvedere laying garden has been created by the Bavarian horticultural engineer D. Girard and today only in broad terms is original. The designs for the interior of the castle stem from C. le Fort du Plessy.
After the death of the prince the belvedere went into the possession of his sole heiress, Victoria Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen. She sold it in 1752 to Maria Theresa. At the behest of Joseph II from 1775 the imperial picture gallery was transferred here, which in 1781 for the first time was open to the public. had. Since 1806 was located in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection. Both collections were in 1890 in the Museum of Art History transferred. In 1894, the palace became residence for the heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
After the first World War I the Republic of Austria in Belvedere installed the Austrian Gallery. 1945 suffered the Belvedere severe war damage. In 1950, the "Gold Cabinet" in the north-eastern corner pavilion of the Upper Belvedere was destroyed by fire and replaced by a copy. The since 1988 ongoing general renovation should have been completed in 1996.
aeiou - the cultural information system of the bm: bwk
14,000 key words and 2000 pictures from history, geography, politics and business in Austria
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
The in the center of Vienna situated Belvedere palaces with their extensive parks form an impressive baroque Gesamtkunstwerk. The Museum in the Upper and Lower Castle provides an excellent overview of the Austrian Art from the Middle Ages to the present. the collections of the 19th and 20th Century also include an exquisite inventory of international art. World Famous works by Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Renoir and Monet you can see in the upper
Belvedere, from where you can enjoy a spectacular view to the center of Vienna. In the historic rooms of the Lower Belvedere are shown works of art from the Middle Ages and Baroque.
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Phone +43 / ( 0) 1 / 79557-0
Fax +43 / (0) 1/79 84 337
Upper Belvedere
Collections of the 19th and 20th century
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Lower Belvedere
Baroque Museum, and Museum of Medieval Art
Rennweg 6a, A - 1030 Vienna
(further pictures and information you can see if you go to the end of page and by clicking on the link...)
Belvedere
Belvedere Castle. Garden Front of the Lower Belvedere.
Belvedere Palace stands supposedly on the foundations of a Roman camp that had been erected here for strategic reasons. In 1693 Prince Eugene of Savoy acquired field and vineyard grounds between today's Rennweg and today's Gürtel. In 1700 Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt began with the construction of a palace garden (Lower Belvedere), whose in French-style layed out park was equipped with large water basins, an orangery with precious foreign plants and a menagerie. Prince Eugene was a great animal lover, and some animals in his collection could be fed exclusively by himself.
1720 the Prince conceived the plan the summer palace to supplement by a another palace building on the hill of the garden.
The 1721 by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt begun works had been completed in 1724. The Upper Belvedere served in contrast to the Lower only representative purposes and was never meant to live.
The Prince and his architect managed a perfect symbiosis between architecture and garden. After the death of the Savoy (1736) inherited his niece Victoria of Savoy-Soisson, nee Princess Hildburghausen, all his possessions. From her the Habsburgs beginning of 1752 acquired the Belvedere. From 1755 Empress Maria Theresa moved the Arcierenleibgarde (Royal Company of the Archers) and the Galician Guard in the annex of the Belvedere. Besides, the castle stood almost empty.
Belvedere Castle. Engraving by Salomon Kleiner 1731/40 (left).
Vienna from the Belvedere. Coloured copper engraving by Carl Schütz, 1784 (right).
1770 Belvedere Palace was venue of brilliant festivities:
In castle and park the marriage of Archduchess Maria Antonia (Marie Antoinette) with the Dauphin of France by proxy (per procura) was celebrated. About 2,000 people were invited, more than 1,500 bottles of champagne, which was far from home in Vienna at that time,
were emptied. For hospitality of the guests, there were round tables, which were covered with silver. However, the Court of Vienna had a large part of the silver service to rent of nobles, because the stocks of the silver chamber were not sufficient. Finished was the festival by a magnificent fireworks.
1776, the imperial picture gallery from the Stallburg (home of the famous Lipizzan stallions) was transferred to the Upper Belvedere, the animals of the menagerie came to Schönbrunn. Shortly before the Congress of Vienna in 1814 in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection was exposed. During the war against Napoleon (1805-1809), much of the collection of paintings had to be outsourced. The Corsican claimed 400 masterpieces for himself, but which after his defeat at Waterloo to the Habsburgs have been restituted. The after the French wars completely neglected building has been restored 1850-1866.
Castle Park with Upper Belvedere. Photograph, around 1890.
1819 Emperor Franz II (I) the Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, had given spacious grounds for enlargement of the Botanical Garden at Rennweg. Franz was very interested in botany and in accordance with a Habsburg House bill - every Archduke must learn a civilian job - has been educated for gardener. In an adjoining garden of Schloß Belvedere he had from his private funds laid out a botanical garden ("Flora Austriaca") which was left to the Institute of Botany for use.
During the cholera epidemic of 1831, the Belvedere served as well as Schönbrunn Palace the imperial family as a refuge; supposedly one was there protected from the bad air, which was attributed to the onset of the disease. Both castles lay in the "countryside", the air was much better here than in the densely populated city. During wartime, a hospital was set up in the castle.
As the space for the imperial collections became too small, it was thought to expand the Upper Belvedere by wing buildings. This plan was dropped for aesthetic reasons, however. After the expansion of the city (razing of the bastions and glacis) arose on the ring road the newly created Court Museums; moved there in 1891 the major part of the paintings.
Archduke-Heir to the Throne Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este at folk and children's party in the park of the Belvedere Palace. Photograph, 1905.
To 1893/94 it is likely that Archduke Franz Ferdinand has chosen the Upper Belvedere to his residence in Vienna. Other sources say that it had been assigned to him by the Emperor Franz Joseph as a place to stay in Vienna. The rooms have been restored, adapted for residential purposes and supplemented with neo-Baroque furniture. The heir of the Este collections furnished his residence with numerous works of art. He had envisaged the castle for the accommodation of his collections; in 1893 were numerous boxes from India and Singapore in Belvedere stored. 1894 Emperor Franz Joseph could see the collection: "Yesterday I went to the Belvedere, where Franzi showed me his now quite and very nicely prepared collections. The same are as imposing as interesting by the incredible amount of objects and by the rarity and beauty of them. I believe that this exhibition would be interesting for you", wrote the monarch to his wife, Empress Elisabeth. That same year, Archduke Franz Ferdinand showed his collections his future wife, Sophie Chotková,
"Where I unaware of your fatigue with particular brutality you dragged from box to box" as he apologetically from Budweis wrote to the Countess.
Then the collections moved one the one hand to the Palais Modena in the Beatrixgasse, on the other hand to Konopischt. Only in 1898, Franz Ferdinand was granted by Emperor Franz Joseph to move into the Belvedere as Vienna Residence. More revitalization works were carried out and were also necessary. Technical modernization and preservation of the original building condition had priority - as always with the projects of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As furnishings served still preserved furnitures from Schloss Hof, which were supplemented by new ones in old style. The private rooms in addition to electric lighting were equipped with central heating.
Belvedere Castle. Staircase in the Upper Belvedere (left).
Marble plastic "Apotheosis of Prince Eugene" by Balthasar Permoser in Gold Cabinet of the Lower Belvedere (right).
If his presence was needed in Vienna, Franz Ferdinand here could lead a normal family life and escape the pressures of court ceremonial, in which the to him in morganatic marriage affiliated wife was exposed to the evils of the courtiers. When the heir to the throne invited guests to the Belvedere, he was sitting opposite his wife as a hostess while she was ranked in the Hofburg always after the latest unmarried Archduchess. About the cozy family life at Belvedere reported Prince von Clary-Aldringens:
"Aunt Sophie invited us ... to snack into a Belvedere, unexpectedly, suddenly appeared the Archduke - we literally froze in our Hab-Acht-position (stand at attention). He greeted us warmly ... [I got to know] the Archduke as a friendly landlord, who was playing and laughing with his Children..."
Between 1899 and 1914 in the Lower Belvedere the military bureau of the heir to the throne was housed. Other well-known Residents - but of outbuildings - were Anton Bruckner, who in 1896 died in the Kustodenwohnung (guardian house), and Richard Strauss, who lived here from 1925 to 1944.
After the assassination of the Archduke and his wife in Sarajevo, the Belvedere should serve as the residence of the new heir to the throne, Archduke Karl and his family. This, however, preferred living in Schönbrunn and especially in the villa Wartholz. In 1917, Charles' brother Archduke Maximilian moved with his family into the Belvedere.
During World War II the castle was badly damaged by bombs, but rebuilt after the war ended immediately. On 15 May 1955 was the Marble Hall venue of the signing of the Austrian State Treaty. Today, the Upper Belvedere houses important art collections.
Excerpts from
Thus lived the Habsburgs - Imperial and Royal Palaces in the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Ingrid Haslinger, Gerhard Trumler
Christian Brandstätter Verlag mbH
The publishing service for museums, businesses and
public bodies
www.brandstaetter - verlag.at
Denomination of the summer residence which Prince Eugene of Savoy himself had erected btw Rennweg and Swiss Garden. The term which refers to the unique view over Vienna dates from the time of Maria Theresa. Prinz Eugen bought in 1697 a plot of land at the Rennweg, which he extended to 1721 in four stages to the current area. Between 1714 and 1716 emerged the Lower Belvedere It is an elongated ground floor building, designed of a 7-axes central projection, two wings and two corner pavilions. The 3-axis central pavilion houses the Marble Hall. The castle the only rarely in Vienna sojourning builder served during the summer months as a pleasure palace.
Only in 1720 commenced construction works for the Upper Belvedere, first drawings for this existed already in 1717. The in it extent and form language compared to the Lower Belvedere especially magnificent Upper Belvedere served primarily as a representative setting for grand receptions and festivities. The architectural history of the example due to the loss of the Eugenianischen Bauarchivs (construction archiv of Prince Eugene) cannot be explored in detail without any gaps. 1723 (according to Rizzi 1721/22) the Upper Belvedere s is considered complete. The architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, who repeatedly worked for Prince Eugen, with the construction of the Belvedere has created his main work. It counts in its multiform architectonic as well as sculptural structure to the most important baroque buildings of the 18th century. The to the ensemble belonging, btw Upper and Lower Belvedere laying garden has been created by the Bavarian horticultural engineer D. Girard and today only in broad terms is original. The designs for the interior of the castle stem from C. le Fort du Plessy.
After the death of the prince the belvedere went into the possession of his sole heiress, Victoria Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen. She sold it in 1752 to Maria Theresa. At the behest of Joseph II from 1775 the imperial picture gallery was transferred here, which in 1781 for the first time was open to the public. had. Since 1806 was located in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection. Both collections were in 1890 in the Museum of Art History transferred. In 1894, the palace became residence for the heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
After the first World War I the Republic of Austria in Belvedere installed the Austrian Gallery. 1945 suffered the Belvedere severe war damage. In 1950, the "Gold Cabinet" in the north-eastern corner pavilion of the Upper Belvedere was destroyed by fire and replaced by a copy. The since 1988 ongoing general renovation should have been completed in 1996.
aeiou - the cultural information system of the bm: bwk
14,000 key words and 2000 pictures from history, geography, politics and business in Austria
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
The in the center of Vienna situated Belvedere palaces with their extensive parks form an impressive baroque Gesamtkunstwerk. The Museum in the Upper and Lower Castle
provides an excellent overview of the Austrian Art from the Middle Ages to the present. the collections of the 19th and 20th Century also include an exquisite inventory of international art. World Famous works by Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Renoir and Monet you can see in the upper
Belvedere, from where you can enjoy a spectacular view to the center of Vienna. In the historic rooms of the Lower Belvedere are shown works of art from the Middle Ages and Baroque.
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Phone +43 / ( 0) 1 / 79557-0
Fax +43 / (0) 1/79 84 337
Upper Belvedere
Collections of the 19th and 20th century
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Lower Belvedere
Baroque Museum, and Museum of Medieval Art
Rennweg 6a, A - 1030 Vienna
(further pictures and information you can see if you go to the end of page and by clicking on the link...)
Belvedere
Belvedere Castle. Garden Front of the Lower Belvedere.
Belvedere Palace stands supposedly on the foundations of a Roman camp that had been erected here for strategic reasons. In 1693 Prince Eugene of Savoy acquired field and vineyard grounds between today's Rennweg and today's Gürtel. In 1700 Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt began with the construction of a palace garden (Lower Belvedere), whose in French-style layed out park was equipped with large water basins, an orangery with precious foreign plants and a menagerie. Prince Eugene was a great animal lover, and some animals in his collection could be fed exclusively by himself.
1720 the Prince conceived the plan the summer palace to supplement by a another palace building on the hill of the garden.
The 1721 by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt begun works had been completed in 1724. The Upper Belvedere served in contrast to the Lower only representative purposes and was never meant to live.
The Prince and his architect managed a perfect symbiosis between architecture and garden. After the death of the Savoy (1736) inherited his niece Victoria of Savoy-Soisson, nee Princess Hildburghausen, all his possessions. From her the Habsburgs beginning of 1752 acquired the Belvedere. From 1755 Empress Maria Theresa moved the Arcierenleibgarde (Royal Company of the Archers) and the Galician Guard in the annex of the Belvedere. Besides, the castle stood almost empty.
Belvedere Castle. Engraving by Salomon Kleiner 1731/40 (left).
Vienna from the Belvedere. Coloured copper engraving by Carl Schütz, 1784 (right).
1770 Belvedere Palace was venue of brilliant festivities:
In castle and park the marriage of Archduchess Maria Antonia (Marie Antoinette) with the Dauphin of France by proxy (per procura) was celebrated. About 2,000 people were invited, more than 1,500 bottles of champagne, which was far from home in Vienna at that time,
were emptied. For hospitality of the guests, there were round tables, which were covered with silver. However, the Court of Vienna had a large part of the silver service to rent of nobles, because the stocks of the silver chamber were not sufficient. Finished was the festival by a magnificent fireworks.
1776, the imperial picture gallery from the Stallburg (home of the famous Lipizzan stallions) was transferred to the Upper Belvedere, the animals of the menagerie came to Schönbrunn. Shortly before the Congress of Vienna in 1814 in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection was exposed. During the war against Napoleon (1805-1809), much of the collection of paintings had to be outsourced. The Corsican claimed 400 masterpieces for himself, but which after his defeat at Waterloo to the Habsburgs have been restituted. The after the French wars completely neglected building has been restored 1850-1866.
Castle Park with Upper Belvedere. Photograph, around 1890.
1819 Emperor Franz II (I) the Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, had given spacious grounds for enlargement of the Botanical Garden at Rennweg. Franz was very interested in botany and in accordance with a Habsburg House bill - every Archduke must learn a civilian job - has been educated for gardener. In an adjoining garden of Schloß Belvedere he had from his private funds laid out a botanical garden ("Flora Austriaca") which was left to the Institute of Botany for use.
During the cholera epidemic of 1831, the Belvedere served as well as Schönbrunn Palace the imperial family as a refuge; supposedly one was there protected from the bad air, which was attributed to the onset of the disease. Both castles lay in the "countryside", the air was much better here than in the densely populated city. During wartime, a hospital was set up in the castle.
As the space for the imperial collections became too small, it was thought to expand the Upper Belvedere by wing buildings. This plan was dropped for aesthetic reasons, however. After the expansion of the city (razing of the bastions and glacis) arose on the ring road the newly created Court Museums; moved there in 1891 the major part of the paintings.
Archduke-Heir to the Throne Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este at folk and children's party in the park of the Belvedere Palace. Photograph, 1905.
To 1893/94 it is likely that Archduke Franz Ferdinand has chosen the Upper Belvedere to his residence in Vienna. Other sources say that it had been assigned to him by the Emperor Franz Joseph as a place to stay in Vienna. The rooms have been restored, adapted for residential purposes and supplemented with neo-Baroque furniture. The heir of the Este collections furnished his residence with numerous works of art. He had envisaged the castle for the accommodation of his collections; in 1893 were numerous boxes from India and Singapore in Belvedere stored. 1894 Emperor Franz Joseph could see the collection: "Yesterday I went to the Belvedere, where Franzi showed me his now quite and very nicely prepared collections. The same are as imposing as interesting by the incredible amount of objects and by the rarity and beauty of them. I believe that this exhibition would be interesting for you", wrote the monarch to his wife, Empress Elisabeth. That same year, Archduke Franz Ferdinand showed his collections his future wife, Sophie Chotková,
"Where I unaware of your fatigue with particular brutality you dragged from box to box" as he apologetically from Budweis wrote to the Countess.
Then the collections moved one the one hand to the Palais Modena in the Beatrixgasse, on the other hand to Konopischt. Only in 1898, Franz Ferdinand was granted by Emperor Franz Joseph to move into the Belvedere as Vienna Residence. More revitalization works were carried out and were also necessary. Technical modernization and preservation of the original building condition had priority - as always with the projects of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As furnishings served still preserved furnitures from Schloss Hof, which were supplemented by new ones in old style. The private rooms in addition to electric lighting were equipped with central heating.
Belvedere Castle. Staircase in the Upper Belvedere (left).
Marble plastic "Apotheosis of Prince Eugene" by Balthasar Permoser in Gold Cabinet of the Lower Belvedere (right).
If his presence was needed in Vienna, Franz Ferdinand here could lead a normal family life and escape the pressures of court ceremonial, in which the to him in morganatic marriage affiliated wife was exposed to the evils of the courtiers. When the heir to the throne invited guests to the Belvedere, he was sitting opposite his wife as a hostess while she was ranked in the Hofburg always after the latest unmarried Archduchess. About the cozy family life at Belvedere reported Prince von Clary-Aldringens:
"Aunt Sophie invited us ... to snack into a Belvedere, unexpectedly, suddenly appeared the Archduke - we literally froze in our Hab-Acht-position (stand at attention). He greeted us warmly ... [I got to know] the Archduke as a friendly landlord, who was playing and laughing with his Children..."
Between 1899 and 1914 in the Lower Belvedere the military bureau of the heir to the throne was housed. Other well-known Residents - but of outbuildings - were Anton Bruckner, who in 1896 died in the Kustodenwohnung (guardian house), and Richard Strauss, who lived here from 1925 to 1944.
After the assassination of the Archduke and his wife in Sarajevo, the Belvedere should serve as the residence of the new heir to the throne, Archduke Karl and his family. This, however, preferred living in Schönbrunn and especially in the villa Wartholz. In 1917, Charles' brother Archduke Maximilian moved with his family into the Belvedere.
During World War II the castle was badly damaged by bombs, but rebuilt after the war ended immediately. On 15 May 1955 was the Marble Hall venue of the signing of the Austrian State Treaty. Today, the Upper Belvedere houses important art collections.
Excerpts from
Thus lived the Habsburgs - Imperial and Royal Palaces in the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Ingrid Haslinger, Gerhard Trumler
Christian Brandstätter Verlag mbH
The publishing service for museums, businesses and
public bodies
www.brandstaetter - verlag.at
Denomination of the summer residence which Prince Eugene of Savoy himself had erected btw Rennweg and Swiss Garden. The term which refers to the unique view over Vienna dates from the time of Maria Theresa. Prinz Eugen bought in 1697 a plot of land at the Rennweg, which he extended to 1721 in four stages to the current area. Between 1714 and 1716 emerged the Lower Belvedere It is an elongated ground floor building, designed of a 7-axes central projection, two wings and two corner pavilions. The 3-axis central pavilion houses the Marble Hall. The castle the only rarely in Vienna sojourning builder served during the summer months as a pleasure palace.
Only in 1720 commenced construction works for the Upper Belvedere, first drawings for this existed already in 1717. The in it extent and form language compared to the Lower Belvedere especially magnificent Upper Belvedere served primarily as a representative setting for grand receptions and festivities. The architectural history of the example due to the loss of the Eugenianischen Bauarchivs (construction archiv of Prince Eugene) cannot be explored in detail without any gaps. 1723 (according to Rizzi 1721/22) the Upper Belvedere s is considered complete. The architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, who repeatedly worked for Prince Eugen, with the construction of the Belvedere has created his main work. It counts in its multiform architectonic as well as sculptural structure to the most important baroque buildings of the 18th century. The to the ensemble belonging, btw Upper and Lower Belvedere laying garden has been created by the Bavarian horticultural engineer D. Girard and today only in broad terms is original. The designs for the interior of the castle stem from C. le Fort du Plessy.
After the death of the prince the belvedere went into the possession of his sole heiress, Victoria Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen. She sold it in 1752 to Maria Theresa. At the behest of Joseph II from 1775 the imperial picture gallery was transferred here, which in 1781 for the first time was open to the public. had. Since 1806 was located in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection. Both collections were in 1890 in the Museum of Art History transferred. In 1894, the palace became residence for the heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
After the first World War I the Republic of Austria in Belvedere installed the Austrian Gallery. 1945 suffered the Belvedere severe war damage. In 1950, the "Gold Cabinet" in the north-eastern corner pavilion of the Upper Belvedere was destroyed by fire and replaced by a copy. The since 1988 ongoing general renovation should have been completed in 1996.
aeiou - the cultural information system of the bm: bwk
14,000 key words and 2000 pictures from history, geography, politics and business in Austria
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
The in the center of Vienna situated Belvedere palaces with their extensive parks form an impressive baroque Gesamtkunstwerk. The Museum in the Upper and Lower Castle
provides an excellent overview of the Austrian Art from the Middle Ages to the present. the collections of the 19th and 20th Century also include an exquisite inventory of international art. World Famous works by Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Renoir and Monet you can see in the upper
Belvedere, from where you can enjoy a spectacular view to the center of Vienna. In the historic rooms of the Lower Belvedere are shown works of art from the Middle Ages and Baroque.
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Phone +43 / ( 0) 1 / 79557-0
Fax +43 / (0) 1/79 84 337
Upper Belvedere
Collections of the 19th and 20th century
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Lower Belvedere
Baroque Museum, and Museum of Medieval Art
Rennweg 6a, A - 1030 Vienna
(further pictures and information you can see if you go to the end of page and by clicking on the link...)
Belvedere
Belvedere Castle. Garden Front of the Lower Belvedere.
Belvedere Palace stands supposedly on the foundations of a Roman camp that had been erected here for strategic reasons. In 1693 Prince Eugene of Savoy acquired field and vineyard grounds between today's Rennweg and today's Gürtel. In 1700 Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt began with the construction of a palace garden (Lower Belvedere), whose in French-style layed out park was equipped with large water basins, an orangery with precious foreign plants and a menagerie. Prince Eugene was a great animal lover, and some animals in his collection could be fed exclusively by himself.
1720 the Prince conceived the plan the summer palace to supplement by a another palace building on the hill of the garden.
The 1721 by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt begun works had been completed in 1724. The Upper Belvedere served in contrast to the Lower only representative purposes and was never meant to live.
The Prince and his architect managed a perfect symbiosis between architecture and garden. After the death of the Savoy (1736) inherited his niece Victoria of Savoy-Soisson, nee Princess Hildburghausen, all his possessions. From her the Habsburgs beginning of 1752 acquired the Belvedere. From 1755 Empress Maria Theresa moved the Arcierenleibgarde (Royal Company of the Archers) and the Galician Guard in the annex of the Belvedere. Besides, the castle stood almost empty.
Belvedere Castle. Engraving by Salomon Kleiner 1731/40 (left).
Vienna from the Belvedere. Coloured copper engraving by Carl Schütz, 1784 (right).
1770 Belvedere Palace was venue of brilliant festivities:
In castle and park the marriage of Archduchess Maria Antonia (Marie Antoinette) with the Dauphin of France by proxy (per procura) was celebrated. About 2,000 people were invited, more than 1,500 bottles of champagne, which was far from home in Vienna at that time,
were emptied. For hospitality of the guests, there were round tables, which were covered with silver. However, the Court of Vienna had a large part of the silver service to rent of nobles, because the stocks of the silver chamber were not sufficient. Finished was the festival by a magnificent fireworks.
1776, the imperial picture gallery from the Stallburg (home of the famous Lipizzan stallions) was transferred to the Upper Belvedere, the animals of the menagerie came to Schönbrunn. Shortly before the Congress of Vienna in 1814 in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection was exposed. During the war against Napoleon (1805-1809), much of the collection of paintings had to be outsourced. The Corsican claimed 400 masterpieces for himself, but which after his defeat at Waterloo to the Habsburgs have been restituted. The after the French wars completely neglected building has been restored 1850-1866.
Castle Park with Upper Belvedere. Photograph, around 1890.
1819 Emperor Franz II (I) the Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, had given spacious grounds for enlargement of the Botanical Garden at Rennweg. Franz was very interested in botany and in accordance with a Habsburg House bill - every Archduke must learn a civilian job - has been educated for gardener. In an adjoining garden of Schloß Belvedere he had from his private funds laid out a botanical garden ("Flora Austriaca") which was left to the Institute of Botany for use.
During the cholera epidemic of 1831, the Belvedere served as well as Schönbrunn Palace the imperial family as a refuge; supposedly one was there protected from the bad air, which was attributed to the onset of the disease. Both castles lay in the "countryside", the air was much better here than in the densely populated city. During wartime, a hospital was set up in the castle.
As the space for the imperial collections became too small, it was thought to expand the Upper Belvedere by wing buildings. This plan was dropped for aesthetic reasons, however. After the expansion of the city (razing of the bastions and glacis) arose on the ring road the newly created Court Museums; moved there in 1891 the major part of the paintings.
Archduke-Heir to the Throne Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este at folk and children's party in the park of the Belvedere Palace. Photograph, 1905.
To 1893/94 it is likely that Archduke Franz Ferdinand has chosen the Upper Belvedere to his residence in Vienna. Other sources say that it had been assigned to him by the Emperor Franz Joseph as a place to stay in Vienna. The rooms have been restored, adapted for residential purposes and supplemented with neo-Baroque furniture. The heir of the Este collections furnished his residence with numerous works of art. He had envisaged the castle for the accommodation of his collections; in 1893 were numerous boxes from India and Singapore in Belvedere stored. 1894 Emperor Franz Joseph could see the collection: "Yesterday I went to the Belvedere, where Franzi showed me his now quite and very nicely prepared collections. The same are as imposing as interesting by the incredible amount of objects and by the rarity and beauty of them. I believe that this exhibition would be interesting for you", wrote the monarch to his wife, Empress Elisabeth. That same year, Archduke Franz Ferdinand showed his collections his future wife, Sophie Chotková,
"Where I unaware of your fatigue with particular brutality you dragged from box to box" as he apologetically from Budweis wrote to the Countess.
Then the collections moved one the one hand to the Palais Modena in the Beatrixgasse, on the other hand to Konopischt. Only in 1898, Franz Ferdinand was granted by Emperor Franz Joseph to move into the Belvedere as Vienna Residence. More revitalization works were carried out and were also necessary. Technical modernization and preservation of the original building condition had priority - as always with the projects of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As furnishings served still preserved furnitures from Schloss Hof, which were supplemented by new ones in old style. The private rooms in addition to electric lighting were equipped with central heating.
Belvedere Castle. Staircase in the Upper Belvedere (left).
Marble plastic "Apotheosis of Prince Eugene" by Balthasar Permoser in Gold Cabinet of the Lower Belvedere (right).
If his presence was needed in Vienna, Franz Ferdinand here could lead a normal family life and escape the pressures of court ceremonial, in which the to him in morganatic marriage affiliated wife was exposed to the evils of the courtiers. When the heir to the throne invited guests to the Belvedere, he was sitting opposite his wife as a hostess while she was ranked in the Hofburg always after the latest unmarried Archduchess. About the cozy family life at Belvedere reported Prince von Clary-Aldringens:
"Aunt Sophie invited us ... to snack into a Belvedere, unexpectedly, suddenly appeared the Archduke - we literally froze in our Hab-Acht-position (stand at attention). He greeted us warmly ... [I got to know] the Archduke as a friendly landlord, who was playing and laughing with his Children..."
Between 1899 and 1914 in the Lower Belvedere the military bureau of the heir to the throne was housed. Other well-known Residents - but of outbuildings - were Anton Bruckner, who in 1896 died in the Kustodenwohnung (guardian house), and Richard Strauss, who lived here from 1925 to 1944.
After the assassination of the Archduke and his wife in Sarajevo, the Belvedere should serve as the residence of the new heir to the throne, Archduke Karl and his family. This, however, preferred living in Schönbrunn and especially in the villa Wartholz. In 1917, Charles' brother Archduke Maximilian moved with his family into the Belvedere.
During World War II the castle was badly damaged by bombs, but rebuilt after the war ended immediately. On 15 May 1955 was the Marble Hall venue of the signing of the Austrian State Treaty. Today, the Upper Belvedere houses important art collections.
Excerpts from
Thus lived the Habsburgs - Imperial and Royal Palaces in the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Ingrid Haslinger, Gerhard Trumler
Christian Brandstätter Verlag mbH
The publishing service for museums, businesses and
public bodies
www.brandstaetter - verlag.at
Denomination of the summer residence which Prince Eugene of Savoy himself had erected btw Rennweg and Swiss Garden. The term which refers to the unique view over Vienna dates from the time of Maria Theresa. Prinz Eugen bought in 1697 a plot of land at the Rennweg, which he extended to 1721 in four stages to the current area. Between 1714 and 1716 emerged the Lower Belvedere It is an elongated ground floor building, designed of a 7-axes central projection, two wings and two corner pavilions. The 3-axis central pavilion houses the Marble Hall. The castle the only rarely in Vienna sojourning builder served during the summer months as a pleasure palace.
Only in 1720 commenced construction works for the Upper Belvedere, first drawings for this existed already in 1717. The in it extent and form language compared to the Lower Belvedere especially magnificent Upper Belvedere served primarily as a representative setting for grand receptions and festivities. The architectural history of the example due to the loss of the Eugenianischen Bauarchivs (construction archiv of Prince Eugene) cannot be explored in detail without any gaps. 1723 (according to Rizzi 1721/22) the Upper Belvedere s is considered complete. The architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, who repeatedly worked for Prince Eugen, with the construction of the Belvedere has created his main work. It counts in its multiform architectonic as well as sculptural structure to the most important baroque buildings of the 18th century. The to the ensemble belonging, btw Upper and Lower Belvedere laying garden has been created by the Bavarian horticultural engineer D. Girard and today only in broad terms is original. The designs for the interior of the castle stem from C. le Fort du Plessy.
After the death of the prince the belvedere went into the possession of his sole heiress, Victoria Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen. She sold it in 1752 to Maria Theresa. At the behest of Joseph II from 1775 the imperial picture gallery was transferred here, which in 1781 for the first time was open to the public. had. Since 1806 was located in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection. Both collections were in 1890 in the Museum of Art History transferred. In 1894, the palace became residence for the heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
After the first World War I the Republic of Austria in Belvedere installed the Austrian Gallery. 1945 suffered the Belvedere severe war damage. In 1950, the "Gold Cabinet" in the north-eastern corner pavilion of the Upper Belvedere was destroyed by fire and replaced by a copy. The since 1988 ongoing general renovation should have been completed in 1996.
aeiou - the cultural information system of the bm: bwk
14,000 key words and 2000 pictures from history, geography, politics and business in Austria
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
The in the center of Vienna situated Belvedere palaces with their extensive parks form an impressive baroque Gesamtkunstwerk. The Museum in the Upper and Lower Castle
provides an excellent overview of the Austrian Art from the Middle Ages to the present. the collections of the 19th and 20th Century also include an exquisite inventory of international art. World Famous works by Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Renoir and Monet you can see in the upper
Belvedere, from where you can enjoy a spectacular view to the center of Vienna. In the historic rooms of the Lower Belvedere are shown works of art from the Middle Ages and Baroque.
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Phone +43 / ( 0) 1 / 79557-0
Fax +43 / (0) 1/79 84 337
Upper Belvedere
Collections of the 19th and 20th century
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Lower Belvedere
Baroque Museum, and Museum of Medieval Art
Rennweg 6a, A - 1030 Vienna
Le Tour de France sur le front de 14-18
hommage aux glorieux anciens qui roulaient plus souvent sur des chemins de boue que sur des routes asphaltées.
En 2014, la Grande Boucle rend hommage au centenaire de la Première Guerre mondiale. L'étape du 10 juillet Arras-Reims comprend 90 km dans l'Aisne, dont le Chemin des Dames.
Coucy-le-Château, Anizy, Brancourt-en-Laonnois et Pinon, le peloton entrera sur le fameux Chemin des Dames.
À Pinon Le Tour fera son entrée dans une côte. dans la rue du 52e-RI .
Reims_Un parfum de Paris-Roubaix.
C’est dans la ville des rois de France qu’est jugée l’arrivée de la 6e étape, partie d’Arras pour 194kilomètres. Du Nord-Pas-de-Calais à la Champagne-Ardennes,
il n’y a que du plat et le sprint paraît inévitable.
D’ailleurs, les trois derniers vainqueurs à Reims s’appellent Alessandro Petacchi (2010), Robbie McEwen (2002) et Djamolidine Abdoujaparov (1991) : trois fusées.
Tout le monde sur le pont à Reims pour le Tour de France ...
Le Tour de France est une manifestation qui demande l’implication de tous les services de la Ville
La pose de barrières reste la mission la plus prenante pour les agents municipaux.
le Tour de France est une très grosse « machine » qui demande une logistique considérable.
Si la société ASO (Amaury sport organisation) a ses propres équipes qui suivent tout le parcours pendant les 22 jours de la compétition,
les villes étapes doivent elles aussi accompagner le mouvement.
la ligne d’arrivée.
Dans la zone d’arrivée, sous la houlette du directeur de site, des barrières hautes sont posées autour de la "zone technique",
d’où émettent les camions radio et les télévisions. Doublet travaille depuis un an à la conception de barrières "repousse public" dotées d’arches,
qui empêcheront toute main de percuter malencontreusement un coureur. Suite à la chute de Laurent Jalabert à Armentières d’ailleurs,
les barrières ne laissent plus dépasser aucun panneau publicitaire. La réclame est directement intégrée à la clôture.
La caravane publicitaire
La caravane publicitaire, créée en 1930, s’est développée considérablement au fil des années, pour accueillir plus de 180 véhicules en 2012.
Le défilé d’ouverture, festif et créatif, a su conquérir les marques et le public, jusqu’à devenir une composante essentielle au spectacle du Tour
LCL, qui sera toujours parrain du maillot jaune du leader du classement général du Tour de France, comme c'est le cas depuis 1987.
La caravane publicitaire du Tour Alsace part une heure avant les coureurs. Elle est composée d'une quinzaine de véhicules publicitaires
et suit le parcours officiel du Tour. Elle distribue une multitude de goodies aux spectateurs au bord des routes.
47 % des spectateurs viennent en priorité pour la caravane
Le succès de la formule, avec un défilé de véhicules originaux qui « font de la réclame », en distribuant des cadeaux, est immédiat.
Les premiers annonceurs, comme la Vache qui rit, y gagnent la sympathie du public, qui se prête volontiers au jeu. Quatre-vingts ans plus tard,
la caravane publicitaire est devenue une composante à part entière du spectacle du Tour. Indissociable de la course qu’elle précède, la procession multiforme et multicolore
offre une animation de plus de 45 minutes. Jeunes et moins jeunes commentent sur le bord des routes la taille et l’inventivité des chars ; on s’y presse pour demander des cadeaux…
Au total, une étude réalisée auprès du public du Tour révèle que 47 % des spectateurs sont venus en priorité pour voir la caravane publicitaire.
lancer de saucissons Cochonou à la foule en délire.
Cochonou, la marque de saucissons distribuera bien sûr encore bobs et saucissons au bord de la route depuis ses fameuses 2CV, mais sera également présent sur internet,
avec son blog Cochonou et Vous tenu depuis quelques années par Thibault (qui avait repris le flambeau d'Adeline).
Le garage virtuel CochonouOriginalité cette année, la possibilité de créer sa propre 2CV dans le garage virtuel Cochonou et peut-être même la gagner et la tester pour
la première fois sur la célèbre Avenue des Champs-Elysées lors de l'arrivée de la dernière étape du Tour à Paris !
Le jeu-concours est ouvert jusqu'au 31 juillet mais le grand gagnant de la 2CV sera désigné le 15 juillet prochain sachant que par la suite on peut gagner l'un des autres
lots du jeu (2CV Cochonou miniatures, bobs, porte-clés et sacs cabas).
Vittel, l'eau officiel du Tour de France innove cette année en permettant à d'ordinaires spectateurs du Tour d'en devenir acteur !
ŠKODA qui reste parrain du maillot blanc de meilleur jeune et qui est toujours à la recherche des meilleures animations pour vous permettre, vous en tant que fan du Tour,
de remporter des prix avec le ŠKODA Fan Tour.
Il y a quelques mois, &ScaronKODA a d'ailleurs prolongé son contrat de partenariat avec A.S.O. et donc entre autres avec le Tour de France, jusqu'en 2018.
Banette a reconduit son partenariat pour 4 ans, jusqu'en 2017, et distribuera toujours des milliers de tartines préparées par les artisans boulangers Banette de la région alors
que la caravane continue à distribuer différents goodies et des bons de réduction. Banette communiquera sur son Tour de France sur sa page Facebook.
McCain, le producteur de frites surgelées, a rejoint le Tour en tant que fournisseur officiel pendant 3 ans et sera présent dans la caravane publicitaire du Tour avec un char-tracteur et 3 véhicules légers.
Belin fournira toujours l'apéro, mais ne valorise pas vraiment son partenariat. La seule chose qu'on peut donc vous dire, c'est que "les super z'héros" rejoignent la caravane de Belin :
Du samedi 5 juillet au dimanche 27 juillet 2014, le 101e Tour de France comprendra 21 étapes pour une distance de 3 664 kilomètres.
Pourquoi Blaise Pascal fut « l’un de nos plus profonds penseurs »
André Comte-Sponville
A l’occasion de la commémoration des 400 ans de Blaise Pascal, né le 19 juin 1623, le philosophe André Comte-Sponville rend hommage à « un écrivain éblouissant, un psychologue hors pair, un théologien et un mystique rigoureux »
Génie absolu et multiforme, mathématicien surdoué (il contribue à inventer le calcul des probabilités et le calcul infinitésimal), physicien novateur (il met en évidence la pression atmosphérique et la réalité du vide), Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) fut surtout un écrivain éblouissant, un psychologue hors pair, un théologien et un mystique rigoureux, enfin l’un de nos plus profonds penseurs.
On lui dénie parfois le titre de philosophe, parce qu’il n’a pas inventé de système. C’est qu’il a compris, après Montaigne et avant Nietzsche, la fausseté de tous. Ce chrétien ne croit en rien, ou plutôt il ne croit qu’en Dieu : sur tout le reste – l’homme, la raison, la politique, l’amour, la philosophie –, il jette une lumière crue qui fait ressortir nos mensonges, nos petitesses, nos illusions. Nul n’a pénétré mieux que lui la misère de l’homme ; nul, mieux que lui, n’a mesuré sa grandeur.
La mort, l’amour et Dieu
Ecartelés entre l’infiniment grand et l’infiniment petit, qui sont pour nous également hors d’atteinte, nous ne pouvons trouver dans l’univers notre place (dans un espace infini, elles se valent toutes), encore moins notre bonheur. La nature n’offre ni sens ni salut (« Le silence éternel de ces espaces infinis m’effraie »). Rien ne nous y attend que la mort : « Le dernier acte est sanglant, quelque belle que soit la comédie en tout le reste. On jette enfin de la terre sur la tête, et en voilà pour jamais. »
C’est pourquoi nous avons inventé le divertissement : pour oublier que nous allons mourir et que nous ne sommes pas heureux. « Rien n’est si insupportable à l’homme que d’être dans un plein repos, sans passion, sans affaire, sans divertissement, sans application. Il sent alors son néant, son abandon, son insuffisance, sa dépendance, son impuissance, son vide. Incontinent, il sortira du fond de son âme l’ennui, la noirceur, la tristesse, le chagrin, le dépit, le désespoir. »
On voudrait être heureux, et l’on ne peut. Comment le serions-nous, puisque nous ne cessons d’espérer le devenir ? « Le présent ne nous satisfait jamais » ; le bonheur est toujours pour demain, qui n’est jamais là. « Ainsi nous ne vivons jamais, nous espérons de vivre » ; si bien que « nous disposant toujours à être heureux, il est inévitable que nous ne le soyons jamais ».
Comment en sortir ? Par l’amour, puisque nous ne vivons que pour lui. Mais nous ne savons aimer que nous (c’est ce que Pascal appelle l’amour-propre) ou pour nous (c’est ce qu’il appelle la concupiscence). Ces deux amours, d’abord légitimes, ont pris en l’homme, depuis la chute d’Adam et Eve, toute la place. C’est ce qui nous voue au péché, au malheur, à l’insatisfaction : nous ne désirons que ce qui nous manque ; nous manquons indéfiniment de cela même qui nous fait vivre. Cela indique le chemin. « Ce gouffre infini ne peut être rempli que par un objet infini et immuable » : pour Pascal, seul Dieu, qui est infiniment aimable et aimant, peut nous combler.
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Le pari se substitue à la preuve
Existe-t-il ? On ne peut le savoir : aucune preuve ne l’atteste (un Dieu qu’on pourrait prouver ne serait plus un Dieu) et la foi n’est donnée que par la grâce. Pourtant, il faut prendre position, puisque toute notre vie en dépend, et puisque le refus de choisir serait déjà un choix (« vous êtes embarqués »).
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Comment faire ? Pascal substitue la logique du pari à celle, traditionnelle et impossible, de la preuve. Quand un pari est-il avantageux ? Lorsque l’écart entre la mise et le gain est supérieur au risque de perdre (par exemple, à pile ou face, lorsque le gain possible est supérieur au double de la mise). Or, ici, la mise est finie : ce n’est que notre vie terrestre. Le gain possible est infini : « Une éternité de bonheur infini. » Aussi n’y a-t-il pas à hésiter : il faut miser sur Dieu. Cela ne prouve pas qu’il existe, mais qu’on a intérêt à y croire : « Si vous gagnez, vous gagnez tout ; si vous perdez, vous ne perdez rien. »
Lire aussi l’entretien : Article réservé à nos abonnés Jacques Arnould : « S’il existait une preuve de l’existence de Dieu, tous les scientifiques seraient croyants »
Ce pari, mathématiquement exact, ne m’a jamais convaincu : c’est qu’il est théologiquement douteux (puisque Dieu n’est nullement tenu par mon pari : il peut me sauver ou me damner, quel que soit mon choix) et philosophiquement sans pertinence (puisque la pensée n’a pas à se soumettre à un calcul égoïste). Que vaudrait une foi intéressée ? Et pourquoi Dieu ne préférerait-il pas la liberté de l’esprit ?
Au demeurant, ce pari, pour Pascal, n’est qu’un premier pas. L’essentiel est ailleurs, qui n’est pas un pari, mais une grâce – objet non de calcul, mais de foi. « C’est le cœur qui sent Dieu, et non la raison. Voilà ce que c’est que la foi : Dieu sensible au cœur, non à la raison. »
Lire aussi : Article réservé à nos abonnés Claire Marin : « L’amour est la seule chose qui contrecarre l’absurdité de l’existence »
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Pour Pascal, le vrai Dieu n’est pas celui des philosophes ou des savants, mais celui « d’Abraham, d’Isaac et de Jacob » : le vrai Dieu est le « Dieu de Jésus-Christ ». Pascal, en une nuit de feu, en fit la rencontre bouleversante : « Joie, joie, joie, pleurs de joie. » Dès lors, Jésus, qui « sera en agonie jusqu’à la fin du monde », l’accompagne et lui parle doucement. Ce qu’il lui dit ? Ceci, que je n’ai jamais pu relire sans émotion : « Je pensais à toi dans mon agonie ; j’ai versé telles gouttes de sang pour toi… Je t’aime plus ardemment que tu n’as aimé tes souillures. » Qu’on y croie ou non, c’est le seul Dieu qui importe.
Toutes les citations de cet article sont tirées des Pensées de Blaise Pascal.
Philosophe français, André Comte-Sponville est notamment l’auteur de Contre la peur et cent autres propos (Albin Michel, 2019), Que le meilleur gagne ! (Robert Laffont, 2021), et de La Clé des champs et autres impromptus (PUF, 2023).
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Marco Mengoni
Teatro Arcimboldi - Milano
26 Settembre 2013
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Marco Mengoni , vincitore incontrastato della terza edizione di 'X Factor'. Presenza scenica da professionista consumato, lunatico, "permaloso quasi antipatico", ha conquistato la stima del pubblico (non è mai finito in ballottaggio per l'eliminazione) grazie a interpretazioni di grande spessore.
Il 4 dicembre 2009 esce “DOVE SI VOLA”, il suo primo Ep, che in poche settimane scala le classifiche di vendita con oltre 70 mila copie.
“Dove si vola”, brano che da il titolo all’Ep, è difficile da interpretare per un uomo, sia per la tonalità molto alta che per l’articolazione della melodia sull’armonia. La forza vocale di Marco regala al pezzo una magia unica che, durante le esibizioni fa letteralmente volare il pubblico, pubblico che l’ha votato e proclamato, quasi fin da subito, il vero talento della terza edizione di X Factor. All’interno dell’EP un altro brano inedito, “Lontanissimo da te”, firmato Massimo e Piero Calabrese e cinque tra le più emozionanti cover cantate da Marco durante il programma.
Marco nasce a Ronciglione (VT) il 25 dicembre 1988 (Capricorno), proprio nel giorno di Natale. Fin da bambino ama tutti i generi musicali: “Alla tenera 'altezza' di 70 cm. comincio ad ascoltare di tutto, dal pop all’r&b, soul, rock ed inizio ad approfondire la mia cultura musicale: scopro il karaoke e comincio a cantare di nascosto, per timidezza. Poi una volta i miei per caso mi ascoltano e si convincono di mandarmi ad una scuola di canto. Da quel momento capisco che la musica non è poi così semplice come pensavo: c'era da imparare molto…. tecniche di respirazione, maschera facciale, scale, vocalizzi di qualsiasi genere, per affinare la voce”.
Marco inizia a cantare all’età di 14 anni. Mentre studia all'Istituto per il Design, segue anche una scuola di canto dove impara le prime tecniche per la gestione e l'utilizzo dei propri mezzi vocali. Visto il talento di Marco, l’insegnante di canto lo inserisce in un piccolo quintetto vocale con cui si esibisce in serate di piazza e per le festività, facendo cover.
Dopo 2 anni ha inizio il suo percorso solista con un gruppo di musicisti con il quale suona nei club un po’ del suo repertorio originale e un po’ di cover, continuando quindi la sua gavetta. Iniziano tre anni di duro lavoro e provinaggio, per affinare lo stile e la personalità, ed anche per questo, Marco, figlio unico, lascia la famiglia per trasferirsi a Roma. Contemporaneamente si iscrive all’Università nella Facoltà di Lingue, e fa esperienza come fonico e programmatore, prendendo familiarità con gli studi di registrazione.
Il suo genere preferito resta il Brit Pop e la sua massima, e amatissima, influenza musicale sono i Beatles: tra le sue canzoni preferite dei Fab 4 ci sono 'Michelle' e 'The Fool on te hill'. Anche se il brano che gli ha cambiato la vita è 'La luce dell’est' di Lucio Battisti.
Vincendo X Factor Marco partecipa di diritto alla Sessantesima Edizione del Festival di Sanremo, nella categoria 'Artisti', interpretando “Credimi ancora”, brano che fa parte dell’EP “Re Matto” uscito il 19 febbraio 2010 su etichetta Rca/Sony Music.
Il 2010 è un anno davvero unico per quest’artista giovane ma pieno di talento. Mentre la sua paginaFacebook continua a crescere (superando ad oggi i 300 mila iscritti), Il 3 e 4 maggio parte dall’Alcatraz di Milano Il “Re Matto Tour, un viaggio nella “Mattità”, un’avventura vertiginosa nella mente colorata e multiforme di MARCO MENGONI. Lo spettacolo nasce da un’ idea di Marco, Luca Tommassini e Stella Fabiani. La regia è affidata a LUCA TOMMASSINI, la direzione artistica è di PIERO CALABRESE, la produzione è di F&P Group e dei “CANTIERI MUSICALI” che da sempre lavorano con MENGONI. Nel team creativo di Marco e del “RE MATTO TOUR” sono state coinvolte figure importanti a livello mondiale come lo stilista Neil Barrett, che finora ha solo disegnato abiti per artisti come Madonna, Justin Timberlake, Brad Pitt e Johnny Depp, e lo scultore Davide Orlandi Dormino, creatore di “Opera Scacchi”, la scultura che invade il palco. “IL RE MATTO TOUR” è ideato, sviluppato e strutturato all’insegna della totale libertà, della poesia, della sregolatezza e dell’improvvisazione rendendo ogni concerto un vero evento, con ospiti a sorpresa cheMARCO scopre insieme al pubblico…una sfida che solo un Re Matto poteva accettare.
Intanto l’8 maggio Marco partecipa ai Trl Awards e vince nella categoria “Man of the Year”.
Il “Re Matto tour” è un’esperienza straordinaria per Marco, che vive e si ciba dell’entusiasmo del pubblico. È un tour trionfale che colleziona un sold out dopo l’altro.
Il 2 giugno viene premiato ai Wind Music Awards e si aggiudica il doppio disco di platino per il suo primo Ep “Dove si vola”, che raccoglie l’omonima canzone e alcune delle cover cantate durante il programma di X Factor, e l’album “Re Matto”, superando le 160 mila copie vendute.
Il "Re Matto" del pop italiano non si fa mancare proprio nulla. Supera gli altri colleghi in gara agli Ema 2010 nella categoria dedicata agli artisti italiani: Malika Ayane, dARi, Sonohra e Nina Zilli.
Questo è un riconoscimento fondamentale per Marco Mengoni, artista italiano rivelazione del 2010, che ad MTV si è già aggiudicato il premio come "Man Of The Year" ai TRL Awards 2010 ed è arrivato secondo in una gara all'ultima edizione del Coca Cola Live @ MTV: The Summer Song. Grazie alla vittoria come Best Italian Act, Marco è entrato in nomination per il "Best European Act" in concorrenza con gli altri vincitori dei regional act. Marco partecipa inoltre all'ottava edizione di "O'Scia'", insieme ad altre star del pop italiano ed internazionale, organizzata da Claudio Baglioni a Lampedusa in cui si intende sensibilizzare fan, politici e cittadini sul problema della immigrazione clandestina.
Il 19 ottobre esce su etichetta Rca/Sony Music il Cd+Dvd “Re Matto live”. L’album debutta al 1° posto della classifica dei dischi più venduti (Gfk/Fimi) e al 1° posto della classifica di iTunes.
A novembre Marco Mengoni, dopo aver trionfato nella categoria Best Italian Act, si aggiudica anche il prestigioso titolo di Best European Act: un premio importante per lui e per l'Italia, considerando che in 17 edizioni nessun italiano era mai riuscito a raggiungere tale riconoscimento.
Il 2 settembre 2011 arriva in radio il singolo “Solo” che, anticipando l’uscita del nuovo disco, schizza alprimo posto della classica di iTunes. Il 27 settembre esce “Solo 2.0”, un vero e proprio concept album, che oltre alle tracce del disco e a un contenuto virtuale speciale (Il Comic 2.0), contamina anche la prima parte del Tour.
Dopo un’anteprima trionfante del “Solo Tour” con due date evento al Forum di Assago e al Palalottomatica di Roma, Marco Mengoni decide di cambiare veste allo spettacolo e di svelare al pubblico un’altra porzione d’anima, il suo lato più intimista, quasi introspettivo, non tralasciando mai la sua voglia di stupire e di emozionare. È un TOUR TEATRALE che fa della suggestione visiva e sonora il suo punto di forza.
Uno spettacolo in cui musica, movimento scenico, luci e scenografie compenetrano tra loro, per toccare ancor più da vicino l’anima di chi ascolta. L’essenza intimista dello spettacolo è rappresentata soprattutto dal suono. Una chiave di lettura inedita, con cui verranno reinterpretati molti tra i brani più noti del repertorio di Marco, insieme ad alcune cover, mai eseguite prima.
Il tour teatrale, ideato da Elisa, Marco Mengoni e Andrea Rigonat, parte dall’Arcimboldi di Milano il 19 aprile, passando dal Filarmonico di Verona, il Politeama di Palermo, il Gran Teatro di Roma e molti dei teatri più importanti d’Italia.
In radio intanto suona il nuovo singolo “Dall’inferno”, estratto dall’album Solo 2.0
Esce il 24 aprile, in esclusiva su iTunes, “Dall’Inferno EP”, l’EP digitale di Marco Mengoni contenente la title track, il videoclip e il backstage inedito di “Dall’inferno” e il video live di “Come ti senti”, girato durante lo showcase di presentazione dell’album “Solo 2.0”.
Marco è ospite dell’evento "Premio Leggio d'Oro", dove gli viene consegnato il Premio Speciale Voce Rivelazione Cartoon per il doppiaggio del personaggio Onceler nel cartone animato "Lorax il guardiano della foresta".
Marco prende parte al progetto "...Io Ci Sono", l'album tributo a Giorgio Gaber che celebra il grande artista a dieci anni dalla sua scomparsa, interpretando il brano "Destra-Sinistra".
Il 2013 si apre con la partecipazione di Marco alla 63^ Edizione del Festival di Sanremo con i brani “Bellissimo” e “L’Essenziale”, ed è proprio con quest’ultimo che Marco si classifica primo vincendo il Festival.
Entrambi i brani sono contenuti nel nuovo album di inediti (Sony Music) uscito il 19 marzo 2013:#PRONTOACORRERE ha superato di gran lunga il traguardo del disco di platino e "L’Essenziale" è addirittura multiplatino.
Marco ha rappresentato l’Italia all’Eurovision Song Contest a Malmö (Svezia) nel mese di maggio, dove ha ottenuto il settimo posto con "L’Essenziale".
L’8 maggio è partito "l’Essenziale Anteprima Tour" dal Teatro degli Arcimboldi di Milano: un’anteprima di 10 date, ideata per i più importanti teatri italiani che hanno registrato il sold out non appena aperte la prevendite.
Il 4 luglio è partito invece da Trento "L’Essenziale Tour", con un clamoroso successo di richieste, che continua ad imporre l’apertura di nuove date.
Le Tour de France sur le front de 14-18
hommage aux glorieux anciens qui roulaient plus souvent sur des chemins de boue que sur des routes asphaltées.
En 2014, la Grande Boucle rend hommage au centenaire de la Première Guerre mondiale. L'étape du 10 juillet Arras-Reims comprend 90 km dans l'Aisne, dont le Chemin des Dames.
Coucy-le-Château, Anizy, Brancourt-en-Laonnois et Pinon, le peloton entrera sur le fameux Chemin des Dames.
À Pinon Le Tour fera son entrée dans une côte. dans la rue du 52e-RI .
Reims_Un parfum de Paris-Roubaix.
C’est dans la ville des rois de France qu’est jugée l’arrivée de la 6e étape, partie d’Arras pour 194kilomètres. Du Nord-Pas-de-Calais à la Champagne-Ardennes,
il n’y a que du plat et le sprint paraît inévitable.
D’ailleurs, les trois derniers vainqueurs à Reims s’appellent Alessandro Petacchi (2010), Robbie McEwen (2002) et Djamolidine Abdoujaparov (1991) : trois fusées.
Tout le monde sur le pont à Reims pour le Tour de France ...
Le Tour de France est une manifestation qui demande l’implication de tous les services de la Ville
La pose de barrières reste la mission la plus prenante pour les agents municipaux.
le Tour de France est une très grosse « machine » qui demande une logistique considérable.
Si la société ASO (Amaury sport organisation) a ses propres équipes qui suivent tout le parcours pendant les 22 jours de la compétition,
les villes étapes doivent elles aussi accompagner le mouvement.
la ligne d’arrivée.
Dans la zone d’arrivée, sous la houlette du directeur de site, des barrières hautes sont posées autour de la "zone technique",
d’où émettent les camions radio et les télévisions. Doublet travaille depuis un an à la conception de barrières "repousse public" dotées d’arches,
qui empêcheront toute main de percuter malencontreusement un coureur. Suite à la chute de Laurent Jalabert à Armentières d’ailleurs,
les barrières ne laissent plus dépasser aucun panneau publicitaire. La réclame est directement intégrée à la clôture.
La caravane publicitaire
La caravane publicitaire, créée en 1930, s’est développée considérablement au fil des années, pour accueillir plus de 180 véhicules en 2012.
Le défilé d’ouverture, festif et créatif, a su conquérir les marques et le public, jusqu’à devenir une composante essentielle au spectacle du Tour
LCL, qui sera toujours parrain du maillot jaune du leader du classement général du Tour de France, comme c'est le cas depuis 1987.
La caravane publicitaire du Tour Alsace part une heure avant les coureurs. Elle est composée d'une quinzaine de véhicules publicitaires
et suit le parcours officiel du Tour. Elle distribue une multitude de goodies aux spectateurs au bord des routes.
47 % des spectateurs viennent en priorité pour la caravane
Le succès de la formule, avec un défilé de véhicules originaux qui « font de la réclame », en distribuant des cadeaux, est immédiat.
Les premiers annonceurs, comme la Vache qui rit, y gagnent la sympathie du public, qui se prête volontiers au jeu. Quatre-vingts ans plus tard,
la caravane publicitaire est devenue une composante à part entière du spectacle du Tour. Indissociable de la course qu’elle précède, la procession multiforme et multicolore
offre une animation de plus de 45 minutes. Jeunes et moins jeunes commentent sur le bord des routes la taille et l’inventivité des chars ; on s’y presse pour demander des cadeaux…
Au total, une étude réalisée auprès du public du Tour révèle que 47 % des spectateurs sont venus en priorité pour voir la caravane publicitaire.
lancer de saucissons Cochonou à la foule en délire.
Cochonou, la marque de saucissons distribuera bien sûr encore bobs et saucissons au bord de la route depuis ses fameuses 2CV, mais sera également présent sur internet,
avec son blog Cochonou et Vous tenu depuis quelques années par Thibault (qui avait repris le flambeau d'Adeline).
Le garage virtuel CochonouOriginalité cette année, la possibilité de créer sa propre 2CV dans le garage virtuel Cochonou et peut-être même la gagner et la tester pour
la première fois sur la célèbre Avenue des Champs-Elysées lors de l'arrivée de la dernière étape du Tour à Paris !
Le jeu-concours est ouvert jusqu'au 31 juillet mais le grand gagnant de la 2CV sera désigné le 15 juillet prochain sachant que par la suite on peut gagner l'un des autres
lots du jeu (2CV Cochonou miniatures, bobs, porte-clés et sacs cabas).
Vittel, l'eau officiel du Tour de France innove cette année en permettant à d'ordinaires spectateurs du Tour d'en devenir acteur !
ŠKODA qui reste parrain du maillot blanc de meilleur jeune et qui est toujours à la recherche des meilleures animations pour vous permettre, vous en tant que fan du Tour,
de remporter des prix avec le ŠKODA Fan Tour.
Il y a quelques mois, &ScaronKODA a d'ailleurs prolongé son contrat de partenariat avec A.S.O. et donc entre autres avec le Tour de France, jusqu'en 2018.
Banette a reconduit son partenariat pour 4 ans, jusqu'en 2017, et distribuera toujours des milliers de tartines préparées par les artisans boulangers Banette de la région alors
que la caravane continue à distribuer différents goodies et des bons de réduction. Banette communiquera sur son Tour de France sur sa page Facebook.
McCain, le producteur de frites surgelées, a rejoint le Tour en tant que fournisseur officiel pendant 3 ans et sera présent dans la caravane publicitaire du Tour avec un char-tracteur et 3 véhicules légers.
Belin fournira toujours l'apéro, mais ne valorise pas vraiment son partenariat. La seule chose qu'on peut donc vous dire, c'est que "les super z'héros" rejoignent la caravane de Belin :
Du samedi 5 juillet au dimanche 27 juillet 2014, le 101e Tour de France comprendra 21 étapes pour une distance de 3 664 kilomètres.
(further pictures and information you can see if you go to the end of page and by clicking on the link...)
Belvedere
Belvedere Castle. Garden Front of the Lower Belvedere.
Belvedere Palace stands supposedly on the foundations of a Roman camp that had been erected here for strategic reasons. In 1693 Prince Eugene of Savoy acquired field and vineyard grounds between today's Rennweg and today's Gürtel. In 1700 Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt began with the construction of a palace garden (Lower Belvedere), whose in French-style layed out park was equipped with large water basins, an orangery with precious foreign plants and a menagerie. Prince Eugene was a great animal lover, and some animals in his collection could be fed exclusively by himself.
1720 the Prince conceived the plan the summer palace to supplement by a another palace building on the hill of the garden.
The 1721 by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt begun works had been completed in 1724. The Upper Belvedere served in contrast to the Lower only representative purposes and was never meant to live.
The Prince and his architect managed a perfect symbiosis between architecture and garden. After the death of the Savoy (1736) inherited his niece Victoria of Savoy-Soisson, nee Princess Hildburghausen, all his possessions. From her the Habsburgs beginning of 1752 acquired the Belvedere. From 1755 Empress Maria Theresa moved the Arcierenleibgarde (Royal Company of the Archers) and the Galician Guard in the annex of the Belvedere. Besides, the castle stood almost empty.
Belvedere Castle. Engraving by Salomon Kleiner 1731/40 (left).
Vienna from the Belvedere. Coloured copper engraving by Carl Schütz, 1784 (right).
1770 Belvedere Palace was venue of brilliant festivities:
In castle and park the marriage of Archduchess Maria Antonia (Marie Antoinette) with the Dauphin of France by proxy (per procura) was celebrated. About 2,000 people were invited, more than 1,500 bottles of champagne, which was far from home in Vienna at that time,
were emptied. For hospitality of the guests, there were round tables, which were covered with silver. However, the Court of Vienna had a large part of the silver service to rent of nobles, because the stocks of the silver chamber were not sufficient. Finished was the festival by a magnificent fireworks.
1776, the imperial picture gallery from the Stallburg (home of the famous Lipizzan stallions) was transferred to the Upper Belvedere, the animals of the menagerie came to Schönbrunn. Shortly before the Congress of Vienna in 1814 in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection was exposed. During the war against Napoleon (1805-1809), much of the collection of paintings had to be outsourced. The Corsican claimed 400 masterpieces for himself, but which after his defeat at Waterloo to the Habsburgs have been restituted. The after the French wars completely neglected building has been restored 1850-1866.
Castle Park with Upper Belvedere. Photograph, around 1890.
1819 Emperor Franz II (I) the Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, had given spacious grounds for enlargement of the Botanical Garden at Rennweg. Franz was very interested in botany and in accordance with a Habsburg House bill - every Archduke must learn a civilian job - has been educated for gardener. In an adjoining garden of Schloß Belvedere he had from his private funds laid out a botanical garden ("Flora Austriaca") which was left to the Institute of Botany for use.
During the cholera epidemic of 1831, the Belvedere served as well as Schönbrunn Palace the imperial family as a refuge; supposedly one was there protected from the bad air, which was attributed to the onset of the disease. Both castles lay in the "countryside", the air was much better here than in the densely populated city. During wartime, a hospital was set up in the castle.
As the space for the imperial collections became too small, it was thought to expand the Upper Belvedere by wing buildings. This plan was dropped for aesthetic reasons, however. After the expansion of the city (razing of the bastions and glacis) arose on the ring road the newly created Court Museums; moved there in 1891 the major part of the paintings.
Archduke-Heir to the Throne Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este at folk and children's party in the park of the Belvedere Palace. Photograph, 1905.
To 1893/94 it is likely that Archduke Franz Ferdinand has chosen the Upper Belvedere to his residence in Vienna. Other sources say that it had been assigned to him by the Emperor Franz Joseph as a place to stay in Vienna. The rooms have been restored, adapted for residential purposes and supplemented with neo-Baroque furniture. The heir of the Este collections furnished his residence with numerous works of art. He had envisaged the castle for the accommodation of his collections; in 1893 were numerous boxes from India and Singapore in Belvedere stored. 1894 Emperor Franz Joseph could see the collection: "Yesterday I went to the Belvedere, where Franzi showed me his now quite and very nicely prepared collections. The same are as imposing as interesting by the incredible amount of objects and by the rarity and beauty of them. I believe that this exhibition would be interesting for you", wrote the monarch to his wife, Empress Elisabeth. That same year, Archduke Franz Ferdinand showed his collections his future wife, Sophie Chotková,
"Where I unaware of your fatigue with particular brutality you dragged from box to box" as he apologetically from Budweis wrote to the Countess.
Then the collections moved one the one hand to the Palais Modena in the Beatrixgasse, on the other hand to Konopischt. Only in 1898, Franz Ferdinand was granted by Emperor Franz Joseph to move into the Belvedere as Vienna Residence. More revitalization works were carried out and were also necessary. Technical modernization and preservation of the original building condition had priority - as always with the projects of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As furnishings served still preserved furnitures from Schloss Hof, which were supplemented by new ones in old style. The private rooms in addition to electric lighting were equipped with central heating.
Belvedere Castle. Staircase in the Upper Belvedere (left).
Marble plastic "Apotheosis of Prince Eugene" by Balthasar Permoser in Gold Cabinet of the Lower Belvedere (right).
If his presence was needed in Vienna, Franz Ferdinand here could lead a normal family life and escape the pressures of court ceremonial, in which the to him in morganatic marriage affiliated wife was exposed to the evils of the courtiers. When the heir to the throne invited guests to the Belvedere, he was sitting opposite his wife as a hostess while she was ranked in the Hofburg always after the latest unmarried Archduchess. About the cozy family life at Belvedere reported Prince von Clary-Aldringens:
"Aunt Sophie invited us ... to snack into a Belvedere, unexpectedly, suddenly appeared the Archduke - we literally froze in our Hab-Acht-position (stand at attention). He greeted us warmly ... [I got to know] the Archduke as a friendly landlord, who was playing and laughing with his Children..."
Between 1899 and 1914 in the Lower Belvedere the military bureau of the heir to the throne was housed. Other well-known Residents - but of outbuildings - were Anton Bruckner, who in 1896 died in the Kustodenwohnung (guardian house), and Richard Strauss, who lived here from 1925 to 1944.
After the assassination of the Archduke and his wife in Sarajevo, the Belvedere should serve as the residence of the new heir to the throne, Archduke Karl and his family. This, however, preferred living in Schönbrunn and especially in the villa Wartholz. In 1917, Charles' brother Archduke Maximilian moved with his family into the Belvedere.
During World War II the castle was badly damaged by bombs, but rebuilt after the war ended immediately. On 15 May 1955 was the Marble Hall venue of the signing of the Austrian State Treaty. Today, the Upper Belvedere houses important art collections.
Excerpts from
Thus lived the Habsburgs - Imperial and Royal Palaces in the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Ingrid Haslinger, Gerhard Trumler
Christian Brandstätter Verlag mbH
The publishing service for museums, businesses and
public bodies
www.brandstaetter - verlag.at
Denomination of the summer residence which Prince Eugene of Savoy himself had erected btw Rennweg and Swiss Garden. The term which refers to the unique view over Vienna dates from the time of Maria Theresa. Prinz Eugen bought in 1697 a plot of land at the Rennweg, which he extended to 1721 in four stages to the current area. Between 1714 and 1716 emerged the Lower Belvedere It is an elongated ground floor building, designed of a 7-axes central projection, two wings and two corner pavilions. The 3-axis central pavilion houses the Marble Hall. The castle the only rarely in Vienna sojourning builder served during the summer months as a pleasure palace.
Only in 1720 commenced construction works for the Upper Belvedere, first drawings for this existed already in 1717. The in it extent and form language compared to the Lower Belvedere especially magnificent Upper Belvedere served primarily as a representative setting for grand receptions and festivities. The architectural history of the example due to the loss of the Eugenianischen Bauarchivs (construction archiv of Prince Eugene) cannot be explored in detail without any gaps. 1723 (according to Rizzi 1721/22) the Upper Belvedere s is considered complete. The architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, who repeatedly worked for Prince Eugen, with the construction of the Belvedere has created his main work. It counts in its multiform architectonic as well as sculptural structure to the most important baroque buildings of the 18th century. The to the ensemble belonging, btw Upper and Lower Belvedere laying garden has been created by the Bavarian horticultural engineer D. Girard and today only in broad terms is original. The designs for the interior of the castle stem from C. le Fort du Plessy.
After the death of the prince the belvedere went into the possession of his sole heiress, Victoria Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen. She sold it in 1752 to Maria Theresa. At the behest of Joseph II from 1775 the imperial picture gallery was transferred here, which in 1781 for the first time was open to the public. had. Since 1806 was located in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection. Both collections were in 1890 in the Museum of Art History transferred. In 1894, the palace became residence for the heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
After the first World War I the Republic of Austria in Belvedere installed the Austrian Gallery. 1945 suffered the Belvedere severe war damage. In 1950, the "Gold Cabinet" in the north-eastern corner pavilion of the Upper Belvedere was destroyed by fire and replaced by a copy. The since 1988 ongoing general renovation should have been completed in 1996.
aeiou - the cultural information system of the bm: bwk
14,000 key words and 2000 pictures from history, geography, politics and business in Austria
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
The in the center of Vienna situated Belvedere palaces with their extensive parks form an impressive baroque Gesamtkunstwerk. The Museum in the Upper and Lower Castle
provides an excellent overview of the Austrian Art from the Middle Ages to the present. the collections of the 19th and 20th Century also include an exquisite inventory of international art. World Famous works by Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Renoir and Monet you can see in the upper
Belvedere, from where you can enjoy a spectacular view to the center of Vienna. In the historic rooms of the Lower Belvedere are shown works of art from the Middle Ages and Baroque.
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Phone +43 / ( 0) 1 / 79557-0
Fax +43 / (0) 1/79 84 337
Upper Belvedere
Collections of the 19th and 20th century
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Lower Belvedere
Baroque Museum, and Museum of Medieval Art
Rennweg 6a, A - 1030 Vienna
(further pictures and information you can see if you go to the end of page and by clicking on the link...)
Belvedere
Belvedere Castle. Garden Front of the Lower Belvedere.
Belvedere Palace stands supposedly on the foundations of a Roman camp that had been erected here for strategic reasons. In 1693 Prince Eugene of Savoy acquired field and vineyard grounds between today's Rennweg and today's Gürtel. In 1700 Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt began with the construction of a palace garden (Lower Belvedere), whose in French-style layed out park was equipped with large water basins, an orangery with precious foreign plants and a menagerie. Prince Eugene was a great animal lover, and some animals in his collection could be fed exclusively by himself.
1720 the Prince conceived the plan the summer palace to supplement by a another palace building on the hill of the garden.
The 1721 by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt begun works had been completed in 1724. The Upper Belvedere served in contrast to the Lower only representative purposes and was never meant to live.
The Prince and his architect managed a perfect symbiosis between architecture and garden. After the death of the Savoy (1736) inherited his niece Victoria of Savoy-Soisson, nee Princess Hildburghausen, all his possessions. From her the Habsburgs beginning of 1752 acquired the Belvedere. From 1755 Empress Maria Theresa moved the Arcierenleibgarde (Royal Company of the Archers) and the Galician Guard in the annex of the Belvedere. Besides, the castle stood almost empty.
Belvedere Castle. Engraving by Salomon Kleiner 1731/40 (left).
Vienna from the Belvedere. Coloured copper engraving by Carl Schütz, 1784 (right).
1770 Belvedere Palace was venue of brilliant festivities:
In castle and park the marriage of Archduchess Maria Antonia (Marie Antoinette) with the Dauphin of France by proxy (per procura) was celebrated. About 2,000 people were invited, more than 1,500 bottles of champagne, which was far from home in Vienna at that time,
were emptied. For hospitality of the guests, there were round tables, which were covered with silver. However, the Court of Vienna had a large part of the silver service to rent of nobles, because the stocks of the silver chamber were not sufficient. Finished was the festival by a magnificent fireworks.
1776, the imperial picture gallery from the Stallburg (home of the famous Lipizzan stallions) was transferred to the Upper Belvedere, the animals of the menagerie came to Schönbrunn. Shortly before the Congress of Vienna in 1814 in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection was exposed. During the war against Napoleon (1805-1809), much of the collection of paintings had to be outsourced. The Corsican claimed 400 masterpieces for himself, but which after his defeat at Waterloo to the Habsburgs have been restituted. The after the French wars completely neglected building has been restored 1850-1866.
Castle Park with Upper Belvedere. Photograph, around 1890.
1819 Emperor Franz II (I) the Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, had given spacious grounds for enlargement of the Botanical Garden at Rennweg. Franz was very interested in botany and in accordance with a Habsburg House bill - every Archduke must learn a civilian job - has been educated for gardener. In an adjoining garden of Schloß Belvedere he had from his private funds laid out a botanical garden ("Flora Austriaca") which was left to the Institute of Botany for use.
During the cholera epidemic of 1831, the Belvedere served as well as Schönbrunn Palace the imperial family as a refuge; supposedly one was there protected from the bad air, which was attributed to the onset of the disease. Both castles lay in the "countryside", the air was much better here than in the densely populated city. During wartime, a hospital was set up in the castle.
As the space for the imperial collections became too small, it was thought to expand the Upper Belvedere by wing buildings. This plan was dropped for aesthetic reasons, however. After the expansion of the city (razing of the bastions and glacis) arose on the ring road the newly created Court Museums; moved there in 1891 the major part of the paintings.
Archduke-Heir to the Throne Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este at folk and children's party in the park of the Belvedere Palace. Photograph, 1905.
To 1893/94 it is likely that Archduke Franz Ferdinand has chosen the Upper Belvedere to his residence in Vienna. Other sources say that it had been assigned to him by the Emperor Franz Joseph as a place to stay in Vienna. The rooms have been restored, adapted for residential purposes and supplemented with neo-Baroque furniture. The heir of the Este collections furnished his residence with numerous works of art. He had envisaged the castle for the accommodation of his collections; in 1893 were numerous boxes from India and Singapore in Belvedere stored. 1894 Emperor Franz Joseph could see the collection: "Yesterday I went to the Belvedere, where Franzi showed me his now quite and very nicely prepared collections. The same are as imposing as interesting by the incredible amount of objects and by the rarity and beauty of them. I believe that this exhibition would be interesting for you", wrote the monarch to his wife, Empress Elisabeth. That same year, Archduke Franz Ferdinand showed his collections his future wife, Sophie Chotková,
"Where I unaware of your fatigue with particular brutality you dragged from box to box" as he apologetically from Budweis wrote to the Countess.
Then the collections moved one the one hand to the Palais Modena in the Beatrixgasse, on the other hand to Konopischt. Only in 1898, Franz Ferdinand was granted by Emperor Franz Joseph to move into the Belvedere as Vienna Residence. More revitalization works were carried out and were also necessary. Technical modernization and preservation of the original building condition had priority - as always with the projects of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As furnishings served still preserved furnitures from Schloss Hof, which were supplemented by new ones in old style. The private rooms in addition to electric lighting were equipped with central heating.
Belvedere Castle. Staircase in the Upper Belvedere (left).
Marble plastic "Apotheosis of Prince Eugene" by Balthasar Permoser in Gold Cabinet of the Lower Belvedere (right).
If his presence was needed in Vienna, Franz Ferdinand here could lead a normal family life and escape the pressures of court ceremonial, in which the to him in morganatic marriage affiliated wife was exposed to the evils of the courtiers. When the heir to the throne invited guests to the Belvedere, he was sitting opposite his wife as a hostess while she was ranked in the Hofburg always after the latest unmarried Archduchess. About the cozy family life at Belvedere reported Prince von Clary-Aldringens:
"Aunt Sophie invited us ... to snack into a Belvedere, unexpectedly, suddenly appeared the Archduke - we literally froze in our Hab-Acht-position (stand at attention). He greeted us warmly ... [I got to know] the Archduke as a friendly landlord, who was playing and laughing with his Children..."
Between 1899 and 1914 in the Lower Belvedere the military bureau of the heir to the throne was housed. Other well-known Residents - but of outbuildings - were Anton Bruckner, who in 1896 died in the Kustodenwohnung (guardian house), and Richard Strauss, who lived here from 1925 to 1944.
After the assassination of the Archduke and his wife in Sarajevo, the Belvedere should serve as the residence of the new heir to the throne, Archduke Karl and his family. This, however, preferred living in Schönbrunn and especially in the villa Wartholz. In 1917, Charles' brother Archduke Maximilian moved with his family into the Belvedere.
During World War II the castle was badly damaged by bombs, but rebuilt after the war ended immediately. On 15 May 1955 was the Marble Hall venue of the signing of the Austrian State Treaty. Today, the Upper Belvedere houses important art collections.
Excerpts from
Thus lived the Habsburgs - Imperial and Royal Palaces in the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Ingrid Haslinger, Gerhard Trumler
Christian Brandstätter Verlag mbH
The publishing service for museums, businesses and
public bodies
www.brandstaetter - verlag.at
Denomination of the summer residence which Prince Eugene of Savoy himself had erected btw Rennweg and Swiss Garden. The term which refers to the unique view over Vienna dates from the time of Maria Theresa. Prinz Eugen bought in 1697 a plot of land at the Rennweg, which he extended to 1721 in four stages to the current area. Between 1714 and 1716 emerged the Lower Belvedere It is an elongated ground floor building, designed of a 7-axes central projection, two wings and two corner pavilions. The 3-axis central pavilion houses the Marble Hall. The castle the only rarely in Vienna sojourning builder served during the summer months as a pleasure palace.
Only in 1720 commenced construction works for the Upper Belvedere, first drawings for this existed already in 1717. The in it extent and form language compared to the Lower Belvedere especially magnificent Upper Belvedere served primarily as a representative setting for grand receptions and festivities. The architectural history of the example due to the loss of the Eugenianischen Bauarchivs (construction archiv of Prince Eugene) cannot be explored in detail without any gaps. 1723 (according to Rizzi 1721/22) the Upper Belvedere s is considered complete. The architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, who repeatedly worked for Prince Eugen, with the construction of the Belvedere has created his main work. It counts in its multiform architectonic as well as sculptural structure to the most important baroque buildings of the 18th century. The to the ensemble belonging, btw Upper and Lower Belvedere laying garden has been created by the Bavarian horticultural engineer D. Girard and today only in broad terms is original. The designs for the interior of the castle stem from C. le Fort du Plessy.
After the death of the prince the belvedere went into the possession of his sole heiress, Victoria Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen. She sold it in 1752 to Maria Theresa. At the behest of Joseph II from 1775 the imperial picture gallery was transferred here, which in 1781 for the first time was open to the public. had. Since 1806 was located in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection. Both collections were in 1890 in the Museum of Art History transferred. In 1894, the palace became residence for the heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
After the first World War I the Republic of Austria in Belvedere installed the Austrian Gallery. 1945 suffered the Belvedere severe war damage. In 1950, the "Gold Cabinet" in the north-eastern corner pavilion of the Upper Belvedere was destroyed by fire and replaced by a copy. The since 1988 ongoing general renovation should have been completed in 1996.
aeiou - the cultural information system of the bm: bwk
14,000 key words and 2000 pictures from history, geography, politics and business in Austria
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
The in the center of Vienna situated Belvedere palaces with their extensive parks form an impressive baroque Gesamtkunstwerk. The Museum in the Upper and Lower Castle
provides an excellent overview of the Austrian Art from the Middle Ages to the present. the collections of the 19th and 20th Century also include an exquisite inventory of international art. World Famous works by Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Renoir and Monet you can see in the upper
Belvedere, from where you can enjoy a spectacular view to the center of Vienna. In the historic rooms of the Lower Belvedere are shown works of art from the Middle Ages and Baroque.
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Phone +43 / ( 0) 1 / 79557-0
Fax +43 / (0) 1/79 84 337
Upper Belvedere
Collections of the 19th and 20th century
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Lower Belvedere
Baroque Museum, and Museum of Medieval Art
Rennweg 6a, A - 1030 Vienna
(further pictures and information you can see if you go to the end of page and by clicking on the link...)
Belvedere
Belvedere Castle. Garden Front of the Lower Belvedere.
Belvedere Palace stands supposedly on the foundations of a Roman camp that had been erected here for strategic reasons. In 1693 Prince Eugene of Savoy acquired field and vineyard grounds between today's Rennweg and today's Gürtel. In 1700 Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt began with the construction of a palace garden (Lower Belvedere), whose in French-style layed out park was equipped with large water basins, an orangery with precious foreign plants and a menagerie. Prince Eugene was a great animal lover, and some animals in his collection could be fed exclusively by himself.
1720 the Prince conceived the plan the summer palace to supplement by a another palace building on the hill of the garden.
The 1721 by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt begun works had been completed in 1724. The Upper Belvedere served in contrast to the Lower only representative purposes and was never meant to live.
The Prince and his architect managed a perfect symbiosis between architecture and garden. After the death of the Savoy (1736) inherited his niece Victoria of Savoy-Soisson, nee Princess Hildburghausen, all his possessions. From her the Habsburgs beginning of 1752 acquired the Belvedere. From 1755 Empress Maria Theresa moved the Arcierenleibgarde (Royal Company of the Archers) and the Galician Guard in the annex of the Belvedere. Besides, the castle stood almost empty.
Belvedere Castle. Engraving by Salomon Kleiner 1731/40 (left).
Vienna from the Belvedere. Coloured copper engraving by Carl Schütz, 1784 (right).
1770 Belvedere Palace was venue of brilliant festivities:
In castle and park the marriage of Archduchess Maria Antonia (Marie Antoinette) with the Dauphin of France by proxy (per procura) was celebrated. About 2,000 people were invited, more than 1,500 bottles of champagne, which was far from home in Vienna at that time,
were emptied. For hospitality of the guests, there were round tables, which were covered with silver. However, the Court of Vienna had a large part of the silver service to rent of nobles, because the stocks of the silver chamber were not sufficient. Finished was the festival by a magnificent fireworks.
1776, the imperial picture gallery from the Stallburg (home of the famous Lipizzan stallions) was transferred to the Upper Belvedere, the animals of the menagerie came to Schönbrunn. Shortly before the Congress of Vienna in 1814 in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection was exposed. During the war against Napoleon (1805-1809), much of the collection of paintings had to be outsourced. The Corsican claimed 400 masterpieces for himself, but which after his defeat at Waterloo to the Habsburgs have been restituted. The after the French wars completely neglected building has been restored 1850-1866.
Castle Park with Upper Belvedere. Photograph, around 1890.
1819 Emperor Franz II (I) the Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, had given spacious grounds for enlargement of the Botanical Garden at Rennweg. Franz was very interested in botany and in accordance with a Habsburg House bill - every Archduke must learn a civilian job - has been educated for gardener. In an adjoining garden of Schloß Belvedere he had from his private funds laid out a botanical garden ("Flora Austriaca") which was left to the Institute of Botany for use.
During the cholera epidemic of 1831, the Belvedere served as well as Schönbrunn Palace the imperial family as a refuge; supposedly one was there protected from the bad air, which was attributed to the onset of the disease. Both castles lay in the "countryside", the air was much better here than in the densely populated city. During wartime, a hospital was set up in the castle.
As the space for the imperial collections became too small, it was thought to expand the Upper Belvedere by wing buildings. This plan was dropped for aesthetic reasons, however. After the expansion of the city (razing of the bastions and glacis) arose on the ring road the newly created Court Museums; moved there in 1891 the major part of the paintings.
Archduke-Heir to the Throne Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este at folk and children's party in the park of the Belvedere Palace. Photograph, 1905.
To 1893/94 it is likely that Archduke Franz Ferdinand has chosen the Upper Belvedere to his residence in Vienna. Other sources say that it had been assigned to him by the Emperor Franz Joseph as a place to stay in Vienna. The rooms have been restored, adapted for residential purposes and supplemented with neo-Baroque furniture. The heir of the Este collections furnished his residence with numerous works of art. He had envisaged the castle for the accommodation of his collections; in 1893 were numerous boxes from India and Singapore in Belvedere stored. 1894 Emperor Franz Joseph could see the collection: "Yesterday I went to the Belvedere, where Franzi showed me his now quite and very nicely prepared collections. The same are as imposing as interesting by the incredible amount of objects and by the rarity and beauty of them. I believe that this exhibition would be interesting for you", wrote the monarch to his wife, Empress Elisabeth. That same year, Archduke Franz Ferdinand showed his collections his future wife, Sophie Chotková,
"Where I unaware of your fatigue with particular brutality you dragged from box to box" as he apologetically from Budweis wrote to the Countess.
Then the collections moved one the one hand to the Palais Modena in the Beatrixgasse, on the other hand to Konopischt. Only in 1898, Franz Ferdinand was granted by Emperor Franz Joseph to move into the Belvedere as Vienna Residence. More revitalization works were carried out and were also necessary. Technical modernization and preservation of the original building condition had priority - as always with the projects of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As furnishings served still preserved furnitures from Schloss Hof, which were supplemented by new ones in old style. The private rooms in addition to electric lighting were equipped with central heating.
Belvedere Castle. Staircase in the Upper Belvedere (left).
Marble plastic "Apotheosis of Prince Eugene" by Balthasar Permoser in Gold Cabinet of the Lower Belvedere (right).
If his presence was needed in Vienna, Franz Ferdinand here could lead a normal family life and escape the pressures of court ceremonial, in which the to him in morganatic marriage affiliated wife was exposed to the evils of the courtiers. When the heir to the throne invited guests to the Belvedere, he was sitting opposite his wife as a hostess while she was ranked in the Hofburg always after the latest unmarried Archduchess. About the cozy family life at Belvedere reported Prince von Clary-Aldringens:
"Aunt Sophie invited us ... to snack into a Belvedere, unexpectedly, suddenly appeared the Archduke - we literally froze in our Hab-Acht-position (stand at attention). He greeted us warmly ... [I got to know] the Archduke as a friendly landlord, who was playing and laughing with his Children..."
Between 1899 and 1914 in the Lower Belvedere the military bureau of the heir to the throne was housed. Other well-known Residents - but of outbuildings - were Anton Bruckner, who in 1896 died in the Kustodenwohnung (guardian house), and Richard Strauss, who lived here from 1925 to 1944.
After the assassination of the Archduke and his wife in Sarajevo, the Belvedere should serve as the residence of the new heir to the throne, Archduke Karl and his family. This, however, preferred living in Schönbrunn and especially in the villa Wartholz. In 1917, Charles' brother Archduke Maximilian moved with his family into the Belvedere.
During World War II the castle was badly damaged by bombs, but rebuilt after the war ended immediately. On 15 May 1955 was the Marble Hall venue of the signing of the Austrian State Treaty. Today, the Upper Belvedere houses important art collections.
Excerpts from
Thus lived the Habsburgs - Imperial and Royal Palaces in the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Ingrid Haslinger, Gerhard Trumler
Christian Brandstätter Verlag mbH
The publishing service for museums, businesses and
public bodies
www.brandstaetter - verlag.at
Denomination of the summer residence which Prince Eugene of Savoy himself had erected btw Rennweg and Swiss Garden. The term which refers to the unique view over Vienna dates from the time of Maria Theresa. Prinz Eugen bought in 1697 a plot of land at the Rennweg, which he extended to 1721 in four stages to the current area. Between 1714 and 1716 emerged the Lower Belvedere It is an elongated ground floor building, designed of a 7-axes central projection, two wings and two corner pavilions. The 3-axis central pavilion houses the Marble Hall. The castle the only rarely in Vienna sojourning builder served during the summer months as a pleasure palace.
Only in 1720 commenced construction works for the Upper Belvedere, first drawings for this existed already in 1717. The in it extent and form language compared to the Lower Belvedere especially magnificent Upper Belvedere served primarily as a representative setting for grand receptions and festivities. The architectural history of the example due to the loss of the Eugenianischen Bauarchivs (construction archiv of Prince Eugene) cannot be explored in detail without any gaps. 1723 (according to Rizzi 1721/22) the Upper Belvedere s is considered complete. The architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, who repeatedly worked for Prince Eugen, with the construction of the Belvedere has created his main work. It counts in its multiform architectonic as well as sculptural structure to the most important baroque buildings of the 18th century. The to the ensemble belonging, btw Upper and Lower Belvedere laying garden has been created by the Bavarian horticultural engineer D. Girard and today only in broad terms is original. The designs for the interior of the castle stem from C. le Fort du Plessy.
After the death of the prince the belvedere went into the possession of his sole heiress, Victoria Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen. She sold it in 1752 to Maria Theresa. At the behest of Joseph II from 1775 the imperial picture gallery was transferred here, which in 1781 for the first time was open to the public. had. Since 1806 was located in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection. Both collections were in 1890 in the Museum of Art History transferred. In 1894, the palace became residence for the heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
After the first World War I the Republic of Austria in Belvedere installed the Austrian Gallery. 1945 suffered the Belvedere severe war damage. In 1950, the "Gold Cabinet" in the north-eastern corner pavilion of the Upper Belvedere was destroyed by fire and replaced by a copy. The since 1988 ongoing general renovation should have been completed in 1996.
aeiou - the cultural information system of the bm: bwk
14,000 key words and 2000 pictures from history, geography, politics and business in Austria
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
The in the center of Vienna situated Belvedere palaces with their extensive parks form an impressive baroque Gesamtkunstwerk. The Museum in the Upper and Lower Castle
provides an excellent overview of the Austrian Art from the Middle Ages to the present. the collections of the 19th and 20th Century also include an exquisite inventory of international art. World Famous works by Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Renoir and Monet you can see in the upper
Belvedere, from where you can enjoy a spectacular view to the center of Vienna. In the historic rooms of the Lower Belvedere are shown works of art from the Middle Ages and Baroque.
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Phone 43 / ( 0) 1 / 79557-0
Fax 43 / (0) 1/79 84 337
Upper Belvedere
Collections of the 19th and 20th century
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Lower Belvedere
Baroque Museum, and Museum of Medieval Art
Rennweg 6a, A - 1030 Vienna
Marco Mengoni
Teatro Arcimboldi - Milano
26 Settembre 2013
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Marco Mengoni , vincitore incontrastato della terza edizione di 'X Factor'. Presenza scenica da professionista consumato, lunatico, "permaloso quasi antipatico", ha conquistato la stima del pubblico (non è mai finito in ballottaggio per l'eliminazione) grazie a interpretazioni di grande spessore.
Il 4 dicembre 2009 esce “DOVE SI VOLA”, il suo primo Ep, che in poche settimane scala le classifiche di vendita con oltre 70 mila copie.
“Dove si vola”, brano che da il titolo all’Ep, è difficile da interpretare per un uomo, sia per la tonalità molto alta che per l’articolazione della melodia sull’armonia. La forza vocale di Marco regala al pezzo una magia unica che, durante le esibizioni fa letteralmente volare il pubblico, pubblico che l’ha votato e proclamato, quasi fin da subito, il vero talento della terza edizione di X Factor. All’interno dell’EP un altro brano inedito, “Lontanissimo da te”, firmato Massimo e Piero Calabrese e cinque tra le più emozionanti cover cantate da Marco durante il programma.
Marco nasce a Ronciglione (VT) il 25 dicembre 1988 (Capricorno), proprio nel giorno di Natale. Fin da bambino ama tutti i generi musicali: “Alla tenera 'altezza' di 70 cm. comincio ad ascoltare di tutto, dal pop all’r&b, soul, rock ed inizio ad approfondire la mia cultura musicale: scopro il karaoke e comincio a cantare di nascosto, per timidezza. Poi una volta i miei per caso mi ascoltano e si convincono di mandarmi ad una scuola di canto. Da quel momento capisco che la musica non è poi così semplice come pensavo: c'era da imparare molto…. tecniche di respirazione, maschera facciale, scale, vocalizzi di qualsiasi genere, per affinare la voce”.
Marco inizia a cantare all’età di 14 anni. Mentre studia all'Istituto per il Design, segue anche una scuola di canto dove impara le prime tecniche per la gestione e l'utilizzo dei propri mezzi vocali. Visto il talento di Marco, l’insegnante di canto lo inserisce in un piccolo quintetto vocale con cui si esibisce in serate di piazza e per le festività, facendo cover.
Dopo 2 anni ha inizio il suo percorso solista con un gruppo di musicisti con il quale suona nei club un po’ del suo repertorio originale e un po’ di cover, continuando quindi la sua gavetta. Iniziano tre anni di duro lavoro e provinaggio, per affinare lo stile e la personalità, ed anche per questo, Marco, figlio unico, lascia la famiglia per trasferirsi a Roma. Contemporaneamente si iscrive all’Università nella Facoltà di Lingue, e fa esperienza come fonico e programmatore, prendendo familiarità con gli studi di registrazione.
Il suo genere preferito resta il Brit Pop e la sua massima, e amatissima, influenza musicale sono i Beatles: tra le sue canzoni preferite dei Fab 4 ci sono 'Michelle' e 'The Fool on te hill'. Anche se il brano che gli ha cambiato la vita è 'La luce dell’est' di Lucio Battisti.
Vincendo X Factor Marco partecipa di diritto alla Sessantesima Edizione del Festival di Sanremo, nella categoria 'Artisti', interpretando “Credimi ancora”, brano che fa parte dell’EP “Re Matto” uscito il 19 febbraio 2010 su etichetta Rca/Sony Music.
Il 2010 è un anno davvero unico per quest’artista giovane ma pieno di talento. Mentre la sua paginaFacebook continua a crescere (superando ad oggi i 300 mila iscritti), Il 3 e 4 maggio parte dall’Alcatraz di Milano Il “Re Matto Tour, un viaggio nella “Mattità”, un’avventura vertiginosa nella mente colorata e multiforme di MARCO MENGONI. Lo spettacolo nasce da un’ idea di Marco, Luca Tommassini e Stella Fabiani. La regia è affidata a LUCA TOMMASSINI, la direzione artistica è di PIERO CALABRESE, la produzione è di F&P Group e dei “CANTIERI MUSICALI” che da sempre lavorano con MENGONI. Nel team creativo di Marco e del “RE MATTO TOUR” sono state coinvolte figure importanti a livello mondiale come lo stilista Neil Barrett, che finora ha solo disegnato abiti per artisti come Madonna, Justin Timberlake, Brad Pitt e Johnny Depp, e lo scultore Davide Orlandi Dormino, creatore di “Opera Scacchi”, la scultura che invade il palco. “IL RE MATTO TOUR” è ideato, sviluppato e strutturato all’insegna della totale libertà, della poesia, della sregolatezza e dell’improvvisazione rendendo ogni concerto un vero evento, con ospiti a sorpresa cheMARCO scopre insieme al pubblico…una sfida che solo un Re Matto poteva accettare.
Intanto l’8 maggio Marco partecipa ai Trl Awards e vince nella categoria “Man of the Year”.
Il “Re Matto tour” è un’esperienza straordinaria per Marco, che vive e si ciba dell’entusiasmo del pubblico. È un tour trionfale che colleziona un sold out dopo l’altro.
Il 2 giugno viene premiato ai Wind Music Awards e si aggiudica il doppio disco di platino per il suo primo Ep “Dove si vola”, che raccoglie l’omonima canzone e alcune delle cover cantate durante il programma di X Factor, e l’album “Re Matto”, superando le 160 mila copie vendute.
Il "Re Matto" del pop italiano non si fa mancare proprio nulla. Supera gli altri colleghi in gara agli Ema 2010 nella categoria dedicata agli artisti italiani: Malika Ayane, dARi, Sonohra e Nina Zilli.
Questo è un riconoscimento fondamentale per Marco Mengoni, artista italiano rivelazione del 2010, che ad MTV si è già aggiudicato il premio come "Man Of The Year" ai TRL Awards 2010 ed è arrivato secondo in una gara all'ultima edizione del Coca Cola Live @ MTV: The Summer Song. Grazie alla vittoria come Best Italian Act, Marco è entrato in nomination per il "Best European Act" in concorrenza con gli altri vincitori dei regional act. Marco partecipa inoltre all'ottava edizione di "O'Scia'", insieme ad altre star del pop italiano ed internazionale, organizzata da Claudio Baglioni a Lampedusa in cui si intende sensibilizzare fan, politici e cittadini sul problema della immigrazione clandestina.
Il 19 ottobre esce su etichetta Rca/Sony Music il Cd+Dvd “Re Matto live”. L’album debutta al 1° posto della classifica dei dischi più venduti (Gfk/Fimi) e al 1° posto della classifica di iTunes.
A novembre Marco Mengoni, dopo aver trionfato nella categoria Best Italian Act, si aggiudica anche il prestigioso titolo di Best European Act: un premio importante per lui e per l'Italia, considerando che in 17 edizioni nessun italiano era mai riuscito a raggiungere tale riconoscimento.
Il 2 settembre 2011 arriva in radio il singolo “Solo” che, anticipando l’uscita del nuovo disco, schizza alprimo posto della classica di iTunes. Il 27 settembre esce “Solo 2.0”, un vero e proprio concept album, che oltre alle tracce del disco e a un contenuto virtuale speciale (Il Comic 2.0), contamina anche la prima parte del Tour.
Dopo un’anteprima trionfante del “Solo Tour” con due date evento al Forum di Assago e al Palalottomatica di Roma, Marco Mengoni decide di cambiare veste allo spettacolo e di svelare al pubblico un’altra porzione d’anima, il suo lato più intimista, quasi introspettivo, non tralasciando mai la sua voglia di stupire e di emozionare. È un TOUR TEATRALE che fa della suggestione visiva e sonora il suo punto di forza.
Uno spettacolo in cui musica, movimento scenico, luci e scenografie compenetrano tra loro, per toccare ancor più da vicino l’anima di chi ascolta. L’essenza intimista dello spettacolo è rappresentata soprattutto dal suono. Una chiave di lettura inedita, con cui verranno reinterpretati molti tra i brani più noti del repertorio di Marco, insieme ad alcune cover, mai eseguite prima.
Il tour teatrale, ideato da Elisa, Marco Mengoni e Andrea Rigonat, parte dall’Arcimboldi di Milano il 19 aprile, passando dal Filarmonico di Verona, il Politeama di Palermo, il Gran Teatro di Roma e molti dei teatri più importanti d’Italia.
In radio intanto suona il nuovo singolo “Dall’inferno”, estratto dall’album Solo 2.0
Esce il 24 aprile, in esclusiva su iTunes, “Dall’Inferno EP”, l’EP digitale di Marco Mengoni contenente la title track, il videoclip e il backstage inedito di “Dall’inferno” e il video live di “Come ti senti”, girato durante lo showcase di presentazione dell’album “Solo 2.0”.
Marco è ospite dell’evento "Premio Leggio d'Oro", dove gli viene consegnato il Premio Speciale Voce Rivelazione Cartoon per il doppiaggio del personaggio Onceler nel cartone animato "Lorax il guardiano della foresta".
Marco prende parte al progetto "...Io Ci Sono", l'album tributo a Giorgio Gaber che celebra il grande artista a dieci anni dalla sua scomparsa, interpretando il brano "Destra-Sinistra".
Il 2013 si apre con la partecipazione di Marco alla 63^ Edizione del Festival di Sanremo con i brani “Bellissimo” e “L’Essenziale”, ed è proprio con quest’ultimo che Marco si classifica primo vincendo il Festival.
Entrambi i brani sono contenuti nel nuovo album di inediti (Sony Music) uscito il 19 marzo 2013:#PRONTOACORRERE ha superato di gran lunga il traguardo del disco di platino e "L’Essenziale" è addirittura multiplatino.
Marco ha rappresentato l’Italia all’Eurovision Song Contest a Malmö (Svezia) nel mese di maggio, dove ha ottenuto il settimo posto con "L’Essenziale".
L’8 maggio è partito "l’Essenziale Anteprima Tour" dal Teatro degli Arcimboldi di Milano: un’anteprima di 10 date, ideata per i più importanti teatri italiani che hanno registrato il sold out non appena aperte la prevendite.
Il 4 luglio è partito invece da Trento "L’Essenziale Tour", con un clamoroso successo di richieste, che continua ad imporre l’apertura di nuove date.
Marco Mengoni
Teatro Arcimboldi - Milano
26 Settembre 2013
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Marco Mengoni , vincitore incontrastato della terza edizione di 'X Factor'. Presenza scenica da professionista consumato, lunatico, "permaloso quasi antipatico", ha conquistato la stima del pubblico (non è mai finito in ballottaggio per l'eliminazione) grazie a interpretazioni di grande spessore.
Il 4 dicembre 2009 esce “DOVE SI VOLA”, il suo primo Ep, che in poche settimane scala le classifiche di vendita con oltre 70 mila copie.
“Dove si vola”, brano che da il titolo all’Ep, è difficile da interpretare per un uomo, sia per la tonalità molto alta che per l’articolazione della melodia sull’armonia. La forza vocale di Marco regala al pezzo una magia unica che, durante le esibizioni fa letteralmente volare il pubblico, pubblico che l’ha votato e proclamato, quasi fin da subito, il vero talento della terza edizione di X Factor. All’interno dell’EP un altro brano inedito, “Lontanissimo da te”, firmato Massimo e Piero Calabrese e cinque tra le più emozionanti cover cantate da Marco durante il programma.
Marco nasce a Ronciglione (VT) il 25 dicembre 1988 (Capricorno), proprio nel giorno di Natale. Fin da bambino ama tutti i generi musicali: “Alla tenera 'altezza' di 70 cm. comincio ad ascoltare di tutto, dal pop all’r&b, soul, rock ed inizio ad approfondire la mia cultura musicale: scopro il karaoke e comincio a cantare di nascosto, per timidezza. Poi una volta i miei per caso mi ascoltano e si convincono di mandarmi ad una scuola di canto. Da quel momento capisco che la musica non è poi così semplice come pensavo: c'era da imparare molto…. tecniche di respirazione, maschera facciale, scale, vocalizzi di qualsiasi genere, per affinare la voce”.
Marco inizia a cantare all’età di 14 anni. Mentre studia all'Istituto per il Design, segue anche una scuola di canto dove impara le prime tecniche per la gestione e l'utilizzo dei propri mezzi vocali. Visto il talento di Marco, l’insegnante di canto lo inserisce in un piccolo quintetto vocale con cui si esibisce in serate di piazza e per le festività, facendo cover.
Dopo 2 anni ha inizio il suo percorso solista con un gruppo di musicisti con il quale suona nei club un po’ del suo repertorio originale e un po’ di cover, continuando quindi la sua gavetta. Iniziano tre anni di duro lavoro e provinaggio, per affinare lo stile e la personalità, ed anche per questo, Marco, figlio unico, lascia la famiglia per trasferirsi a Roma. Contemporaneamente si iscrive all’Università nella Facoltà di Lingue, e fa esperienza come fonico e programmatore, prendendo familiarità con gli studi di registrazione.
Il suo genere preferito resta il Brit Pop e la sua massima, e amatissima, influenza musicale sono i Beatles: tra le sue canzoni preferite dei Fab 4 ci sono 'Michelle' e 'The Fool on te hill'. Anche se il brano che gli ha cambiato la vita è 'La luce dell’est' di Lucio Battisti.
Vincendo X Factor Marco partecipa di diritto alla Sessantesima Edizione del Festival di Sanremo, nella categoria 'Artisti', interpretando “Credimi ancora”, brano che fa parte dell’EP “Re Matto” uscito il 19 febbraio 2010 su etichetta Rca/Sony Music.
Il 2010 è un anno davvero unico per quest’artista giovane ma pieno di talento. Mentre la sua paginaFacebook continua a crescere (superando ad oggi i 300 mila iscritti), Il 3 e 4 maggio parte dall’Alcatraz di Milano Il “Re Matto Tour, un viaggio nella “Mattità”, un’avventura vertiginosa nella mente colorata e multiforme di MARCO MENGONI. Lo spettacolo nasce da un’ idea di Marco, Luca Tommassini e Stella Fabiani. La regia è affidata a LUCA TOMMASSINI, la direzione artistica è di PIERO CALABRESE, la produzione è di F&P Group e dei “CANTIERI MUSICALI” che da sempre lavorano con MENGONI. Nel team creativo di Marco e del “RE MATTO TOUR” sono state coinvolte figure importanti a livello mondiale come lo stilista Neil Barrett, che finora ha solo disegnato abiti per artisti come Madonna, Justin Timberlake, Brad Pitt e Johnny Depp, e lo scultore Davide Orlandi Dormino, creatore di “Opera Scacchi”, la scultura che invade il palco. “IL RE MATTO TOUR” è ideato, sviluppato e strutturato all’insegna della totale libertà, della poesia, della sregolatezza e dell’improvvisazione rendendo ogni concerto un vero evento, con ospiti a sorpresa cheMARCO scopre insieme al pubblico…una sfida che solo un Re Matto poteva accettare.
Intanto l’8 maggio Marco partecipa ai Trl Awards e vince nella categoria “Man of the Year”.
Il “Re Matto tour” è un’esperienza straordinaria per Marco, che vive e si ciba dell’entusiasmo del pubblico. È un tour trionfale che colleziona un sold out dopo l’altro.
Il 2 giugno viene premiato ai Wind Music Awards e si aggiudica il doppio disco di platino per il suo primo Ep “Dove si vola”, che raccoglie l’omonima canzone e alcune delle cover cantate durante il programma di X Factor, e l’album “Re Matto”, superando le 160 mila copie vendute.
Il "Re Matto" del pop italiano non si fa mancare proprio nulla. Supera gli altri colleghi in gara agli Ema 2010 nella categoria dedicata agli artisti italiani: Malika Ayane, dARi, Sonohra e Nina Zilli.
Questo è un riconoscimento fondamentale per Marco Mengoni, artista italiano rivelazione del 2010, che ad MTV si è già aggiudicato il premio come "Man Of The Year" ai TRL Awards 2010 ed è arrivato secondo in una gara all'ultima edizione del Coca Cola Live @ MTV: The Summer Song. Grazie alla vittoria come Best Italian Act, Marco è entrato in nomination per il "Best European Act" in concorrenza con gli altri vincitori dei regional act. Marco partecipa inoltre all'ottava edizione di "O'Scia'", insieme ad altre star del pop italiano ed internazionale, organizzata da Claudio Baglioni a Lampedusa in cui si intende sensibilizzare fan, politici e cittadini sul problema della immigrazione clandestina.
Il 19 ottobre esce su etichetta Rca/Sony Music il Cd+Dvd “Re Matto live”. L’album debutta al 1° posto della classifica dei dischi più venduti (Gfk/Fimi) e al 1° posto della classifica di iTunes.
A novembre Marco Mengoni, dopo aver trionfato nella categoria Best Italian Act, si aggiudica anche il prestigioso titolo di Best European Act: un premio importante per lui e per l'Italia, considerando che in 17 edizioni nessun italiano era mai riuscito a raggiungere tale riconoscimento.
Il 2 settembre 2011 arriva in radio il singolo “Solo” che, anticipando l’uscita del nuovo disco, schizza alprimo posto della classica di iTunes. Il 27 settembre esce “Solo 2.0”, un vero e proprio concept album, che oltre alle tracce del disco e a un contenuto virtuale speciale (Il Comic 2.0), contamina anche la prima parte del Tour.
Dopo un’anteprima trionfante del “Solo Tour” con due date evento al Forum di Assago e al Palalottomatica di Roma, Marco Mengoni decide di cambiare veste allo spettacolo e di svelare al pubblico un’altra porzione d’anima, il suo lato più intimista, quasi introspettivo, non tralasciando mai la sua voglia di stupire e di emozionare. È un TOUR TEATRALE che fa della suggestione visiva e sonora il suo punto di forza.
Uno spettacolo in cui musica, movimento scenico, luci e scenografie compenetrano tra loro, per toccare ancor più da vicino l’anima di chi ascolta. L’essenza intimista dello spettacolo è rappresentata soprattutto dal suono. Una chiave di lettura inedita, con cui verranno reinterpretati molti tra i brani più noti del repertorio di Marco, insieme ad alcune cover, mai eseguite prima.
Il tour teatrale, ideato da Elisa, Marco Mengoni e Andrea Rigonat, parte dall’Arcimboldi di Milano il 19 aprile, passando dal Filarmonico di Verona, il Politeama di Palermo, il Gran Teatro di Roma e molti dei teatri più importanti d’Italia.
In radio intanto suona il nuovo singolo “Dall’inferno”, estratto dall’album Solo 2.0
Esce il 24 aprile, in esclusiva su iTunes, “Dall’Inferno EP”, l’EP digitale di Marco Mengoni contenente la title track, il videoclip e il backstage inedito di “Dall’inferno” e il video live di “Come ti senti”, girato durante lo showcase di presentazione dell’album “Solo 2.0”.
Marco è ospite dell’evento "Premio Leggio d'Oro", dove gli viene consegnato il Premio Speciale Voce Rivelazione Cartoon per il doppiaggio del personaggio Onceler nel cartone animato "Lorax il guardiano della foresta".
Marco prende parte al progetto "...Io Ci Sono", l'album tributo a Giorgio Gaber che celebra il grande artista a dieci anni dalla sua scomparsa, interpretando il brano "Destra-Sinistra".
Il 2013 si apre con la partecipazione di Marco alla 63^ Edizione del Festival di Sanremo con i brani “Bellissimo” e “L’Essenziale”, ed è proprio con quest’ultimo che Marco si classifica primo vincendo il Festival.
Entrambi i brani sono contenuti nel nuovo album di inediti (Sony Music) uscito il 19 marzo 2013:#PRONTOACORRERE ha superato di gran lunga il traguardo del disco di platino e "L’Essenziale" è addirittura multiplatino.
Marco ha rappresentato l’Italia all’Eurovision Song Contest a Malmö (Svezia) nel mese di maggio, dove ha ottenuto il settimo posto con "L’Essenziale".
L’8 maggio è partito "l’Essenziale Anteprima Tour" dal Teatro degli Arcimboldi di Milano: un’anteprima di 10 date, ideata per i più importanti teatri italiani che hanno registrato il sold out non appena aperte la prevendite.
Il 4 luglio è partito invece da Trento "L’Essenziale Tour", con un clamoroso successo di richieste, che continua ad imporre l’apertura di nuove date.