Step inside the Palais Garnier, Paris’s gilded temple to opera and ballet. Discover Charles Garnier’s opulent architecture, the venue’s storied history of premieres, and the world-class productions still gracing its stage today. Continue reading Palais Garnier🏛🎼🏴
Présentation du Musée Marmottan Monet à Paris et de sa collection permanente de chefs-d’œuvre impressionnistes. Continue reading Musée Marmottan Monet 🖼🗿🇫🇷
El Museo de Orsay, situado en el corazón de París a orillas del Sena, es sin duda uno de los museos más fascinantes y significativos del mundo. Su historia, su contexto arquitectónico y, sobre todo, la extraordinaria colección de obras de arte en su interior, hacen del Museo de Orsay una parada obligada para los amantes del arte y la cultura. Originalmente construido como estación … Continue reading Museo de Orsay 🖼🗿🇪🇸
Musée d’Orsay, Paris Few moments in art history bring together two titans of the Impressionist era as intimately as the Musée d’Orsay’s side-by-side exhibition of Claude Monet’s and Édouard Manet’s Déjeuner sur l’herbe. Though sharing the same subject—an outdoor luncheon, or “picnic” scene—their respective approaches reveal deep contrasts in vision, technique, and the evolution of the avant-garde movement. Manet’s Déjeuner sur l’herbe (1863) is the … Continue reading Breakfast on the grass, by Manet and Monet 🖼🖌⛅️
The Musėe de l’Orangerie is an art museum in Paris famous for being chosen by the impressionist painter Claude Monet as the permanent home for his Water Lilies (Nymphéas) paintings, which are displayed in two large oval rooms. Along with the Musée d’Orsay, this is an absolute must-see when in Paris, surely to enjoy these large installations by Monet and other representative paintings in this … Continue reading Musée de l’Orangerie 🖼🗿🇬🇧
The Marmottan Monet Museum was established in 1934 as a result of a donation by Paul Marmottan of his collection of paintings, bronzes and furniture to the Académie des Beaux-Arts (Academy of Fine Arts). A further donation in 1966 by the only surviving son of the impressionists painter Claude Monet, Michel Monet, made of this museum the largest collection of Monet’s paintings in the world … Continue reading Musée Marmottan Monet 🖼🗿🇬🇧
Paris est sans aucun doute l’une des villes les plus fascinantes du monde, un endroit inspirant et romantique où il est agréable de se promener et de découvrir des sites de beauté et des lieux importants pour l’art et l’histoire. Le monument le plus emblématique est certainement la Tour Eiffel, qui était étrangement censée se tenir juste pour la durée de l’Exposition Universelle de 1889, … Continue reading Cartes postales de Paris 🖼🥐🇫🇷
My absolute favorite art museum is surely the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, on the left bank of the Seine. It is housed in the old Gare d’Orsay, a Beaux-Arts-style station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum mainly houses French art dating from 1848 to 1914, including paintings, sculptures, furniture and photos. It houses the largest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces in the world, … Continue reading Musée d’Orsay 🖼🗿🇬🇧
Born in Poland in 1810 Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin was very soon recognised as a child prodigy and, by the age of seven, he started giving public concerts as a pianist and composed his first piano pieces. In his early 20s he left Poland and made no return to his homeland, whereas he settled in Paris and acquired the French citizenship, also using the French version … Continue reading Frédéric Chopin 🎨🎶🇬🇧
Since I started this new blog I launched a successful series of blog posts featuring travel notes from my favourite travels. This is an opportunity to recall some of these popular posts with postcards from European destinations for you to enjoy. It is only relatively recently that I spent a week in Budapest and I discovered one of the most beautiful cities in Europe, steeped … Continue reading Postcards from Europe 🖼🏞🇪🇺
