Architecture of the 19th century

ARCHITECTURE OF THE 19th CENTUR EIFFEL TOWER

The Eiffel Tower was constructed by Gustave Eiffel on the occasion of the Universal Exhibition of 1889 that was commemorating the first centenary of the French Revolution. His construction lasted 2 years, 2 months and 5 days and was an authentic technical and architectural prowess, technological exploit, at the end of the 19th century it was the demonstration of the French ingenuity, a culminating point of the industrial age. Symbol of France in the world, balcony of Paris, at present possesses almost 7 million visitors a year, which turns him into the monument of payment most visited of the world.

 

 

Funeral at Ornans

 FUNERAL AT ORNANS

In this one his masterpiece, Courbet there transmits with the maximum possible realism a funeral - possibly that of his own grandfather, convinced republican, there being stated the presence of two Jacobin friends to the one that represents the whole community, from the representatives of the town hall up to the official hired mourners, happening for the noblemen and the family of the painter. Even a dog retriever does not want to get lost the event and appears in the first plane.

 

 For comments of the own painter we know that the whole population of Ornans, wanted to pose for the picture, turning out to be a set of 46 persons to natural size represented with enormous doses of veracity it is possible to say that this work is the new artistic style defended by Courbet considered as a scientific, naturalistic, anticlassic art, antirromántico, antiacademic, progressive and socially, whose only source had to be the direct observation of the native.

The figures form a compact group and stand out on the flat mountains of the locality, represented in diverse attitudes and positions, being one of the best galleries of portraits of the history of the art. The expression of the faces that do not provoke any feeling of pain. The death has not produced in these men the pain, the distress, but they live through it as a daily fact. 

Capture like models to his parents, brothers and friends, and several inhabitants of that locality, and are assembled by it in a collective portrait.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A bar of Foliate Bergère

    A BAR OF FOLIATE BERGÈRE 

Manet was a frequent client of Foliate Bergère. It was the musical bar, coffee-concert, cabaret frequently used by the proletariat, but, due to the experiences that were lived inside, he acquired reputation between the bourgeoisie also. Manet tells it to us in his picture. It is that alone to be fixed in the details, bottles of wine, champagne, liquor of mint for those more beneficiaries and beers for the rest.

 

This night it was of juggling, Manet took charge showing it to us. The feet of an acrobat are seen in full act, in the top left corner of the picture. But the most important thing always was the bar. The clients were imposed on them to have the full glass periodically.

Manet was sick to the moment to paint it so it moved everything what he reminded of Foliate Bergère to his study, bottles of liquor, the waitress Suzon and fruits, this way to reproduce the moment.

The dummy

THE DUMMY

 The resultant tapestry of this carton was destined for the decoration, " of matters of rural and jocular things ", of the office of Carlos IV in the palatial zone of The St Lawrence of El Escorial, manager in 1790 and last project of this kind realized by Goya. Two sketches are known for this set, of The young girls of pitcher and of The dummy.

 

 Four young women dressed in beauties toss in a blanket a dummy in an environment of leafy landscape, crossed by a river, with the presence of a building of stone to the bottom. The game practised during some popular holidays and rite of farewell of the bachelorhood, symbolizes here the power of the woman on the man, general matter of this set and repeated in the work of Goya, with examples in the series of engravings of the Caprices and of the Silly things, as well as in his álbumes of drawings.

 

The Pantheon of París.

THE PANTHEON OF PARIS 

The Pantheon in Paris was the first monument of the French capital. Its construction is previous to the monuments like the Eiffel Tower and was the first place where you could see Paris from the heights. It is located in the Latin Quarter, near the Luxembourg Gardens.

  The Pantheon of Paris

                Inside of the Pantheon of Paris

Sculpture in the Pantheon of Paris

 

 The Pantheon could divided it into two parts: the interior of the building, where impressive to see the size of it and its decoration, and on the other part the crypt, where currently you can find the bodies of famous people such as Voltaire, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Marie Curie, Louis Braille, Jean Monnet or Alexander Dumas.