Compostela
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Compostela the Spanish city of
Santiago de Compostela, which has been from the medieval period a pilgrimage centre for its shrine of St
James the Great.
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Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy. De Arte Graphica (Paris, 1668).(Book review)
Magazine article from: Seventeenth-Century News; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy. De Arte Graphica (Paris, 1668). Edition, translation...the poem and its author became a part of the polemics between Mignard and Le Brun, as well as the unacknowledged source of Moliere's poem celebrating Mignard...
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LE COIN DE L'HISTOIRE: Jacques Roumain
Newspaper article from: Haiti Observateur; 8/8/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Montherlant, les courses de taureaux, le plein soleil des corridas . En 1927...Il a vingt ans. Antonio Vieux, le journaliste de La Revue Indigne lui...homme dont il s'applique nous tracer le portrait: Brun, les traits saillants. Mchoire volontaire...
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In the Louvre, a gallery fit for a sun king
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 12/3/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...peeling from the wall. The figure of Charles Le Brun, the court painter who conceived...a superb renovation that has left Le Brun's gallery glowing rather than glittering...great Classical proponent of line, Le Brun, and at the other by the masterly...
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Museum opening of the year: Galerie d'Apollon at the Louvre, Paris.
Magazine article from: Apollo; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...last range over 200 years, from Charles Le Brun's Triumph of Neptune (1664...it is possible to appreciate why Charles Le Brun was appointed court painter (Fig...overpaint, Dawn (1850-51) by Charles-Louis Muller now boasts delicate...
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* wine show winners
Newspaper article from: The Press; 3/6/2003; 700+ words
; ...Sparkling Wine: Daniel Le Brun Methode Traditionelle Vintage...Island): Chardonnay: Charles Wiffen Marlborough 2002...2001; Sparkling: Daniel Le Brun Blanc de Blancs 1997, Daniel Le Brun Vintage 1996. Silver medal...
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SACKLER EXHIBITION MAKES A CASE FOR 17TH-CENTURY FRENCH DRAWINGS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/11/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...festivals or, in the case of Charles Le Brun, as head of the royal...Versailles. The overbooked Le Brun was also director of the...including such figures as Le Brun, Philippe de Champaigne...show goes -- in Jacques-Charles de Bellange's "The Hunter...
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The Hall of Mirrors, almost good as new
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 6/27/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...bottom: from the 30 paintings by Charles Le Brun that decorate the length of the vaulted...peace.''They were all designed by Le Brun using hundreds of drawings...canvas and attached to the vault. Le Brun worked with a team, but we have...
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A grovy kind of place; The gardens of Versailles.(A restored grove at Versailles)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 6/5/2004; 700+ words
; ...restore the great creation for Louis XIV of Andre Le Notre and Charles Le Brun. After the second world war John D. Rockefeller...Gardening can be an expensive pastime. Le Notre and Le Brun got through 1.5m "livres" (over $250m at today...
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Zeglirscosac desvelado o el abogado sensible.(Ensayo sobre el origen y naturaleza de las pasiones, del gesto y de la acción teatral, libro de Fermín Eduardo Zeglirscosac)(Ensayo crítico)
Magazine article from: Dieciocho: Hispanic Enlightenment; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...citados en nota, son, "Conferenc. de M. le Brun. Ides sur le Geste et l'Action Thatrale par M. J.J. Engel...expression gnrale et particulire, publicada por Charles Le Brun en 1702, y el libro de Johan Jakob Engel Lehrbuch...
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Enthroned in silver: silver furniture created for baroque courts makes a dazzling exhibition at Versailles.(EXHIBITIONS)(Quand Versailles etait meuble d'argent, France)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 2/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...imitated elsewhere in Europe), apart from designs by Charles Le Brun and others and tapestries, also after designs by Charles Le Brun, depicting the furniture devised for Versailles...
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Charles Le Brun
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Charles Le Brun The French painter, decorator, and draftsman Charles Le Brun (1619-1690) served as administrator...King Louis XIV. Between 1661 and 1683 Charles Le Brun was virtually dictator of all the arts...
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Le Brun, Charles (1619–1690)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
LE BRUN, CHARLES (1619 – 1690) LE BRUN, CHARLES (1619 – 1690), French court painter and academician. After working briefly with Fran ç ois Perrier, Le Brun became a pupil of Simon Vouet (1590 – 1649...
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Le Brun, Charles (1619-1690)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Le Brun, Charles (1619-1690) A celebrated...occult science. In this book Le Brun executed remarkable drawings...reference to the emotions by Charles Darwin in his book The Expression...and Animals (1872 etc.). Le Brun died February 22, 1690.
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Le Brun, Charles
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Le Brun, Charles (1619–90). French painter, designer, and art theorist...Horses of Diomedes ( c. 1640, Castle Mus., Nottingham). In 1642 Le Brun went to Rome in company with Poussin , who was returning from his visit...
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Louis Le Vau
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...culmination of a novel idea employed at Le Raincy, where a similar form governed...principal section of the building. Le Vau collaborated closely at Vaux with the painter-decorator Charles Le Brun and the landscape architect Andr...
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