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He conceived his famous statue, The Thinker, in 1881-1882, and displayed a full-size model in 1904 at the Salon des Beaux-Arts. Twenty-eight castings of the statue were eventually made. [18] Toward the end of his life, he made an even more influential work, a sculptural portrait of Honoré de Balzac.
It is located near the city of Velaux, north of Marseille 16 miles west of Aix-en-Provence, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southern France. [1] The site was first recorded in the Bouches-du-Rhône civil statistics in 1824 when a partially buried statue of a cross-legged warrior was discovered in the garden of the parish priest. [2]
The statue was given by Pope Paul IV to Henry II of France in 1556 [7] with a subtle but inescapable allusion to the king's mistress, Diane de Poitiers. It was probably discovered in Italy. One source suggests the Temple of Diana (Nemi), an ancient sanctuary; [8] another posits Hadrian's Villa at Tibur. [9]
Gothic art in the mid-12th century. [1]Ars nova: a musical style which flourished in the Kingdom of France and its surroundings during the Late Middle Ages.; Oboe, or hautbois, in the mid-17th century France, probably by Jacques-Martin Hotteterre and his family or by the Philidor family. [2]
Modern entrance to the Lascaux cave. On 12 September 1940, the entrance to the Lascaux Cave was discovered on the La Rochefoucauld-Montbel lands by 18-year-old Marcel Ravidat when his dog, Robot, investigated a hole left by an uprooted tree (Ravidat would embellish the story in later retellings, saying Robot had fallen into the cave.) [8] [9] Ravidat returned to the scene with three friends ...
The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave (French: Grotte Chauvet-Pont d'Arc, French pronunciation: [ɡʁɔt ʃovɛ pɔ̃ daʁk]) in the Ardèche department of southeastern France is a cave that contains some of the best-preserved figurative cave paintings in the world, [1] as well as other evidence of Upper Paleolithic life. [2]
A digger driver says the statue, thought to date back 1,800 years, is his "best-ever discovery".
Musée d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France The Venus of Laussel is an 18.11-inch-high (46.0-centimetre) limestone bas-relief of a nude woman. It is painted with red ochre and was carved into the limestone of a rock shelter ( Abri de Laussel ) in the commune of Marquay , in the Dordogne department of south-western France .