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The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux is the fine-art museum of the city of Bordeaux, France. The museum is housed in a dependency of the Palais Rohan in central Bordeaux. Its collections include paintings, sculptures and drawings from the 15th century to the 20th century.
The museum is housed in the Entrepôt Lainé, a former warehouse for colonial goods (sugar, coffee, cocoa, cotton, spices and oils) which were then re-exported to northern Europe by Bordeaux merchants. [1] The warehouse was built in 1824 by the architect Claude Deschamps, known for the construction of the Pont de pierre of Bordeaux. It is built ...
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The Arts Map was an international online resource to locate and identify artists and their studios, as well as galleries, art schools, museums, performing arts facilities, and related associations, service organizations, and businesses around the world, which are related to the arts. [1] Public art in communities could be identified.
The Cité du Vin is a museum located in Bordeaux, France that also hosts exhibitions, shows, movie projections and academic seminars, generally centered around wine-related themes. Following its initial opening in June of 2017, the Cité du Vin reached a milestone of one million visitors in the fall of 2018 [ 1 ] and passed 2 million visitors ...
In 1925, several rooms of the Hôtel de Lalande were used to display works of art belonging to the City of Bordeaux. The first museum was called Musée d'Art ancien.The museum was obliged to close during World War II, and in 1940, the collections were crated and stored in the cellars of the Musée des Beaux-Arts (Fine Arts Museum).
École des Beaux-Arts (French for 'School of Fine Arts'; pronounced [ekɔl de boz‿aʁ]) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth ...
In the late 1870s, two new wings, intended to accommodate the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, were constructed behind the main building to a design by Charles Burguet. [9] The rebuilding after the fire involved a new council chamber, completed in 1889, which was designed in a style characteristic of official architecture during the Third ...