Art museums and galleries in France Art museums and galleries in France The vast Carnavalet Museum, devoted to the history of Paris, occupies two adjoining mansions. They include entire decorated rooms with panelling, furniture and many works of art. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carnavalet Museum"
The Royal Château of Fontainebleau (in the Seine-et-Marne département), the largest of the French royal châteaux, introduced to France the Italian Mannerist style in interior decoration and in gardens, and transformed them in the translation. The French Mannerist style of interior decoration of the 16th century is known as the "Fontainebleau style:" it combined sculpture, metalwork, painting, stucco and woodwork, and outdoors the patterned garden parterre. The Fontainebleau style combined allegorical paintings in moulded plasterwork where the framing was treated as if it were leather or paper, slashed and rolled into scrolls and combined with arabesques and grotesques. Fontainbleau ideals of female beauty are Mannerist: a small neat head on a long neck, exaggeratedly long torso and limbs, small high breasts — almost a return to Late Gothic beauties. The new works at Fontainebleau were recorded in refined and detailed engravings that circulated among connoisseurs and artists. Through the engravings by the "Fontainebleau school" this new style was transmitted to other northern European centres, Antwerp especially, and Germany, and eventually London. The château as it is today is the work of many monarchs, building on a structure of François I. The building is ranged round a series of courts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Château de Fontainebleau"
The Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain of Strasbourg (MAMCS, Museum of modern and contemporary art) opened at the end of 1998. ...more on Wikipedia about "Musée d'art moderne et contemporain of Strasbourg"
The Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret in Nice, France at 33 av. des Baumettes was built in the former private mansion built in 1878 by the Ukrainian Princess, Elisabeth Vassilievna Kotschoubey. Named for the artist Jules Chéret who lived and worked in Nice during his final years, the museum opened in 1928. ...more on Wikipedia about "Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret"
The Château de Versailles —or simply Versailles— is a royal château, outside the gates of which the village of Versailles, France, has grown to become a full-fledged city. From 1682, when King Louis XIV moved from Paris, until the royal family was forced to return to the capital in 1789, the court of Versailles was the center of power under the Ancien Régime. Those who are not French tend to call it the "Palace". ...more on Wikipedia about "Palace of Versailles"
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