| Cardinal Mazarin in 1657 painted by Pieter van Mol and subsequently engraved by Robert Nanteuil Robert Nanteuil Pieter van Mol *** |
Showing posts with label French icons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label French icons. Show all posts
Friday, 13 May 2016
Cardinal Jules Mazarin; Richelieu's designated successor as First Minister to Queen Anne of Austria and the young Louis XIV
Thursday, 11 February 2016
The phantom cardinal-duc
| …a huge spooky and shadowy figure appeared... |
Le Chasteau de Richelieu
or
L'Histoire des Dieux et des Heros de l'Antiquité,
avec des Réfléxions morales.
par Mr. Benjamin Vignier - à Saumur
chez Henri Desbordes, imprimeur
& Marchand Librairie
1681
avec privilege du Roy
Benjamin Vignier was the steward in charge of the Château de Richelieu shortly after the cardinal duc's lifetime. He left this detailed description of the palace in 1681, presumably in the lifetime of the second duke. It is the principal written text describing the magnificent building at its apogee and detailing the artistic treasures that it contained, in particular the painting, the statues and busts of Roman antiquities.
click here below
Richelieu in Love
or
The Youth of Charles 1
click here below
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Saturday, 6 October 2012
Wednesday, 7 March 2012
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Thursday, 19 January 2012
Roger Excoffon - typographer
p.s. oops! it is Le Mistral n.m. - no 'e'...
as for Marseille (s?)
Imitating his own handwriting, Roger Excoffon created a fully cursive (linking) apparent hand-script, originally for typesetting, now for digital reproduction. The capitals do not fully link in the computerised version, as was the case with the original, although the lower-case version obviously does. Originally this objective was achieved with various 'ligatures' - fiddly little graphic linkages for particular conjunctions of letters.
'Mistral' is as French as 'Helvetica' is Swiss!
Saturday, 10 September 2011
Iconic images 2 - Richelieu Gatehouse
| Gatehouse 1. |
| Gatehouse 2. |
| Gatehouse 3. |
| Gatehouse 4. |
| Gatehouse 5. |
| Gatehouse 6. |
| Gatehouse 7. |
| Gatehouse 8. |
| Gatehouse 9. |
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Friday, 9 September 2011
Creating iconic images of the town of Richelieu
This blog tries to bring the architectural marvel of the cardinal's still existing cité idéale to a wider public, especially the world of les anglo-saxons. One part of this objective is to put beautiful imagery of the town into the public realm, especially imagery that is free of any copyright fees, so that any casual reader can help these efforts of 'publicity and propaganda'.
There are many many photos on the blog which describe the town, and as they are mainly taken by the author, Abbé Henri Proust, they can be used without fear of copyright pursuit.
The Abbé has other skills as well as pastoral care of his flock and digital photography; today we offer his skill in CAD (computer assisted design), digital rendering and photo manipulation.
Below are three versions of a view a computer model of the town viewed from the south, rendered and tweeked in Photoshop. They show the cité's church, the Châtellerault gate and the Halle viewed from the cardinal's parc, looking down the town's central axis, on the horizontal plane.
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Click on the image to see a larger version.
These images are easily downloaded and are quite detailed...
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Friday, 12 November 2010
....still blogging....
Although the great eponymous cardinal duc is almost of iconic status representing La France for the anglo-saxon world, he is far from the only French icon.
Here are the Citroën DS (Déesse!) 19 Pallas and the liner La France at Le Havre - in the hey-day of the novelle vague* 1960s.
Nice drawing isn't it?
*strictly 1958 - 1964
*strictly 1958 - 1964
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