Vaux-le-Vicomte

Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-LeBrun, a Rococo era painter turned Neoclassical, was born in Paris on April 16, 1755. She lived to be eighty—seven as “one of the foremost portraitists in Europe at the end of the eighteenth century and during the first three decades of the nineteenth” (NGA, web) (May, 1). Spanning a long career with over 600 paintings, Vigée-LeBrun is “characterized” and marveled “…as the much sought-after portraitist of not only European royalty and nobility, but also of notable…

On January 17th, St. Martinville, Louisiana’s 3rd oldest town, celebrated its bicentennial, beginning a yearlong commemoration of the small city’s storied history. St. Martinville is representative of many of Louisiana’s distinct cultural and geographic histories. Seated on the Bayou Teche, the water highway of over 100 miles has been an essential part of the settlement and commercial development of St. Martinville. The word “teche” may be derived from the Chitimacha word for “snake”, and some…

Shaped the Social Ritual The East Facade of the Louvre not only responded the social ritual by its pavilions, moat, fireplace and opening with its style of Classicism of Renaissance, but also shaped the social ritual by the Claude Perrault’s theory and the other architects’ influence on this facade, these influence also be considered as a start of the Baroque. Obviously, the roof style is not a traditional French roof, and the pair of colossal columns are also not applied on the traditional…