FONTAINEBLEAU

fôNtĕnblōˈ, town (1990 pop. 18,037), Seine-et-Marne dept., N France, SE of Paris. It is a favorite spring and autumn resort and was long a royal residence, chiefly because of the excellent hunting in the vast Forest of Fontainebleau. Louis IV resided in Fontainebleau, and Philip IV and Louis XIII were born there. Francis I built the magnificent palace, the chief glory of French Renaissance architecture and the scene of many historic events. Francesco Primaticcio and Sebastiano Serlio, the principal artists of the palace, came to be known, along with their fellow artisans, as the first school of Fontainebleau. In the palace Louis XIV signed (1685) the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, Pope Pius VII was imprisoned (1812–14), and Napoleon signed his first abdication (1814). Fontainebleau also has a military museum. The town was headquarters of the military branch of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) from 1945 to 1965.

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1.
Marie Louise and the Decadence of the Empire
Book by Imbert De Saint-Amand, Thomas Sergeant Perry; C. Scribners Sons, 1891
Subjects: Marie Louise--Empress, Consort Of Napoleon I, Emperor Of The French--1791-1847
...VIII THE CONCORDAT OF FONTAINEBLEAU 109...places of Saint Cloud, Compiegne, or Fontainebleau, and one would have said that the win...to find in Russia the climate of Fontainebleau and Compiegne? Did not he write in...
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Art and Architecture in France, 1500 to 1700
Book by Anthony Blunt; Penguin Books, 1953
Subjects: Architecture, Modern--France, Architecture--France, Art, Modern--France, Art--France
...Francis I in the Ile-de-France: Madrid, Fontainebleau, etc. 27...The Second School of Fontainebleau - The Mannerists of Nancy: Bellange...of staircase in the Cour de lOvale, Fontainebleau, after a re construction by A. Bray...
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Romance of the Renaissance Chateaux
Book by Elizabeth W. Champney; Putnam, 1901
Subjects: Castles--France, Renaissance--France
...VI.--THE NYMPH OF FONTAINEBLEAU 139 Chateaux of Fontainebleau and Anet...General View of Fontainebleau 148 From an old...
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French Painting in the Sixteenth Century
Book by L. Dimier; Duckworth and Company, 1904
Subjects: Painting, Renaissance, Painting--France--History
...picture--Primaticcio--The decoration of Fontainebleau--The credit of it due to Rosso...the begin nings of the school of Fontainebleau Pp. 71 - 95 CHAPTER V...CHAPTER VII The Fontainebleau School under Henri II.--Niccolo dell...
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Paris Nights: And Other Impressions of Places and People
Book by Arnold Bennett, E. A. Rickards; George H. Doran Company, 1913
Subjects: Europe--Social Life And Customs
...DIVERSION AT SAN REMO 184 FONTAINEBLEAU 1904-1909 I. FIRST JOURNEY INTO...SOMEONE ON THE STAIRS 300 FONTAINEBLEAU 366 THE LITTLE RIVER...
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Penelope's Web: Francesco Primaticcio's Epic Revision at Fontainebleau
Journal article by Giancarlo Fiorenza; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 59, 2006
Subjects: Architecture, French--Analysis, Architecture, French--History, Fontainebleau, France--History, French architecture--Analysis, French architecture--History, Primaticcio, Francesco--Criticism and interpretation, Primaticcio, Francesco--Works
...Francesco Primaticcios Epic Revision at Fontainebleau. by Giancarlo Fiorenza When...1494-1547), visited the royal chateau of Fontainebleau in 1542, she remarked that the absence...Given the highly allusive character of Fontainebleau, with its distinctive language of interior...
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"Excellence in Execution" and "Fitness for Teaching": Assessments of Women at the Conservatoire Americain
Journal article by Kendra Preston Leonard; Women & Music, Vol. 11, 2007
Subjects: Boulanger, Nadia--Achievements and awards, Composers--Achievements and awards, Copland, Aaron--Achievements and awards, Execution (Punishment), Executions and executioners, Teachers--Achievements and awards, Teaching
...American musicians in the Palais de Fontainebleau, just outside of Paris. This school...highly trained of American students to Fontainebleau for French training. As their memoirs...schools faculty expected to welcome to Fontainebleau a student body of highly trained musicians...
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Sebastian Brant: The Key to Understanding Luca Penni's 'Justice and the Seven Deadly Sins.'
Journal article by Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 78, 1996
Subjects: Art objects, Medieval--Evaluation, Artists, Italian--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Deadly sins--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Justice--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Penni, Luca--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Prints--Evaluation
...employment on the royal work site at Fontainebleau. Like Rosso Fiorentino and Francesco...his protagonists, cast in the elitist Fontainebleau mold, are drawn from ancient history...peregrinations in search of work led him to Fontainebleau, royal accounts attest to Pennis initially...
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Marguerite De Navarre and the Androgynous Portrait of Francois Ier
Journal article by Barbara Hochstetler Meyer; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 48, 1995
Subjects: Ier, Francois (King of France)--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Portraits--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...dellAbbate, an Italian artist who arrived at Fontainebleau in 1552 ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 2 OMITTED...a date of 1545.(13) As a painter at Fontainebleau during Francoiss lifetime, he was a...Palais, Paris, 1972-73. The Ecole de Fontainebleau catalogue noted both attributions and...
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Rosanette's Politics: History and Character in L'Education Sentimentale
Journal article by Richard D. E. Burton; Romance Quarterly, Vol. 43, 1996
Subjects: Romance Philology
...that Frederic and Rosanette take in Fontainebleau while class war rages in Paris, la...such disclosure early in the stay at Fontainebleau, she also reveals her most closely...she and Frederic leave forthwith for Fontainebleau where, as the workers of Paris succumb...
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Fontainebleau
Magazine article by Charles Giry-Deloison; History Today, Vol. 43, November 1993
Subjects: Architecture, French--History, France--History, Palaces--France
Fontainebleau by Charles Giry-Deloison In May 1527...Of all those major architectural undertakings, Fontainebleau was his favourite. Its purpose was to glorify the...midst of the forest of Blare, a hunters paradise, Fontainebleau was in 1527 a decadent medieval chateau which dated...
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Miami Fantasia
Magazine article by Rhonda Lieberman; Artforum International, Vol. 31, February 1993
Subjects: Fontainebleau Hilton Resort and Spa, Miami Beach, Florida--Design and construction
...inverted my whole economy of scarcity as a consumer: the Fontainebleau effectively realizes the fantasy of each guests total potency...Institute of Chicago. All quotations about Lapidus and the Fontainebleau from Martina Duttman and Friederike Schneider, eds., Morris...
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Good Friends and Brothers? Francis I and Henry VIII
Magazine article by Glenn Richardson; History Today, Vol. 44, September 1994
Subjects: France--Kings and rulers, Francis I, King of France--Foreign relations, Henry VIII, King of England--Foreign relations, United Kingdom--Kings and rulers
...Paris) and improving his chateau at Fontainebleau. The work here was carried out by a...surviving example of Rossos work at Fontainebleau is the Galerie Francois Ier of which...with the French court. They visited Fontainebleau, the classical iconography of which...
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Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage
Magazine article by Mark Twain; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 288, July 2001
...was talking in whispers about "Count Fontainebleau" and his incredible riches. People...compelling her consent to marryCount Fontainebleau. Possession of the wealth which had...up, pale and listless, between Count Fontainebleau and her father. The marriage service...
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The King and the Craftsman: Few Works of Art Are as Closely Linked to History as the Gold Salt Cellar Commissioned by Francis I of France in 1541 from the Florentine Goldsmith and Sculptor, Benvenuto Cellini. Its Theft Three Years Ago from an Austrian Art Gallery Is a Major Loss to World Heritage as Robert Knecht Explains
Magazine article by Robert Knecht; History Today, Vol. 56, February 2006
Subjects: Art thefts, Cellini, Benvenuto--Behavior, Cellini, Benvenuto--Works, Sculptors--Behavior, Sculptors--Works, Statues
...king. This followed a conversation at Fontainebleau between the king and a papal nuncio...statues to stand in his gallery at Fontainebleau. A cardinal suggested a certain Benvenuto...entrance gateway to the chateau of Fontainebleau; the other was for a fountain topped...
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Into the Woods; National Gallery Focuses on French Forest
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 1, 2008
Subjects: Artists
...large tract, known as the Forest of Fontainebleau, is where the Barbizon school took...Claude Monet within the well-traveled Fontainebleau forest and nearby villages of Barbizon...tree-lined scene of the road through Fontainebleau, for example, is nearly identical to...
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New Equipment Aids Outdoor Art Making
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 1, 2008
...National Gallery of Arts new exhibition, "In the Forest of Fontainebleau," broke new artistic ground by working outdoors to capture...amateurs eager to follow in the footsteps of the artists at Fontainebleau. Gaston Tissandiers "La photographie" (1882) is part of...
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Mrs. Clinton's Union Dues
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 8, 1996
Subjects: Laborers' International Union of North America
...Clintons union dues Nobody was paying much attention in February 1995 when Hillary Rodham Clinton traveled to the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach to offer the keynote address at a national meeting of leaders of the Laborers International Union of...
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Well Worth the Monet
Newspaper article by Alan Livermore; The Mirror (London, England), May 18, 1996
Subjects: France, Monet, Claude
...the spectacular Palace of Versailles and the chateau of Fontainebleau. Each is magnificent and worth a full days viewing...walking, the Ile de France has three massive forests around Fontainebleau, Rambouillet and Chantilly, the latter also boasting its...
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Many Cultures, Many Tastes on Offer near Spring; A French Forest, an Easter Brunch, Tequila Festival, Caviar and Vodka, and Peruvian Specialties
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 27, 2008
Subjects: Festivals, Restaurants, Vodka
...been transformed into Garden Cafe: Fontainebleau, where French-country-inspired cuisine...occasion is the exhibit "In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers From Corot...outdoors in 19th-century France. The Fontainebleau forest was a royal hunting ground for...
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encyclopedia articles on: Fontainebleau  - 36 results

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Fontainebleau
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
FONTAINEBLEAU foNtenblo , town (1990 pop. 18,037), Seine-et-Marne dept., N France, SE of Paris. It is a favorite...resort and was long a royal residence, chiefly because of the excellent hunting in the vast Forest of Fontainebleau. Louis IV resided in Fontainebleau, and Philip IV and Louis XIII were born there. Francis I built the magnificent palace, the chief...
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Fontainebleau, School Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
FONTAINEBLEAU, SCHOOL OF group of 16th-century artists who decorated the royal palace at Fontainebleau. The major figures in this group were Italian painters...the most important member of the school, arrived at Fontainebleau in 1530; he was followed in 1532 by Francesco Primaticcio...
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Fontana, Prospero
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...sparo fonta na, 1512 97, Italian mannerist painter, father of Lavinia Fontana. He aided Primaticcio in the decoration of Fontainebleau but was active chiefly in Bologna, where most of his work remains. His Entombment (Bologna) is characteristic...
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Abbate, NiccolÒ Dell'
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...del-labba ta, ba te, 1512? 1571, Italian mannerist painter. From c.1552 he assisted Primaticcio in the decorations at Fontainebleau. He was one of the first in France to paint landscapes. Among them is the Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice (c.1555...
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Gurdjieff, George Ivanovich
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...traveling, Gurdjieff settled in Moscow (c.1913). He fled the Russian Revolution (1917) with a band of followers, settling in Fontainebleau, France, where he established the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man (1922). He taught that ordinary people...
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