Paris

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Pallet for color

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Aiguille du Midi

The Aiguille du Midi (3,842 m) is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps.
The name "Aiguille du Midi" translates literally as "Needle of the Middle." In French culture, the word "Midi," is used loosely used to represent midday Noon. It gets its name from its tapered form and from its position when viewed from Chamonix: it approximately indicates noon when the sun passes over its summit.

                                            The Aiguille du Midi in summer

I've got this cute bookmark from my friend - it was bought during her trip through the French Alps :) Thank you very much, Jurate :)

Musée de Montmartre

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Bookmark- ruler with the name of my daughter Andrea :)

Andrea name-day 30.november 
Planet-sun
Color-yellow
 Origin from the Greek "andros"...

The backside: description about Andrea :)


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Cat looking at Paris - Tatiana LEROY

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The Lady and the unicorn Hearing, from Musée de Cluny,Paris

Hearing

The lady plays a portative organ on top of a table covered with a Turkish rug. Her maidservant stands to the opposite side and operates the bellows. The lion and unicorn once again frame the scene holding up the pennants. Just as on all the other tapestries, the unicorn is to the lady's left and the lion to her right - a common denominator to all the tapestries.

Tapestry of the Lady and the Unicorn (Taste), from Musée de Cluny,Paris

 Taste. The lady is taking sweets from a dish held by a maidservant. Her eyes are on a parakeet on her upheld left hand. The lion and the unicorn are both standing on their hind legs reaching up to pennants that frame the lady on either side. The monkey is at her feet, eating one of the sweetmeats.

The Lady and the Unicorn (French: La Dame à la licorne) is the modern title given to a series of six tapestries woven in Flanders of wool and silk, from designs ("cartoons") drawn in Paris in the late fifteenth century, The suite, on display in the Musée du Moyen-Âge, is often considered one of the greatest works of art of the Middle Ages in Europe.
Five of the tapestries are commonly interpreted as depicting the five senses – taste, hearing, sight, smell, and touch. The sixth displays the words "À mon seul désir". The tapestry's meaning is obscure, but has been interpreted as representing love or understanding. Each of the six tapestries depicts a noble lady with the unicorn on her left and a lion on her right; some include a monkey in the scene. The pennants, as well as the armor of the Unicorn and Lion in the tapestry bear the arms of the sponsor, Jean Le Viste, a powerful nobleman in the court of King Charles VII. More...

 The Musée de Cluny, officially known as Musée National du Moyen Âge (National Museum of the Middle Ages), is a museum in Paris, France. It is located in the 5th arrondissement at 6 Place Paul Painlevé, south of the Boulevard Saint-Germain, between the Boulevard Saint-Michel and the Rue Saint-Jacques. More...

Vincent Perriol "Jugs and flowers..."

http://eu.art.com/gallery/id--a68632/vincent-perriol-prints.htm?ui=F8A92B441BF74320BE4E9D2B76784142

Thank you very much for the birthday greeting, Ilona :) ♥ 

Claude Monet. Nympheas.1907

Bookmark from the Museum Marmottan Monet. Paris  http://www.marmottan.com/english/presentation/museum-history.asp

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Claude Monet. Nympheas. 1916-1919 Bookmark from the Museum Marmottan Monet. Paris

http://www.marmottan.com/english/presentation/museum-history.asp

Claude Monet  (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant). More...


Water Lilies (or Nymphéas) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926). The paintings depict Monet's flower garden at Giverny and were the main focus of Monet's artistic production during the last thirty years of his life. Many of the works were painted while Monet suffered from cataracts.   More...

The page https://www.artsy.net/artist/claude-monet with Monet's bio, over 75 of his works, exclusive articles, as well as up-to-date Monet exhibition listings. The page even includes related artist & category tags, plus suggested contemporary artists.

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Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa (also known as La Gioconda or La Joconde, or Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo) is a portrait by the Florentine artist Leonardo da Vinci. It is a painting in oil on a poplar panel, completed circa 1503-1519. It is on permanent display at the Musée du Louvre in Paris.
The painting is a half-length portrait and depicts a seated woman (probably Lisa del Giocondo) whose facial expression is frequently described as enigmatic.The ambiguity of the subject's expression, the monumentality of the composition, and the subtle modeling of forms and atmospheric illusionism were novel qualities that have contributed to the continuing fascination and study of the work. The image is so widely recognised, caricatured, and sought out by visitors to the Louvre that it is considered the most famous painting in the world.  ^More...

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Bookshelf

Sumatran tiger

Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) is a subspecies of tiger found on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Genetic testing has revealed the presence of unique genetic markers, which isolate Sumatran tigers from all mainland subspecies. About 400-500 wild Sumatran tigers were believed to exist in 1998, but their numbers have continued to decline. According to the RSPB in March 2008 there were approximately 300 Sumatran Tigers remaining in the wild. More...

Voyage

sorry, but I do not know what is photographed in this bookmark...

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Street paving

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France

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"Martine,Francoise,Sylvie and Christine" Art Poster Print by Laurence David

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Woman's face