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from Spring 2014
dimanche 28 février 2016
jeudi 25 février 2016
lundi 22 février 2016
samedi 20 février 2016
mardi 16 février 2016
mardi 9 février 2016
Dalí Theatre-Museum, Figueres. CATALONIA
The Dalí Theatre and Museum (Catalan:
Teatre-Museu Dalí), is a museum of the
artist Salvador Dalí in his home town of Figueres, in Catalonia,
Spain. Dali is buried there in a crypt below the stage.
The heart of the museum is the building that
housed the town's theater when Dalí was a child, where one of the
first public exhibitions of young Dalí's art was shown. The old
theater was burned during the Spanish Civil War and remained in a
state of ruin for decades. In 1960, Dalí and the mayor of Figueres
decided to rebuild it as a museum dedicated to the town's most famous
son.
The museum displays the single largest and most
diverse collection of works by Salvador Dalí, the core of which was
from the artist's personal collection.
A glass geodesic
dome cupola crowns the stage of the old theater, and Dalí himself is
buried in a crypt below the stage floor. The space formerly
occupied by the audience has been transformed into a courtyard open
to the sky,
Photos from 2016
samedi 6 février 2016
mercredi 3 février 2016
Flowers from Mainau Island, GERMANY
Mainau is a "flowering island", located
in lake Constance near Konstanz, and notable for its parks and
gardens. Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden, created the island's
arboretum, which now contains 500 species of deciduous and coniferous
trees, many exotic and valuable, including fine specimens of Giant
Sequoias. The island also contains about 200 rhododendron and azalea
varieties.
The Italian Rose Garden laid out geometrically
with pergolas, sculptures, and fountains, and includes some 500 rose
varieties. The Mediterranean terraces contain exotic pot plants,
including palm trees, agaves, cacti, and bougainvillea. The island as
a whole contains about 30,000 rose bushes representing 1,200
varieties, and about 20,000 dahlias of 250 varieties.
Photos from October 2015
Libellés :
Gardens and Parks,
Germany,
Islands
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