Sentences with phrase «versailles palace gardens»
Sir Anish Kapoor's controversial sculpture installed last summer in Versailles Palace gardens is to be coated in gold leaf to cover anti-Semitic graffiti which has recently appeared on the artwork.
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Determined to prove that France can conjure unparalleled splendour, King Louis XIV (Rickman) commissions the renowned landscape architect André Le Notre (Matthias Schoenaerts) to design the grand gardens for the Palace of Versailles.
Alan Rickman directed the story of a strong - willed landscape designer chosen to build one of the main gardens at King Louis XIV's palace at Versailles.
The period drama, directed by Alan Rickman from a screenplay he wrote with Alison Deegan and Jeremy Brock, follows Sabine (Winslet), a strong - willed landscape designer who challenges sexual and class barriers when she is chosen to build one of the main gardens at King Louis XIV's new palace at Versailles, causing her to become professionally and romantically entangled with the court's renowned landscape architect André Le Notre (Matthias Schoenaerts).
Kate Winslet squeezes into the corset once again as Sabine De Barra, a lower class gardener hired by landscaper Andre Le Notre (Matthias Schoenaerts) who's been commissioned by King Louis XIV (Rickman) to design the garden at Versailles palace.
Set in 1682 France, the romantic drama (which opened earlier this year in Australia, England and other foreign markets to mixed reviews) stars Kate Winslet as Sabine, a strong - willed landscape designer who is grieving the deaths of her husband and daughter and who is hired by landscape artist André Le Notre (Matthias Schoenaerts) to build one of the gardens at Louis XIV's (Rickman) new Palace of Versailles.
The film stars Kate Winslet as a talented landscape designer who is chosen to build one of the main gardens at King Louis XIV's (Rickman) palace in Versailles.
Upon meeting with her, the King's renowned landscape artist André Le Notre (Matthias Schoenaerts) is initially disturbed by Sabine's distinctive eye and forward - thinking nature, but eventually chooses Sabine to build one of the main gardens at The Sun King's new Palace of Versailles.
Academy Award winner Kate Winslet stars as a strong - willed and talented landscape designer, who is chosen to build one of the main gardens at King Louis XIV's new palace at Versailles.
When André Le Notre (Matthias Schoenaerts), a royal landscape artist, unexpectedly recommends Sabine (Kate Winslet), she gets the chance to design one of the gardens at the under - construction palace of Versailles.
His second outing as director, however, sees him marry the role with that of actor in A Little Chaos, a 17th century period drama, which tells the story of lowly - widowed landscape gardener, Sabine de Barra (Kate Winslet), who secures a contract to design one of the principal gardens at The Palace of Versailles.
When King Louis XIV (Rickman) determines that The Palace of Versailles should be an enviable symbol of French imperial resplendence, he commissions an extravagant reconstruction of one of its gardens under the charge of esteemed landscape artist André Le Notre (Matthias Schoenaerts) who submits the contract out to tender amongst the elite of French artistic nobility.
• Amsterdam: Explore the canals by night in a saloon boat • Athens: View the Parthenon from the Grande Bretagne Hotel rooftop • Barcelona: Go on a tapas crawl • Belle - Île, France: Enjoy oysters at Le Bistrot du Port • Berlin: Tap into the underground nightlife scene • Budapest: Stay at the restored Four Seasons Gresham Palace • Copenhagen: Browse contemporary design shops • Florence: Tour the Vasari Corridor at the Uffizi • Galway, Ireland: Pair oysters with Guinness at Moran's Oyster Cottage • Iceland: Marvel at the Northern Lights • Isle of Skye, Scotland: Go for whisky tastings at Tallisker distillery • Istanbul: Wander the Grand Bazaar • London: Start with breakfast at the cabmen's shelter on Pont Street • Madrid: Visit the Black Paintings room at the Museo del Prado • Moscow: Tour the Diamond Vaults within the Kremlin • Paris: Snack on bread from Du Pain et Des Idees • Peloponnese, Greece: Stay at the ultra-luxe Amanzoe • Prague: Explore Prague's historic center • Rome: Buy a gelato at San Crispino • Santorini, Greece: Lounge at Red Beach • Sicily: See the mosaics at Villa Romana del Casale • Siena, Italy: Attend the medieval - era Palio horse race • Spain: Take an architecture - themed drive from Bilbao to Granada • Stockholm: Visit the Vasa Museum • Venice: Shop for glassware at L'Angolo del Passat • Versailles, France: Explore Andre Le Notre's gardens at Versailles • Vienna: Attend a concert at the Musikverein
The Schonbrunn Palace, which was the Hapsburg summer residence, is dripping with visual decadence, complete with ornate rooms and huge, lush gardens comparable to those in Versailles.
The Bourbons» palace and park of Capodimonte houses an excellent collection of Neapolitan art whilst Caserta is even grander, modelled on Versailles with a park designed by Vanvitelli and an «English garden» as suggested by the British envoy, Lord Hamilton, who also hosted Admiral Nelson in Naples.
Olafur Eliasson, Glacial rock flour garden, 2016 Palace of Versailles, 2016.
Ranging from the intimate to the monumental, Kapoor is this year also preparing for his largest public exhibition to - date, for the palace and gardens of Versailles this Summer (from June to October).
Anish Kapoor: 9 June to 1 November 2015, Palace of Versailles, a major contemporary art exhibition in the gardens.
The segment concludes outside Paris at the Chateau de Versailles, where Koons is the first contemporary American artist to have a solo exhibition, showcasing the mathematical planting of a giant flower topiary and a survey of works installed amidst the joyous decoration of the palace's period rooms and gardens.
Behind these stylistic experiments in small - scale garden buildings lay a growing interest in the art of landscape gardening, fired by admiration for the work of Andre Le Notre (1613 - 1700) and others at Versailles Palace, as well as the Italianate landscapes of the French painters Nicolas Poussin (1594 - 1665) and Claude Lorrain (1600 - 82).