Provence

in love with a maid named Rachel, and to show his love for her, he mutilated himself by cutting off his ear and dropped it off at a brothel, the house the woman stayed at. The next day he was sent to a mental asylum in Arles called, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. The following night, he looked out his window at the village down below and started to paint the view. This is how The Starry Night came to be (Lego 2013). With the ear incident and him struggling with mental health his entire life, I feel…

The Pipe and the Tabor is the instrument I chose. The pipe and tabor is a pair of instruments played by one player and it consisted of a three-holed pipe played with one hand and a small drum that was played with the other hand. The pipe is a simple instrument with a fipple like a whistle or a recorder but usually, it only had three melody holes. The tabor is narrow to simplify overblowing. There is a ridge around the bottom of the instrument to help support the pipe. I could not find a…

Julian Merrow-Smith was born in 1959 in Buckinghamshire, England. From 1978-79 he studied at the North Oxfordshire College of Art. He then went on to study at Wolverhampton Polytechnic and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Fine Arts from 1979-82. After losing his job at London’s Lumiére cinema in 1997, Julian moved to the south of France and began painting for a living. Merrow-Smith mainly paints still life along with portraits and landscapes. When Julian first moved to France he decided…

During the Middle Ages it was normal for a lady to have another relationship outside her marriage and that is called courtly love also known as “Refine Love”. Courtly love was a term that became popular in the medieval times ,and it is basically a man who faithfully devotes himself to the only woman he loves who also happens to be married or engaged. In this kind of love relationship not everyone could experienced it not even a married couple, courtly love was love only in between a knight and…

most famous paintings he had done, it is now hanging in Musee d’Orsay, a museum in Paris, France on the left bank of the Seine. In 1890 he painted “Sorrowing Old Man” which shows a man sitting at eternity’s gate. He painted this one in Saint-Remy de Provence. “Sunset at Montmajor” was painted in July 1888, it is a landscape of garrigue with Montmajour Abbey in the background. Montmajour Abbey was a building that was built in the 10th and 18th centuries. When Vincent van Gogh first painted…

troubadour, later known as “trobairitz,” in the late 12th and early 13th century. Not much is known about her personal life except scholars speculate that she was the daughter of Count Isoard II of Dia, which was “a town on the Drôme in the marquisate of Provence” (Aubrey 2004). Luckily, however, five of her works survived, the most notable one being “A chantar m'er de so qu'eu no volria.” “A Chantar” does not have…

delicious dish at a time. Besh raised in southern Louisiana and has set the standard for fine dining in New Orleans. In a town whose identity is bound to its food. He has twelve commended restaurants August, Besh Steak, Lüke, Lüke San Antonio, La Provence, Domenica, Pizza Domenica, Borgne, Johnny Sánchez New Orleans, Johnny Sánchez Baltimore, Shaya and Willa Jean, all that celebrate the bounty and traditions of the southern region. In this paper, I will be performing a S.W.O.T analysis on three…

Orthodoxe Russe St-Nicolas a Nice which is a large church that looks like a castle and is a large tourist attraction. On the west side of Nice it is more mountainous while it is more developed the southeastern part of Nice. Nice is in the region of PACA (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) one of the 27 regions in france. A french region is about the size of Belgium or…

war, the genocide started to fade away. There is little known about this because nobody knew it happened until after and witnesses were supposedly not wanting to talk about it. Right after the Cold War ended and the 6 countries and 2 little-known provences were combined by the Paris Peace Confederacy (PPC) to create the country. In 1918, the kingdom of Yugoslavia was was created after WWI.…

“As my work is, so am I.” (Smith, Naifeh 6) Vincent Van Gogh declared. On any margin, Vincent’s words truly expressed his mental state. As described by his brother Theo Van Gogh, he slathered paint on thickly and worked quickly, showing his frantic troubled mind, that propelled him to create works of art. Much like Vincent, Matthew in “The shock of the fall” also came of a troubled mind. Not only do Vincent and Matthew both share the connections of suffering from mental illness, they go beyond…