See more ideas about marie antoinette, french history and versailles. The queens rooms were largely refurbished by marie antoinette and reflect the opulent style that made her such a target of public criticism despite the fact that it was no more lavish than. On the eve of the french revolution, ladies at versailles scrambled to. Museum secrets combines surprising revelations about things we all recognize with amazing. Find images and videos about movie, marie antoinette and kirsten dunst on we heart it the app to get lost in what you love. Starring kirsten dunst, norma shearer, jane seymour. Three queens occupied this room at different times. Marie antoinettes bed at the palace of versailles, this was so beautiful. Maria theresa of austria, marie leszczynska, and marie antoinette. This information is published from the museums collection database. Marie antoinette is in no way a historical film its a wispy but nonetheless brilliant cutout of a girl who just wanted to have fun. This is sofia coppolas third film centering on the loneliness of being female and surrounded by a world that knows how to use you but not how to value and understand you. Woman artist in revolutionary france, february 15may 15, 2016.
Updates and additions stemming from research and imaging activities. Metropolitan museum of art displays furniture of the. The tuileries, 20th june 1792 late september sunlight filters onto the blue velvet. Comparing historically significant women in power pbs. Marie antoinette 2006 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Celebrating the metropolitan museums visitor to versailles and the getty centers a queens treasure from versailles, the marie antoinette eightdaysevennight package features four nights in a deluxe room at the royallyfurnished hotel relais christine in paris, and two nights at the trianon palace, versailles, in a junior suite. The real marie antoinette kirsten dunst portraing marie in the movie marie antoinette marie antoinett. The portraitist to marie antoinette, june 10september 11, 2016. She is most known for supposedly saying let them eat cake, although the french quote translates more precisely as, let them eat brioche, and there.
Queens apartment at versailles simple english wikipedia. See more ideas about marie antoinette, limestone house and french antiques. She was born an archduchess of austria and was the penultimate child and youngest daughter of empress maria theresa and francis i, holy roman emperor. Marie antoinette 1938 movie clip in museums, mostly. Marie antoinette is a 1938 american historical drama film produced by metrogoldwynmayer. See more ideas about marie antoinette, french history and french royalty. Elisabeth louise vigee le brun marie antoinette in a. Marieantoinettes private chambers palace of versailles. Marieantoinettes style revolution history magazine. Marie antoinette, queen executed in french revolution.
Royalty have used art as propaganda and marieantoinette was losing the pr battle in she appears with children and little jewelry here. Marie antoinette quotes, facts, pictures and musical. Marie antoinette travel package celebrates two museum. The main room in the queens apartment is the queens bedchamber.
A sequence of photos taken from different films with marie antoinette. Apr 17, 2020 bits about marie antoinette a foreigner queen of france. Ten things that occurred to me while watching marie antoinette. This is a rare opportunity to view the dress as it is rarely ever shown. From her betrothal and marriage to louis xvi at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the end. Marie antoinettes bed at versailles, it is breathtaking.
The metropolitan museum of art is one of the worlds largest and finest art museums. Tbt the marie antoinette room in the metropolitan museum of art thank goodness they liked our work, or they may have taken off our heads in 2007 the museum came to us to help them with refurbishing marie antoinette s furniture. But at the end of the day and in the relative privacy of her. They will learn specifically about marie antoinette and her role. The layout of the first floor of the palace was perfectly symmetrical, with the north. It is based on the life of queen marie antoinette in the years leading up to the french revolution. I was there a few times, and her bedroom made the biggest impression on me of all the versailles castle.
Detailed patterns were done here and full size printouts were made for every piece to be embroidered from. I would have liked some more context so that the viewer is aware this extravagance is a result partly of the way life of versailles worked and that antoinette wasnt the only one doing all the spending. See more ideas about marie antoinette, marie antoinette movie and rococo fashion. Marie antoinette, the young and beautiful austrian princess who was strategically married into the most prestigious monarchy in europe, was to become the symbol for the wanton extravagance of the 18th century aristocracy and was to be frances last queen. Thank goodness they liked our work, or they may have taken off our heads in 2007 the museum came to us to help them with refurbishing marie antoinettes furniture. Versailles louis xvi marie antoinette maria theresia french dogs pet beds doggie beds dog houses metropolitan museum. The oscarwinning lost in translation made her the most powerful woman director in hollywood and icon of cool for her generation. The 80 works on view at the metropolitan museum will be paintings and a few pastels from european and american public and private collections. The retelling of frances iconic but illfated queen, marie antoinette.
The opulent style of marie antoinette, the queens chamber versailles duration. The official interactive web site of the museum secrets tv documentary series produced by kensington communications, featuring the vatican museums, the louvre, torontos royal ontario museum, londons natural history museum, cairos egyptian museum, and the metropolitan museum of art in new york. Whats magical about the met in from the mixedup files of mrs. The metropolitan museum of art will exhibit one of the most comprehensive collections of the furniture of abraham roentgen and his son david, german cabinetmakers of the 18th century. Marie antoinette and her children art print by elisabeth. Frankweiler isnt so much the specific works of art that claudia and jamie see as it is the museum itself. Bedroom chambers of queen marie antoinettes youtube. According to the rom the last time this dress had been displayed was 35 years ago but i had heard the dress had not actually been on public exhibition since 1927. Its collection includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.
The chateau, situated on a hillside overlooking the seine not far from paris, became the queens favorite summer residence. Marie antoinette is a 2006 historical comedydrama film written and directed by sofia coppola and starring kirsten dunst. It was released in the united states on october 20, 2006, by columbia pictures. Marie antoinettes dress at the royal ontario museum. This room was built for the queen between 1779 and 1781 by her architect richard mique.
Marie antoinette 2006 film marie antoinette is a 2006 historical drama film written and directed by sofia coppola and starring kirsten dunst. Elisabeth louise vigee le brun marie antoinette with a. Mechanical table made for marieantoinettes chamber at versailles with geometric floral marquetry and neoclassical gilt bronze mounts. November 2, 1755october 16, 1793 was the queen of france, executed by guillotine during the french revolution. Metropolitan building marie antoinette inspired photo shoot by judy pak photography. Podcast from the royal ontario museum about marie antoinettes dress. Marie antoinette movie poster art loved the film by sofia coppola, but the story centered too much on the young antoinette, didnt really flesh her out when she settled down as a mother minimal movie poster marie antoinette by linda hordijk think pink celebrate luxury. The queen also had a library in trianon, most of the books from which are currently conserved in the municipal library of versailles. At her first salon, she displayed a number of portraits, including one of the queen in a white muslin dress and straw hat. Marie antoinettes court dress is detailed with gold fringes, gold tassels, both fabric and ribbon bows, and lace ruffles down her sleeves and mid corset. Ronald ruthven lesliemelville scottish,1835 1906 25. Gold locket with the hair of queen marie antoinette. With kirsten dunst, jason schwartzman, rip torn, judy davis. Woman artist in revolutionary france is the first retrospective and only the second exhibition devoted to this artist in modern times.
Van dyke and starred norma shearer as marie antoinette. The movie demonstrates this extravagance, although aside from clothes it also focuses on the food and decadence of eating that was going on. It has flowers, ribbons and peacock feathers intertwined. Beautiful gowns worn in the 2006 movie marie antoinette. Marie antoinette, queen of france anonymous artist, engraving. An educator guide in which students will learn about some of the worlds historically significant, politically influential women. Built in the sixteenth century and rebuilt during the seventeenth, the palace was in need of renovation. The queens apartments, which overlook the midi parterre, are a series of rooms whose layout is identical to that of the kings state apartments to the north. It shows coppola once again able to draw notes from actresses who are rarely required to sound them. Queen maria theresa, louis xivs wife, was the first person to live in these apartments, but she died not long after moving in, in 1683. Marie antoinettes book collection continued to grow, and the library soon required an extension which was built in the adjoining room in 1783.
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