Musée Calvet - Avignon/France
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The Musée Calvet is a French museum in Avignon.
Waymark Code: WMKMJE
Location: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Date Posted: 05/02/2014
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The Museum of Fine Arts, in the town of Villeneuve- Martignan house , houses art objects , sculptures and paintings from the 16th to the 20th century. The paintings collection includes works from the 15th to the 20th century.
The paintings are works by artists such as Josse Lieferinxe , Luis de Morales ( Ecce Homo ), Simon de Chalons , Giorgio Vasari , Jan Brueghel the Younger , Frans Franken ( Cabinet à peintures ) , Abraham Bloemaert , Salomon de Bray Jan weenix , Jan Frans van Bloemen , Pierre Mignard , Nicolas Mignard , Luca Giordano (La mort de Lucrèce ) , Salvator Rosa , Sebastiano Ricci, Giovanni Paolo Pannini , Nicolas de Largillière , Hubert Robert , Claude Joseph Vernet , and Jacques -Louis David (La Mort du jeune Bara ) .
The painting from the 19th century until the beginning of the 20th century by the painting by Elisabeth Vigee -Lebrun , Théodore Géricault ( Portrait de femme ) , Théodore Chassériau , Honoré Daumier, Corot , Edouard Manet ( Nature morte au chapeau espagnol ) Armand Guillaumin , Alfred Sisley ( L' église de Moret ) , Emile Bernard , Pierre Bonnard , Maurice de Vlaminck , Soutine and Albert Gleizes represented.
Sculptures: works by Francesco Laurana , Giambologna , James Pradier ( Cassandre mourante ) , Camille Claudel , and a group of Italian and northern bronzes from the 16th and 17th century and the fifteen Tondi du Rosaire (Spain, early 17th century).
Name: Musée Calvet
Location:
65 Rue Joseph Vernet, 84000 Avignon,
Phone Number: +33 4 90 86 33 84
Web Site: [Web Link]
Agency/Ownership: Public
Hours of operation:
10:00-13:00
14:00-18:00
Admission Fee: 6 Euro
Gift Shop: no
Cafe/Restaurant: no
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