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Apartment
Saint-Germain
: 3, rue Jacques-Callot 75006 Paris.
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Perfectly
located between two of Paris Saint-Germain's most famous streets,
Rue de Seine and Rue Mazarine, the tiny Rue Jacques-Callot is like the
heart of the Paris village, lined with trees, antique stores and art
galleries, This marvelously furnished apartment is ideal for those who
like romance with their vacation in Paris. Two people can sleep
comfortably in
the queen-sized bed of the apartment, while the free Internet
connection helps you keep
in touch with your other loved ones all over the world. 650 Euros/week
-
1900 Euros/month. Closest Paris métro: Odéon
(Lines 4
& 10).
Apartment
Marais : 20, rue du Bourg-Tibourg 75004 Paris. Apartment
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Between
Paris
Hotel
de Ville and the
labyrinth-like medieval streets of the Marais of Paris, this upscale
apartment
is representative of the charming old Paris. Rue Bourg-Tibourg is
one of the most interesting streets of the Marais, with many colorful
food and craft stores. This famous apartment is ideal for people
interested in living like true Parisians. Opening onto a private
courtyard, this apartment is quiet and sunny, and features free
unlimited Internet access. An excellent apartment for pleasure,
business in Paris, or a mixture of both. 700 Euros/week - 2000
Euros/month.
Closest Paris métro: Hôtel de Ville or Saint-Paul.
Apartment Place des Vosges : 33, rue de Turenne 75003 Paris.
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Located
in the
heart of the Marais of Paris, on a
street near the prestigious Place des Vosges, and only 2 seconds from
la rue des Francs-Bourgeois, most famous shopping street of le Marais,
this Paris apartment is perfect for a party of four people.
Completely renovated, this first floor apartment remains sunny and very
lighty, with a direct look on the old Paris houses of le Marais. Four
people
can
sleep in that apartment here with the queen size bed of the mezzanine
and a true sofa bed extremely comfortable. 800 Euros/week -
2500 Euros/month. Bus stop at the bottom of the building : Place des
Vosges. Paris Metro :
Saint-Paul.
Apartment
Bourg Tibourg : 25,
rue du Bourg Tibourg 75004 Paris. Apartment
webpage
Rue
du
Bourg-Tibourg is the most exquisite street of le Marais. Every store,
restaurant, bar is typical and original. This apartment is located at
the middle of the street, in a old XVIIIth century building. It faces
on a interior courtyard, extremely quiet, protected from the noise of
the street. Completely renovated, with 2 huge door-windows and
double-glasses, it comes with free internet/computer, Air
Conditioning and all the amenities of our best apartments. Four people
can sleep inside the two rooms. Huge queen size bed and a true double
bed inside the sofa. Private balcony to take a coffe outside. 800
Euros/week - 2500 Euros/month. Metro : Hôtel de Ville or
Saint-Paul.
Apartment Mazarine
: 25, rue
Guénegaud 75006 Paris. Apartment
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Right
behind
the prestigious Hotel des Monnaies of Paris and the beautiful Pont
Neuf, adjacent to the magnificent rue Mazarine, Rue
Guénegaud is
centrally
located in the charming Paris Saint-Germain des Pres, long the centre
of
Paris's
cultural life. Art galleries and antique stores abound on this street,
with
plenty of cafés and restaurants nearby. Recently redecorated
in
classic
Paris Art Deco style, the Apartment Mazarine is one of the most
seductive
vacation
rentals you'll find in Paris. This apartment has a small private
terrace,
wonderful for relaxing with a drink after sightseeing and taking in the
warm Paris sun, and a queen-sized bed. Cable Internet connection
included.
800 Euros/week - 2500 Euros/month. Closest Paris métro:
Odéon
(Lines
4 & 10).
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Vanités
- Musée Maillol
By the past,
in ancient Greece, the skeleton suggested the passage of
time and the brevity of life. A theme found
in the mosaics of Pompeii. At the time,
the slave whispered in the ear of the Roman general: "Memento Mori"
(Remember that you will die). Vanity is
developed in the late Middle Ages, a time when religion dominates,
whence the idea of purgatory, where wars and epidemics make life
specially ridiculous. The term
"vanity" comes from the words of Ecclesiastes: "Vanity of vanities, all
is vanity." Vanity is a
reflection on life, moralizing, which should lead to redemption, "said
Loic Malle, an art historian who helped design the exhibition. After a
decline in the Renaissance, vanity is experiencing a golden age in the
seventeenth century. In the south
it is often associated with religious scenes. In Northern
Europe, it may be an element of still life. With the
French Revolution, there is a change in the meaning of the concept of
vanity. It was
secularized and became an object that is part of the workshop. Skull "will
crystallize all fears" but has no "promise of eternity or promise of
progress," said Loic Malle. The
exhibition is chronological, but in reverse: it begins with the early
twenty-first century, where the skull is everywhere, on clothing,
jewelry, pubs and even toys. "There's a
whole generation of young artists who is very interested in death
because our society hides it" considers Patrizia Nitti, new artistic
director of the Musée Maillol. For her, "the
exhibition is not sad at all." "It's a way
to tame death," says she. Andy Warhol
painted a series of skulls in bright colors, completely secularized. At the same
time, AIDS, plague of modern times, brought death to the heart of art. Artist
emblematic Briton Damien Hirst is famous for platinum skull set with
8601 diamonds. We will not
see it but at the Maillol Museum presents an image of the skull that
laughs, amid sparkling diamond dust (For the Love of God, Laugh). Damien Hirst
has delivered a "surprise" at the Maillol Museum. Knowing that
exposed one of his skulls covered with flies (Fear of Death), he has
taken another "much more beautiful because it comes complete with its
jaw," said Patrizia Nitti. "A small
wonder. Even his teeth are in wings of flies," said she. Basquiat has
its skulls voodoo cult in his Haitian origins, Annette Messager creates
skulls as children's games, with gloves and crayons. Miquel
Barcelo painted a huge skull in the desert, occupying the entire
canvas. Robert
Mapplethorpe, hit by AIDS, represents himself with a cane pommel shaped
skull. The
exhibition compares three beautiful vanities of the seventeenth
century, three St. Francis chiaroscuro holding a skull in his hands,
leaning back, eyes full of madness in Georges De La Tour (Ecstasy of
Saint Francis), full of passion in the Caravaggio
(Saint Francis in Meditation) and full of pain Zurbaran (St. Francis
kneeling). The theme of
the vanity is in a new eclipse the eighteenth to return to the
nineteenth, after the French Revolution. It Gericault
who invented the vanity with its glorious secular Three skulls painted
in full Napoleonic debacle. In the
twentieth century, Picasso and Braque were built of the skulls in their
lifes. In 1933, the
German Erwin Blumenfeld made a disturbing montage which superimposed a
skull and a photograph of Hitler. The
exhibition assumes the skull all the sauces, the wings of beetles (Jan
Fabre), in packs of Gauloises (Serena Carone), carved fruit and
vegetables (Dimitri Tsykalov). The earliest
work is a small mosaic table covered Pompeii. A skull
symbolizing the body and a butterfly symbolizing the soul are laid on
the wheel of life.
That's life,
Vanities Caravaggio to Damien Hirst, Fondation Dina Vierny -
Musée Maillol, 59-61 Rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris,
01-42-22-59-58
Every day
except Tuesdays and holidays, 10h30-19h
Rates: 11
€ / 9 €
Until June
28, 2010