La Fondation Calvet is an art foundation in Avignon , France, named for Esprit Calvet , who left his collections and library to it in 1810. The foundation maintains several museums and two libraries, with support from the town. The original legacies of paintings, archaeological items, coins and medals, and medieval sculpture have been added to by many other legacies, and a significant deposit of works of art from the Louvre . The archaeological collections and medieval sculpture are now housed separately in the "Musée Lapidaire" - once the chapel of the Jesuit College. The main museum is in an 18th-century city mansion, to which modern buildings have been added; the Library bequeathed by Calvet, and the important collection of over 12,000 coins and medals, have moved to a different location in the city.
4-415: The foundation has changed its name on several occasions. It was initially called the "Bibliothèque Calvet", then the "Museum Calvet", then "Musée Calvet", and since 1985 the "Fondation Calvet". The foundation now manages seven museums, two libraries, and an important collection of coins and medals. In Avignon: In Cavaillon , 25 km southeast of Avignon: Local painters, including Pierre Parrocel and
8-729: Is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of Southeastern France . It is situated in the Durance Valley , at the foot of the Luberon mountains. Cavaillon was already a city in the Gallo-Roman period, and has several minor relics from that era, including a 1st century triumphal arch. Other minor relics of the Roman period have been found to the south of
12-823: The Mignard family , are especially well represented, as is Hubert Robert . Other painters include Josse Lieferinxe , Giorgio Vasari , Luca Giordano , Salvator Rosa , Frans Francken the Younger , Jan Brueghel the Younger , Sebastiano Ricci , Giovanni Paolo Pannini , Joseph Vernet , Jacques-Louis David , Alexis Leon Louis Valbrun , Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun , Théodore Géricault , Honoré Daumier , Camille Corot , Édouard Manet , Alfred Sisley , Maurice de Vlaminck and Chaïm Soutine . 43°56′49″N 4°48′12″E / 43.94694°N 4.80333°E / 43.94694; 4.80333 Cavaillon Cavaillon ( French pronunciation: [kavajɔ̃] ; Occitan : Cavalhon )
16-653: The town, on the site of the ancient Cabellio . It was the seat of the bishops of Cavaillon from the 4th century until the French Revolution. Saint Veran was bishop here in the 6th century, and the 12th-century cathedral is dedicated to him. In the Middle Ages Cavaillon was part of the Comtat Venaissin . Cavaillon is part of the Regional and Natural Park of Luberon ( parc naturel régional du Luberon ) in
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