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33-583: It is home to one part of the Swiss National Museum . There are other parts are in Zurich and Schwyz . At Prangins, the displays focus mainly on daily life in the castle and the region. There are also displays relating to Swiss history, as well as temporary exhibitions and cultural events. There is a café, serving drinks, snacks and lunch. The terrace has views of Lake Geneva and the Alps. Prangins Castle has been

66-662: A Protestant monastic order. In 1920, Horace de Pourtalès, then working at the League of Nations in Geneva. In 1929, Josephine Dexter bought Prangins for her daughter, Katharine McCormick . In 1962, the castle was passed to the government of the US. It was intended to be the residence of their ambassador to the United Nations . Instead, in 1970, it was sold to Bernard Cornfeld, administrator of IOS (Investment Overseas Services). At around this time,

99-578: A Swiss National Museum. A great deal of renovation work was required, and the museum opened in 1998. Swiss National Museum The Swiss National Museum ( German : Landesmuseum ), part of the Musée Suisse Group , itself affiliated with the Federal Office of Culture , is located in the city of Zürich , Switzerland's largest city, next to the Hauptbahnhof . The museum building of 1898 in

132-508: A journal detailing the daily life of the region. Over the following 15 years, he filled 7 volumes. His writings form a key part of the current museum offering. His son and heir, Charles-Jules, became a general in the Swiss army . In 1814, he sold the castle to Joseph Bonaparte , the elder brother of Napoleon Bonaparte . From 1873 to 1920, the castle was used as a school by the Frères Moraves ,

165-560: A reliance on visual rhetoric , including the elaborate use of allegory and mythology . There are a number of French artists in this period including the painter Jean Fouquet of Tours (who achieved realistic portraits and remarkable illuminated manuscripts ) and the sculptors Jean Goujon and Germain Pilon . Late Mannerism and early Baroque Henry IV invited the artists Toussaint Dubreuil , Martin Fréminet and Ambroise Dubois to work on

198-405: A seat of power for centuries. The first record of the domain is from 1096. The current building dates from 1732, and has been extensively restored and furnished in the original style. The gardens are particularly unusual as they include an extensive sunken kitchen garden which has been replanted to match its original 18th century organisation. An earlier building on the site was destroyed in 1293 by

231-528: Is associated with the pan-European Renaissance , a word first used by the French historian Jules Michelet to define the artistic and cultural "rebirth" of Europe. Notable developments during the French Renaissance include the spread of humanism , early exploration of the "New World" (as New France by Giovanni da Verrazzano and Jacques Cartier ); the development of new techniques and artistic forms in

264-772: The Château d'Amboise and provided him with the Château du Clos Lucé , then called Château de Cloux, as a place to stay and work. Leonardo, a famous painter and inventor, arrived with three of his paintings, namely the Mona Lisa , Sainte Anne , and Saint Jean Baptiste , today owned by the Louvre museum of Paris . The art of the period from Francis I through Henry IV is often inspired by late Italian pictorial and sculptural developments commonly referred to as Mannerism (associated with Michelangelo and Parmigianino , among others), characterized by figures which are elongated and graceful and

297-490: The Dukes of Savoy . It was rebuilt and changed hands repeatedly over the coming centuries. Nicholas de Diesbach enlarged the property in 1613. His family ceded the property to Emilie de Nassau in 1627. The demesne was sold in 1656. It was sold again in 1719, this time to Jean Rieu, a Genevan citizen and a Paris banker. Four years later, in 1723, he passed it on to another Paris banker, Louis Guiguer  [ fr ] . Guiger, who

330-573: The Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520 for the most magnificent musical entertainment; likely the event was directed by Jean Mouton , one of the most famous motet composers of the early 16th century after Josquin. By far the most significant contribution of France to music in the Renaissance period was the chanson . The chanson was a variety of secular song, of highly varied character, and which included some of

363-582: The Limmat through the city of Zürich at the Swiss National Museum. [REDACTED] Media related to Landesmuseum Zürich at Wikimedia Commons 47°22′45″N 8°32′23″E  /  47.37917°N 8.53972°E  / 47.37917; 8.53972 French Renaissance The French Renaissance was the cultural and artistic movement in France between the 15th and early 17th centuries. The period

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396-672: The Lumière brothers . The exhibition tour takes the visitor from prehistory through ancient times and the Middle Ages to the 20th century (classic modern art and art of the 16th, 17th and 18th century is settled mainly in the Kunsthaus Museum in a different part of the city of Zürich). There is a very rich section with gothic art , chivalry and a comprehensive collection of liturgical wooden sculptures, panel paintings and carved altars. Zunfthaus zur Meisen near Fraumünster church houses

429-457: The Swiss National Museum wanted to transfer part of its collection to a suitable location in the French-speaking region of Switzerland. Prangins Castle seemed ideal. The Swiss federal government balked at the sale price, then CHF 2.5 million. The property was purchased by the cantonal governments of Vaud and Geneva on 19 July 1974. A year later, it was given to the federal government to become

462-506: The château of Fontainebleau and they are typically called the second School of Fontainebleau . Marie de' Medici , Henry IV's queen, invited the Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens to France , and the artist painted a number of large-scale works for the queen's Luxembourg Palace in Paris. Another Flemish artist working for the court was Frans Pourbus the younger . Outside France, working for

495-529: The historicist style was built by Gustav Gull in the form of the French Renaissance city chateaus . His impressive architecture with dozens of towers, courts and his astonishing park on a peninsula between the rivers Sihl and Limmat has become one of the main sights of the Old City district of Zürich. Its inauguration was filmed by François-Henri Lavanchy-Clarke , the first non-french concessionary of

528-543: The 16th-century Renaissance in France as a period in Europe's cultural history that represented a break from the Middle Ages, creating a modern understanding of humanity and its place in the world. As a French citizen and historian, Michelet also claimed the Renaissance as a French movement. In the late 15th century, the French invasion of Italy and the proximity of the vibrant Burgundy court (with its Flemish connections) brought

561-590: The French into contact with the goods, paintings, and the creative spirit of the Northern and Italian Renaissance , and the initial artistic changes in France were often carried out by Italian and Flemish artists, such as Jean Clouet and his son François Clouet and the Italians Rosso Fiorentino , Francesco Primaticcio and Niccolò dell'Abbate of the first School of Fontainebleau (from 1531). In 1516, Francis I of France invited Leonardo da Vinci to

594-532: The French royal and aristocratic courts, as well as the major centers of church music . For the most part French composers of the time shunned the sombre colors of the Franco-Flemish style and strove for clarity of line and structure, and, in secular music such as the chanson , lightness, singability, and popularity. Guillaume Du Fay and Gilles Binchois are two notable examples from the Burgundian school during

627-562: The Protestant sympathizers among them) produced a variation of the chanson known as the chanson spirituelle , which was like the secular song but was fitted with a religious or moralizing text. Claude Goudimel , a Protestant composer most noted for his Calvinist-inspired psalm settings, was murdered in Lyon during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre . However, not only Protestant composers were killed during

660-734: The Renaissance arrived in France earlier (for example, by way of the Burgundy court or the papal court in Avignon ); however, the Black Death of the 14th century and the Hundred Years' War kept France economically and politically weak until the late 15th century. The word renaissance is a French word, whose literal translation into English is "rebirth". The term was first used and defined by French historian Jules Michelet in his 1855 work Histoire de France (History of France). Jules Michelet defined

693-586: The chanson was the style of musique mesurée , as exemplified in the work of Claude Le Jeune : in this type of chanson, based on developments by the group of poets known as the Pléiade under Jean-Antoine de Baïf , the musical rhythm exactly matched the stress accents of the verse, in an attempt to capture some of the rhetorical effect of music in Ancient Greece (a coincident, and apparently unrelated movement in Italy at

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726-418: The dukes of Lorraine , one finds a very different late mannerist style in the artists Jacques Bellange , Claude Deruet and Jacques Callot . Having little contact with the French artists of the period, they developed a heightened, extreme, and often erotic mannerism (including night scenes and nightmare images), and excellent skill in etching . One of the greatest accomplishments of the French Renaissance

759-492: The early Renaissance period. The most renowned composer in Europe, Josquin des Prez , worked for a time in the court of Louis XII , and likely composed some of his most famous works there (his first setting of Psalm 129, De profundis , was probably written for the funeral of Louis XII in 1515). Francis I, who became king that year, made the creation of an opulent musical establishment a priority. His musicians went with him on his travels, and he competed with Henry VIII at

792-521: The fields of printing, architecture , painting, sculpture, music, the sciences and literature ; and the elaboration of new codes of sociability, etiquette and discourse. The French Renaissance traditionally extends from (roughly) the 1494 French invasion of Italy during the reign of Charles VIII until the 1610 death of Henry IV , with an apex during the 1515–1559 reigns of Francis I and Henry II . This chronology notwithstanding, certain artistic, technological or literary developments associated with

825-565: The form of canals, cascades and monumental fountains, and extensive use of artificial grottes , labyrinths and statues of mythological figures. They became an extension of the chateaux that they surrounded, and were designed to illustrate the Renaissance ideals of measure and proportion. Burgundy , the mostly French -speaking area unified with the Kingdom of France in 1477. Many of the most famous musicians in Europe either came from Burgundy, or went to study with composers there; in addition there

858-457: The most overwhelmingly popular music of the 16th century: indeed many chansons were sung all over Europe. The chanson in the early 16th century was characterised by a dactylic opening (long, short-short) and contrapuntal style which was later adopted by the Italian canzona , the predecessor of the sonata . Typically chansons were for three or four voices, without instrumental accompaniment, but

891-401: The most popular examples were inevitably made into instrumental versions as well. Famous composers of these "Parisian" chansons included Claudin de Sermisy and Clément Janequin . Janequin's La guerre , written to celebrate the French victory at Marignano in 1515, imitates the sounds of cannon, the cries of the wounded, and the trumpets signaling advance and retreat. A later development of

924-621: The porcelain and faience collection of the Swiss National Museum. There are also: a Collections Gallery, a place where Swiss furnishings are exhibited, an Armoury Tower, a diorama of the Battle of Murten , and a Coin Cabinet showing 14th, 15th, 16th century Swiss coins and even some coins from the Middle Ages. The boats of the Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft start their round trips (Swiss National Museum– Wollishofen – Zürichhorn ) on

957-604: The same time was known as the Florentine Camerata ). Towards the end of the 16th century the chanson was gradually replaced by the air de cour , the most popular song type in France in the early 17th century. The era of religious wars had a profound effect on music in France. Influenced by Calvinism , the Protestants produced a type of sacred music much different from the elaborate Latin motets written by their Catholic counterparts. Both Protestants and Catholics (especially

990-969: The west of the Louvre, Catherine de' Medici had built for her the Tuileries palace with extensive gardens and a grotte . The ascension of Henry IV of France to the throne brought a period of massive urban development in Paris , including construction on the Pont Neuf , the Place des Vosges (called the "Place Royale"), the Place Dauphine , and parts of the Louvre (amongst which the Great Gallery). French Renaissance gardens were characterized by symmetrical and geometric planting beds or parterres ; plants in pots; paths of gravel and sand; terraces; stairways and ramps; moving water in

1023-470: Was considerable interchange between the Burgundian court musical establishment and French courts and ecclesiastical organizations in the late 15th century. The Burgundian style gave birth to the Franco-Flemish style of polyphony which dominated European music in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. However, by the end of the 15th century, a French national character was becoming distinct in music of

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1056-547: Was originally from the canton of St Gallen , built the palace you see today. The building on the site was probably close to a ruin. The castle was inherited by Guiger's nephew, Jean-George. He gave Voltaire , who was then exiled from France, the use of the property. In 1755 Jean-George Guiguer  [ fr ] came to live at Prangins. He commissioned the temple and improved the gardens. After his death, Prangins passed to his son, Louis-François Guiguer de Prangins  [ fr ] . Starting in 1771, Louis-François kept

1089-556: Was the construction of the Châteaux of the Loire Valley : no longer conceived of as fortresses, these pleasure palaces took advantage of the richness of the rivers and lands of the Loire region and they show remarkable architectural skill. The old Louvre castle in Paris was also rebuilt under the direction of Pierre Lescot and would become the core of a brand new Renaissance château . To

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