Michel Pastoureau traces a journey full of blue, from Antiquity to the present days, ranging from lack of interest to the success of the blue colour in Europe. My contribution follows a more limited course in Ravenna, the fifth to sixth century, following a reverse path of the blue colour, from ‘success’ to ‘reverse’ … In the mosaics that decorate the oldest monuments of Ravenna, artists have used a wide range of pieces made of blue-coloured glass with many shades and tones, which are in a (...)
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The stages of the blue
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11. The 15th of November 2010. Research on the Blue in the Romanian literature
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12. December 15, 2010. Ravenna. Italy. Blue Colour and Light in the Mosaics of Ravenna.
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13. January 15, 2011. Bacău. Romania. Researches on the Blue Colour in the Romanian people’s Art
18 January 2011We believe and we do not exaggerate at all when saying that the blue feels like home in Romania. The multiple and constant presence of this colour in the lives of the Romanians and their ancestors is illustrated in this Pontic Danubian Carpathian land, one of the oldest civilizations of Europe. Is there anyone who has not heard yet, for example, talking about the mysterious ‘blue of Voronet’? No scientist has yet managed to learn with certainty about its origin or about the exact (...)
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14. 16 february 2011.Ravenna, IT The colour Blue: integral part of goldsmith’s art
18 February 2011The chromaticism was always a leading element in the creation and in a jewel project since Antiquity until our days. Whether it’s a jewel for the aristocracy, for the richest middle- class , whether it’s a popular work of not enough price, the jewel always exhorted the man who created it, the goldsmith who realized it, to colour it. In Fashion current World, which always saw the jewel as an accessory of clothing , the ornament color has to be in sintony with the style and the fabric of (...)
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15. 17 mach 2011. Saint-Germain-en-Laye. FR. Blue artistic tour in Ile- de- France ..
20 March 2011For the members of the association " Paysage et patrimoine sans frontière "the project " Langages du bleu " is the opportunity to discover the blues of their own city and country: the blue of France in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and in Paris and the" bleu Nabi" to the Maurice Denis Museum Royal blue, blue of France . The arms show a cot as a symbol that the French King Louis XIV was born in the town on the 5th of July 1638. The fleur-de-lis in the chief is the symbol of the Royal family (...)
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16. April 17, 2011. Saint-Germain-en-Laye. France. Blue Workshops
18 April 2011Within the framework of the closing meeting of the international conference of the Grundtvig project" The languages of the blue " held in Saint-Germain-en-Laye on 24-25 June 2011, courses and workshops were offered to the Association’s members, since March 2011.
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3 June 2011
17. 24-25 june 2011 An international event Saint Germain -en- Laye FR -
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19. 24-25 June 2011 Saint Germain en-Laye Closing International Symposium The languages of the blue Within the framework of the International Grundtvig Learning partnership The Languages of the blue . Creativity and interculturality , a two-year project coordinated by Aline Rutily see the images of the project , an event has been organized by the association "Paysage et patrimoine sans frontière "in Saint Germain- en- Laye with the partnership of the City, the National Archaeology Museum "Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye" and Maurice Denis Museum.
The event was held with the support of Emmanuel Lamy, Mayor of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Patrick Perin General Curator of Museum of Archaeology and National Public Domain Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Marta of Cidrac, Deputy- Mayor for Children, Isabelle Richard, Deputy- Mayor in charge of animation, civic life and tourism, Benoit Battistelli, Deputy- Mayor in charge of culture.
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20. Symposium 24-25 june 2011 (next )
16 September 2011Angela Sterpu Inspector Bacau presents the researchs of the colour blue in the Romanian literature, in collaboration with Olga Irimia Vasilica Petronela and Olga Chirciu Professors in Bacau . Elena Simionovici and Gabriela Platon, nuns of Voronet, one of the famous monasteries from southern Bukovina present the blues of the frescoes . The project Azul of Beliaev Cultural Centre Faro, illustrates both the choreographic project and the research on Portuguese tiles (...)
