Exhibition "The castle in painting"

Name: Exposición "El castillo en pintura"
Start: 2023-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Château de La Tour d'Aigues

"The castle in painting"

16 i 17 septiembre 2023Passed

"The castle in painting"

Exhibition of the painting workshop led by the artist Christian Debanne at the castle of La Tour d'Aigues and realized as part of the Erasmus exchanges between the CM2 of the Lucie Aubrac School of La Tour d'Aigues and the students of the 2 Romanian schools of Cluj-Napoca and Belis. View an excerpt

Types d'événement

Exposition

Thèmes 2023

Patrimoine vivant

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit

Type de public

Tout public

About the location

Château de La Tour d'Aigues

Château de La Tour d'Aigues 84240 La Tour-d'Aigues

Vaucluse
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

The castle of La Tour d'Aigues in Vaucluse, owned by the General Council, houses since 1987, a museum of earthenware. On the occasion of the restoration work of the castle, carried out by the General Council of Vaucluse, and the archaeological excavations carried out from 1976 to 1980, an important set of ceramics, glassware, pavement tiles was brought to light. La Tour d'Aigues was a pottery production centre during the second half of the 18th century thanks to» Jean-Baptiste-Jérôme BRUNY (1724-1795), owner of the castle. This descendant of a family of the great Marseilles bourgeoisie was a scholar, a lover of natural history, medicine, agronomy and a great lover of art. His entrepreneurial spirit, his curiosity, his taste for applied research led him to try various experiments in the most varied fields: thus he created a pottery in a bastide next to the castle, some of whose productions are in the museum. He surrounded himself with artists, researched engravings that could serve as m