In 1516 at aged 64 Leonardo da Vinci left Rome and traveled through France, armed with his sketchbooks and three of his most famous paintings: Mona Lisa, The Virgin and Child, with St. Anne and St. John the Baptist. Leonardo was invited by King Francis I to work at the Continue Reading
The threat from the sea is embedded in Saint Malo’s history and culture.Since the middle ages, Vikings and British armies would try to invade France from the sea. Located at the mouth of the Rance River, Saint Malo, had a strategic position. To protect the town from invasions by man Continue Reading
View from the Window at Le Gras is the oldest surviving camera photograph. It was created by French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 or 1827 at Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, France, and shows parts of the buildings and surrounding countryside of his estate, Le Gras. The buildings and objects showing in the Continue Reading
