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TOUR DESCRIPTION
Entering Normandy, you will visit Claude Monet's home,
the "Father of Impressionism". Discover the famous gardens created by the impressionist
painter, and the well known Japanese bridge in the midst of its flowered paths
and wather-lily ponds. During this tour, you will also have the opportunity to
visit the "Musée des Impressionismes Giverny".
"Claude Monet's property at Giverny, left by his
son to the Académie des Beaux-arts in 1966, has, after completion of large scale
restoration work, become the Claude Monet Foundation, inaugurated in 1980. The
house, with its pink crushed brick façade, where the leader of the Impressionist
School lived from 1883 to 1926, once again has its colourful décor and intimate
charin of former times. The precious collection of Japanese engravings
is displayed in several rooms, hung in the marmer chosen by the master of Giverny
himself.
The huge Nymphéas studio, a stone's throw from
the house, has also been restored. It contains the Foundation's Shop. The gardens
have been replanted as they once were and offer for the admiration of visitors
the "painting from nature" which Claude Monet's contemporaries considered one
of his masterpieces. The rectangular Clos Normand, with archways of climbing
plants entwined around brilliantly coloured shrubs, lies before the house and
studios, offering from Spring to Autumn the palette of varying colours to the
painter-gardner who was "ecstatic about flowers". Lastly, the Water Garden,
formed by a tributary of the Epte, lies further away, shaded by weeping willows.
With its famous Japanese Bridge, its wistarias, azaleas and its pond, it has
once more become that casket of sky and water which inspired the pictorial universe
of the water lilies." Content: extract
from a brochure of Fondation Claude Monet.
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