What do you know about wine?

"Wine" by ~seamgrvs (deviantart.com)


1. Rioja is a wine from Spain, but what is Rioja? A region in northern Spain
2. The famous French wine Chablis is made from which grape variety? Exclusively from Chardonnay
3. To which great statesman do we owe this quote about champagne: "In victory, I deserve it, but in adversity, I need it"? Clemenceau
4. Which country is generally acknowledged to be the birthplace of wine? Georgia
5. Roughly how old are teh trees used for the best French barrels? 150 years old
6. Of the tour so-called basic flavors, only one is found very rarely in wine, which one? Salty; To describe the balance in a wine, three of the basic flavours are often used - sweet, acidic and bitter - which are combined differently depending on the style and type of wine. Salty are very rare.
7. Which spirits is not made from grape? Calvados; made from apples
8. Wine is made up essentially of: Roughly 85% is made of water; its not advisable however to drink it all day =0)

Source: Number Wine Magazine (Paris, France)
http://www.numberwine.eu/

Proof of Architecture as an Art Form...Tour Eiffel

Height (with dozens of radio and TV antennas on top): 324 meters
Weight: 10,100 tons
Paint: 60 tons each time, every 7 years

You can play peekaboo with the tower across the city...when you are not noticing....there she is!

Built by Gustave Eiffel for the Universal Exhibition in 1889, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution.

When the night falls....every hour the Tower twinkles its 20,000 bulbs for 10 minutes until 1am. Just when you though the tower was spectacular....falls the night and it wears its "formal" gown.

Erected in record time: 2 years, 2 months and 5 days... Today: Pari's symbol across the world.

Going up the Tour Eiffel inside one of its two elevators (they are both in one side of the metal structure). It was around 5:30pm - the sky's color.....proof of nature as an art form.

ANY subject for comparative treatment may be found in the... Louvre Museum (Paris, France)

My "Greek Adonis"

Don't know the name of one of my new favorite paintings - if you know they name, please add a comment. My translation? The wife's lover making her kill her husband so they can be together happily ever after....

Winged Victory of Samothrace: Greek Sculpture
She's standing on the prow of a ship overlooked the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on the island of Samothrace.

Eugène DELACROIX (Charenton-Saint-Maurice, 1798 – Paris, 1863) July 28: Liberty Leading the People - One of the most important French History Paintings

Italian Painting: Leonardo Davinci's Mona Lisa - Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo . Familiar?

The "most famous art peace of all times"

The Mona Lisa "constant paparazzi scene." Oil on popular wood; painted in Florence between 1503 and 1506.

Italian Paintings Wing

An Asian tourist mesmerized by the Cross

Sketching the sculpture to the right

The History of the Louvre Exhibition

How to Study Painting @ The Louvre?

- First look as a representation of such a given subject, for which a relatively fixed and conventional set of figures or accessories was prescribed by tradition. The number and minuteness of the prescribed accessories will grow upon you as you watch them.

- You have then to observe how each school as a whole treats such works ; what feeling it introduces, toward what sort of modification in style or tone it usually tends.

- Next, you must consider it relatively to its age, as exemplifying a particular stage in the progress of. the science and art of painting.

- Last of all you must carefully estimate what peculiarities are due to the taste, the temperament, the hand, and the technique of the individual artist.

Source: http://www.oldandsold.com/articles29/paris-info-13.shtml

The City Where Everybody Feels like an Artist...

Two Asian students were sketching Sculptures inside the Louvre Museum


Chilling out within Sculptures in the Louvre

Les artistes peintres de la Place du Tertre à Montmartre -

Montmartre is the artists' and bohemian quarter of the capital and is situated in the 18th arrondissemont or district of Paris, France.

Place du Tertre which is the place of artists and the vibrant heart of Montmartre, is in close proximity to the Basillica of Sacre Coeur, itself the crown on the hill or 'Butte Montmartre'.

Sketching the sculpture to the right (not in picture) inside the Louvre

The City that Inspires...