Culture in Yvelines

The department of the Yvelines is ground of a cultural and literary tradition.

Archaeological inheritance

See also: Monuments megalithic of Yvelines

Built inheritance

Civil architecture

The territory of Yvelines, by its history and its proximity of the Capital is a ground of castles. The Middle Ages remain of rare vestiges of the many strong castles of the local lords, but starting from the reign of Louis XIII, the west of Paris was sought by the noble and easy families, to start with the royal family which settled in Versailles. This tendency continued until our days when Yvelines are the residential suburbs par excellence and where famous architects illustrated themselves in the construction of villas or industrial buildings.

The Middle Ages

The Château of the Madeleine to Chevreuse is best preserved old fortresses of Yvelines. It currently shelters the seat of the Regional natural park of the high valley of Chevreuse. But one can still see several keeps, more or less ruined.

Rebirth

XVIIe and 18th century

19th century

20th century

The new City of Saint-Quentin-in-Yvelines, currently gathering seven communes (Élancourt, Guyancourt, the Canopy, Magny-the-Hamlets, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, Trap doors and Neighbors-the-Bretonneux) within the framework of a community of agglomeration, was the framework of a renewal of architecture. It received the label Ville of art and history allotted by the Ministère of the Culture. One finds there in particular two units emblematic: With Trap doors, are also the Teeth of Saw, quoted working cheminote built in 1931 by the architect Henri and André Gutton, registered with the historic buildings in 1992.

Yvelines count unquestionable a number of “villas” representative of architecture mmoderne since the years 1930, of which:

Religious architecture

  • Church Holy-Therese-in-the Child-Jesus d' Élisabethville (Aubergenville), one of the first churches in Concrete built in France.

Cultural life: the book and writing

Poets

Historians

Writers

Library-media libraries and departmental records

Music, dance, theater

Music

  • the Batterie of Herdsmen to Guyancourt built in 1879 was transformed into 2006 out of Coffee Musics: .

Theater

Dance

Arts of the street

Drawings, paintings, sculptures, earthenware

Painters

See also: Paintings on Yvelines

There many painters took as a starting point the landscapes of Yvelines, in particular the valley of the Seine, and often came to live, in particular with the development of the railroads starting from the middle of the XIXe century.

Corot, which began its career of painter with City-with Avray where his/her parents resided, attended Mantes-the-Pretty of which it painted the monuments, the old bridge and the Collégiale.

In the years 1830, William Turner attends the area of Yvelines where it carries out many sketches preserved at British Museum or in Tate Gallery.

In 1845, Ernest Meissonnier, academic painter , settles with Poissy and becomes mayor about it thereafter.

The school of Cernay, which is attached to the school of Barbizon, gathers painters landscape designers who attended Be worth-with-Cernay. Leon Germain Lawn is the leader.

The Impressionnistes were illustrated throughout the Seine towards the end of the XIXe century. Claude Monet initially painted with Bennecourt close to Bonnières which he attended in company of Emile Zola. It settles then with Bougival to approach Renoir which resided at Louveciennes. They paint with Marly-the-King and attend the “Snap fastener”, guinguette installed on a floating pontoon in the island of the Roadway to the Croissy-on-Seine. Thereafter it will settle successively in Argenteuil, then in Vétheuil, Poissy and finally with Giverny, all bordering localities of the Seine. Pissaro remains in Louveciennes, Sisley in Marly where it paints the floods with Port-Marly in 1876.

Andre Derain and Vlaminck, which remained with Chatou, is attached to the Fauvisme.

Maurice Denis, leader of the Nabis, was the painter of Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer where its house was transformed into museum on the initiative of the General advice.

From 1936, Maurice Utrillo, affected by alcoholism, saw seventeen years recluse with the Vésinet where it continues to paint under the monitoring of his wife, Lucie Valore.

Raymond Renefer, draftsman, illustrator of the First World War, is the painter of Andrésy.

The painters of Mantois are Maximilien Luce which knew one period pointillist and Alfred Veillet, post-impressionist. They are both installed with Rolleboise in 1927. Many fabrics of Luce are preserved at the museum of the Hospital at Mantes-the-Pretty.

Certain communes of Yvelines created “ways of the Impressionists” marked out of reproduction of tables of the large impressionists on the same spot where they were painted. it is the case with Louveciennes. Last nine bordering communes of the Seine, the Career-on-Seine, Chatou, the Croissy-on-Seine, Bougival, Louveciennes, Marly-the-King, the Port-Marly, Pecq and Noisy-the-King, created in 2001 the label “Country of the Impressionists” to maintain the cultural heritage left by the Impressionists. Between Mantes-the-Pretty and Limetz-Villez, the “course of the Impressionists” follows the trace of Monet, Cézanne, Sisley and Renoir.

Sculptors

  • Philolaos carried out the garden of Gogottes in the district of Villaroy with Guyancourt. Gogottes are animals imagined by the sculptor Tloupas Philolaos while taking as a starting point a book of Babar. A wire of stainless steel connecting Gogottes make it possible to saunter in the garden. With proximity, the frontages of the buildings which surround part of the garden of Gogottes are decorated caryatids inspired of Venus de Milo (architect: Manolo Nunez-Yanowsky).
  • Marta Pan integrated its monumental sculptures, the Prospect, in the architecture of the public spaces located Boulevard Vauban at Guyancourt. With its arcs of circle and its dancing waters, the Prospect connects the commercial district of Saint Quentin with the Park of the Sources of the Beaver, drawn by the artist Dani Karavan in 2000. The park of the Sources is, as for him, the green hyphen of the districts of the Park, the Willows and the Wild rabbits.

    See also: Park of the Sources of the Beaver

Museums

National museums

Other museums

Festivals

Visual arts

Notes and references of the article

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