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La Fondation Calvet is an art foundation in Avignon, France, named for Esprit Calvet, who left his collections and library to it in 1810. The foundation maintains several museums and two libraries, with support from the town. The original legacies of paintings, archaeological items, coins and medals, and medieval sculpture have been added to by many other legacies, and a significant deposit of works of art from the Louvre. The archaeological collections and medieval sculpture are now housed separately in the "Musée Lapidaire" - once the chapel of the Jesuit College. The main museum is in an 18th-century city mansion, to which modern buildings have been added; the Library bequeathed by Calvet, and the important collection of over 12,000 coins and medals, have moved to a different location i

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  • La Fondation Calvet is an art foundation in Avignon, France, named for Esprit Calvet, who left his collections and library to it in 1810. The foundation maintains several museums and two libraries, with support from the town. The original legacies of paintings, archaeological items, coins and medals, and medieval sculpture have been added to by many other legacies, and a significant deposit of works of art from the Louvre. The archaeological collections and medieval sculpture are now housed separately in the "Musée Lapidaire" - once the chapel of the Jesuit College. The main museum is in an 18th-century city mansion, to which modern buildings have been added; the Library bequeathed by Calvet, and the important collection of over 12,000 coins and medals, have moved to a different location in the city. The foundation has changed its name on several occasions. It was initially called the "Bibliothèque Calvet", then the "Museum Calvet", then "Musée Calvet", and since 1985 the "Fondation Calvet". The foundation now manages seven museums, two libraries, and an important collection of coins and medals. In Avignon: * Bibliothèque Calvet, the main library, housed since 1986 in part of what was once a cardinal's palace, the Livrée Ceccano * Musée Calvet, the main art gallery, housed in an 18th-century city mansion (a hôtel particulier), the Hôtel de Villeneuve-Martignan * Médaillier Calvet, a collection of coins and medals * Musée Lapidaire, a collection of sculptures and archeological finds, housed in what was once the chapel of a Jesuit college * Museum et Bibliothèque Requien, a natural history museum * Musée du Petit Palais, a collection of medieval and renaissance paintings In Cavaillon, 25 km southeast of Avignon: * Musée Archéologique de l'Hôtel-Dieu * Musées Jouve et Juif Comtadin Local painters, including Pierre Parrocel and the Mignard family, are especially well represented, as is Hubert Robert. Other painters include Josse Lieferinxe, Giorgio Vasari, Luca Giordano, Salvator Rosa, Frans Francken the Younger, Jan Brueghel the Younger, Sebastiano Ricci, Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Joseph Vernet, Jacques-Louis David, Alexis Leon Louis Valbrun, Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Théodore Géricault, Honoré Daumier, Camille Corot, Édouard Manet, Alfred Sisley, Maurice de Vlaminck and Chaïm Soutine. (en)
  • La Fondation Calvet est une institution créée il y a plus de deux siècles. Situé à Avignon, cet établissement public autonome est le fruit de la volonté d'Esprit Calvet. Grand collectionneur et physiocrate de formation, il consacre sa vie entière à la médecine et aux arts. Animé par la générosité et une exigence spirituelle, il lègue l'intégralité de ses biens à l'institution qui allait porter son nom. Constituée comme fondation par Napoléon Ier en 1811, organisée par le Conseil d'État en 1823, 1831 et 1832, appelée initialement bibliothèque Calvet, puis Museum Calvet, puis musée Calvet, et depuis 1985 à nouveau Fondation Calvet. La Fondation Calvet est chargée de la gestion d'un patrimoine artistique. C'est aussi l'un des premiers établissements à avoir donné naissance au concept de musée. Sa raison d'être : administrer et développer le patrimoine mobilier et immobilier laissé par la succession d'Esprit Calvet et les donateurs qui l'ont ensuite imité. La Fondation gère un fonds mobilier et immobilier : immeubles, collections, œuvres d'art, bibliothèques. Les donations et legs se sont succédé par milliers depuis 1811, de provenance locale et internationale (Avignon, Provence, Paris, Champagne, Italie, Grande-Bretagne, Japon...). (fr)
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  • La Fondation Calvet is an art foundation in Avignon, France, named for Esprit Calvet, who left his collections and library to it in 1810. The foundation maintains several museums and two libraries, with support from the town. The original legacies of paintings, archaeological items, coins and medals, and medieval sculpture have been added to by many other legacies, and a significant deposit of works of art from the Louvre. The archaeological collections and medieval sculpture are now housed separately in the "Musée Lapidaire" - once the chapel of the Jesuit College. The main museum is in an 18th-century city mansion, to which modern buildings have been added; the Library bequeathed by Calvet, and the important collection of over 12,000 coins and medals, have moved to a different location i (en)
  • La Fondation Calvet est une institution créée il y a plus de deux siècles. Situé à Avignon, cet établissement public autonome est le fruit de la volonté d'Esprit Calvet. Grand collectionneur et physiocrate de formation, il consacre sa vie entière à la médecine et aux arts. Animé par la générosité et une exigence spirituelle, il lègue l'intégralité de ses biens à l'institution qui allait porter son nom. La Fondation Calvet est chargée de la gestion d'un patrimoine artistique. C'est aussi l'un des premiers établissements à avoir donné naissance au concept de musée. (fr)
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