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Private tour in Bordeaux François-Rémy R
Fine Arts Museum of Bordeaux (permanent collection highlight tour)
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François-Rémy, at your service: PhD, art historian, and no ordinary guide. I would be honoured to give you a tour you will never forget! Discover Bordeaux’s Essentials with a focus on monuments and historical anecdotes. If you fear my speech is a specialized mumbo jumbo, be reassured, because I made it delightful, pragmatic and well-balanced between entertainment and erudition. What to expect? Strolling from one monument to another and commenting on them with merry and expert reports. I love to illustrate my comments with many high-quality printed images, revealing details of monuments and enriching the experience. Thanks to my photographs and deep archivist research, I have many engaging documents you will appreciate at my disposal. I devoted my life to art and history because of people’s indifference towards heritage and museums. However, learning how to look and understand the world can delight life. Searching relentlessly in historical sources made me the witness of a vivid but forgotten world that I love to resurrect. My guiding experience started in 2014 when I was a volunteer guide in the churches of Bordeaux. After being a guide for several museums, I passed an art history master’s degree and a PhD in heraldic stained glass windows in the churches of Bordeaux and Gironde. I also teach art history in a private school and give regular lectures for academic societies and cultural events. Bordelais since 1991. Graduated in 2024 from the prestigious École Pratiques des Hautes Études (Paris). Specialties: local history, heraldry, symbols and emblems, iconography, ornamentation, and architecture. Hobbies and interests: worshipper of the Muses (music, poetry, fine art, reading everything I can), museum junkie, guide in other worlds by being game master for role play, basketball, and table tennis (you know what they say… mens sana in corpore sano).
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Overview of your Bordeaux tour
An authentic art historian guides you through the ages and learn you how to look. The selected works cover a variety of subjects and styles : High Renaissance Perugino painting looted by French Revolution at war ; Dutch Still lifes ; Panoramic cityscape of Bordeaux getting XVIIIth century back to life ; Portraits of Bordeaux’s nobility ; romanticism and the crown jewel of the museum : Greece over the ruins of Missolonghi by Eugène Delacroix ; Academism ; landscapes and animals, statues and ornaments to Expressionism and abstraction. The tour also includes a walk into the garden of the cityhall that connects the two wings of the museum. Such garden is the remain of a much larger one at the time the cityhall was the Palace of the archbishop Mériadec de Rohan during XVIIIth century. Get inspired by the greatest artworks of the collection and discover Bordeaux through a unique perspective !
Your Bordeaux tour itinerary
Introduction and walk in the park First wing : XVth century to XVIIIth century Hall of statues and Muses ornaments Second wing : XIXth century to XXth century
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Type: Walking
Walking tour in the garden and the museum. Access for wheelchairs. The museum can provide foldable chairs if needed.
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20 Cours d'Albret, Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, 33000, France
On a bench in the right wing of the park.
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