La Foret du Mount Beuvray

by Belinda Low

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20.000 x 16.000 x 0.200 inches

Title

La Foret du Mount Beuvray

Artist

Belinda Low

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Painting - Acrylic On Canvas

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FEATURED in the following FAA groups:
Impressionism
Bedroom Art Gallery
Painting the Old Way
Vivid Beautiful Art
All Natural Beauty of this World
Anything Van Goghs
Images That Excite You
Exclusively Drawings and Paintings
Peopleless Scenic Landscape Paintings
Created by my Hands non-Digital

A magical forest - when I walked around, I felt I was in some kind of fantasy land. It's absolutely unreal. The light seeps through the trees and they were like dancing and alive! I decided to paint this and this is my second forest painting after the one I did in Sweden two years ago. Some info extracted from Wikipedia:
Bibracte, a Gallic oppidum or fortified settlement, was the capital of the Aedui and one of the most important hillforts in Gaul. It was situated near modern Autun in Burgundy, France. The material culture of the Aedui corresponded to the Late Iron Age La Tène culture.

In 58 BC, at the Battle of Bibracte, Julius Caesar's armies defeated the Helvetii 16 miles south of the fort. In 52 BC, Vercingetorix was proclaimed head of the Gaulish coalition at Bibracte. A few decades after the Roman conquest of Gaul, Bibracte was abandoned in favour of Autun, 25 kilometres away. Once abandoned, Bibracte remained undisturbed and unexamined until discovered by modern archaeology.

Jacques Gabriel Bulliot initiated the first excavations at the site between 1867 and 1895. His nephew Joseph Déchelette, author of a famous Manuel d'Archéologie, continued the excavations between 1897 and 1907.

The modern site known as Mont Beuvray is generally identified as ancient Bibracte. The site straddles the borders of the French départements of Nièvre and Saône-et-Loire in Burgundy. The site is an archaeological park at the centre of a protected forest. It is the focus of cooperative European archaeological efforts, a training ground for young archaeologists, and a centre for interpreting Gaulish culture for a popular audience. Important international excavations have been undertaken at Mont Beuvray by teams from the universities of Sheffield, Kiel, Budapest, Vienna and Leipzig.

On December 12, 2007, the site of Bibracte received the "Great Site of France" Label.

Before the Roman conquest in 52 BC the great Celtic city of Bibracte had more than thirty thousand inhabitants.[1] protected by a huge stone wall of the Murus Gallicus type enclosing an area of 135 hectares.[2]

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