This lovely mountain resort town is perched above the eastern end of
the beautiful Kadisha Gorge and at the foothills of the Cedars of Lebanon.
It is the brith place of Lebanon's most famous author
Khalil Gibran. It has a small museum which pays tribute to him.
Beiteddine palace was built over a period of thirty years by Emir Bechir Chehab II.
It's architecture reflects the typical oriental architecture of the 19th century Ottoman Era.
It is remarkable for its glamorous
arcades, multicolored mosaic floors, reception rooms, harems, hammams
and even by its guest house "Diyafa" where passing guests were lodged
(French poet Lamartine stayed once there).
Detail of the Sarcophagus of Ahiram, king of Byblos, seated
on a cherub throne, before an offering table, 13th century B.C (National Museum of Beirut).
Around 1200 B.C. the scribes of Byblos developed an alphabetic phonetic script, the precursor of our modern
alphabet. By 800 B.C., it had traveled to Greece, changing forever the way man communicated.
Located in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon, Baalbek is an ancient city
that has been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Originally
Canaanite (3rd century BC), the Assyrians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines,
and Arabs successively occupied Ba'albek and left their imprints on the
place, often modifying what existed previously.
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Art/Pablo Picasso
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Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso (1881-1973 ) was an Andalusian-Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. As one of the most recognized figures in twentieth-century art, he is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety...
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Art/Vincent Van Gogh
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Vincent Van Gogh Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890 ) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist. His paintings and drawings include some of the world's best known, most popular and most expensive pieces. The French Fauves, including Henri Matisse,...
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Art/Claude Monet
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Claude Monet Claude Monet (1840-1926 ) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to...
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Art/Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse Henri Matisse (1869-1954 ) was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid, brilliant and original draftsmanship. As a draftsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but principally as a painter, Matisse is one of the...
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Art/Wassily Kandinsky
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Wassily Kandinsky Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944 ) was a Russian painter, printmaker and art theorist. One of the most famous 20th-century artists, he is credited with painting the first modern abstract works. Settling in Munich, he taught at the...
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Art/Paul Cezanne
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Paul Cezanne Paul Cezanne (1839-1906 ) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in...
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Art/Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919 ) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is...
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Art/Diego Rivera
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Diego Rivera Diego Rivera (1886-1957 ) was a world-famous Mexican painter, an active Communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo, 1929-1939 and 1940-1954 (her death). Rivera's large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Renaissance....
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Art/Kahlil Gibran
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Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) Best known for literary works including The Prophet and Sand and Foam, Kahlil Gibran was also an accomplished visual artist. Born in Besharri, Lebanon, Gibran immigrated with his family to Boston’s South End in 1895....
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