Szia,
Ma befejezzük heti témánkat, amely során a vidámparkok és a cirkusz világát jártuk körbe. Ígértem hét elején, hogy a kirándulásunk utolsó állomásáról (amely szintén a témába vág) is lesz szó, így ma a híres Madame Tussauds panoptikumról lesz szó. Sokan nem tudják, hogy Budapestről már alig két és fél óra alatt is el lehet jutni a legközelebbi panoptikumba, hiszen tavasszal megnyitotta kapuit Bécsben, a Práterben a legújabb viaszfigura gyűjtemény.
A mai leckéből kiderül ki is volt valójában Madame Tussauds, hogyan lett viaszfigura készítő, és hogy melyik a legrégebbi, ma is látható szobor.
Ha kíváncsi vagy a mi saját képeinkre, amiket itt készítettünk, akkor a fotógalériát itt tekintheted meg:
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Jó tanulást és kellemes hétvégét kívánok!
MAI LECKE
MADAME TUSSAUDS WAX MUSEUM
Madame Tussauds is a wax museum in London with branches in a number of major cities. It was founded by wax sculptor Marie Tussaud and was formerly known as "Madame Tussaud’s", but the apostrophe is no longer used (though it still appears in some signage at the New York location). Madame Tussauds is a major tourist attraction in London, displaying waxworks of historical and royal figures, film stars, sports stars and famous murderers.
HISTORY
Marie Tussaud, was born Anna Maria Grosholtz (1761–1850) in Strasbourg, France. Her mother worked as a housekeeper for Dr. Philippe Curtius in Bern, Switzerland, who was a physician skilled in wax modelling. Curtius taught Tussaud the art of wax modelling.
Tussaud created her first wax figure, of Voltaire, in 1777. Other famous people she modelled at that time include Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Benjamin Franklin. During the French Revolution she modelled many prominent victims. In her memoirs she claims that she would search through corpses to find the decapitated heads of executed citizens, from which she would make death masks.
Following the doctor’s death in 1794, she inherited his vast collection of wax models and spent the next 33 years travelling around Europe. Her marriage to François Tussaud in 1795 lent a new name to the show: Madame Tussaud’s.
As a result of the Franco-British war, she was unable to return to France, so she travelled throughout Great Britain and Ireland exhibiting her collection. From 1831 she took a series of short leases on the upper floor of "Baker Street Bazaar" (on the west side of Baker Street between Dorset Street and King Street), which became Tussaud’s first permanent home in 1836.
By 1835 Marie had settled down in Baker Street, London, and opened a museum. One of the main attractions of her museum was the Chamber of Horrors. This part of the exhibition included victims of the French Revolution and newly created figures of murderers and other criminals.
Some of the sculptures done by Marie Tussaud herself still exist. The gallery originally contained some 400 different figures, but fire damage in 1925, coupled with German bombs in 1941, has rendered most of these older models defunct. The casts themselves have survived (allowing the historical waxworks to be remade), and these can be seen in the museum’s history exhibit. The oldest figure on display is that of Madame du Barry. Other ancient faces from the time of Tussaud include Robespierre, George III and Benjamin Franklin. In 1842, she made a self portrait which is now on display at the entrance of her museum. She died in her sleep on 15 April 1850.
wax – viasz
branch – ág, ágazat, fiók
wax sculptor – viasz szobrász
formerly – korábban, régebben
housekeeper – házvezetőnő
physician – orvos, belgyógyász
to be skilled in – valamire képzett, szakképzett
corps – holttest, tetem
decapitated head – levágott fej
executed citizen – kivégzett állampolgár
death mask – halotti maszk
to inherit – örököl
vast collection – hatalmas gyűjtemény
short lease on … – rövidtávú bérleti szerződés
permanent home – állandó otthon
to settle down – letelepedik
attraction – látványosság
Chamber of Horrors – horror kamra
exhibition – kiállítás
to include – magába foglal
victim – áldozat
to exist – létezik
to contain – tartalmaz
to render – valamilyenné tesz, fordít
defunct – elhunyt, kihalt
cast – minta, öntvény
to survive – túlél
historical waxworks– történelmi viaszfigurák
to be remade – újraalkotva lenni
self portrait – önarckép
on display – kiállítva
