This unique home is for sale in England, and the Savills and Knight Frank website has some great photos of the surroundings and its authentic British interior. But what makes this house stand out and evoke emotional responses is its connection to Jane Austen. Linked to the entire Jane Austen family, this 1820s Georgian house is up for sale for £8.5 million.

Located in the village of Steventon, near Basington, Hampshire in England, it has six bedrooms. What is special is that on the same spot stood the 16th century house where Jane Austen was born.

When her father grew up and decided to move the family to Bath in 1801, one of Jane Austen’s brothers later decided to demolish the ancestral home (which by the standards of the time was just a dilapidated and dysfunctional home). On the site of a 16th-century house, he built what stands today, an 1820 house that was modern and functional by the standards of its time (he eventually sold the new house in 1855 to the second Duke of Wellington).

Austen, in this part of the English countryside, while the old ancestral home still existed, conceived her entire universe. The surrounding area, the architecture of houses and estates – that’s what you can find in her books. This is the real England of the beginning of the 19th century, provincial townspeople, at the historical crossroads of urban transformation and industrialization (when the first factory chimney rose on the horizon of the English countryside, the world had already changed).

Jane Austen experiences these vibrations in her novels. In her ancestral home, as a teenager, she designed three of her most important books, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, and Sense and Sensibility, and from an early age she wrote and commentated. He lived in the old house for 25 years.

In the works of 2011, the foundations of the ancestral home were revealed, as well as a broken plate made of blue and white porcelain. Jane Austen’s family lived the simple life of a country family.

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DUBLIN
Acquisition of Cezanne

The National Gallery of Ireland acquired Paul Cezanne’s Life in the Fields and added to its art collections in Europe. This is the first work of Cezanne, which became the property of the Irish state. The purchase was made possible thanks to public funds and private sponsorship. Life in the Fields was created in 1877 in Provence. Its acquisition has been considered important to Ireland and is believed to be a model for future art purchases.

VEIN
sissy dress

The “mysterious dress” of Princess Elisabeth, known as Sissi, is on display at the Imperial Carriage Museum in Vienna until 5 November. Her wedding dress has been extensively restored and is on display for the first time since the “tail” was discovered in 1989. , which was discovered again in 2021, there is a complete set.

NORTH CAROLINA
House of Nina Simone

The log home in North Carolina where Nina Simone was born and raised in 1933 is now a national monument. In 2017, now in ruins, it was threatened with demolition, but four American artists teamed up and bought it for $95,000. The National Trust, along with the Nina Simone Project and other organizations, is working with the owners to highlight the home and connect it to Nina Simone’s cultural heritage.

CHICAGO
Van Gogh and the avant-garde

The Art Institute of Chicago presents Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: A Contemporary Landscape through September 4th. The exhibition explores new techniques as well as new post-1880 representations in landscape painting and focuses on the evolutionary path of great artists in composition. There are over 75 paintings and drawings from Van Gogh’s first period, as well as works by Georges Serrat, Paul Signac, Émile Bernard and Charles Agrand.

ORLEAN
Shadows and light

The Musée des Beaux-Arts Orléans, one of the most important of its kind in France, will present an exhibition entitled Line and Shadow from 30 May. They showcase the finest examples from the museum’s collections and form an informal narrative of art history from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Faces, as they march, witness change. The exhibition is part of a new way of museological presentation of collections.