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3 unusual facts about Mariette


Jean-Baptiste Corneille

Many of the paintings of this excellent artist were engraved by contemporaries, a few by the great Mariette, and Jean himself engraved and etched plates after his own designs and finished pictures, and after the Carracci.

Mariette

Mariette Bosch (died 2001), South African murderer executed by Botswana

Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694-1774), connoisseur and chronicler of artistic life in Paris


Michael W. Higgins

Higgins was the main consultant for John McGreevy's six-hour television series, Sir Peter Ustinov's 'Inside the Vatican, and for John Bailey's film version of Ron Hansen's novel, Mariette in Ecstasy.

Nyzette Cheveron

The witch hunt in the Ardennes also spread to Habiemont, where Mariette Estante was killed, Les Forges, where Anne des Forges was tortured to confess, and Izier, where Maroie Bertrand (whose relative had been burned alive in 1586) was strangled and burnt in January 1606.

Serapeum of Saqqara

A controversial aspect of the Saqqara find is that for the period between the reign of Ramesses XI and the 23rd year of the reign of Osorkon II – about 250 years, only nine burials have been discovered, including three sarcophagi Mariette reported to have identified in a chamber too dangerous to excavate, which have not been located since.

Wilhelm Albert, Duke of Urach

He married Karen von Brauchitsch, Countess Berghe von Trips (daughter of Konrad von Brauchitsch and wife Mariette Hermans, and adopted by her granduncle Clemens, Count Berghe von Trips), on 1 February 1992 in Rimburg, Germany.


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