Borély Castle

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The Borély Castle (French: Château Borély ) is a baroque palace complex in the 8th arrondissement of the city of Marseille . It is located in the large public Parc Borély .

Borély Castle

history

On June 26, 1684, Joseph Borély bought a large plot of land with vines, willows, tree gardens and a farm building in the area and today's Bonneveine district south of the old town of Marseille. His brother François Borély, a successful businessman, was elected Échevin (aldermen) of Marseille. Joseph's sons Nicolas and Louis Borély (1692–1768) ran a trading office in Alexandria , Egypt, through which they imported wheat, rice, silk and oil from the Middle East to Marseille. Nicolas Borély, Échevin of Marseille since 1747 and knighted by Louis XV in 1753 , had a city palace built on Rue Saint-Ferréol .

On his return to Marseille in 1755, Louis Borély rounded off the Bonneveine family domain by acquiring the neighboring estates of La Tirane , La Michèle , La Dumone and La Valbelle . He ordered a blueprint from the famous French architect Charles-Louis Clérisseau for a representative country estate on this site . Louis Borély had the elevation of the facade, dated September 1, 1767 , revised by the royal builder Marie-Joseph Peyre, brother of Antoine-François Peyre .

From Louis Borély, who died childless on April 6, 1784, the estate fell to the younger brother Honoré Borély (1732-1804), honorary member of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture de Marseille , to whom the extensive castle library on Borély goes back. After the French Revolution , Honoré Borély was able to regain the country estate almost intact. After his death in 1804, the domain came into the possession of his daughter Louise Jeanne Marie Borély (1774–1831) in 1804, who on May 18, 1800 was Pierre Léandre Mark-Tripoli (1770–1842), Count of Panisse-Passis, had married. The Panisse-Passis dynasty has been part of the ruling class of the County of Venaissin in southern France since the 16th century . The son of Pierre-Léandre Mark-Tripoli, Gaston Mark-Tripoli (1807-1891), Count of Panisse-Passis, decided to sell the Borély estate.

architecture

Borély Castle is an outstanding example of the southern French building type of the elegant Bastide country estate . The three-story building has a very rich interior design with a restrained facade design with a central projection. It is accompanied by two pavilions next to the courtyard.

The interiors have a diverse decor in stucco, gilded wall decorations and paintings. The ceiling paintings with mythological scenes are inspired by works by Guido Reni and are considered the main work of the French painter Louis Chaix , who also painted grisaille in Castle Borély .

The marble chapel is dedicated to Louis the Saint .

The castle has been registered as a French cultural monument ( Monument historique ) since 1936 .

museum

After the country estate with the large park came to the city of Marseille in the late 19th century, the city set up an archaeological museum in it, which existed until 1989.

After extensive renovations, the castle was reopened as a museum ( Musée Borély ) on June 15, 2013 , dedicated to handicrafts, faience and the history of costume. Its holdings come from various earlier collections, for example the former Musée de la Faïence , the former Musée de la Mode , the Jourdan-Barry Collection , the Cantini Fund and the collections of Borély Castle itself. In the faience department, the ceramics from Marseille make up the Main inventory exhibited in the dining room and other rooms.

See also

literature

  • Émile Perrier: Les bibliophiles et les collectionneurs provençaux. Marseille 1897.
  • Roger Duchêne, Christian Ramade: Le château Borély. Marseille 1999. ISBN 2-84521-029-9 .
  • Simone Bourlard-Collin, Nicole Martin-Vignes, Christine Daffis-Felicelli: Les Borély. Une famille, une demeure. Catalog de l'exposition au musée Borély de décembre 1980 à avril 1981. Marseille 1980.
  • Francine Valette: Le château Borély. Étude historique, synthèse documentaire. 2011.

Web links

Commons : Borély Castle  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Duchêne, Ramade, 1999.
  2. ↑ Valette, 2011, p. 16.
  3. ↑ Perrier, 1897, p. 81.
  4. ^ Genealogy of Louise Borély

Coordinates: 43 ° 15 ′ 26.7 "  N , 5 ° 22 ′ 55"  E