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FAMOUS MONEGASQUES
© Lucette Bellini
© Lucette Bellini
Vue de Cannes à la Belle Epoque ( View of Cannes in the Belle Epoque ) Канны во времена « Прекрасной эпохи »
Les Oiseaux ( Birds ) Птицы
He had met a young girl , Marie-Thérèse Gallo , from La Condamine ( her father being a trader in the market ) and wanted to marry her which he did at the Saint-Devote Church in the Principality in 1928 and left Monaco virtually immediately . He took a job as a designer in Sainte Maxime , in the Var . Then shortly after in 1929 , he settled permanently in Cannes in his own architectural firm , which he did not leave until 1977 . He lived in Cannes , but his heart and his family remained in Monaco . He spent time there every Sunday , at family parties , and in holidays in the family cabin at La Turbie .
PROLIFIC AND ECLECTIC

In his career , which was extraordinarily busy , Emmanuel Bellini tackled and mastered more than forty different themes : memorable are his joint passion with Prince Rainier of the Circus and the Clowns , the Landscapes , the Fields of flowers , the bouquets of glittering colours .

Sleighs and scenes from Monte-Carlo of horse-drawn carriages were favourites , his emblems so as to speak , a hark-back to his childhood when he cared for the horses in the evening after their day ’ s chores .
There are traces of architecture in Bellini ’ s art — the domes , Cathedrals including the Casino de Monte-Carlo , that of Notre Dame , the Nice pier , the Casino de Cannes , Venice , Paris , Nantes , scenes of
A typical Mediterranean villa by Bellini Средиземноморская вилла , спроектированная Эммануэлем Беллини
© Lucette Bellini
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