JOSEPH GARIBALDI (1863-1941)
Pilon du Roy (710m - 2,329ft)
France ( Provence Alpes Cote d'Azur)
The Pilon du Roy (710m - 2,329ft) is the most famous summit of the Massif de l'Etoile situated in the south of France, north of Marseilles. This rocky tooth placed on a ridge, visible from far away, is a little reminiscent of Pierra Menta Beaufortain ... A sports trail leads to his foot, but its summit is reserved for climbers. Nice view of Marseille, Garlaban and Sainte-Victoire.
The first traces of human occupation date from the late Neolithic period (3000 BC, Baou Roux). The Early Bronze Age (2000 BC) and the Late Bronze Age (800 BC) show peaks of occupation in the north, as for the Iron Age (500 BC). C. about), then around 200 BC. J.-C.
Around 123 BC BC, the Roman consul Gaius Sextius Calvinus, swept over the region with his legions and shaves the oppida.
The beginning of Christianity saw the occupation of the many sites (caves, hermitages) by hermits and monks. Only numerous oratories, hermitages and buildings that have lost their vocation (Notre-Dame des Anges) and a recently established monastery (Sainte Lioba) in Simiane remain.
Restanques in ruins under the pines testify of abandoned crops more recently.
The painter
The French painter from Marseille, Joseph Garibaldi is known for his peaceful visions of Provence in which he spent his entire life. Son of an Italian employee of the firm Noilly Prat in Marseille, the talent of Joseph Garibaldi is detected by Louis Prat, boss of the company, which makes him enroll in the School of Fine Arts of this city. The coming to Marseilles painter Lyon Antoine Vollon is decisive: under his influence and his advice, he exhibited at the Salon. Garibaldi becomes his devoted friend, it is he who in August 1900 will assist him in his last days. He will be friends with Alexis Vollon, the son of Antoine, but also with his classmates and colleagues from the Association of Marseille Artists (AAM).
Joseph Garibaldi exhibited at the Salon des artistes from 1884 to 1914 where he obtained an honorable mention in 1887 and a medal of second class in 1897. These are mainly views of sites and famous monuments, ports of the coast: Cassis, where he paints regularly between 1884 and 1899, La Ciotat, where he is hosted by Antoine Lumière, Bandol, Sanary and Toulon. But his specialty will remain the Old Port of Marseille.
Until 1905 he benefited from the patronage of Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), who, guided by the critic Paul Leroy, was very supportive of Vollon's students, bought his paintings and donated them to provincial museums.
Apart from two incursions to Venice (1895 and 1903) and Corsica (1889 and 1895), or trips to Savoy (1904) and Ariège (1906), he is attached to his district of Rive-Neuve. It was only after the First World War that, benefiting from a lodging in Fos-sur-Mer, he went there regularly to paint.
In the 1930s, he was affected by glaucoma and stopped painting.
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2019 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau
