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Liberty Leading the People ( French: La Liberté guidant le peuple [la libɛʁte ɡidɑ̃ lə pœpl]) is a painting of the Romantic era by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, commemorating the July Revolution of 1830 that toppled King Charles X. A bare-breasted woman of the people with a Phrygian cap personifying the concept and Goddess of ...
The Musée des Arts Décoratifs ( English: Museum of Decorative Arts) is a museum in Paris, France, dedicated to the exhibition and preservation of the decorative arts. Located in the city’s 1st arrondissement, the museum occupies the Pavillon de Marsan, the north-western wing of the Palais du Louvre. With approximately one million objects in ...
Escalier Daru. The Escalier Daru (Daru Staircase), also referred to as Escalier de la Victoire de Samothrace, is one of the largest and most iconic interior spaces of the Louvre Palace in Paris, and of the Louvre Museum within it. Named after Pierre, Count Daru, a minister of Napoleon, and initially designed in the 1850s by Hector-Martin Lefuel ...
louvre.fr. The Louvre ( English: / ˈluːv ( rə )/ LOOV (-rə) ), [ 4] or the Louvre Museum (French: Musée du Louvre [myze dy luvʁ] ⓘ ), is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums in the world. It is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement (district or ward) and home to ...
Lifting the curtain on the destinations behind the season's most exciting new releases.
*Warning: Minor spoilers ahead*Have you considered packing your bags and heading off the grid at some point during this hellish year? If yes, you’ll totally empathize with the protagonist of ...
Fondée en 1897, la Société des Amis du Louvre a pour but d'enrichir les collections du musée, du Bain turc d'Ingres au dais du trône de Charles V (« Connaissance des Arts » N°747). En septembre, elle devrait annoncer d'ailleurs un achat important dans le domaine des arts décoratifs. Elle compte aujourd'hui près de 70 000 membres dont ...
The Louvre Colonnade is the easternmost façade of the Palais du Louvre in Paris . It has been celebrated as the foremost masterpiece of French Architectural Classicism since its construction, mostly between 1667 and 1674. The design, dominated by two loggias with trabeated colonnades of coupled giant columns, was created by a committee of ...