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    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...
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    The Louvre Palace (French: Palais du Louvre, [palɛ dy luvʁ]), often referred to simply as the Louvre, is an iconic French palace located on the Right Bank...
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    The Louvre (English: /ˈluːv(rə)/ LOOV(-rə)), or the Louvre Museum (French: Musée du Louvre [myze dy luvʁ] ), is a national art museum in Paris, France...
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    the western porch of St Paul's Cathedral and the east front of the Louvre. Colonnades (formerly as colonade) have been built since ancient times and interpretations...
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    The Louvre Pyramid (French: Pyramide du Louvre) is a large glass-and-metal structure designed by the Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei. The pyramid...
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  • Erlande-Brandenburg (1964–1965). "Fouilles opérées devant la Colonnade du Louvre en 1964 et découverte du soubassement de Le Vau". Bulletin de la Société Nationale...
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    The Louvre Castle (French: Château du Louvre), also referred to as the Medieval Louvre (French: Louvre médiéval), was a castle (French: château fort) built...
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    The Louvre Inverted Pyramid (French: Pyramide inversée du Louvre) is a skylight constructed in the Carrousel du Louvre, an underground shopping mall in...
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    The Pavillon du Roi was a tower-like structure built in the mid-16th century at the southern end of the Lescot Wing of the Louvre Palace. On its main floor...
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    ": 156  Separately, Napoleon III created a Musée des Souverains in the Louvre's Colonnade Wing to similarly emphasize the continuity of his rule with the long...
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    for the construction of the Louvre Colonnade. When in the fourteenth century the kings of France began to use the Louvre as their primary Paris residence...
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    The Place du Louvre is a square immediately to the east of the Palais du Louvre in Paris, France. To the south is the Quai du Louvre and beyond that is...
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    Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1997. Andrew L. McClellan, "The Musée du Louvre as Revolutionary Metaphor During the Terror", The Art Bulletin, vol. 70...
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    la Concorde are nearly identical. Their design was inspired by the Louvre Colonnade, begun in 1667 by Louis Le Vau, architect of Louis XIV, Charles Le...
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    the colonnade design. In 1670, when much of the facade was substantially completed, Olry de Loriande published a poem, Le superbe dessein du Louvre, in...
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    Galerie du Louvre is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French painter Hubert Robert, made in 1796. It is held at the Louvre, in Paris. The Louvre acquired...
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    façade on the north. Proposed Baroque east façade of Louvre by Gian Lorenzo Bernini Louvre Colonnade The most important showcase of the French Classicism...
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  • Claude Perrault (1613–1688) – helped to establish French classicism Colonnade of the Louvre (1667–1673) Observatoire de Paris – plans Libéral Bruant (c. 1636–1697)...
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  • Museum. Inhumation provisoire des victimes de Juillet devant la colonnade du Louvre Interior Scene Portrait d'élève Polytechnicien. Le Peintre et son...
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    In January 2020, L'Onde du Midi was inaugurated, hovering over 19th century stairs on the North side of the Louvre Colonnade. The work is a succession...
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    Cour Carrée (category Louvre Palace)
    main entrance to the Louvre. After a contest launched by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the King decided in 1665 to have the Louvre Colonnade built outside on the...
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    arrondissement of Paris. The screened entrance court faces the Place du Palais-Royal, opposite the Louvre. Originally called the Palais-Cardinal, it was built for...
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    call in 1749 for the roofing-over of the classical colonnaded east front of the Palais du Louvre and the clearing away of the ramshackle structures,...
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    Mona Lisa (category Paintings in the Louvre by Italian artists)
    Olivier (2017). What's so special about Mona Lisa. Paris: Editions du musée du Louvre. ISBN 978-2-35031-564-5. De Beatis, Antonio (1979) [1st pub.:1517]...
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    Venus de Milo (category Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures in the Louvre)
    Vénus de Milo. Paris: Louvre éditions. ISBN 9-788412-154832. Pasquier, Alain (1985). La Vénus de Milo: Les Aphrodites du Louvre. Paris: Éditions de la...
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  • "Presentation to Louis XIV of the Louvre colonnade" (oil on canvas) "Presentation to Francis I of the original draft of the Louvre" (oil on canvas) Bellard, André...
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    1970 and 1973, a gypsothèque (a plaster cast collection), the Musée du Louvre's collection of antique casts, began to move in. In 1988, La Maréchalerie...
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    Liberty Leading the People (category Paintings in the Louvre by French artists)
    finally acquired the painting in 1874 for the collection of the Musée du Louvre in Paris. In 1974–75, the painting was the featured work in an exhibition...
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    Brun, and Claude Perrault. Vaux le Vicomte by Louis Le Vau (1658) The Louvre Colonnade by Louis Le Vau, Charles Le Brun, and Claude Perrault (1667–1678) The...
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    "Parterre du Nord" by Étienne Allegrain, ca. 1693 Modern views of the gardens of Versailles Bosquet of the Salle de Bal, contemporary view. La Colonnade with...
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