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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 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 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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    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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    Musée du Louvre in Paris. For a list of works based on 5,500 paintings catalogued in the Joconde database, see the Catalog of paintings in the Louvre Museum...
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    Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae (category Byzantine literature)
    twenty-four volume Corpus Byzantinae Historiae (sometimes called the Byzantine du Louvre), published in Paris between 1648 and 1711 under the initial direction...
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    Egyptian Antiquities of the Louvre (French: Département des Antiquités égyptiennes du Louvre) is a department of the Louvre that is responsible for artifacts...
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    Succession of the Roman Empire (category Byzantine Empire)
    Retrieved 9 April 2017. "The "Byzantine du Louvre" collection". Qantara. Fox, Clinton R (March 1996). "What, If Anything, Is a Byzantine?". Celator. 10 (3). John...
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    The Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628 was the final and most devastating of the series of wars fought between the Byzantine Empire and the Persian Sasanian...
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    cathédrales", Grande Galerie - Le Journal du Louvre, 52: 12 Séverine Lepape (December 2022), "Musée de Cluny-Musée National du Moyen Âge : Une réouverture attendue"...
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    Angers, France Bresc-Bautier, Geneviève (2008). The Louvre, a Tale of a Palace. Musée du Louvre Éditions. p. 122. ISBN 978-2-7572-0177-0. "Oculus window"...
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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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    ISBN 978-0-7148-5742-8. Bresc-Bautier, Geneviève (2008). The Louvre, a Tale of a Palace. Musée du Louvre Éditions. ISBN 978-2-7572-0177-0. Celac, Mariana; Carabela...
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    Byzantine art comprises the body of artistic products of the Eastern Roman Empire, as well as the nations and states that inherited culturally from the...
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    (2012), page 95 Bresc-Bautier, Geneviève (2008). The Louvre, a Tale of a Palace. Musée du Louvre Éditions. p. 136. ISBN 978-2-7572-0177-0. Copplestone...
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    (2008). The Louvre, a Tale of a Palace. Musée du Louvre Éditions. p. 122. ISBN 978-2-7572-0177-0. Bresc-Bautier, Geneviève (2008). The Louvre, a Tale of...
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    Παλαιολόγος, romanized: Manouēl Palaiológos; 27 June 1350 – 21 July 1425) was Byzantine emperor from 1391 to 1425. Shortly before his death he was tonsured a...
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    Diana of Versailles (category Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures in the Louvre)
    Diana (Greek: Artemis) with a deer. It is currently located in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. The statue is also known as Diana with a Doe (French: Diane à...
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    Napoléon". Musée du Louvre. 2019. Archived from the original on 31 March 2019. "Le "Salvator Mundi" de Leonard de Vinci, tableau le plus cher du monde, a disparu"...
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    glass." The room depicted in the painting is actually a gallery of the Louvre, as discovered by art historian Anne Higonnet. During the time when the...
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    Sacred Heart of Jesus. The basilica was designed by Paul Abadie, whose Neo-Byzantine-Romanesque plan was selected from among seventy-seven proposals. Construction...
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    Cimabue, executed around 1280 and now in the Musée du Louvre in Paris. It was acquired by the Louvre in 1813 as part of Napoleonic looting of artworks...
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    from the C. M. Kaufmann collection, Berlin, and conserved in the Musée du Louvre, is thought to be a very faithful Roman reproduction of the head of the...
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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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    exotic and historical references, generally called "Moorish" but with some Byzantine elements. The architect was Gabriel Davioud. The concert hall contained...
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  • late Republic, and continued through the Roman (later Eastern Roman (Byzantine)) and Sasanian empires. A plethora of vassal kingdoms and allied nomadic...
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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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    glimpsed in The Dream of Endymion (1791, Musée du Louvre, Paris) and The Burial of Atala (1808, Musée du Louvre, Paris). Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was...
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    Père Lachaise Cemetery (French: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise [simtjɛʁ dy pɛʁ laʃɛːz]; formerly cimetière de l'Est, "East Cemetery") is the largest cemetery...
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    Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (Giotto) (category Paintings in the Louvre by Italian artists)
    1295–1300 for the Church of Saint Francis in Pisa and it is now in the Musée du Louvre in Paris. It shows an episode from the life of Saint Francis of Assisi...
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