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    The Galerie d'Apollon is a large and iconic room of the Louvre Palace, on the first (upper) floor of a wing known as the Petite Galerie. Its current setup...
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    the Grande Galerie. Louis Le Vau reconstructed the Petite Galerie with the Galerie d'Apollon and the Grand Salon as the Salon Carré, raising the 5-bay...
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    its main floor is now the Galerie d'Apollon, one of the Louvre's most iconic spaces. The foundation of the Petite Galerie was begun in 1566 under Charles...
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    historic crowns, diadems and parures, are mainly on display in the Galerie d'Apollon of the Louvre, France's premier museum and former royal palace, together...
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    Roi consisted of seven rooms west of the Galerie d'Apollon on the upper floor of the remodeled Petite Galerie. Many of the king's paintings were placed...
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    silver-gilt eagle. It is now displayed along with the French regalia in the Galerie d'Apollon at the Louvre. The vase likely dates to the second century AD. According...
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    XIV to lead the reconstruction. He rebuilt the Petite Galerie as the more ornate Galerie d'Apollon, created a new suite of rooms flanking it to the west...
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    and painter, c. 1650 Baroque grotesques with putti on a door in the Galerie d'Apollon, Louvre Palace, Paris, by Louis Le Vau and Charles Le Brun, after...
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    left wing was decorated by Jean Nocret in 1660, and the 45-metre Galerie d'Apollon, which occupied the whole of the right wing, was decorated with myths...
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    Fine Arts of Lyon, France Baroque cornucopia in the ceiling of the Galerie d'Apollon, Louvre Palace, Paris, by Louis Le Vau and Charles Le Brun, after...
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    Tuileries Palace. From 1661 to 1664 Le Vau worked on rebuilding the Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre after it burned in a fire. Claude Perrault and Charles...
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    in turn, had seen the original objects displayed at the Louvre's Galerie d'Apollon. In addition, artist Etienne Leperlier cast a "crystal" lead glass...
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    classical mythology, inspired by the panels and trophies adorning the Galerie d'Apollon at the Louvre. The ceiling features an 18th-century French painting...
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    with seat designed in 1967 by Pierre Paulin Petite Galerie of the Louvre Galerie d'Apollon Grande Galerie Escalier Daru "The Louvre's Masterpieces". Louvre...
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    of Persephone" by François Girardon Grotte des Bains d'Apollon, contemporary view. Bassin d'Apollon – Apollo Fountain, contemporary view "Versailles, le...
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    created the highly-decorated Salle des Conférences (inspired by the Galerie d'Apollon of the Louvre), which influenced the nature of subsequent official...
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    sculptor and painter, c. 1650 Baroque – grotesques on a door in the Galerie d'Apollon, Louvre Palace, Paris, by Louis Le Vau and Charles Le Brun, after...
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    L'Étoile du matin (1781), one of the plafonnantes paintings of the galerie d'Apollon of the Louvre Palace in Paris, which was his reception piece to the...
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    the Mazarin diamonds and others. The Hortensia is on display at the Galerie d'Apollon of the Louvre museum in Paris. List of diamonds "The Hortensia". www...
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    artists of his time. Décorations: Decoration of the ceiling of the Galerie d'Apollon, at the Louvre Palace. Decoration of the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte :...
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    museum for individual pieces of jewelry. They remain on display in the Galerie d’Apollon. The Marie Louise Diadem was returned to Van Cleef & Arpels after...
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    famous Savonnerie carpets are the series made for the Grande Galerie and the Galerie d'Apollon in the Palais du Louvre between c. 1665-1685. These 105 masterpieces...
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    by André Le Nôtre, 1657–1661 Baroque - Arabesques on a door in the Galerie d'Apollon, Louvre Palace, Paris, by Louis Le Vau and Charles Le Brun, after...
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    Site. Château de Maisons, France, by François Mansart, 1630–1651 Galerie d'Apollon, Louvre Palace, Paris, by Louis Le Vau and Charles Le Brun, after...
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    meters high by 9.7 meters long – the painting was displayed in the galerie d’Apollon of the Louvre. It was installed in salon d’Hercule in 1730 where it...
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    large Pietà, and from 1848 to 1850 he painted the ceiling in the Galerie d'Apollon of the Louvre. From 1857 to 1861 he worked on frescoes for the Chapelle...
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    galleries and stairways of the Louvre. Work began to rebuild the Galerie d'Apollon and other galleries to provide a home for the 'newly acquired' art...
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    is a Triumph of Bacchus, one of the elements of the ceiling of the Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre. As a painter and decorator he worked at the Château...
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    Cerreto Guidi, Cerreto Guidi, Italy Baroque rinceaux on boiserie in the Galerie d'Apollon, Louvre Palace, by Louis Le Vau and Charles Le Brun, after 1661 Brâncovenesc...
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    its courtyard, and some officers entered the building, reaching the Galerie d'Apollon and the Balcony of Henry III. Their appearance at the latter led to...
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