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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...
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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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  • Adventure in the 1980s. In 2009, Araki's was one of five artists featured in the Louvre's Le Louvre invite la bande dessinée ("The Louvre Invites Comic-Strip...
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    Belphegor, or the Phantom of the Louvre is a 1965 French television miniseries directed by Claude Barma, based on the 1927 novel by Arthur Bernède. It...
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    version, the earlier of the two, is unrestored and hangs in the Louvre in Paris. The other, which was restored between 2008 and 2010, hangs in the National...
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  • Frees took on the role up until "Bomb Voyage", and voiced the character one last time in "Le Escape Goat". In "Canadian Can-Can", the Commissioner is...
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    Look up jalousie in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A jalousie window (UK: /ˈdʒælʊziː/, US: /ˈdʒæləsiː/), louvred window (Australia, New Zealand, Pacific...
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    depict the French Revolution of 1789. Liberty Leading the People is exhibited in the Louvre in Paris. By the time Delacroix painted Liberty Leading the People...
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    Mona Lisa (redirect from The Mona Lisa)
    acquired the Mona Lisa after Leonardo's death in 1519, and it is now the property of the French Republic. It has normally been on display at the Louvre in Paris...
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    Venus de Milo (category Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures in the Louvre)
    the Louvre Museum since 1821. Since the statue's discovery, it has become one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture in the world. The Venus...
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    by the Louvre and printed in 2019 in case the Louvre had the chance to present the painting in its exhibition, and was temporarily available in the Louvre...
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    Carnelian (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    2600–1700 BC. Found in the tell of the Susa acropolis. Louvre Museum, reference Sb 17751. These beads are identical with beads found in the Indus Civilization...
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    strokes of the face in the painting were performed by the same artist responsible for the brush strokes of the face of the Mona Lisa in the Louvre. Asmus...
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    tolling, and in the end, the constant ringing just became tiresome". The painting triggered a rush of patriotic fervour when the Louvre tried to buy it...
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    inheritance taxes in 1983 and then exhibited at the Louvre since 1983. List of paintings by Johannes Vermeer The Astronomer and his Wife, earlier painting by...
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    sensitivity to light, the drawing rarely goes on public display, but it was borrowed by the Louvre in 2019 for their exhibition marking the 500th anniversary...
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    exhibited in London. The Louvre acquired it soon after the artist's death at age 32. The painting's influence can be seen in the works of Eugène Delacroix...
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    has been exhibited at the Louvre Museum in Paris, at the top of the main staircase, since 1884. Greece is seeking the return of the sculpture. In 1863,...
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    Dubreuil, c. 1600. Louvre Museum Hercules on the Pyre by Guillaume Coustou The Elder, 1704, Louvre MR1809 Hercules was among the earliest figures on...
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    donated to the Louvre by Alexandre-Charles Sauvageot in 1856 as the device described in the 17th-century story about Palioly's gag. As to the original artifacts'...
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    of the Musée du Louvre, in Paris. When he painted The Death of the Virgin (c. 1601–06), Caravaggio had been working in Rome for fifteen years. The painting...
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  • Kent. Filming also took place at the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, Cotswold Airport, Gloucestershire, and The Louvre in Paris. A number of scenes were...
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    creation. The text itself was copied and studied by Mesopotamian scribes for over a millennium. The stele now resides in the Louvre Museum. The top of the stele...
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  • the film, Robert Langdon, a professor of religious symbology from Harvard University, is the prime suspect in the grisly and unusual murder of Louvre...
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    people. The theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911 and its travels to Asia and North America during the 1960s and 1970s contributed to the painting's...
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    until 1757, when Louis XV granted him a studio and living quarters in the Louvre. Chardin entered into a marriage contract with Marguerite Saintard in...
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  • becomes idyllic. The three re-enact a memorable scene from Bande à part by "breaking the world record for running through the Louvre", and Matthew and...
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  • in an art gallery at the Louvre. Several paintings are rendered on the wall behind the figures, including the Mona Lisa. In the written text, Willia Marie...
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    Eugène Delacroix (category Members of the Académie des beaux-arts)
    With White Socks, 1825–1830, Louvre A Young Tiger Playing with its Mother, 1830, Louvre The Women of Algiers, 1834, Louvre The Natchez, 1835, Metropolitan...
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