Vase En Bois D Olivier by Mediterranean Interiors

The Louvre (English: LOOV(-rə)), 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 some of the most canonical works of Western art, including the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, and Winged Victory. The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace, originally built in the late 12th to 13th century under Philip II. Remnants of the Medieval Louvre fortress are visible in the basement of the museum. Due to urban expansion, the fortress eventually lost its defensive function, and in 1546 Francis I converted it into the primary residence of the French kings. The building was extended many times to form the present Louvre Palace. In 1682, Louis XIV chose the Palace of Versailles for his household, leaving the Louvre primarily as a place to display the royal collection, including, from 1692, a collection of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture. In 1692, the building was occupied by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, which in 1699 held the first of a series of salons. The Académie remained at the Louvre for 100 years. During the French Revolution, the National Assembly decreed that the Louvre should be used as a museum to display the nation's masterpieces. The museum opened on 10 August 1793 with an exhibition of 537 paintings, the majority of the works being royal and confiscated church property. Because of structural problems with the building, the museum was closed from 1796 until 1801. The collection was increased under Napoleon and the museum was renamed Musée Napoléon, but after Napoleon's abdication, many works seized by his armies were returned to their original owners. The collection was further increased during the reigns of Louis XVIII and Charles X, and during the Second French Empire the museum gained 20,000 pieces. Holdings have grown steadily through donations and bequests since the Third Republic. The collection is divided among eight curatorial departments: Egyptian Antiquities; Near Eastern Antiquities; Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities; Islamic Art; Sculpture; Decorative Arts; Paintings; Prints and Drawings. The Musée du Louvre contains approximately 500,000 objects and displays 35,000 works of art in eight curatorial departments with more than 60,600 m2 (652,000 sq ft) dedicated to the permanent collection. The Louvre exhibits sculptures, objets d'art, paintings, drawings, and archaeological finds. At any given point in time, approximately 38,000 objects from prehistory to the 21st century are being exhibited over an area of 72,735 m2 (782,910 sq ft), making it the largest museum in the world. It received 8.9 million visitors in 2023, 14 percent more than in 2022, but still below the 10.1 million visitors in 2018. The Louvre is the most-visited museum in the world, ahead of the second-place Vatican Museums.

Article Title : Louvre
Article Snippet :works, such as the Borghese Vase, were bought by Napoleon. Later in the 19th century, the Louvre acquired works including vases from the Durand collection
Article Title : Boulogne-sur-Mer
Article Snippet :houses an Egyptian art collection, and the ancient Greek Suicide of Ajax Vase. Gothic church of St Nicholas, housing several 15th-century statues Cathedral
Article Title : Henri Matisse
Article Snippet :Berggruen, Olivier and Max Hollein, eds., Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors: Masterpieces from the Late Years, Prestel, 2006. ISBN 3791334735. Bois, Yve-Alain
Article Title : John Hay Whitney
Article Snippet : Les Courses au Bois de Bologne Édouard Manet, Woman in a Decollete Gown Édouard Vuillard, An Artist Édouard Vuillard, Demoiselle en Rouge Édouard Vuillard
Article Title : Tasciaca
Article Snippet :Comte, Dominique; Ruffier, Olivier; Plateau, Éric; Trombetta, Pierre-Jean (1982). Fouilles et méthodes archéologiques en Loir-et-Cher: Thésée-la-Romaine
Article Title : Victor Hugo
Article Snippet :celebrations began on 25 June 1881, when Hugo was presented with a Sèvres vase, the traditional gift for sovereigns. On 27 June, one of the largest parades
Article Title : Call Me by Your Name (film)
Article Snippet :The film also stars actresses Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, and Victoire Du Bois. Development began in 2007 when producers Peter Spears and Howard Rosenman
Article Title : Jeanne Demessieux
Article Snippet :Action de grâce (No date. Unpublished). Cavalier (No date. Unpublished). Le Vase brisé (No date. Unpublished). Sonata for violin and piano (Composed in 1940
Article Title : Reims
Article Snippet :paleontologist Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007), cultural theorist and philosopher Olivier de Benoist [fr] (born 1974), comedian Nicolas Bergier (1567–1623), scholar
Article Title : List of most expensive paintings
Article Snippet :be around US$1010 million in 2023. The earliest sale on the list below (Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh) is from March 1987; with a price