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  2. Medieval Louvre Castle - Wikipedia

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    The Louvre Castle (French: Château du Louvre), also referred to as the Medieval Louvre (French: Louvre médiéval), [1] was a castle (French: château fort) begun by Philip II of France on the right bank of the Seine, to reinforce the city wall he had built around Paris.

  3. Louvre - Wikipedia

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    A further €3 million to €5 million a year is raised by the Louvre from exhibitions that it curates for other museums, while the host museum keeps the ticket money. [118] As the Louvre became a point of interest in the book The Da Vinci Code and the 2006 film based on the book, the museum earned $2.5 million by allowing filming in its galleries.

  4. Louvre Palace - Wikipedia

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    North wing of Louvre facing main courtyard. 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 of the Seine in Paris, occupying a vast expanse of land between the Tuileries Gardens and the church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois.

  5. Evacuation of the Louvre collection during World War II

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    The last art piece to leave the museum was the Winged Victory of Samothrace, which was moved on September 3, 1939, the day the French ultimatum to Germany expired. [7] Throughout the war, the art pieces were clandestinely moved from château to château to avoid being taken back by the Nazis. [1]

  6. Grand Louvre - Wikipedia

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    A full-scale mock-up of the pyramid was erected in 1985 with the intent to persuade the project's critics that it would fit in its surroundings [4]. François Mitterrand unexpectedly announced his decision to remove the Finance Ministry from the Louvre and dedicate the entire building to museum use at the end of his first presidential press conference on 24 September 1981.

  7. Napoleon III's Louvre expansion - Wikipedia

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    The Louvre's pavillon de l'Horloge, refaced in the 1850s at the eastern end of the Nouveau Louvre. The expansion of the Louvre under Napoleon III in the 1850s, known at the time and until the 1980s as the Nouveau Louvre [1] [2] [3] or Louvre de Napoléon III, [4] was an iconic project of the Second French Empire and a centerpiece of its ambitious transformation of Paris. [5]

  8. Lescot Wing - Wikipedia

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    The Lescot Wing of the Louvre Palace. The Lescot Wing (Aile Lescot in French, also Aile Henri II) is the oldest preserved structure above ground of the Louvre Palace in Paris, France. It was designed by architect Pierre Lescot and built between 1546 and 1551. Its architecture is influenced by Italian Mannerism. [1]

  9. The Wedding at Cana (Veronese) - Wikipedia

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    Until the late 20th century, when the Louvre Museum restored The Wedding Feast at Cana, the steward of the house (standing in the lower-left-quarter) wore a red tabard coat as seen here. In 1989, the Louvre Museum began a painting restoration of The Wedding Feast at Cana , which provoked an art-world controversy like that caused by the 11-year ...

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