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The Beaux-Arts style Petit Palais was designed by Charles Girault, [3] and is around an octi-circular courtyard and garden, [2] similar to the Grand Palais. Its ionic columns, grand porch, and dome echo those of the Invalides across the river. The tympanum depicting the city of Paris surrounded by muses is the work of sculptor Jean Antoine ...
The entrance of the Beaux-Arts de Paris with a bust of Nicolas Poussin Plan of the site. The Beaux-Arts de Paris (French pronunciation: [boz‿aʁ də pari]), formally the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (French pronunciation: [ekɔl nɑsjɔnal sypeʁjœʁ de boz‿aʁ]), is a French grande école whose primary mission is to provide high-level fine arts education and training.
Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Besançon; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Brest, Brest; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen; Musée des beaux-arts de Chambéry; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon; Museum of Fine Arts, Dole; Museum of Grenoble; Musée des Beaux-Arts de La Rochelle , La Rochelle
Sleep (Le Sommeil), also known as the Two Friends (Les Deux Amies) and Indolence and Lust (Paresse et Luxure) (1866), by Gustave Courbet. Oil on canvas, 135 × 200 cm (53 × 79 in). Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris
The Musée d'Orsay (UK: / ˌ m juː z eɪ d ɔːr ˈ s eɪ / MEW-zay dor-SAY, US: / m juː ˈ z eɪ-/ mew-ZAY-, French: [myze dɔʁsɛ]) (English: Orsay Museum) is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900.
The museum collection was founded in 1905 by members of the Union des Arts décoratifs ("Union of Decorative Arts"). The architect was Gaston Redon. It houses and displays furniture, interior design, altarpieces, religious paintings, objets d'arts, tapestries, wallpaper, ceramics and glassware, plus toys from the Middle Ages to the present day.
École des Beaux-Arts, several art schools in France École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon; École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris; Fine art, a style of painting popular at the turn of the 19th and 20th century, the source of the generalized concept of "fine arts", i.e. art for art's sake; Palais des Beaux Arts, a federal cultural ...
Arras, musée des Beaux-Arts 1664: Jérôme Sorlay: Christ Appears to Saint Peter: Versailles, cathédrale Saint-Louis 1665: Zacharie Heince: Saint Peter and Simon the Magician: Lost 1666: Nicolas de Plattemontagne: Saint Paul et Silas: Paris, musée du Louvre 1667: Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne: Saint Paul's Martyrdom at Lystra: Marseille ...