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The Galerie d'Apollon in 2016. 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 was first designed in the 1660s.
Image Name Year Current Location Ref A Flower Stall: 1880: Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne: Dolce Far Niente: 1880: Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery, Kirkcaldy, Scotland: The Household Gods
The project for a museum for the Louvre Palace began in the last quarter of the 18th century. The first paintings were deposited there from the Palace of Versailles, in 1785. [2] The museum opened during the French Revolution in 1793; it only included a few hundred works, that were exhibited in the Grande Galerie along the Seine.
In 1794, France's revolutionary armies began bringing pieces from Northern Europe, augmented after the Treaty of Tolentino (1797) by works from the Vatican, such as the Laocoön and Apollo Belvedere, to establish the Louvre as a museum and as a "sign of popular sovereignty". [37] [38] The early days were hectic.
Work on the Gallery of Apollo in the Louvre was interrupted in 1677 when Lebrun accompanied the king to Flanders (on his return from Lille he painted several compositions in the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye), and finally—for they remained unfinished at his death—by the vast labours of Versailles, where he reserved for himself the Halls ...
The relatively small (75 cm high) limestone Cretan sculpture called the Lady of Auxerre (or Kore of Auxerre), held at the Louvre Museum in Paris, depicts an archaic Greek goddess of c. 650 - 625 BCE. It is a Kore ("maiden"), perhaps a votary rather than the maiden Goddess Persephone herself, for her right hand touches her solar plexus and her ...
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