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Pont des Arts. / 48.85833°N 2.33750°E / 48.85833; 2.33750. The Pont des Arts or Passerelle des Arts is a pedestrian bridge in Paris which crosses the River Seine. It links the Institut de France and the central square ( cour carrée) of the Palais du Louvre, (which had been termed the "Palais des Arts" under the First French Empire ).
The Beaux-Arts de Paris is the original of a series of Écoles des beaux-arts in French regional centers. Since its founding in 1648, the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture has had a school, France's elite institution of instruction in the arts. Its program was structured around a series of anonymous competitions that culminated in ...
French art consists of the visual and plastic arts (including French architecture, woodwork, textiles, and ceramics) originating from the geographical area of France.Modern France was the main centre for the European art of the Upper Paleolithic, [citation needed] then left many megalithic monuments, and in the Iron Age many of the most impressive finds of early Celtic art.
The Ordre des Arts et des Lettres ( French for 'Order of Arts and Letters ') is an order of France established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture. Its supplementary status to the Ordre national du Mérite was confirmed by President Charles de Gaulle in 1963. Its purpose is the recognition of significant contributions to the arts ...
The Musée des Arts Décoratifs ( English: Museum of Decorative Arts) is a museum in Paris, France, dedicated to the exhibition and preservation of the decorative arts. Located in the city’s 1st arrondissement, the museum occupies the Pavillon de Marsan, the north-western wing of the Palais du Louvre. With approximately one million objects in ...
École des Beaux-Arts (French for 'School of Fine Arts'; pronounced [ekɔl de boz‿aʁ]) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth ...
Website. mba-lyon.fr. The Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon ( French: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon) is a municipal museum of fine arts in the French city of Lyon. Located near the Place des Terreaux, it is housed in a former Benedictine convent which was active during the 17th and 18th centuries. It was restored between 1988, and 1998, remaining ...
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen ( French pronunciation: [myze de boz‿aʁ də ʁwɑ̃]) is an art museum in Rouen, in Normandy in north-western France. It was established by Napoléon Bonaparte in 1801, and is housed in a building designed by Louis Sauvageot [ fr ] and built between 1877, and 1888. Its collections include paintings ...