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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.
The Louvre Abu Dhabi is a separate entity from the Louvre, but the two entities have a multifaceted contractual relationship that allows the Emirati museum to use the Louvre name until 2037, and to exhibit artworks from the Louvre until 2027. [157]
Upon the death of her mother in 1775, Marguerite Gérard, the youngest of the seven children, took up residence in the Louvre with her sister and her sister's husband Jean-Honoré Fragonard. [5] She lived in the Louvre with them for approximately thirty years, [6] allowing her to view and be inspired by great artworks of the past and present. [3]
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (/ ɡ oʊ ˈ ɡ æ n /; French: [øʒɛn ɑ̃ʁi pɔl ɡoɡɛ̃]; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements.
The theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911 and its travels to Asia and North America during the 1960s and 1970s contributed to the painting's iconization and fame. [68] By the end of the 20th century, the painting was a global icon that had been used in more than 300 other paintings and in 2,000 advertisements, appearing at an average ...
That was apparently the case for Tom Hanks when director Ron Howard and his crew moved production of “The Da Vinci Code” (2006) into the Louvre and Hanks found no time to change between scenes ...
Louvre, Paris La Belle Ferronnière ( French pronunciation: [la bɛl fɛʁɔnjɛʁ] ) is a portrait painting of a lady, by Leonardo da Vinci , in the Louvre . It is also known as Portrait of an Unknown Woman.
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ pɔl pʁydɔ̃], 4 April 1758 – 16 February 16, 1823) was a French Romantic painter and draughtsman best known for his allegorical paintings and portraits such as Madame Georges Anthony and Her Two Sons (1796).