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The Public Viewing David's 'Coronation' at the Louvre is an 1810 oil painting by the French artist Louis-Léopold Boilly. [1] [2] It depicts a crowd of spectators at the Salon of 1810 at the Louvre in Paris examining the painting The Coronation of Napoleon by Jacques-Louis David, which portrays the coronation of Napoleon and his first wife Josephine. [3]
The collection contains roughly 5,500 paintings by 1,400 artists born before 1900, and over 500 named artists are French by birth. For painters with more than two works in the collection, or for paintings by unnamed and unknown artists, see the Louvre website.
Scene from Faust The Cotta publishing house commissioned illustrations for Johann Wolfgang Goethe 's Faust (26 plates), which made him financially independent. Goethe liked his work, and he illustrated works by other famous authors, most notably Friedrich Schiller 's Lied von der Glocke (43 plates), a Shakespeare Gallery (80 plates), and ...
Throughout the world, there are many works of art that have a contested provenance. This may be due to theft, lost documentation, looting , or just information lost to antiquity. In some cases, just the previous or current ownership of the work is disputed, but in other cases the authenticity of the work itself may be thought to be a forgery .
The painting, which dates from 1280, went on to fetch almost 24.2 million euros ($26.8 million) at auction in October 2019, more than four times the pre-sale estimate.
Doktor Johannes Faust, Op. 47 (1936, revised 1955) Don Juan und Faust, Op. 75 (1950) Douglas Moore's The Devil and Daniel Webster (1938) Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938 libretto) Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress (1951) Hanns Eisler's Johann Faustus (1952 libretto) Havergal Brian's Faust (1955–56)
It works by confining the king with a pawn and using a queen to execute the checkmate. Damiano's mate is often arrived at by first sacrificing a rook on the h-file, then checking the king with the queen on the a-file or h-file, and then moving in for the mate. The checkmate was first published by Pedro Damiano in 1512. [11]