Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
While this area along the Seine had been inhabited for thousands of years, [1] the Louvre's history starts around 1190 with its first construction as the Louvre Castle defending the western front of the Wall of Philip II Augustus, the then new city-wall of Paris. The Louvre's oldest section still standing above ground, its palatial Lescot Wing ...
It is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement (district or ward) and home to some of the most canonical works of Western art, including the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, and Winged Victory. The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace, originally built in the late 12th to 13th century under Philip II.
The Louvre Castle (French: Château du Louvre), also referred to as the Medieval Louvre (French: Louvre médiéval), [1] was a castle (French: château fort) begun by Philip II of France on the right bank of the Seine, to reinforce the city wall he had built around Paris.
The yet to be built east wing was very important as it faced the city with other buildings nearby. This would be the new main entrance to the Louvre. After a contest launched by Jean-Baptiste Colbert , the King decided in 1665 to have the Louvre Colonnade built outside on the east by Claude Perrault and Louis le Vau.
Inside pictures: a view of the Louvre Museum in Paris from the underground lobby of the pyramid. The pyramid in the Cour Napoléon shown on a schematic of the Louvre. The Grand Louvre project was announced in 1981 by François Mitterrand, the President of France. In 1983 the Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei was selected as its architect ...
Under French law, the Louvre can stop the “national treasure” from being exported to the US — if it can match the Kimbell Art Museum’s winning auction bid. A Texas museum acquired this ...
“Louvre Couture, Art and Fashion: Statement Pieces” marks the prestigious museum’s first foray into fashion, with a sprawling exhibition dedicated to the relationship between designers and art.
Ironically, buildings in the style built in the US were often closer to their 17th-century roots than examples of the style found in Europe. [15] Because of the expense of designing buildings with the level of elaborate detailing found in European and public examples, Second Empire residential architecture was first taken up by wealthy businessmen.