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Decorated ceiling of the Apollo Gallery. Besides the sumptuous decoration of the room itself, the gallery's main attractions are the remaining pieces of the French Crown Jewels. In 1887, the Third French Republic sold most crown jewels to quell fears of a royalist coup d'état, from which only jewels of historic significance were exempted.
While the two worked at the Louvre Abu Dhabi together in 2009, they made the museum’s first acquisition, which came from Christie’s Yves Saint Laurent et Pierre Bergé Collection auction ...
The following is a very incomplete list of notable works in the collections of the Musée du Louvre in Paris. For a list of works based on 5,500 paintings catalogued in the Joconde database, see the Catalog of paintings in the Louvre Museum.
Visitors in the Grande Galerie. The Grande Galerie (French pronunciation: [ɡʁɑ̃d ɡalʁi]), in the past also known as the Galerie du Bord de l'Eau (Waterside Gallery), is a wing of the Louvre Palace, perhaps more properly referred to as the Aile de la Grande Galerie (Grand Gallery Wing), [1] since it houses the longest and largest room of the museum, also referred to as the Grande Galerie ...
The Catalog of paintings in the Louvre Museum lists the painters of the collection of the Louvre Museum as they are catalogued in the Joconde database. The collection contains roughly 5,500 paintings by 1,400 artists born before 1900, and over 500 named artists are French by birth.
Apollo Room may refer to: Apollo Room in the historic Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States; St George's Hall and Apollo Room of the Winter Palace, in Saint Petersburg, Russia; Salon of Apollo in the Palace of Versailles, France; Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre Museum in Paris, France
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.
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