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[1] The original Louvre was nearly square in plan, at seventy-eight by seventy-two meters, and enclosed by a 2.6-metre thick crenellated and machicolated curtain wall. The entire structure was surrounded by a water-filled moat. On the outside of the walls were ten round defensive towers: one at each corner and at the center of the northern and ...
[1] [6] A committee commissioned by Louis XIV, the Petit Conseil, comprising Louis Le Vau, Charles Le Brun, and Perrault, designed the east façade of the Louvre. [7] It was begun in 1667 and was essentially complete in 1674. [8] By 1680, Louis XIV had abandoned the Louvre and focused his attention on the Palace of Versailles.
The so-called "Memnon pietà", with the goddess Eos holding the body of Memnon: among the inscriptions [1] is the phrase Hermogenes kalos (Attic red-figure cup, c. 490–480 BC, from Capua; at the Louvre). A kalos inscription is a form of epigraph found on Attic vases and graffiti in antiquity, mainly during the Classical period from 550 to 450 BC.
The Musée du Louvre owns 615,797 objects [1] of which 482,943 are accessible online since 24 March 2021 [83] and displays 35,000 works of art in eight curatorial departments. [2] The Louvre is home to one of the world's most extensive collections of art, including works from diverse cultures and time periods.
Vincent Delieuvin is an art historian and chief curator of Italian painting of the sixteenth century paintings department of the Louvre since 2006. [1] He has written several books on Leonardo da Vinci. [2]
Jean Siméon Chardin (French: [ʒɑ̃ simeɔ̃ ʃaʁdɛ̃]; November 2, 1699 – December 6, 1779 [1]) was an 18th-century French painter. [2] He is considered a master of still life, [3] and is also noted for his genre paintings which depict kitchen maids, children, and domestic activities.
The Pavillon du Roi (French pronunciation: [pavijɔ̃ dy ʁwa]) was a tower-like structure built in the mid-16th century at the southern end of the Lescot Wing of the Louvre Palace. On its main floor ( piano nobile ) was the primary apartment of the king of France .
"Archaic Torso of Apollo" is a sonnet with the rhyme scheme AbbA CddC EEf GfG. [1] It is an ekphrasis—a rhetorical genre from ancient Greece that describes inanimate objects—of an archaic Greek sculpture of Apollo, of which only the torso and crotch area survive. The poem argues that although the head is missing, the characteristics of the ...