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The La Caze Collection, a bequest to the Musée du Louvre in 1869 by Louis La Caze, was the largest contribution of a person in the history of the Louvre. La Caze gave 584 paintings of his personal collection to the museum.
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 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 earliest mention of the name of Versailles is found in a document which predates 1038, the Charter of the Saint-Père de Chartres Abbey, [1] in which one of the signatories was a certain Hugo de Versailliis (Hugues de Versailles), who was seigneur of Versailles.
The Palace of Versailles is a visual history of French architecture from the 1630s to the 1780s. Its earliest portion, the corps de logis, was built for Louis XIII in the style of his reign with brick, marble, and slate, [6] which Le Vau surrounded in the 1660s with Enveloppe, an edifice that was inspired by Renaissance-era Italian villas. [132]
Pastoral Concert, attributed to Titian. The "Garden of Love" was a genre of medieval subjects in illuminated manuscripts, carved ivory, tapestry, and murals. [4]A painting dated to ca. 1509 now usually called Le Concert champêtre or the Pastoral Concert was named Fête champêtre when it entered the collection of the Louvre in 1792.
Grand Siècle or Great Century refers to the period of French history during the 17th century, under the reigns of Louis XIII and Louis XIV. [2] The period was notable for its development of art and literature, along with the construction of the Palace of Versailles, the effects of the French Wars of Religion, and the impacts of the Thirty ...
The galerie des Batailles One of the salles des Croisades. The Musée de l'Histoire de France (French pronunciation: [myze də listwaʁ də fʁɑ̃s] ⓘ, useum of French History) is a museum that was created by King Louis Philippe I in the Palace of Versailles and opened in 1837.