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Tuileries
Tuileries , former palace in Paris. Planned by Catherine de' Medici and begun in 1564 by Philibert Delorme , it occupied part of the present Tuileries gardens. It was rarely used as a royal residence until 1789, when Louis XVI was forced by the revolutionists to move there from Versailles. He and... Read more |
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Pierre Patel
Patel, Pierre (b ?Picardy, ?c.1605; d Paris, 5 Aug. 1676). French landscape painter, active in Paris. He was a pupil of Vouet but worked in the manner of Claude, with whose paintings his own have sometimes been confused (although Patel's style is harder). Much of his work was done in the form of... Read more |
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Augustin Pajou
Pajou, Augustin (b Paris, 18 Sept. 1730; d Paris, 8 May 1809). French sculptor, a pupil of J.-B. Lemoyne the Younger. He won the Prix de Rome in 1748 and was in Italy from 1752 to 1756. After his return to Paris he had a successful and varied career, aided by his industrious and amiable character; ... Read more |
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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux , 1827-75, French sculptor and painter. He studied with François Rude and won the Prix de Rome. Carpeaux rose to fame with his Ugolino (1860-62; Louvre) and became a favorite of the Second Empire, receiving many portrait commissions. Of his sculpture groups, the best... Read more |
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Baron Georges Eugene Haussmann
Georges Eugène Haussmann, Baron , 1809-91, French civic official and city planner. Distinguished for his bold alterations in the layout of Paris under Napoleon III, he is largely responsible for the city's present appearance. To create adequate traffic circulation, old streets were widened... Read more |
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Gaspare Spontini
Gaspare Spontini , 1774-1851, Italian opera composer. Spontini studied music in Naples. He went to Paris in 1803, won a prize from Napoleon for La Vestale (1807), and became court composer under Louis XVIII. In 1819 he was a leading musician at the court of Frederick William III of Prussia.... Read more |
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Androuet du Cerceau
Androuet du Cerceau , family of French architects active in the 16th and 17th cent. It was founded by Jacques Androuet, c.1520-c.1584, surnamed du Cerceau [Fr.,=circle] from the emblem of a circle marking his workshop. He is best known for his writings and his fanciful engravings of decorative... Read more |
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Commune of Paris
Commune of Paris insurrectionary governments in Paris formed during (1792) the French Revolution and at the end (1871) of the Franco-Prussian War . In the French Revolution, the Revolutionary commune, representing urban workers, tradespeople, and radical bourgeois, engineered the storming of the... Read more |
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Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet , 1819-77, French painter, b. Ornans. He moved to Paris in 1839 and studied there, learning chiefly by copying masterpieces in the Louvre. An avowed realist, Courbet was always at odds with vested authority, aesthetic or political. In 1847 his Wounded Man (Louvre) was rejected by... Read more |
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The Louvre launches its `monster' pyramid
...million Grand Louvre expansion...perches in the Louvre's Cour Napoleon III like some...traditional Paris as were the...courtyard of the Louvre like a Disneyland...continues on Place du ... |
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THE GETTY MUSEUM DEBUTS FIRST MAJOR MONOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION OF GEROME IN...
...t a living room in France that...Delaroche in Paris in the 1840s...returned to Paris and attended...Cockfight (1846; Musee du Louvre), which featured...Exposition in Paris, where he exhibited...flatter ... |
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Bravo, Bruno!(Artists Bruno Moinard designs gift shop)
...attic reading room at author George...galleries at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs...of the Palais du Louvre in Paris. For Moinard...commissioned by Napoleon III, designed by...National de ... |
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Paris still isn't cheap, but at least it's friendlier to...
...monuments in Paris, it's worth...you're in Paris you'll be...visit the Louvre, the oldest...Invalides, where Napoleon is buried...to fly in Paris. Taxis are...for a single room on the Right...distance of the ... |
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AMERICANS IN PARIS FIND THE WELCOME IS WARMER.(TRAVEL)
...monuments in Paris, it's worth...you're in Paris you'll be...visit the Louvre, the oldest...Invalides, where Napoleon is buried...to fly in Paris. Taxis are...for a single room on the Right...distance of the ... |
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Nineteenth-Century European Art. A Topical Dictionary.(Review)
...strong brew of Paris' (p. ix...now in the Musee d'Orsay...located in the Louvre, 'considered...baritone at the Paris Opera and...Origine du monde. Courbet's Atelier du peintre...on Emperor Napoleon ... |
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French fancy; Where better to while away a stolen weekend with your amour fou...
...Eurostar to Paris, but the...working in Paris so I was meeting...at the Gare du Nord, and...Seine from the Louvre. It was called...obsessed with Napoleon III. The lobby...were in a room at the top...walked ... |
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