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| Louvre Museum The Louvre building complex underwent a major remodeling in the 1980s and '90s in order to make the old museum more accessible and accommodating to its visitors. To this end, a vast underground complex of offices, shops, exhibition spaces, storage areas, and parking areas, as well as an auditorium, a tourist bus depot, and a cafeteria, was constructed underneath the Louvre's central courtyards of the Cour NapolÈon and the Cour du Carrousel. The ground-level entrance to this complex was situated in the centre of the Cour NapolÈon and was crowned by a controversial steel-and-glass pyramid designed by the American great architect I.M. Pei. The underground complex of support facilities and public amenities was opened in 1989. In 1993, on the museum's 200th anniversary, the rebuilt Richelieu wing, formerly occupied by France's Ministry of Finance, was opened; for the first time, the entire Louvre was devoted to museum purposes. The new wing, also designed by Pei, had more than 230,000 square feet (21,368 square m) of exhibition space, housing collections of European painting, decorative arts, and Isl(mic arts. Three glass-roofed interior courtyards display French sculpture and ancient Assyrian artworks. . |
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Twenty great pictures in the world history? 1, The Book of Kells, (TCD Ms, 58 f.27v) Anonymous at The Board of Trinity College, Dublin. 2, Lamentations, (1305-13) Giotto di Bondone, at Scrovegni Chapel, Padua/Sala. 3, The Arnolfini Wedding. (1434) Jan van Eyck, at Reproduced courtesy of the Trustees, The National Gallery, London. 4,Garden of Earthly Delights, Hell, c. 1500 Hieronymus Bosch, Museo del Prado. 5, Mona Lisa, 6, The Creation of Adam, detail from the Sistine Chapel ceiling, 1508-12 Michelangelo Buonarotti. Sistine Chapel, Vaticaan, Rome/Scala. 7, The Venus of Urbino, 1538 Tiziano Titian, at Uffizi, Florence/Scala. 8, A Woman Bathing in a Stream, 1654 Rembrant van Rijn at Reproduced by courtesy of the Trustees, The National Gallery, London. 9, Las Meninas (or The Maids of Honor), 1656 Diego Velazques At Museo dell Prado, Madrid. 10, The Swing, 1768 Jean Honore Fragonard at Reproduced by permission of Trustees, The Wllace Collection, London. 11, The Death of Marat, 1793 Jacques Louis David, at Musee Royaux des Beaux Arts, Brussels/The Bridgeman Art Library. 13, Snowstorm: Tteamboat off a Harbor’s Mouth, 1842 Joseph Mallord Willim Turner at The Tate Gallery, London. 14, Crows over Wheatifield, 1890 Vincent van Gogh at Vincent van Gogh Foundation?Vincent van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. 15, The Scream, 1893 Edvard Munch at Nasjonalgalleriet,Oslo Munch Museum. 16, Mont Sainte Victoire seen from the Bibemus Quarry, 1897 Paul Cezanne at The Baltimore Museum of Art : The Cone Collection, Baltimore, Maryland. 17, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907 Pablo Picasso at The Museum of Moden Art , New York. 18, Composition in Red, Yellow and Blue, 1920 Piet Mondrian at Stedelijk,Amsterdam. 19, Autumn Rhythm, 1950 Jackson Pollock at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 20, Head VI, 1949 Francis Bacon at Art Council of Great Britain Collection, London. * I do not know who made this list. |
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Power by Naru Yoshida
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