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The Louvre in the seventeenth century.(artifacts found during excavations will be exhibited)(Brief Article)
Now full of works of art, the Louvre is also the setting for much of French history. The first palace on the site was built at the end of the twelfth century as a fortress, arsenal, and repository for jewels, illuminated manuscripts, and other royal treasures. It became a royal residence about 1400. Francois I demolished the building and commissioned a replacement, and it was he who set the tone for both a grand palace and royal collecting. The Louvre became the royal residence in Paris, and after the Revolution in 1793 it became the first national public art gallery in France.
Over the centuries the Louvre has continued to grow in size and in the scope of its collections. One of the latest major additions was L M. Pei's pyramid in the central courtyard in 1989. All major improvements or additions have had archaeological implications, which is not surprising for a site in almost ...
- High horizons: David Platzer reviews a remarkable exhibition of Manet's...
- Magazine article from: Apollo Platzer, David June 1, 2004 700+ words
...also included works by Dutch seventeenth-century marine painters influential to Manet from visits to the Louvre and Holland, as well as works...s) Fete champetre in the Louvre. Baudelaire dismissed the...sea (about 1690, Musee du Louvre), not on exhibit here...
- Favour and patronage: dancers in the court ballets of early seventeenth-century...
- Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History Kettering, Sharon December 22, 2008 700+ words
...the ballets de cour, the court ballets of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France, since Margaret McGowan's path-breaking study...Ballets were often presented in the grand salon of the Louvre. This long, narrow room, sixty-four yards long and sixteen...
- Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France: Mastering...
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Canova-Green, Marie-Claude October 1, 2007 700+ words
...History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France: Mastering Memory. By FAITH...generations. Not only were the seventeenth-century salons reinterpreted and their role...Contrary to later representations, seventeenth-century salons were not just 'schools for...
- The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy.(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics Smith, Kurt June 1, 2000 700+ words
...eds. The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy. 2 vols. Cambridge...the philosophical setting of the seventeenth century. The collection is part of a much...educated European thinkers of the seventeenth century would have "organized the domain...
- The Complicity of Imagination: the American Renaissance, Contests of Authority,...
- Magazine article from: Christianity and Literature Urban, David January 1, 2002 700+ words
...Renaissance, Contests of Authority, and Seventeenth-Century English Culture is a thoroughly...and "the culture and politics of seventeenth-century England." Using these four authors...and ideas, and whose knowledge of seventeenth-century literature, enabled them "to revise...
- The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Notes Bailey, Candace March 1, 2007 700+ words
...The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music. Edited by Tim...The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music (CHSCM) is part...editors describe how the seventeenth century has been discussed in...
- Luxury and war: reconsidering luxury consumption in seventeenth-century England...
- Magazine article from: Albion Peck, Linda Levy March 22, 2002 700+ words
...argue, only took place in the later seventeenth century when writers such as Nicholas Barbon...sixteenth century on; that the seventeenth century saw important innovations by the...Old" and "New Luxury" in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. (3) New luxury...
- Vietnamese Ceramic Trade to the Philippines in the Seventeenth Century.
- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Nguyen-Long, Kerry March 1, 1999 700+ words
...Asia in the third quarter of the seventeenth century. It focuses on two issues: the...exported to Southeast Asia in the seventeenth century are, in the face of new evidence...Philippines in the latter half of the seventeenth century. The ceramic literature has long...