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    Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon (4 January 1747 – 27 April 1825) was a French artist, writer, diplomat, author, and archaeologist. Denon was a diplomat for...
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    date as part of the painting see The Death of Marat. Dominique-Vivant Denon, Vivant Denon, Directeur des musées sous le Consulat et l'Empire, Correspondance...
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    south, the "Denon Wing" is the array of buildings between the Cour Napoléon and the Seine, named after the Louvre's first director Vivant Denon. the Louvre's...
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  • Vivante, or variation, may refer to: Vivant Denon (1747–1825), French artist and statesman Pierre Abel Clarin Vivant (1855–1914), French historian and journalist...
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  • planet in the Star Wars franchise. Kassoum Denon, Malian politician Vivant Denon (Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon), French curator, artist and archaeologist...
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    : 100,107  In November 1802, First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte appointed Vivant Denon director of the Louvre, the museums of Versailles, and the royal castle...
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    finally by a number of scientists of the Napoleon expedition, including Vivant Denon, during 1798–1799. Claude-Étienne Savary describes the complex in rather...
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  • divided into two parts. The sparse outline of the scene was published by Vivant Denon in 1802, who was part of Napoleon's expedition to Egypt in 1798 to 1801...
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    architectural elements remained visible. For instance, in 1778, Dominique Vivant Denon described the temple: ... In order to investigate this famous temple...
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    constitute an extraordinary sight once brought to Paris. Similarly, Vivant Denon recalls in his 1802 Voyage dans la basse et la Haute Égypte the possibility...
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    aide de camp to Napoleon Bonaparte. He also became friends with Muiron, Vivant Denon, Lazare Carnot, Augereau, and Bourienne. His name is engraved on the...
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    February 1841 in Paris) was the French painter and antiquary who succeeded Vivant Denon as curator of the Musée du Louvre and the other museums of France. Born...
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    Galerie d'Apollon. On 19 November 1802, Napoleon appointed Dominique Vivant Denon, a scholar and polymath who had participated in the Egyptian campaign...
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    French hegemony in Italy in the 1790s. He was recruited by Dominique Vivant Denon in 1808 to make bas-reliefs for the monumental column in the Place Vendôme...
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    symbolism of the bees on a suggestion by Cambacérès. The design was made by Vivant Denon, Director of the Louvre. Sometimes called Flavius Childeric I. The name...
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    scientists and artists participated in the expedition, including Dominique-Vivant Denon, Claude Louis Berthollet, and Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier. On the capitulation...
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    the Papal States. Yet the chauvinist curator of the Musée Napoléon, Vivant Denon, falsely claimed that Veronese's canvas was too fragile to travel from...
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    l'Égypte series.: 189  Illustrations produced by Edme-François Jomard and Vivant Denon form much of the evidence of these remains, because since the 19th century...
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    May and his coronation at Notre-Dame de Paris on 2 December. Dominique Vivant Denon, who participated in Bonaparte's expedition to Egypt and was now director...
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    278 BC. In 1799, members of Napoleon's expedition to Egypt (especially Vivant Denon) drew maps and plans of the known tombs, and for the first time noted...
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    (Théâtre de l'Odéon, 18 October 1901), a dramatic version of a story by Vivant Denon L'Énigme (Théâtre Français, 5 November 1901) Théroigne de Méricourt (Théâtre...
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  • class medal in 1819. Between 1802 and 1814, under the direction of Baron Vivant Denon, the director of the Louvre, he created a series of drawings illustrating...
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    Fouquier Tinville par Vivant Denon...
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  • Isidoro and join with others to form the Nazarene movement. Dominique Vivant Denon assists the Hermitage Museum in the acquisition of Rosso Fiorentino's...
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    built in part from stone looted from nearby ancient Egyptian sites; when Vivant Denon visited it in 1799, he noted that it was "constructed of parts of old...
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    he had obtained through the years. Draftsman and engraver Dominique Vivant Denon went to Egypt instead, providing mostly documentary and archaeological...
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    the same temple's pronaos. During the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt, Vivant Denon drew the circular zodiac, the more widely known one, and the rectangular...
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    Way. Translated by Lydia Davis. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-243796-4. Vivant Denon (2009). Peter Brooks (ed.). No Tomorrow. Translated by Lydia Davis. New...
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    the scrolls to Institut de France under charge of Gaspard Monge and Vivant Denon. In 1810, eighteen unrolled papyri were given to George IV, four of which...
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    ambassador in Rome François Cacault and the director of French museums Vivant Denon both saw the sculpture while it was a work in progress: Cacault wrote...
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