The Diana of Versailles or Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt (French: Artémis, déesse de la chasse) is a slightly over-lifesize marble statue of the Roman...
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Leochares (category Sculptors of Alexander the Great)
construction of the Mausoleum of Mausolos at Halicarnassus, one of the "Seven Wonders of the Ancient World". The Diana of Versailles is a Roman copy of his original...
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The Palace of Versailles (/vɛərˈsaɪ, vɜːrˈsaɪ/ vair-SY, vur-SY; French: château de Versailles [ʃɑto d(ə) vɛʁsɑj] ) is a former royal residence commissioned...
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as in the Diana of Versailles, this is because Diana was the patroness of hunting. The deer may also offer a covert reference to the myth of Acteon (or...
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landmark Diana of Versailles Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA), a NATO organization aiming of facilitate the development of dual-use...
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Nemesis and Diana (Diana of Versailles). The latter, moved to the Louvre in 1798, was replaced by a Diana sculpted by René Frémin for the gardens of the Château...
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Morton's toe (redirect from Mutiny of the Foot)
featuring Morton's toe include Boxer at Rest, The Birth of Venus, Laocoön and His Sons and Diana of Versailles. There are also associations found within Celtic...
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following is a very incomplete list of notable works in the collections of the Musée du Louvre in Paris. For a list of works based on 5,500 paintings catalogued...
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Winged Victory of Samothrace, or the Niké of Samothrace, is a votive monument originally discovered on the island of Samothrace, north of the Aegean Sea...
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Mona Lisa (category Portraits of women)
the painting. It was kept at the Palace of Fontainebleau until Louis XIV moved it to the Palace of Versailles, where it remained until the French Revolution...
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Saint John the Baptist (Leonardo) (category Paintings of John the Baptist)
painting is in the collection of the Louvre. In November 2022, it was loaned to Louvre Abu Dhabi for two years as part of the museum's fifth anniversary...
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Venus de Milo (redirect from Aphrodite of Melos)
The Venus de Milo or Aphrodite of Melos is an ancient Greek marble sculpture that was created during the Hellenistic period. Its exact dating is uncertain...
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The Virgin of the Rocks (Italian: Vergine delle rocce), sometimes the Madonna of the Rocks, is the name of two paintings by the Italian Renaissance artist...
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Liberty Leading the People (category Vandalized works of art)
ɡidɑ̃ lə pœpl]) is a painting of the Romantic era by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, commemorating the July Revolution of 1830 that toppled King Charles...
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Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Death of Sardanapalus is based on the tale of Sardanapalus, a king of Assyria, from the historical library of Diodorus Siculus...
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it was installed in the Chamber Sacre of the museum of the historical Palace of Versailles on the orders of King Louis-Philippe. In 1889, the painting...
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Dying Gaul (category Roman copies of Greek sculptures)
XIV remains at Versailles (Haskell and Penny 1981:22). A black marble copy for the Duke of Northumberland is in the entrance hall of Syon House, designed...
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Louvre Pyramid (section Number of panes)
of 21.6 metres (71 ft). Its square base has sides of 34 metres (112 ft) and a base surface area of 1,000 square metres (11,000 sq ft). It consists of...
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and one of her sisters) is a painting by an unknown artist dated c. 1594. It is in the Louvre in Paris and is usually thought to be the work of a painter...
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Oranienbaum, Russia (category Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Saint Petersburg)
Air Winter Spring Summer Autumn Land Diana of Versailles Apollo Belvedere Triton Saving Children List of Baroque residences Lomonosov, Russia Taruskin...
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Odalisque, also known as Une Odalisque or La Grande Odalisque, is an oil painting of 1814 by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres depicting an odalisque, or concubine...
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birth. Playing on the superstitions of the local tribes, he told them that it had been given to him by the goddess Diana; by attributing all his intelligence...
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Old Babylonian dialect of Akkadian, purportedly by Hammurabi, sixth king of the First Dynasty of Babylon. The primary copy of the text is inscribed on...
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The Astronomer (Vermeer) (category Paintings of men)
shows the Finding of Moses—Moses may represent knowledge and science ("learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians"). The provenance of The Astronomer can...
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between 1852 and 1859, but modified in 1862. The painting depicts a group of nude women at a pool in a harem. It has an erotic style that evokes both the...
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for representing human skin, and which can also be polished. Of the many different types of marble the pure white ones are generally used for sculpture...
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Outdoor Sculpture! (1993). "Diana (sculpture)". SIRIS. Smithsonian. Retrieved June 12, 2010. Indianapolis Museum of Art (2010). "Diana with Deer". Collections...
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Oath of the Horatii (French: Le Serment des Horaces) is a large painting by the French artist Jacques-Louis David painted in 1784 and 1785 and now on display...
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Roman statue, Diana of Versailles, which was given by Pope Paul IV to King Henry IV, and which is now in the Louvre. The original statue of the fountain...
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to Versailles in the night of 3 September. Some time later, the Medusa was moved to the Château de Chambord where it remained until after the end of the...
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