monument is basically a glossy‚ black and a very tough stone. This stele represents the ancient Mesopotamian in the old Babylonian period. It was built to be viewed for its detailed carving and intellectual content. Today‚ it is located in Paris at the Louvre museum The lower 3/4 of the stone was smoothed to allow the punishments and the laws set by Hammurabi to be engraved on it. While the top 1/4 of the sculpture‚ is basically a relief that depicts Hammurabi while receiving the code verbally from Shamash
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Extraterrestrial Entities Hidden In Leonardo Da Vinci’s Paintings. Leonardo da Vinci is considered a true genius of painting. Specialists in the field say that he had an extraordinary intellectual capacity and a wide range of inspiration to achieve his works. Many are those who have searched for clues or codes hidden in the works of Vinci and to everyone’s surprise and some have found. Universalist spirit: painter‚ sculptor‚ architect‚ musician‚ engineer‚ inventor‚ anatomist‚ geologist‚ cartographer
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women‚ including their right to own property and the right to divorce. The Code of Hammurabi was discovered in 1901 by French archaeologist Jean-Vincent Scheil. The text is engraved into the stone in the Akkadian language and today is housed at the Louvre museum. This was not the only one and many more have been found throughout the Babylonian kingdom. The many laws in the Code of Hammurabi range from laws concerning matters of property and commerce‚ including debt and interest‚ laws concerning family
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Some time in his 50s Leonardo created his best work ever and most famous painting The Mona Lisa. In 1517 he settled in France. Da Vinci spent the rest of his life designing military projects. A group of art and scientific specialists hired by the Louvre museum in Paris to investigate the painting. The findings have brought back many new thing that we never knew til now. They
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1856-57‚ Morisot starts attending drawing lessons with Geoffroy-Alphonse Chocarne‚ but in 1858 she and her sister Edma left to study under Joseph-Beno Guichard‚ a pupil of Ingres and Delacroix. In the same year they registered as copyists in the Louvre‚ copying Veronese and Rubens (Rewald 593). Her big change came in 1861 when she met the influential landscape painter Camille Corot (1796-1875)‚ who introduced her to other artists and teachers‚ and taught her the concept of plein air (open air)
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highest point in city - glass cable car link was built in 1990s - further increased amount of visitors to this attraction. * Nearby - Artist’s quarter + the Salvador Dali museum. * Other attractions drawing millions of visitors each year – Louvre - holds famous pieces (Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci) * S. lies the palace of Versailles * E. (in Marne de la Valley) is the world famous Euro Disney. * Arc De Triomphe‚ Champs d’Elysees and the Notre Dame Cathedral. * 2008 -
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The Universal Museum – a valid model for the 21st century? Introduction In October 2002‚ the International Group of Organisers of Largescale Exhibitions‚ also known as the Bizot Group — a forum comprising directors of 40 of the world’s major museums and galleries — gathered in Munich for their annual informal discussion.1 The meeting was convened specifically to address the problem of how to confront the growing number of requests for repatriation of objects from ‘universal’ museums and in particular
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Introduction My friends and I decided to go on a one week holiday this summer to a place we didn’t visit before. We were thinking about the romantic Paris or exotic Madrid. We have a budget of £1000 each and we are four of us. We also have to bear in mind that being in a foreign place we need to have some extra cash left just in case‚ and we also want to buy souvenirs for friends and family and maybe treat ourselves. We had to take into account the advantages and disadvantages of both places
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Tower‚ Champs-Elysées‚ Louvre‚ Panthéon‚ Notre-Dame‚.. "Paris Facts." Paris Facts. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 24 Jan. 2014. Geography Paris has been France’s capital since 508 A.D One of the greatest countries on Western Europe is France Paris is a current and active city with momentous universities Paris has reached a 2000 year history since the Romans to the current 5th Republic Ancient French Kings appointed stunning monuments‚ such as Versailles Palace and The Louvre Museum Many great
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He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.[2] According to art historianHelen Gardner‚ the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent and "his mind and personality seem to us superhuman‚ the man himself mysterious and remote".[1] Marco Rosci states that while there is much speculation about Leonardo‚ his vision of the world is essentially logical rather than mysterious‚ and that the empirical
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