France is a country of beauty‚ mystery‚ and intrigue. Paris has the most known tourist attractions in the world: The Eiffel Tower‚ L’arc de Triomphe‚ and the Louvre to name a few. Paris is called the "City of Light"; the lighting of monuments and buildings emphasizes the beauty of the architecture in the city. The Eiffel Tower is the symbol of Paris‚ if not the entire country. It is one of the most known monuments in the entire world‚ and definitely one of the most photographed. It began construction
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Mom orders for all of us and none of us get what we want. Dad gets some sort of spicy pasta. I get lamb. Tommy gets a plate of meatballs. We all order wine. Dad is mad because he wanted to eat at his favorite restaurant. Mom tells Dad that we have a reservation there for Friday night. This isn’t good enough for Dad. He pouts. Tommy and I order another glass of wine. I keep expecting to be scolded for drinking‚ but nobody says anything to me. Tommy and I are getting along again. A cute girl comes
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true. With some differences in the paintings they believe it may have been another small artist at the time trying to copy da Vinci. The Isleworth painting is seemed to be with an international consortium while the original painting is kept in Paris’ Louvre Museum. The famous woman is this picture is Lisa del Giocondo. Lisa was from Florence and Tuscany‚ Italy. She married a cloth and silk merchant in her teenage years. Lisa was born in Florence on June 15th‚ 1479‚ many think that she was born on a
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is the Louvre. The Louvre contains historical paintings‚ sculptures and other forms of architecture. Not the largest cathedral in the world‚ the Notre-Dame might be the most famous of all cathedrals. The gothic masterpiece is located on the Île de la Cité‚ a small island in the heart of the city.In the middle of the Place Charles de Gaulle‚ at the border of the 8th‚ 16th and 17th arrondissement stands one of the greatest arches in history: the Arc de Triomphe (arch of triumph).The Louvre‚ originally
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Since many enlightenment philosophies and ideas were illustrated throughout the revolution‚ the Haitian Revolution was incredibly revolutionary. Under article XLII of the document titled‚ “Le Code Noir‚” which was decreed in 1685 by King Louis the XIV‚ the monarch of France at the time‚ it is stated that‚ “The masters may also‚” with complete authority over their actions‚ “chain [slaves] and have them beaten with rods and straps‚” (Louis‚ 3). In effect for over a century‚ the Le Code Noir aimed to
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symmetrical and smooth textured sculpture depicts a female sitting naked with her arms folded around her breasts. Her position is suggestive of childbirth (Louvre‚ 2007.) and brown stripes are painted on the body. The female ’s heads‚ hands and feet show no details however; her breasts‚ hips and thighs are exaggerated in size. According to the Louvre‚ these features suggests the representation of fertility in the form of a "mother goddess" guaranteeing of the regular renewal of life for the Halaf culture;
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distinct coldness and rationalism of approach. David ’s reputation was made by the Salon of 1784. In that year he produced his first masterwork‚ The Oath of the Horatii (Louvre). This work and his celebrated Death of Socrates (1787; Metropolitan Mus.) as well as Lictors Bringing to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons (1789; Louvre) were themes appropriate to the political climate of the time. They secured for David vast popularity and success. David was admitted to the Académie royale in 1780
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Islamic objects from their predecessors in Sasanian and Byzantine art; in fact‚ they utilize the same techniques and the same motifs. There was‚ notably‚ a significant production of unglazed ceramics‚ witnessed by a famous small bowl preserved in the Louvre‚ whose inscription assures its attribution to the Islamic period. Vegetal motifs were the most important in these early productions. Umayyad art Religious and civic architecture were developed under the Umayyads‚ and new concepts and new plans
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The English language is nobody’s special property‚ it is the property of the imagination‚ it is the property of the language itself. For poet Derek Walcott the beauty of the English language lies in every single word he weaves together. His poems “a lesson for this for this Sunday is a metaphorical text on the morality of colonizers and those being colonized. The poem focuses on human nature’s inability to stay pure and the need to bend nature to its will. “The lesson is the same” is an extended
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Conception‚ in the Church of San Francesco Grande in Milan on April 25‚ 1483. It was debated that the conflict was due to monetary payment or artistic restrictions. Two versions of this painting exist‚ one at the Louvre in Paris and the second held by the National Gallery in London. The Louvre painting may have been given by Da Vinci to King Louis XII of France in gratitude for settling the dispute between those who commissioned the works and the painter; this would have created the need for a second
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