Musée du Louvre in Paris

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France, Italy, Switzerland

May 2001

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Louvre Museum

This image shows the Salle du Manège (Manege Room) inside the Louvre Museum in Paris, France. The room features a red brick ceiling with checkered patterns and sandstone columns. The columns are topped with richly carved capitals depicting various animals, as the hall was originally dedicated to equestrian activities under Napoleon III. #Ballestrade #Vaulted ceiling

 The opulent interior Grande Galerie of the historic museum, Musée du Louvre in Paris.  The architecture features a large arched ceiling with a skylight and marble columns.The scene captures visitors viewing artwork within a gallery space. #vaulted ceiling # Museum #Louvre

This is a photograph of the Grande Galerie (Grand Gallery) inside the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.The gallery is famously known for its exceptionally long hall, which was initially constructed in 1595 and completed in 1607 to connect the Louvre Palace with the Tuileries Palace.Visible in this view are the distinctive Corinthian columns, arched ceiling with natural lighting, and classical sculptures on display amid visitors.The sculpture prominently featured in the center of the image is the bronze statue Mars assis (Seated Mars) by Luigi Valadier.

The Grande Galerie, Louvre Museum.

This image depicts a grand hall inside the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.The museum is a historic Parisian landmark that houses thousands of works, including famous paintings and sculptures.This specific area shows tourists visiting one of the museum's exhibition galleries, which feature natural light from a large ceiling skylight.

This massive painting is The Coronation of Napoleon by Jacques-Louis David, depicting the 1804 ceremony at Notre-Dame.It is oil on canvas, measuring approximately 10 meters wide and 6 meters tall.The masterpiece is currently on display at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.The scene captures the moment Napoleon crowns his wife, Josephine, rather than the Pope crowning him.

The large painting on the right is The Holy Family, also known as The Virgin of Seville, by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.This artwork is housed in the Louvre Museum in Paris.The painting, created between 1665 and 1670, depicts the Virgin Mary, the Christ Child, Saint Elizabeth, and Saint John the Baptist

This is Bartolomé Esteban Murillo's The Holy Family (also known as The Virgin of Seville), painted between 1665 and 1670.The painting is a notable example of Spanish Baroque religious art, featuring warm lighting and soft textures.It depicts the Virgin Mary, the Christ Child, Saint Joseph, and Saint John the Baptist in a intimate family setting.The original masterpiece is currently held in the collection of the Musée du Louvre in Paris.

The painting on the easel is the Madonna with the Blue Diadem by Raphael, currently located in the Louvre Museum.It is an oil on wood painting created around 1510-1512, depicting a serene family scene with the Virgin Mary, Jesus, and the infant Saint John the Baptist.The scene shows a visitor examining the painting, which is likely part of a special exhibition or display.Another Raphael painting, Madonna of Divine Love, is mentioned in similar contexts as being on display, possibly appearing in the background of the image.

This image shows the "Virgin and Child with Saints John the Baptist and Sebastian" by Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, a Renaissance painter.Artist Context: Boltraffio was a Milanese painter who trained in the studio of Leonardo da Vinci.Location: This painting is housed in the Musée du Louvre.Painting Details: The artwork is an oil painting on panel dating back to circa 1500.

The image depicts a restorer working on a replica of the painting Virgin and Child with Sts John the Baptist and Sebastian by Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio.The original painting, also known as the Pala Casio, is a Renaissance artwork executed around 1500 and is currently housed in the Louvre Museum.The scene highlights the meticulous process of art restoration, where the artist is carefully applying paint to a canvas mounted on an easel in front of the framed masterpiece.

This image shows an artist recreating a Renaissance-style portrait in the Musée du Louvre.The artist is captured from behind, wearing a blue shirt, focusing intently on his work.The original artwork being copied appears to be a portrait of a woman in a dark dress, characteristic of 15th or 16th-century Italian art.The scene demonstrates the long-standing tradition of artists practicing their skills by painting masterpieces directly inside the museum. This painting is the Portrait of Doña Isabel de Requesens, a work attributed to Giulio Romano and Raphael from around 1518.Location: It is currently held in the Louvre Museum.Historical Context: Commissioned by Pope Leo X for Francis I of France, the portrait was intended to showcase the beauty of the vicereine of Naples.Artist Attribution: While once fully attributed to Raphael, it is now believed to have been executed by his student, Giulio Romano, likely based on a sketch by Raphael with final alterations made by the master himself.

This image shows the 2nd-century CE Roman marble sculpture known as the Jupiter of Versailles, which is housed in the Louvre Museum.Subject: It is a colossal bust representing the Roman god Jupiter (equivalent to the Greek Zeus), king of the gods.History: Found in Rome in 1525, it was gifted to King Louis XIV of France in 1623.Restoration: In 1686, the king commissioned sculptor Jacques Drouilly to convert the bust into a herm pillar, adding a draped torso to the original head and chest.

This image depicts the Mattei Athena, a Roman Parian marble copy from the 2nd century BC of a 4th-century BC Greek bronze original.The sculpture represents the goddess of wisdom and war holding a helmet, showcasing intricate drapery and a gorgoneion (Medusa head) on her chest.It was purchased by the Louvre in 1824 and is currently on exhibition at the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

This marble statue is identified as the "Pallas Athena of Velletri," a 1st-century AD Roman copy of a lost Greek bronze original attributed to Kresilas.The sculpture is located within the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.It depicts the Greek goddess Athena, and traces of red pigment on her eyes and lips suggest it was originally painted.

This marble statue is identified as the "Pallas Athena of Velletri," a 1st-century AD Roman copy of a lost Greek bronze original attributed to Kresilas.The sculpture is located within the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.It depicts the Greek goddess Athena, and traces of red pigment on her eyes and lips suggest it was originally painted. It was discovered in 1797 in the ruins of a Roman villa near Velletri, Italy.The statue is displayed under a decorated architectural dome in the museum's Sully wing

This marble statue, located at the Louvre Museum, depicts the Roman Empress Valeria Messalina holding her son, Britannicus.Artist: The original artist is unknown, but the work was heavily restored in the 18th century.Context: The statue, created around 45 CE, likely inspired later Madonna and Child sculptures by adopting a pose similar to Cephisodotos' Eirene holding Ploutos.Subject: Messalina was the third wife of the Emperor Claudius.

This image features the Venus de Milo, a famous ancient Greek marble sculpture from the Hellenistic period, on display at the Louvre Museum in Paris.Artist & Date: Created around 100 BC, it is attributed to Alexandros of Antioch.Subject: It is believed to depict Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty.Discovery: The statue was discovered on the island of Milos in 1820 and is missing its original arms.Material: The sculpture is carved from Parian marble and stands over 2 meters tall.

This item resembles a historical chess set often associated with the Louvre Museum, known as the "Echiquier dit de Saint-Louis".The set features intricately decorated pieces, likely made of materials like rock crystal, paired with a board constructed from cedar wood, gilded silver, or bronze.It is considered a decorative art piece rather than a standard set for regular play due to its intricate reflections and construction

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VERSAILLES 

This is a Jambon-Beurre, a classic French sandwich featuring ham and butter on a baguette. The recipe requires a high-quality, crunchy baguette, European-style butter, and thinly sliced ham. Some variations include thin slices of Gruyère cheese

Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France

We approached the painter in this photograph and asked in French, "Pouvons nous prendre votre photo, May we take your picture?" "Yes," she was from Kansas.

 

An artist painting in the meadow at St. Paul Hospital, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France

Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France Vincent van Gogh

On May 8, 1889, van Gogh committed himself to the hospital at Saint Paul-de-Mausole. The hospital was a former monastery in Saint-Rémy. The monastery is located in an area of Grain fields, vineyards and olive trees. Vincent's brother, Theo, arranged for two small adjoining rooms, with barred windows. The second room was his studio.

The garden of the hospital in Arles (Oskar Reinhart Collection, Winterthur, Switzerland)

A man playing a popular game, Petanque, in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Giverny, France His house was filled with Japanese wood block prints. Japanese art and culture played an important role in his vision of the ideal in nature. Claude Monet's collection is composed of forty-six prints by Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806), twenty-three by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) and forty-eight by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), that is to say one hundred and seventeen out of the two hundred and eleven exhibited, plus thirty-two prints held in reserve. Light and shadow Monet and the Japanese artists used the research technique of “serie”. The artists captured the same motif, at different times of the day. Monet's garden Monet's lilies were a conception for a limited palette applied with rapid brushstrokes, using lead white, cadmium yellows, vermilion, red alzarian lake, cobalt blue, cobalt violet, viridian green, ultramarine blue, emerald, and chrome. Pendulous White Flowers Monet's palette  Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris, France,  Giraudon The Bridgeman Art Library  The Dallas Museum of Art had an exhibition named,  The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō It is an exhibit of 53 Japanese woodblock prints illustrating village stops along a route through the mountains from Edo to Tokyo. We have 4 woodblock prints by Hiroge Yoshito and now I understand why they are called "part of the travel series". Each village was known for a certain part of their culture. Several villages were market towns, one village was known for tie-die, there were those beautiful arched bridges, one village was a red light district, Mt. Fuji is featured in many, Buddhist and Shamin Temples have that pagoda-like architecture, and there is even a mountain pass known for thieves. I cannot remember any of the village names but the exhibit was helpful to my understanding. We went to the Claude Monet house and garden in Giverney, France in 2000 and the interior of his house was filled with Japanese woodblock prints. His art was inspired by all the woodblock prints he found. It is fascinating to me, to put all this together.  ______________________________________________  Here are a couple of woodblock prints. Misty Day in Nikko Temple in the Wood Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田 博 Yoshida Hiroshi, September 19, 1876 – April 5, 1950) was a 20th-century Japanese painter and woodblock printmaker. He is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the shin-hanga style, and is noted especially for his excellent landscape prints. Yoshida travelled widely, and was particularly known for his images of non-Japanese subjects done in traditional Japanese woodblock style, including the Taj Mahal, the Swiss Alps, the Grand Canyon, and other National Parks in the United States. Hiroshi Yoshida (born Hiroshi Ueda) was born in the city of Kurume, Fukuoka, in Kyushu, on September 19, 1876.[1] He showed an early aptitude for art fostered by his adoptive father, a teacher of painting in the public schools. At age 19 he was sent to Kyoto to study under Tamura Shoryu, a well known teacher of western style painting. He then studied under Koyama Shōtarō, in Tokyo, for another three years. In 1899, Yoshida had his first American exhibition at Detroit Museum of Art (now Detroit Institute of Art). He then traveled to Boston,Washington, D.C., Providence and Europe. In 1920, Yoshida presented his first woodcut at the Watanabe Print Workshop, organized byWatanabe Shōzaburō (1885–1962), publisher and advocate of the shin-hanga movement. However, Yoshida's collaboration with Watanabe was short partly due to Watanabe's shop burning down because of the Great Kanto earthquake on September 1, 1923. In 1925, he hired a group of professional carvers and printers, and established his own studio. Prints were made under his close supervision. Yoshida combined the ukiyo-e collaborative system with the sōsaku-hanga principle of "artist's prints", and formed a third school, separating himself from the shin-hanga and sōsaku-hanga movement. Hiroshi Yoshida was trained in the Western oil painting tradition, which was adopted in Japan during the Meiji period. Yoshida often used the same blocks and varied the colour to suggest different moods. The best example of such is Sailing Boats in 1921. Yoshida's extensive travel and acquaintance with Americans influenced his art considerably. In 1931 a series of prints depicting scenes from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Singapore was published. Six of these were views of the Taj Mahal in different moods and colors. Bibliography_____________________________________ Claerhout, François, Claude Monet, L’œil et le monde, les Années à Giverny : 1883-1926,  2005 Leuck, Krista, Claude Monet’s Japanese Print Collection, 13 April 2007. Echaubard, Laurent, La collection d’estampes japonaises  Cauderlier, A., Monet’s collection of Japanese WoodBlocks, 14 April 2006 [Online] Available : http://www.intermonet.com/japan/  Aloi, Giovanni, what other's Don't tell you about Monet's Waterlilies.    (https://youtu.be/Kj56NGwjdlc)    Why look at plants? : the botanical.                emergence in contemporary art / written and edited by Giovanni Aloi. Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2019] Japanese Woodblock Print Information The Production of Japanese Woodblock Prints The Development of the Woodblock Printing Process Japanese Woodblock Print Artists' Names Actors' Names in Japanese Woodblock Theatre Prints Woodblock Print Artists' Biographies Painting Schools and Art-Names (Go) Date Seals and the Japanese Calendar Beginning Woodblock Collector's Bibliography Glossary of Woodblock Print Terms Japanese Woodblock Print Reference Material Zodiacal Calendar Date Seals Nanushi Censor Seals Utagawa Kunisada Print Series Cross-Reference Print Series of Ando Hiroshige, in Edward Strange Print Series of Ando Hiroshige, in Van Vleck Japanese Woodblock Print Series Haribako-E Hiroshige's '8 Snow Scenes of Tokyo' Hiroshige's 'One Hundred Famous Views of Edo' Yoshitoshi's 'One Hundred Aspects of the Moon' Other Japanese Information The Japanese Lunar-Solar Calendar The Tale of Genji The Story of The Forty-Seven Ronin (Chinshingura) The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GILDING, DECORATIVE PAINTING, AND FRESCO ___________________________________________________ The Cradle of the Renaissance Florence, Italy FRESCO   PAINTED ON THE CEILING VAULT. Breakfast room overlooking the arno river  HOTEL Consigli, FLORENCE, ITALY   Most of our trip through Europe was planned but we found this beautiful hotel by chance. We could not have been luckier to land at this historic, charming, and authentic hotel. The Hotel Consigli in Florence. The bedroom was the size of four. Windows were three layers of shutters with no glass. The windows opened upon the Arno River and looked over a beautiful bridge. The vaulted ceilings  were so authentically Italian one could imagine Leonardo climbing scaffolding to instructing art students in painting techniques employed to glorify God at the time of the Renaissance.  Stylized images from nature were employed during the birth of the Renaissance period. Painters used techniques to ornament beautiful architectural pieces and bring the Glory of God into the churches and cathedrals. Stories are told in a visual sense and embolden with color and art for the appreciation of all.     A fresco with trompe l'oeil painted ON THE ceiling vault.  Hotel Consigli, Florence, Italy           Waking to the sound of the Vespas hurrying to the many artisan shops, Museums and architectural heritage sites visited by the many world travelers, the native Florenians encourage us to find treasures to return with. After breakfast in an adjacent room with the beautiful frescos we ventured out walking to the city that so closely affiliated with the Medici family. The first day we found stylish soft leather shoes to continue our walks and our appreciation of the architecture surrounding the Duomo. Enjoying the customs and local culture we had to shop the gold jewelry shops on the Medici bridge, Ponte Vecchio and find a Gelato shop to cool down on this rather warm day. The symbolism is replicated throughout the city. Everywhere, the Giglio of Florence is seen in stone, textiles, and tattoos. The Florentine lily is not a lily but a stylized iris, Iris florentina. The Giglio of Florence  The Florentine lily is not a lily,  but a stylized iris. Painted illustration of Iris florentina  by Sydenham Edwards for Curtis's Botanical Magazine in 1803 The language of flowers and The Grammar of Ornament are two of the best books to understand artisans and symbolism used to evolve from the dark ages to the time of the Renaissance when discussion of science could lead to treacherous situations.