Essays Tagged: "Louvre"

Cultural Visit: The Louvre

echnology of the 21st century, it is now easy to view the impressive works of art on display at the Louvre museum with ease. All the reader needs is a computer with access to the Internet. By pointing ... e. All the reader needs is a computer with access to the Internet. By pointing a web browser to www.louvre.fr, the reader can access selected works, or take a virtual tour of the museum. By viewing th ...

(3 pages) 53 0 4.6 Oct/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

"The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown: Summary.

In the Louvre, a monk of Opus Dei named Silas apprehends Jacques Sauniere, the museum's curator, and demand ... s Robert Langdon, the story's protagonist and a professor of symbology, and asks him to come to the Louvre to try to interpret the scene. Langdon does not yet realize that he himself is suspected of t ... ge, he kills Sister Sandrine Bieil, the church's keeper and a sentry for the Priory of Sion. At the Louvre, Langdon meets Jerome Collet and Bezu Fache, the police captain, and realizes that the two po ...

(6 pages) 52 0 5.0 Oct/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

"The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown

fesor de simbología y de arte religioso en Harvard. Pasó mucho tiempo en el museo del Louvre recogiendo documentación para incluirla en El Código Da Vinci, el libro de m&aa ... ato ocurrido en uno de los lugares más interesantes y significativos del mundo: el museo del Louvre de París. La víctima, Jacques Sauniére, el último Gran Maestre de ...

(7 pages) 28 0 0.0 May/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Paris Is Amazing

ld in one day.After a stroll along the river, I caught a taxi to the famous art museum known as the Louvre. I had to cut my tour short otherwise I wouldn't have seen anything else in Paris. The Louvre ...

(1 pages) 13 1 3.0 Sep/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

Pierre Lescot (Arquitecto)

tura renacentista francesa, siendo su obra maestra, el hoy en día muy reconocido, Palacio de Louvre (París, Francia).BIOGRAFÍAPierre Lescot nació en París, Francia a ... s Innocents (Fuente de los Inocentes) y su obra maestra fue la reconstrucción del Palacio de Louvre. Todas sus construcciones llevan el mismo carácter de elegancia y armonía.OBRAS ...

(4 pages) 35 0 4.1 Apr/2007

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

L'architecture française.

'ai fait ma recherche sur deux structures français célèbre, le musée du Louvre et la tour Eiffel.Je commence avec un petit résumé sur le deux structure.La His ... tour Eiffel.Je commence avec un petit résumé sur le deux structure.La Histoire de le Louvre MuséeLe Musée du le Louvre à Paris, France, est le plus grand musé ...

(2 pages) 12 0 0.0 Nov/2007

Subjects: Art Essays

The american 2

age of Europe. James introduces the novel with a description of Newman walking through the infamous Louvre in Paris, "It was a typical vagueness which is not vacuity, that blankness which is not simpl ... sires a part of the European culture, and obtains this through buying poor remakes of pieces in the Louvre and free voice lessons. He wants to feel free from the capitalist world but still uses his fi ...

(9 pages) 1183 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The Avant-Garde Architecture o

rsy. The most notable of these controversial structures is his Glass Pyramid at the entrance of the Louvre in Paris. For these reasons, I.M. Pei seems to be an architect who exhibits interest in the a ... d.When French President Francois Mitterand ?personally selected Mr. Pei in 1983 to design the Grand Louvre to give air, space, and light to one of the world?s most congested museums,? (Markham, 1989) ...

(5 pages) 9 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Renoir Essay

for his brilliant talent. At night he attended free drawing classes and gained a year?s pass to the Louvre, where he copied Rubens?s Enthronement of Marie de Medici (Pierre Auguste Renoir, 1). By the ... ed to a firm of porcelain painters, Levy Freres et Compagnie, whose workshops were located near the Louvre. Coincidentally, Renoir's first home in Paris was an apartment in the Louvre, which was still ...

(7 pages) 25 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Manet's Portrait of Olympia

iece of work. He is regarded as the father ofimpressionism and "Olympia" has been on display at the Louvre for almost one hundredyears.Manet and Baudelaire's "The Painter of a Modern Life"In Charles B ...

(2 pages) 18 0 0.0 Aug/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

My Trip to France

. It was twelve o’ clock at night, but the Parisians were still active!The next day I went to the Louvre where I saw the beautiful masterpiece - the Mona Lisa. To be quite frank, though, it was not ...

(3 pages) 24 0 4.2 Feb/2009

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays > Travel Descriptions

Travel Narrative Assignment - French Class Trip

en ate Escargot in the restaurant at the world known Eiffel Tower. A highlight was our visit to the Louvre Museum. I had no idea how large the museum was, I could have probably spent a month looking a ...

(2 pages) 21 0 4.3 Mar/2009

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays > Travel Descriptions