(1) A sample of black material removed from the back wall was analysed with a scanning electron microscope and was found to be similar to black pigment found by the Louvre in brown glazes on the Mona Lisa and the painting St John the Baptist, the team said.
(2) After five years passed with no owner coming to light, the copy was presented to the Louvre for indefinite safekeeping.
(3) But the retrospective at the Whitney in 1996, the last book I did, The Beautiful Smile , and my show at the Louvre were real high points.
(4) From here, as the architectural critic Ian Nairn noted, the Louvre looks like "the biggest railway station in the world".
(5) In 2007, Abu Dhabi paid £323m to use the prestigious Louvre name.
(6) When the president invited 10 of the world's most renowned architects to the Elysée last year and lauded architecture as art that the citizen "does not need a ticket for", Paris sat waiting for him to announce his own grand building project, along the lines of François Mitterrand's glass pyramid in the Louvre.
(7) We either believe in places like the Louvre in Paris, the Smithsonian in Washington, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the National Gallery of Canberra as cultural centres of education and scholarship, addressing an international audience, or we hold that their collections should be redistributed and their purpose reduced to showing only French, American, Canadian and Australian art and artefacts.
(8) At least 500 people are in the pews and dozens more outside, peering through the open louvres.
(9) The Louvre later altered its story, claiming that the version of the Mona Lisa that had been returned from the mine was an excellent copy, not by da Vinci, but painted within a generation of his death.
(10) 2, home to hundreds of workers on the Louvre site, along with over 20,000 other men.
(11) On Friday, Hollande visited the Louvre, which will remain closed until Wednesday, while the Orsay will accept visitors once more from Tuesday.
(12) The International Trade Union Confederation , Human Rights Watch and campaign group Gulf Labor expressed disappointment after the second annual audit of conditions on Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Island, where a new Louvre and the world's largest Guggenheim museum are being built.
(13) This report states that the team "saved such priceless objects as the Louvre's Mona Lisa".
(14) Addressing thousands of supporters in the grand courtyard of the Louvre, the vast Paris palace-turned-museum, Macron said he would defend France and Europe.
(15) "I therefore call on the UAE government, but also on all companies involved in the Saadiyat project – including [the] Louvre, British Museum and Guggenheim – to ensure that any form of mistreatment is addressed and that all migrants can fully enjoy their human rights."
(16) The abandoned quarries beneath Paris may be its most misunderstood and underrated piece of architecture The exploitation of chalk, gypsum and especially limestone endowed Paris with the cream-coloured stones used for the Louvre and in buildings of the Haussmann era .
(17) A result of the French government's decade-long decentralisation programme – which brought an undulating outpost of the Pompidou to Metz , north-eastern France, and a series of minimalist metallic sheds to the northern city of Lens for a Louvre satellite – Mucem is the first stand-alone national museum outside Paris.
(18) Many of France’s most famous museums including the Louvre, Musee d’Orsay and the Palace of Versailles will lend art to Abu Dhabi as part of a 30-year collaboration with the Emirate, worth £800m.
(19) The 700,000 sq ft, Jean Nouvel-designed Louvre Abu Dhabi will be one of the centrepieces of a new cultural metropolis on Saadiyat Island , a once uninhabited stretch of coastal desert close to the city centre.
(20) The Nazi art theft division, the ERR (Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg), was responsible for the theft of around 5m works: from the Louvre, the Uffizi and countless churches, galleries and homes.
Museum
Definition:
(n.) A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art.
Example Sentences:
(1) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
(2) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
(3) She has more than made up for it since, building opera houses in China, art museums in America and car factories in Germany, all bearing her unmistakable influence in every detail.
(4) In the present work by the method of molecular DNA hybridization there was shown a low degree of affinity of the standard museum strains of cholera vibrios to the respresentatives of the sea species V. parahaemolyticus and V. alginolyticus, and also halophilic vibrios identified earlier on the basis of phenotypical characteristics of the nucleotide DNA composition as Marinovibrio.
(5) This museum is a symbol of the artistic vitality of Paris.
(6) Russia has no national museum of Stalin's repression but Moscow has two Gulag museums.
(7) The director of the Museum at Checkpoint Charlie, Alexandra Hildebrandt, keeps a tally started by her late husband Rainer, the museum’s founder, which currently lists 1,720 victims.
(8) Was this a museum with a mission to educate, or not?
(9) Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, opens 21 November
(10) The Imperial War Museum’s Holocaust education officer, Rachel Donnelly, thinks the certification is appropriate.
(11) "It would probably take a half day to prepare a skull cup," said Silvia Bello, the palaeontologist who led the study at the Natural History Museum in London.
(12) The museum defines its radicals as: “Men and women who believed in ideas worth fighting for.
(13) In a ruling rejecting any claims to the "spoils of war," New York's highest court concluded Thursday that an ancient gold tablet must be returned to the German museum that lost it in the Second world war .
(14) The arts Facebook Twitter Pinterest Portland Art Museum For rainy days – and Portland has its fair share – as well as creative inspiration, Portland Art Museum is a must.
(15) The union has accused museum management of refusing to provide information on costing or how service standards would be monitored, and says the companies believed to be in the running have little experience of providing the full range of visitor services currently provided by in-house staff.
(16) DNA sequences from the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene were obtained from a museum specimen of the presumed extinct thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) and were compared with homologous sequences from 13 representatives of the Australian marsupial family Dasyuridae.
(17) As he has for the past 35 years, that is where Dr Seski intends to focus his energy and attention.” Also on Tuesday, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh said it was reviewing Seski’s donation of two Nile crocodiles and an American alligator to see if he followed international standards published since the donations were made.
(18) They will be able to use the collection as if it were their own collection and explore the world in their own way.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Google employee photographs exhibits at the British Museum.
(19) I hope these works are not buried in the museum's basement aimlessly.
(20) In the Museum of the Warsaw Rising, the sound effects are powerful, the visuals compelling, the tragedy forcefully conveyed.