(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.
Paris
Definition:
(n.) A plant common in Europe (Paris quadrifolia); herb Paris; truelove. It has been used as a narcotic.
(n.) The chief city of France.
Example Sentences:
(1) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(2) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
(3) In January, Paris taxi drivers attacked an Uber car transporting two passengers from Charles de Gaulle airport.
(4) Businesses fleeing Brexit will head to New York not EU, warns LSE chief Read more Amid attempts by Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin to catch possible fallout from London, Sir Jon Cunliffe said it was highly unlikely that any EU centre could replicate the services offered by the UK’s financial services industry.
(5) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
(6) 'The French see it as an open and shut case,' says a Paris-based diplomat.
(7) Salmonella Centre of Paris confirmed the antigenic structure and agreed with this designation.
(8) In Paris, a foreign ministry spokesman, Romain Nadal, said the French authorities were “fully mobilised to help Serge Atlaoui, whose situation remains very worrying”.
(9) But Abaaoud, the man thought to be a key planner for the group behind the Paris attacks, boasted to a niece that he had brought around 90 militants back to Europe with him.
(10) A longitudinal study of iron deficiency and of psychomotor development was carried out in 147 children followed between the ages of 10 months and 4 years in 2 well-baby out-patient clinics in Paris area.
(11) Plaster of Paris, a biocompatible, degradable ceramic material prepared from CaSO4, may have an osteogenic property and become an alternative implant material for ear surgery.
(12) The mayor of London had said in a Twitter exchange in July that it was a “ludicrous urban myth” that Britain’s premier shopping street was one of the world’s most polluted thoroughfares, saying that the capital’s air quality was “better than Paris and other European cities”.
(13) (Observer, June 2013) Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet , 40 Current job: MP Nicknames: The harpist, "Madame Condescendante" (Bertrand Delanoë), "L'emmerdeuse" (Pain in the neck – Jacques Chirac) Campaign slogan: Une nouvelle énergie pour les Parisiens (A new energy for Parisians) Born: Paris Family: Daughter of a local mayor, granddaughter of a former French ambassador and great-granddaughter of one of the founder members of the French Communist party.
(14) An alternative route is the one via Paris, from where the journey continues to Holland or Great Britain.
(15) This museum is a symbol of the artistic vitality of Paris.
(16) After Paris, Europe may never feel as free again | Nick Cohen Read more On Friday evening six separate attacks took place across Paris in what the French president, François Hollande, described as an “act of war”.
(17) That is why he once considered a move to the Foreign Office, and why he will be touring Europe’s capitals over the coming months, starting with Paris this week.
(18) World leaders must reach a historic agreement to fight climate change and poverty at coming talks in Paris, facing the stark choice to either “improve or destroy the environment”, Pope Francis said in Africa on Thursday.
(19) It's certainly fun, cheap and eco-friendly and I would definitely consider it for hops within the UK, but the specific London to Paris car-pooling service is not one I'd like to experience again myself.
(20) With this announcement, the UK is demonstrating the type of leadership that nations around the world must take in order to craft a successful agreement in Paris and solve the climate crisis,” said former US vice-president Al Gore.