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2 days ago · The Louvre ( English: / ˈluːv ( rə )/ LOOV (-rə) ), [4] or the Louvre Museum (French: Musée du Louvre [myze dy luvʁ] ⓘ ), is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums in the world. It is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement (district or ward) and home to some of the ...
- Louvre Palace
North wing of Louvre facing main courtyard. The Louvre...
- Louvre Palace
1 day ago · Life and career 1958–1978: Early life Madonna Louise Ciccone was born on August 16, 1958, in Bay City, Michigan, to Catholic parents Madonna Louise (née Fortin) and Silvio Anthony "Tony" Ciccone. Her father's parents were Italian emigrants from Pacentro while her mother was of French-Canadian descent. Tony Ciccone worked as an optics engineer for Chrysler Defense and its successor, General ...
14 hours ago · The death of Aeschylus, killed by a turtle dropped onto his head by a falcon, illustrated in the 15th-century Florentine Picture-Chronicle by Baccio Baldini. This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources.
2 days ago · JACK THE RIPPER'S LONDON THEN AND NOW. Our collection of Jack the Ripper Photos is intended to provide an insight into the area as it was at the time of the Whitechapel Murders. You can view the murder sites and other locations as they were at the time of the killings and as they are today. You can also view general street shots of the East End ...
4 days ago · Special 67% offer for students! Finish the semester strong with Britannica. Jean-Luc Godard, French Swiss film director who was one of the leading figures of the New Wave movement in France during the late 1950s and the ’60s. His notable movies included Breathless, The Little Soldier, and Contempt. Learn more about Godard’s life and work.
4 days ago · Per Capita was produced by Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1981 using a mixture of materials including acrylic, crayon, graphite, canvas. It was created on a huge canvas, measuring nearly four metres in width. There is the rough effect throughout this piece which reminds us of the artist's background and how he would use graffiti around New York in his ...
3 days ago · Untitled (1982) is an acrylic, ink, and paper collage on paper created in 1982 by Jean-Michel Basquiat. Basquiat's work is considered to fall within the Neo-Expressionism movement. In his paintings, Basquiat used the graffiti style, which was related to cartoons. This artwork predicts his unconventional lifestyle that came straight from his heart.
