Louvre

...conditions. Of all the impressionists, Monet was least burdened by tradition: Degas and Manet met while copying Velazquez at the Louvre, but Monet, dragged there by Renoir, found nothing of interest. Rather, as unravelled here, he was in...

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The three-and-a-half minute film attempts to banish from people's minds the idealised, stuffy Paris of popular imagination. The Louvre and the Champs-Elysees are nowhere to be seen. Instead the couple, played by Zoe Schellenberg...

In this article: Paris, Yvan Attal, Rufus Wainwright, Muted, YouTube, Serge Gainsbourg, and Tom Cruise

...stars of the permanent collection. They seek out Picasso's "Guernica" at the Reina Sofia in Spain; they look for the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris; they stand in awe in front of Monet's "Water Lilies" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York,...

In this article: Los Angeles, Revenue, Water Lilies, Guernica, Mona Lisa, Los Angeles Times, and Pablo Picasso

...myth - a Frenchman who drew inspiration from Italy and whose painting Et in Arcardia Ego is one of the most famous works in the Louvre - is the touchstone of high taste, the guardian of Parnassus. To admire and understand Poussin is a...

In this article: Nicolas Poussin, Paul Cezanne, National Gallery, Landscape, Sandro Botticelli, TJ Clark, and Parnassus

...soon as we make the slightest noise outside. It's really tough," said Morgane de Ferluc, who runs the restaurant l'Emile, close to the Louvre museum in the city center. "We run the risk of being shut down, which would be a catastrophe," she...

In this article: Paris, Bertrand Delanoe, Ernest Hemingway, Jim Morrison, Barcelona, and Amsterdam

...when it wants to. Note how it dispenses with the complete works of Dan Brown in a few blunt strokes: the Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre, Vatican City is destroyed, Washington's masonry crumbles. The closing credits announce that the...

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...its infrastructure and propelling itself on the global stage. It is already building a cultural island district, housing offshoots of the Louvre and Guggenheim museums. IPIC's chairman Shaikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan last year bought...

In this article: Daimler AG, IPIC, Abu Dhabi, Revenue, and Manchester City

...an Apple Store. Apple has opened an Apple Store at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, an upscale shopping center beneath the famous Louvre art gallery. We reckon Apple products will look right at home in an art gallery, and we've come up...

In this article: Apple Store, Apple, Paris, Microsoft, and France

In this article: Apple Inc, Microsoft, Iphone, Paris, Revenue, and France Telecom

By Lionel Laurent PARIS, Nov 6 (Reuters Life!) - Computer giant Apple Inc <AAPL.O> will open its first French store beneath the Louvre museum on Saturday just two weeks after Microsoft <MSFT.O> opened a theme cafe to promote its...

In this article: Apple Inc, Microsoft, Iphone, Paris, Revenue, and France Telecom