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Title	Musee du Louvre
Alternate Title	Palais du Louvre
View	View looking down the Grande Galerie, first floor, south wing
Work Type	buildings exhibition buildings museums art museums houses official residences palaces
Style/Period	Empire Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style)
Creator Name	Le Vau, Louis, 1612-1670
Creator Nationality	French
Contributors to Project	Lemercier, Jacques, 1585?-1654; Lescot, Pierre, ca. 1510-1578
Subject.work	architectural exteriors architectural interiors rulers and leaders Art museums
Subject.image	Art museums interior skylight
Country	France
City	Paris
State/Province	Île-de-France
Technique	construction (assembling)
Patron	Francis I, King of France, 1494-1547
Dates	1546-1878 (creation)
Photographer	Gilchrist, Scott
Date Photographed	8/29/2000
Subject Information	The building of the Louvre in its present form was begun in 1546 by Francois I, who also founded the royal collections, acquiring works by Leonardo, Raphael, and Titian. The modern Palais du Louvre comprises a square courtyard, the Cour Carree, to the west of which project two wings. The north wing, the Galerie Napoleon, runs along the Rue de Rivoli, while the south wing, the Galerie du Bord de l'Eau, fronts the River Seine. After 1639, Jacques Le Mercier doubled the size of the west wing and added the enormous Pavillon de l'Horloge with cumbersome decorations. In April 1667 Colbert commissioned designs for the east facade from a committee that included Louis Le Vau, Charles Le Brun and Claude Perrault. The Cour Carree was completed under the First Empire, between 1801 and 1810. The grand design was completed under Napoleon III, who decreed on 12 March 1852 that the Louvre should be completed within five years. Louis Tullius Joachim Visconti and later Hector-Martin Lefuel constructed two parallel buildings, on either side of the Cour du Carrousel.
Information.source	Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/
Credit Line	copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)
Collection information	Collection administered by the Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library, (402) 472-1193

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