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    Louvre Museum: Paintings
    Louvre Museum: Paintings
    Louvre Museum: Paintings
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    Louvre Museum: Paintings

    By Nicolae Sfetcu

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    The Louvre Museum is the largest of the world's art museums by its exhibition surface. These represent the Western art of the Middle Ages in 1848, those of the ancient civilizations that preceded and influenced it (Oriental, Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan and Roman), and the arts of early Christians and Islam.
    At the origin of the Louvre existed a castle, built by King Philip Augustus in 1190, and occupying the southwest quarter of the current Cour Carrée. In 1594, Henri IV decided to unite the palace of the Louvre with the palace of the Tuileries built by Catherine de Medicis. The Cour Carrée was built by the architects Lemercier and then Le Vau, under the reign of Louis XIII and Louis XIV.
    The Department of Paintings currently has about 7,500 paintings (of which 3,400 are exposed), covering a period that goes from the Middle Ages to 1848 (date of the beginning of the Second Republic). By including the deposits, the collection is, with 12,660 works, the largest collection of ancient paintings in the world. With rare exceptions, the works after 1848 were transferred to the Musée d'Orsay when it was created in 1986.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNicolae Sfetcu
    Release dateMar 30, 2018
    ISBN9781370554973
    Louvre Museum: Paintings
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    Nicolae Sfetcu

    Owner and manager with MultiMedia SRL and MultiMedia Publishing House.Project Coordinator for European Teleworking Development Romania (ETD)Member of Rotary Club Bucuresti AtheneumCofounder and ex-president of the Mehedinti Branch of Romanian Association for Electronic Industry and SoftwareInitiator, cofounder and president of Romanian Association for Telework and TeleactivitiesMember of Internet SocietyInitiator, cofounder and ex-president of Romanian Teleworking SocietyCofounder and ex-president of the Mehedinti Branch of the General Association of Engineers in RomaniaPhysicist engineer - Bachelor of Science (Physics, Major Nuclear Physics). Master of Philosophy.

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      Louvre Museum - Nicolae Sfetcu

      Paintings

      Translated by Nicolae Sfetcu from the book Louvre Museum (Pierre Laffite, 1913), Vol. 1 and 2, by Armand Dayot (1851-1934)

      FRANCOIS BOUCHER

      Vulcan presenting arms to Venus for Aeneas

      Sully - 2nd floor - Painters of Louis XV (King of France from 1715 to 1774) - Room 38

      BOUCHER, affirms Nécrologe of 1771, possessed to a greater degree all the great parts of the art of painting, and could have tried and distinguished himself in all genres; but, borned sensitive, lovable, and voluptuous, he was almost always carried away to the Graces, of which he was generally appealed the painter. Sensible, amiable, and voluptuous: in these three terms is summed up the physiognomy of the eighteenth century, with its spiritual elegance and his refined slavery; in these three words also encloses all the art of Boucher, painter of gallant festivals and graceful mythologies. His personal conceptions adapted marvelously to the taste of the time. He was to succeed in a brilliant and libertine court, of which Madame de Pompadour was the queen; he soon became the official painter. As a good courtier as well as a skilful artist, he employed the best of his talent in celebrating Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, a delicate homage to the royal favorite, her protector, supreme sovereign in the sumptuous Olympus of Versailles. By natural taste, he likes to play light on the pink and pearly flesh of women; his entire work is a permanent hymn to youth, beauty and love.

      Among these allegorical paintings, the one we give here is one of the most beautiful. To the right of the picture, Vulcan, seated on a tiger's skin, tends to the goddess the weapons he has just forged. Carried on a cloud and leaning on one of her nymphs, half-naked Venus examines them negligently. His nonchalantly stretched body is a marvel of easy grace and indolent beauty. In the foreground, one sees the chariot of the divinity, harnessed with doves. On the front of the canvas, a Love braids garlands of roses. In the sky bathed in a diaphanous light, other Loves continue

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