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Portraitist, painter, and decorator Gabriel Ferrier was born in 1847. He won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1872, then taught at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
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Forget the clichés and look at the painting. In the early 16th century, Mona Lisa represented a turning point in the history of portraiture. Leonardo da Vinci linked the monumentality of a figure before a landscape with a virtuoso rendering of flesh tones. Discover the secret behind the smile...
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The renown of the most famous painting in the world has no doubt increased since the publication of The Da Vinci Code and the release of the film adaptation. Every day, thousands of visitors come to the Louvre to see Mona Lisa (Monna Lisa) in the flesh and to try and penetrate her disturbing mystery...
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The artist will present several monumental paintings at the very heart of the museum: in the galleries devoted to the largest French nineteenth-century canvases and opposite the Salle des Etats, home to a number of masterpieces of Italian Renaissance painting.
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This portrait was doubtless painted in Florence between 1503 and 1506. It is thought to be of Lisa Gherardini, wife of a Florentine cloth merchant named Francesco del Giocondo - hence the alternative title, La Gioconda. However, Leonardo seems to have taken the completed portrait to France rather th...
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This is a rare example of a drawn portrait attributed to Holbein the younger. It is a head-and-shoulders portrait of a young woman shown almost face-on. Her hair is plaited and a few locks have come free. She is wearing a gown that covers her shoulders. Along her corsage is an inscription in abbrevi...
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Leonardo da Vinci left Milan in 1499 when the French army invaded Italy. On his way to Venice he stopped at Mantua, where Isabella d’Este asked him to paint her portrait. This famous drawing is a sketch for the portrait that was never painted; despite its fragile state of conservation, it is one of ...
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This drawing reflects Raphael's admiration for Leonardo da Vinci and in particular for the latter's portrait of Mona Lisa. The Umbrian artist knew the work of the Florentine through his master Perugino, Leonardo's fellow pupil under Verrocchio, and in Florence he was able to study his works directly...
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Although Corot painted no more than fifty portraits, the human figure appears in his drawings and sketchbooks throughout his career. Many of these works were executed before 1845, and all recall the rigor and studied composition of Renaissance portraiture. This relationship was highlighted at the Lo...
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Before the public encounters the Mona Lisa or the Venus de Milo, they will be greeted by a visitor service officer: a crucial first impression.
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