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Art in Paris, the Glossary

For centuries, Paris has attracted artists from around the world, arriving in the city to educate themselves and to seek inspiration from its artistic resources and galleries.^[1]

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Abstract art

Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.

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Académie Colarossi

The Académie Colarossi (1870–1930) was an art school in Paris founded in 1870 by the Italian model and sculptor Filippo Colarossi.

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Académie de la Grande Chaumière

The Académie de la Grande Chaumière is an art school in the Montparnasse district of Paris, France.

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Académie de La Palette, also called Académie La Palette and La Palette, (English: Palette Academy), was a private art school in Paris, France, active between 1888 and 1925, aimed at promoting 'conciliation entre la liberté et le respect de la tradition'. Early on the Académie de La Palette developed a reputation as a progressive art school.

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Académie Delécluse

The Académie Delécluse was an atelier-style art school in Paris, France, founded in the late 19th century by the painter Auguste Joseph Delécluse.

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Académie Julian

The was a private art school for painting and sculpture founded in Paris, France, in 1867 by French painter and teacher Rodolphe Julian (1839–1907) that was active from 1868 through 1968.

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Académie Ranson

The Académie Ranson was founded in Paris by the French painter Paul Ranson (1862–1909), who himself studied at the Académie Julian, in 1908.

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Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture

The Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture ("Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture") was founded in 1648 in Paris, France.

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Académie Vitti

The Académie Vitti was an art school in Paris, France.

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Albert Gleizes

Albert Gleizes (8 December 1881 – 23 June 1953) was a French artist, theoretician, philosopher, a self-proclaimed founder of Cubism and an influence on the School of Paris.

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Amédée Ozenfant

Amédée Ozenfant (15 April 1886 – 4 May 1966) was a French cubist painter and writer.

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Amedeo Modigliani

Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (12 July 1884 – 24 January 1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the École de Paris who worked mainly in France.

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André Dunoyer de Segonzac

André Dunoyer de Segonzac (6 July 1884 – 17 September 1974) was a French painter and graphic artist.

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Antoine Coysevox

Charles Antoine Coysevox (or; 29 September 164010 October 1720), was a French sculptor in the Baroque and Louis XIV style, best known for his sculpture decorating the gardens and Palace of Versailles and his portrait busts.

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Arc de Triomphe

The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, often called simply the Arc de Triomphe, is one of the most famous monuments in Paris, France, standing at the western end of the Champs-Élysées at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly named Place de l'Étoile—the étoile or "star" of the juncture formed by its twelve radiating avenues.

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Armory Show

The 1913 Armory Show, also known as the International Exhibition of Modern Art, was organized by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors.

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Arrondissement

An arrondissement is any of various administrative divisions of France, Belgium, Haiti, certain other Francophone countries, as well as the Netherlands.

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Art Deco

Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s.

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Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts.

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Atelier

An atelier is the private workshop or studio of a professional artist in the fine or decorative arts or an architect, where a principal master and a number of assistants, students, and apprentices can work together producing fine art or visual art released under the master's name or supervision.

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Auguste Rodin

François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 184017 November 1917) was a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture.

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École des Beaux-Arts

) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century. The most famous and oldest is the in Paris, now located on the city's left bank across from the Louvre, at 14 rue Bonaparte (in the 6th arrondissement). Art in Paris and École des Beaux-Arts are arts in Paris.

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École du Louvre

The École du Louvre is a selective institution of higher education and prestigious grande école located in the Aile de Flore of the Louvre Palace in Paris, France.

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École Duperré

The Duperré School of Applied Arts is a public college of art and design.

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École intuit.lab

École Intuit Lab is a French design and visual communication school cofounded in 2001 by Patrick Felices along with Clement Derock and Frederic Lalande.

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École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d'art

The École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d'art, also called the École des Arts Appliqués or Olivier de Serres and abbreviated to ENSAAMA, is a post-baccalauréat teaching establishment for the decorative arts in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, France.

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Baroque

The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s.

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Beauharnais

The House of Beauharnais (or House of Leuchtenberg) is a French noble family.

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Beaux-Arts architecture

Beaux-Arts architecture was the academic architectural style taught at the in Paris, particularly from the 1830s to the end of the 19th century.

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Beaux-Arts de Paris

The, formally the, is a French grande école whose primary mission is to provide high-level fine arts education and training.

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Centre Pompidou

The Centre Pompidou, more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil, and the Marais.

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Chaïm Soutine

Chaïm Soutine (Khaim Solomonovich Sutin; Chaim Sutin; 13 January 1893 – August 1943) was a French painter of Belarusian-Jewish origin of the School of Paris, who made a major contribution to the Expressionist movement while living and working in Paris.

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Cubism

Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement begun in Paris that revolutionized painting and the visual arts, and influenced artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and architecture.

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Divisionism

Divisionism, also called chromoluminarism, is the characteristic style in Neo-Impressionist painting defined by the separation of colors into individual dots or patches that interact optically.

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Dutch people

The Dutch (Dutch) are an ethnic group native to the Netherlands.

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Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower (Tour Eiffel) is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France.

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Equestrian statue

An equestrian statue is a statue of a rider mounted on a horse, from the Latin eques, meaning 'knight', deriving from equus, meaning 'horse'.

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Eugène Atget

Eugène Atget (12 February 1857 – 4 August 1927) was a French flâneur and a pioneer of documentary photography, noted for his determination to document all of the architecture and street scenes of Paris before their disappearance to modernization.

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Fauvism

Fauvism is a style of painting and an art movement that emerged in France at the beginning of the 20th century. Art in Paris and Fauvism are French art.

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Fernand Léger

Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker.

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Flemish people

Flemish people or Flemings (Vlamingen) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Flanders, Belgium, who speak Flemish Dutch.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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French Revolution

The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate.

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Gare d'Orsay

Gare d'Orsay is a former Paris railway station and hotel, built in 1900 to designs by Victor Laloux, Lucien Magne and Émile Bénard; it served as a terminus for the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans (Paris–Orléans Railway).

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Girardon

Girardon is a French surname that may refer to.

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Gobelins, l'école de l'image

Gobelins, l'école de l'image (French: Gobelins Imagery School) is a school of visual communication and arts in Paris, France, with its main location near the Latin Quarter.

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Grand Palais

The (Great Palace of the Champs-Élysées), commonly known as the, is a historic site, exhibition hall and museum complex located in the 8th arrondissement of Paris between the Champs-Élysées and the Seine, France.

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson (22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004) was a French artist and humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35mm film.

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Henri Le Fauconnier

Henri Victor Gabriel Le Fauconnier (July 5, 1881 – December 25, 1946) was a French Cubist painter born in Hesdin.

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Henri Matisse

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship.

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Henri Rousseau

Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (21 May 1844 – 2 September 1910) at the Guggenheim was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner.

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Impressionism

Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience. Art in Paris and Impressionism are French art.

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Inheritance tax

International tax law distinguishes between an estate tax and an inheritance tax.

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Institut des hautes études en arts plastiques

The Institut des hautes études en arts plastiques (IHEAP) is a post-graduate art school based in Paris for research and experimentation in art.

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Italian Renaissance

The Italian Renaissance (Rinascimento) was a period in Italian history covering the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Jacques Henri Lartigue

Jacques Henri Lartigue (13 June 1894 – 12 September 1986) was a French photographer and painter, known for his photographs of automobile races, planes and female Parisian fashion models.

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Jean Metzinger

Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger (24 June 1883 – 3 November 1956) was a major 20th-century French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes wrote the first theoretical work on Cubism.

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Jean-Marie Drot

Jean-Marie Drot (2 March 1929 – 23 September 2015) was a French writer and documentary maker.

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Jewish culture

Jewish culture is the culture of the Jewish people, from its formation in ancient times until the current age.

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Juan Gris

José Victoriano González-Pérez (23 March 1887 – 11 May 1927), better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter born in Madrid who lived and worked in France for most of his active period.

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Le Lido

Le Lido is a musical theatre venue located on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, France.

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Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect.

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List of people from Italy

Below is a list of notable individuals from Italy, distinguished by their connection to the nation through residence, legal status, historical influence, or cultural impact.

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Louis Daguerre

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (18 November 1787 – 10 July 1851) was a French artist and photographer, recognized for his invention of the eponymous daguerreotype process of photography.

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Louis XIV

LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.

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Louvre

The Louvre, or the Louvre Museum, is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums in the world.

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María Blanchard

María Gutiérrez-Cueto y Blanchard, spanish-art.org; accessed 4 August 2015.

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Marcel Bovis

Marcel Bovis (1904–1997) was a French photographer, most notable for his photographs of Paris.

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Marie Vassilieff

Mariya Ivanovna Vassiliéva (Russian: Мария Ивановна Васильева), (1884-1957), better known as Marie Vassilieff, was a Russian-born painter and set designer active in Paris.

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Medieval architecture

Medieval architecture was the art of designing and constructing buildings in the Middle Ages.

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Mesoamerica

Mesoamerica is a historical region and cultural area that begins in the southern part of North America and extends to the Pacific coast of Central America, thus comprising the lands of central and southern Mexico, all of Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, and parts of Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Mona Lisa

The Mona Lisa (Gioconda or Monna Lisa; Joconde) is a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.

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Montparnasse

Montparnasse is an area in the south of Paris, France, on the left bank of the river Seine, centred at the crossroads of the Boulevard du Montparnasse and the Rue de Rennes, between the Rue de Rennes and boulevard Raspail. Art in Paris and Montparnasse are French art.

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Moulin Rouge

Moulin Rouge is a cabaret in Paris, on Boulevard de Clichy, at Place Blanche, the intersection of, and terminus of Rue Blanche.

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Musée d'Orsay

The Musée d'Orsay (Orsay Museum) is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine.

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Musée de Cluny

The Musée de Cluny, officially Musée de Cluny-Musée National du Moyen Âge, is a museum of medieval art in Paris.

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Musée du Montparnasse

The Musée du Montparnasse was a museum at 21 Avenue du Maine, in the 15th arrondissement, Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France.

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Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac

The Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac (Jacques Chirac Museum of Branly Quay), located in Paris, France, is a museum designed by French architect Jean Nouvel to feature the indigenous art and cultures of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.

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Musée National d'Art Moderne

The Musée National d'Art Moderne ("National Museum of Modern Art") is the national museum for modern art of France.

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Musée Picasso

The Musée Picasso (Picasso Museum) is an art gallery located in the Hôtel Salé (Salé Hall) in rue de Thorigny, in the Marais district of Paris, France, dedicated to the work of the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881–1973).

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Musée Rodin

The Musée Rodin (Rodin Museum) of Paris, France, is an art museum that was opened in 1919, primarily dedicated to the works of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin.

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Napoleon III

Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was the first president of France from 1848 to 1852, and the last monarch of France as the second Emperor of the French from 1852 until he was deposed on 4 September 1870.

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Neo-Impressionism

Neo-Impressionism is a term coined by French art critic Félix Fénéon in 1886 to describe an art movement founded by Georges Seurat.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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Nicéphore Niépce

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (7 March 1765 – 5 July 1833) was a French inventor and one of the earliest pioneers of photography.

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Nicolas Coustou

Nicolas Coustou (9 January 1658 – 1 May 1733) was a French sculptor and academic.

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.

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Palace of Versailles

The Palace of Versailles (château de Versailles) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, France.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Paris College of Art

Paris College of Art, is an international college of art and design with U.S degree-granting authority and accreditation from the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD) located in Paris, France.

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Parsons Paris

Parsons Paris is a degree-granting school of art and design in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France.

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Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne (19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation and influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century.

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Paul Gavarni

Paul Gavarni was the pen name of Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier (13 January 1804 – 24 November 1866), a French illustrator, born in Paris.

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Philip II of France

Philip II (21 August 1165 – 14 July 1223), byname Philip Augustus (Philippe Auguste), was King of France from 1180 to 1223.

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Pierre Mignard

Pierre Mignard or Pierre Mignard I (17 November 1612 – 30 May 1695), called "Mignard le Romain" to distinguish him from his brother Nicolas Mignard, was a French painter known for his religious and mythological scenes and portraits.

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Place Vendôme

The Place Vendôme, earlier known as the Place Louis-le-Grand, and also as the Place Internationale, is a square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France, located to the north of the Tuileries Gardens and east of the Église de la Madeleine.

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Poster

A poster is a large sheet that is placed either on a public space to promote something or on a wall as decoration.

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Robert Delaunay

Robert Delaunay (12 April 1885 – 25 October 1941) was a French artist of the School of Paris movement; who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, co-founded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes.

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Robert Doisneau

Robert Doisneau (14 April 1912 – 1 April 1994) was a French photographer.

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Roger de La Fresnaye

Roger de La Fresnaye (11 July 1885 – 27 November 1925) was a French Cubist painter.

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Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Salon d'Automne

The (Autumn Salon), or, is an art exhibition held annually in Paris.

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School of Paris

The School of Paris (École de Paris) refers to the French and émigré artists who worked in Paris in the first half of the 20th century.

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Seine

The Seine is a river in northern France.

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Société des Artistes Indépendants

The Société des Artistes Indépendants (Society of Independent Artists) or Salon des Indépendants was formed in Paris on 29 July 1884.

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Surrealism

Surrealism is an art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike scenes and ideas.

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Symbolism (arts)

Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realism.

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Tapestry

Tapestry is a form of textile art, traditionally woven by hand on a loom.

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Théodore Géricault

Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (26 September 1791 – 26 January 1824) was a French painter and lithographer, whose best-known painting is The Raft of the Medusa.

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The Lady and the Unicorn

The Lady and the Unicorn (La Dame à la licorne) is the modern title given to a series of six tapestries created in the style of mille-fleurs ("thousand flowers") and woven in Flanders from wool and silk, from designs ("cartoons") drawn in Paris around 1500.

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The Thinker

The Thinker (Le Penseur) is a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin, situated atop a stone pedestal.

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Venus de Milo

The Venus de Milo or Aphrodite of Melos is an ancient Greek marble sculpture that was created during the Hellenistic period.

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Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.

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Winged Victory of Samothrace

The Winged Victory of Samothrace, or the Niké of Samothrace, is a votive monument originally found on the island of Samothrace, north of the Aegean Sea.

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17th-century French art

17th-century French art is generally referred to as Baroque, but from the mid- to late 17th century, the style of French art shows a classical adherence to certain rules of proportion and sobriety uncharacteristic of the Baroque as it was practiced in most of the rest of Europe during the same period.

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References

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