French art, the Glossary
French art consists of the visual and plastic arts (including French architecture, woodwork, textiles, and ceramics) originating from the geographical area of France.[1]
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598 relations: Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy, Abbey of Saint Gall, Abbey of Saint-Germain d'Auxerre, Abbey of Saint-Vaast, Abraham Mintchine, Abstract expressionism, Academic art, Acanthus (ornament), Action painting, Age of Enlightenment, Aix-en-Provence, Aix-les-Bains, Albert Marquet, Albi, Albi Cathedral, Alexandre Cabanel, Alfred Sisley, Allegory, Altar, Altötting, Amedeo Modigliani, Amiens, Amiens Cathedral, Ancient Roman architecture, Ancient Roman pottery, André Derain, André Le Nôtre, Ange-Jacques Gabriel, Angers, Anthony Blunt, Antihero, Antoine Coysevox, Antoine Watteau, Aqueduct (water supply), Aquitaine, Arènes de Lutèce, Arena of Nîmes, Arles, Arles Amphitheatre, Arman, Arrowhead, Art of the Upper Paleolithic, Aurignacian, Automatic writing, Aveyron, Avignon, Écouen, Édouard Manet, Édouard Vuillard, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, ... Expand index (548 more) »
Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy
The Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy in Conques, France, was a popular stop for pilgrims traveling the Way of St. James to Santiago de Compostela, in what is now Spain.
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Abbey of Saint Gall
The Abbey of Saint Gall (Abtei St.) is a dissolved abbey (747–1805) in a Catholic religious complex in the city of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
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Abbey of Saint-Germain d'Auxerre
The Abbey of Saint-Germain d'Auxerre is a former Benedictine monastery in central France, dedicated to its founder Saint Germain of Auxerre, the bishop of Auxerre, who died in 448.
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Abbey of Saint-Vaast
The Abbey of St Vaast (Abbaye de Saint-Vaast) was a Benedictine monastery situated in Arras, département of Pas-de-Calais, France.
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Abraham Mintchine
Abraham Mintchine (4 April 1898 – 25 April 1931) was one of the major painters associated to the artists' environment known as School of Paris.
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Abstract expressionism
Abstract expressionism in the United States emerged as a distinct art movement in the immediate aftermath of World War II and gained mainstream acceptance in the 1950s, a shift from the American social realism of the 1930s influenced by the Great Depression and Mexican muralists.
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Academic art
Academic art, academicism, or academism, is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art.
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Acanthus (ornament)
The acanthus (ἄκανθος) is one of the most common plant forms to make foliage ornament and decoration in the architectural tradition emanating from Greece and Rome.
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Action painting
Action painting, sometimes called "gestural abstraction", is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied.
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Age of Enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
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Aix-en-Provence
Aix-en-Provence, or simply Aix (Occitan: Ais de Provença), is a city and commune in southern France, about north of Marseille.
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Aix-les-Bains
Aix-les-Bains (Èx-los-Bens; Aquae Gratianae),known locally and simply as Aix, is a commune in the southeastern French department of Savoie.
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Albert Marquet
Albert Marquet (27 March 1875 – 14 June 1947) was a French painter.
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Albi
Albi (Albi) is a commune in southern France.
Albi Cathedral
The Cathedral of Saint Cecilia of Albi(French: Cathédrale Sainte-Cécile d'Albi), also known as Albi Cathedral, is the seat of the Catholic Archbishop of Albi.
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Alexandre Cabanel
Alexandre Cabanel (28 September 1823 – 23 January 1889) was a French painter.
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Alfred Sisley
Alfred Sisley (30 October 1839 – 29 January 1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship.
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Allegory
As a literary device or artistic form, an allegory is a narrative or visual representation in which a character, place, or event can be interpreted to represent a meaning with moral or political significance.
Altar
An altar is a table or platform for the presentation of religious offerings, for sacrifices, or for other ritualistic purposes.
Altötting
Altötting (Bavarian:; Oidäding) is a town in Bavaria, capital of the district Altötting of Germany.
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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Amiens
Amiens (English: or;; Anmien, Anmiens or Anmyin) is a city and commune in northern France, located north of Paris and south-west of Lille.
Amiens Cathedral
The Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Amiens (Basilique Cathédrale Notre-Dame d'Amiens), or simply Amiens Cathedral, is a Catholic cathedral.
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Ancient Roman architecture
Ancient Roman architecture adopted the external language of classical ancient Greek architecture for the purposes of the ancient Romans, but was different from Greek buildings, becoming a new architectural style.
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Ancient Roman pottery
Pottery was produced in enormous quantities in ancient Rome, mostly for utilitarian purposes.
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André Derain
André Derain (10 June 1880 – 8 September 1954) was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse.
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André Le Nôtre
André Le Nôtre (12 March 1613 – 15 September 1700), originally rendered as André Le Nostre, was a French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France.
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Ange-Jacques Gabriel
Ange-Jacques Gabriel (23 October 1698 – 4 January 1782) was the principal architect of King Louis XV of France.
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Angers
Angers is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris.
Anthony Blunt
Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983), styled Sir Anthony Blunt from 1956 to November 1979, was a leading British art historian and Soviet spy.
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Antihero
An antihero (sometimes spelled as anti-hero) or anti-heroine is a main character in a narrative (in literature, film, TV, etc.) who may lack some conventional heroic qualities and attributes, such as idealism, courage, and morality.
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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Antoine Watteau
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Aqueduct (water supply)
An aqueduct is a watercourse constructed to carry water from a source to a distribution point far away.
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Aquitaine
Aquitaine (Aquitània; Akitania; Poitevin-Saintongeais: Aguiéne), archaic Guyenne or Guienne (Guiana), is a historical region of Southwestern France and a former administrative region.
Arènes de Lutèce
The Arènes de Lutèce ("Arenas of Lutetia") are among the most important ancient Roman remains in Paris (known in antiquity as Lutetia), together with the Thermes de Cluny.
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Arena of Nîmes
The Arena of Nîmes (Arènes de Nîmes) is a Roman amphitheatre in Nîmes, southern France.
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Arles
Arles (Arle; Classical Arelate) is a coastal city and commune in the South of France, a subprefecture in the Bouches-du-Rhône department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, in the former province of Provence.
Arles Amphitheatre
The Arles Amphitheatre (Arènes d'Arles) is a Roman amphitheatre in Arles, southern France.
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Arman
Arman (November 17, 1928 – October 22, 2005) was a French-born American artist.
Arrowhead
An arrowhead or point is the usually sharpened and hardened tip of an arrow, which contributes a majority of the projectile mass and is responsible for impacting and penetrating a target, as well as to fulfill some special purposes such as signaling.
Art of the Upper Paleolithic
The art of the Upper Paleolithic represents the oldest form of prehistoric art.
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Aurignacian
The Aurignacian is an archaeological industry of the Upper Paleolithic associated with Early European modern humans (EEMH) lasting from 43,000 to 26,000 years ago.
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Automatic writing
Automatic writing, also called psychography, is a claimed psychic ability allowing a person to produce written words without consciously writing.
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Aveyron
Aveyron (Avairon) is a department in the region of Occitania, Southern France.
Avignon
Avignon (Provençal or Avignoun,; Avenio) is the prefecture of the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France.
Écouen
Écouen is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department, in the northern suburbs of Paris, France.
Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet (23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter.
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Édouard Vuillard
Jean-Édouard Vuillard (11 November 186821 June 1940) was a French painter, decorative artist, and printmaker.
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Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842), also known as Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun or simply as Madame Le Brun, was a French painter who mostly specialized in portrait painting, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Émile Bernard
Émile Henri Bernard (28 April 1868 – 16 April 1941) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and writer, who had artistic friendships with Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Eugène Boch, and at a later time, Paul Cézanne.
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Épinal
Épinal (Spinal; Spinalium) is a commune in northeastern France and the prefecture of the Vosges department.
Étienne-Louis Boullée
Étienne-Louis Boullée (12 February 17284 February 1799) was a visionary French neoclassical architect whose work greatly influenced contemporary architects.
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Île-de-France
The Île-de-France is the most populous of the eighteen regions of France, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 residents on 1 January 2023.
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Bagnols-sur-Cèze
Bagnols-sur-Cèze ("Bagnols-on-Cèze"; Banhòus de Céser) is a commune in the Gard department in the Occitania region in Southern France.
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Barbizon School
The Barbizon school of painters were part of an art movement toward Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement of the time.
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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.
Barthélemy d'Eyck
Barthélemy d'Eyck, van Eyck or d' Eyck (1420 – after 1470), was an Early Netherlandish artist who worked in France and probably in Burgundy as a painter and manuscript illuminator.
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Basilica
In Ancient Roman architecture, a basilica was a large public building with multiple functions that was typically built alongside the town's forum.
Basilica of Saint-Sernin, Toulouse
The Basilica of Saint-Sernin (Occitan: Basilica de Sant Sarnin) is a church in Toulouse, France, the former abbey church of the Abbey of Saint-Sernin or St Saturnin.
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Bayeux
Bayeux is a commune in the Calvados department in Normandy in northwestern France.
Bayeux Tapestry
The Bayeux Tapestry (Tapisserie de Bayeux or La telle du conquest; Tapete Baiocense) is an embroidered cloth nearly long and tall that depicts the events leading up to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, led by William, Duke of Normandy challenging Harold II, King of England, and culminating in the Battle of Hastings.
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Bayonne
Bayonne (Baiona; Baiona; Bayona) is a city in Southwestern France near the Spanish border.
Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne
Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne (literally Beaulieu on Dordogne; Belluec) is a commune in the Corrèze department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, central France.
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Beauvais
Beauvais (Bieuvais) is a town and commune in northern France, and prefecture of the Oise département, in the Hauts-de-France region, north of Paris.
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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Bell Beaker culture
The Bell Beaker culture, also known as the Bell Beaker complex or Bell Beaker phenomenon, is an archaeological culture named after the inverted-bell beaker drinking vessel used at the very beginning of the European Bronze Age, arising from around 2800 BC.
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Ben Vautier
Benjamin Vautier (18 July 1935 – 5 June 2024), also known mononymously as Ben, was a French visual artist.
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Benvenuto Cellini
Benvenuto Cellini (3 November 150013 February 1571) was an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, and author.
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Bernard II van Risamburgh
Bernard II van Risamburgh, sometimes Risen Burgh (working by c 1730 — before February 1767) was a Parisian ébéniste of Dutch and French extraction, one of the outstanding cabinetmakers working in the Rococo style.
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Bernard Palissy
Bernard Palissy (c. 1510c. 1589) was a French Huguenot potter, hydraulics engineer and craftsman, famous for having struggled for sixteen years to imitate Chinese porcelain.
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Bernay, Eure
Bernay is a commune in the west of the Eure department in Northern France.
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Besançon
Besançon (archaic Bisanz; Vesontio) is the prefecture of the department of Doubs in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Biot, Alpes-Maritimes
Biot (Biòt) is a small fortified medieval hilltop village in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur near Antibes, between Nice and Cannes.
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Bordeaux
Bordeaux (Gascon Bordèu; Bordele) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, southwestern France.
Bourges Cathedral
Bourges Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Bourges) is a Roman Catholic church located in Bourges, France.
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Brest, France
Brest is a port city in the Finistère department, Brittany.
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Brittany
Brittany (Bretagne,; Breizh,; Gallo: Bertaèyn or Bertègn) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation.
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.
Burgundian Netherlands
In the history of the Low Countries, the Burgundian Netherlands (Burgundiae Belgicae, Pays-Bas bourguignons., Bourgondische Nederlanden, Burgundesch Nidderlanden, Bas Payis borguignons) or the Burgundian Age is the period between 1384 and 1482, during which a growing part of the Low Countries was ruled by the Dukes of Burgundy.
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Burgundy
Burgundy (Bourgogne; Burgundian: bourguignon) is a historical territory and former administrative region and province of east-central France.
Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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Cabaret Voltaire (Zürich)
Cabaret Voltaire was the name of a short-lived nightclub in Zürich, Switzerland in 1916, revived in the 21st century.
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Caen
Caen (Kaem) is a commune inland from the northwestern coast of France.
Camille Pissarro
Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro (10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies).
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Capital (architecture)
In architecture, the capital or chapiter forms the topmost member of a column (or a pilaster).
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Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio;,,; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life.
Caravaggisti
The Caravaggisti (or the "Caravagesques"; singular: "Caravaggista") were stylistic followers of the late 16th-century Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio.
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Cardinal Richelieu
Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu (9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French statesman and prelate of the Catholic Church.
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Carnac stones
The Carnac stones (Steudadoù Karnag) are an exceptionally dense collection of megalithic sites near the south coast of Brittany in northwestern France, consisting of stone alignments (rows), dolmens (stone tombs), tumuli (burial mounds) and single menhirs (standing stones).
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Carolingian Renaissance
The Carolingian Renaissance was the first of three medieval renaissances, a period of cultural activity in the Carolingian Empire.
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Casket (decorative box)
A casket is a decorative box or container that is usually smaller than a chest and is typically decorated.
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Casket with Scenes of Romances (Walters 71264)
The object called by the museum Casket with Scenes of Romances (catalogued as Walters 71264) is a French Gothic ivory casket made in Paris between 1330 and 1350, and now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland.
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Castres
Castres (Castras in the Languedocian dialect of Occitan) is the sole subprefecture of the Tarn department in the Occitanie region in Southern France.
Cave of the Trois-Frères
The Cave of the Trois-Frères is a cave in southwestern France famous for its cave paintings.
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Cave painting
In archaeology, cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves.
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Céret
Céret is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.
César Baldaccini
César (born Cesare Baldaccini; 1 January 1921 – 6 December 1998), also occasionally referred to as César Baldaccini, was a noted French sculptor.
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Celtic art
Celtic art is associated with the peoples known as Celts; those who spoke the Celtic languages in Europe from pre-history through to the modern period, as well as the art of ancient peoples whose language is uncertain, but have cultural and stylistic similarities with speakers of Celtic languages.
Celts
The Celts (see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples were a collection of Indo-European peoples.
Centre Pompidou-Metz
The Centre Pompidou-Metz is a museum of modern and contemporary art located in Metz, capital of Lorraine, France.
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Chaalis Abbey
Chaalis Abbey (Abbaye de Chaalis) was a French Cistercian abbey north of Paris, at Fontaine-Chaalis, near Ermenonville, now in Oise.
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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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Chantilly porcelain
Chantilly porcelain is French soft-paste porcelain produced between 1730 and 1800 by the manufactory of Chantilly in Oise, France.
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Chantilly, Oise
Chantilly (Picard: Cantily) is a commune in the Oise department in the Valley of the Nonette in the Hauts-de-France region of Northern France.
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Charlemagne
Charlemagne (2 April 748 – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor, of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire, from 800, holding these titles until his death in 814.
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Charles Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet who also worked as an essayist, art critic and translator.
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Charles Camoin
Charles Camoin (23 September 1879 – 20 May 1965) was a French expressionist landscape painter associated with the Fauves.
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Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French military officer and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 to restore democracy in France.
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Charles Le Brun
Charles Le Brun (baptised 24 February 1619 – 12 February 1690) was a French painter, physiognomist, art theorist, and a director of several art schools of his time.
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Charles Martel
Charles Martel (– 22 October 741), Martel being a sobriquet in Old French for "The Hammer", was a Frankish political and military leader who, as Duke and Prince of the Franks and Mayor of the Palace, was the de facto ruler of the Franks from 718 until his death.
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Charles V of France
Charles V (21 January 1338 – 16 September 1380), called the Wise (le Sage; Sapiens), was King of France from 1364 to his death in 1380.
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Charles VI of France
Charles VI (3 December 136821 October 1422), nicknamed the Beloved (le Bien-Aimé) and in the 19th century, the Mad (le Fol or le Fou), was King of France from 1380 until his death in 1422.
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Chartres
Chartres is the prefecture of the Eure-et-Loir department in the Centre-Val de Loire region in France.
Chartres Cathedral
Chartres Cathedral, also known as the Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres (Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres), is a Catholic Cathedral in Chartres, France, about southwest of Paris, and is the seat of the Bishop of Chartres.
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Chauvet Cave
The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave (Grotte Chauvet-Pont d'Arc) in the Ardèche department of southeastern France is a cave that contains some of the best-preserved figurative cave paintings in the world, as well as other evidence of Upper Paleolithic life.
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Château d'Ancy-le-Franc
Château d'Ancy-le-Franc is a Renaissance-style château of the 16th century located in the town of Ancy-le-Franc in the department of Yonne, in France.
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Château d'Anet
The Château d'Anet is a château near Dreux, in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France, built by Philibert de l'Orme from 1547 to 1552 for Diane de Poitiers, the mistress of Henry II of France.
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Château d'Angers
The Château d'Angers is a castle in the city of Angers in the Loire Valley, in the département of Maine-et-Loire, in France.
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Château d'Écouen
The Château d'Écouen is an historic château in the commune of Écouen, some 20 km north of Paris, France, and a notable example of French Renaissance architecture.
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Château de Chambord
The Château de Chambord in Chambord, Centre-Val de Loire, France, is one of the most recognisable châteaux in the world because of its very distinctive French Renaissance architecture, which blends traditional French medieval forms with classical Renaissance structures.
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Château de Cheverny
The Château de Cheverny is located in Cheverny, Loir-et-Cher, France.
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Château de Maisons
The Château de Maisons (now Château de Maisons-Laffitte), designed by François Mansart from 1630 to 1651, is a prime example of French baroque architecture and a reference point in the history of French architecture.
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Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art
The Château de Montsoreau-Museum Contemporary Art is a private museum open to the public in Montsoreau, France.
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Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye
The Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye is a former royal palace in the commune of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, in the département of Yvelines, about 19 km west of Paris, France.
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Châteaux of the Loire Valley
The châteaux of the Loire Valley (châteaux de la Loire) are part of the architectural heritage of the historic towns of Amboise, Angers, Blois, Chinon, Montsoreau, Orléans, Saumur, and Tours along the river Loire in France.
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Châtelperronian
The Châtelperronian is a proposed industry of the Upper Palaeolithic, the existence of which is debated.
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Christian art
Christian art is sacred art which uses subjects, themes, and imagery from Christianity.
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Christian Boltanski
Christian Liberté Boltanski (6 September 1944 – 14 July 2021) was a French sculptor, photographer, painter, and film maker.
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Classicism
Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for a classical period, classical antiquity in the Western tradition, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate.
Claude Lorrain
Claude Lorrain (born Claude Gellée, called le Lorrain in French; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 – 23 November 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era.
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Claude Monet
Oscar-Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it.
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Claude Nicolas Ledoux
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (21 March 1736 – 18 November 1806) was one of the earliest exponents of French Neoclassical architecture.
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Claude-Joseph Vernet
Claude-Joseph Vernet (14 August 17143 December 1789) was a French painter.
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Claus Sluter
Claus Sluter (1340s in Haarlem – 1405 or 1406 in Dijon) was a Dutch sculptor, living in the Duchy of Burgundy from about 1380.
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Clermont-Ferrand
Clermont-Ferrand is a city and commune of France, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, with a population of 147,284 (2020).
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Clovis I
Clovis (Chlodovechus; reconstructed Frankish: *Hlōdowig; – 27 November 511) was the first king of the Franks to unite all of the Franks under one ruler, changing the form of leadership from a group of petty kings to rule by a single king and ensuring that the kingship was passed down to his heirs.
Cluny
Cluny is a commune in the eastern French department of Saône-et-Loire, in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Collage
Collage (from the coller, "to glue" or "to stick together") is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.
Colmar
Colmar (Alsatian: Colmer; German: Kolmar) is a city and commune in the Haut-Rhin department and Grand Est region of north-eastern France.
Conques
Conques (Languedocien: Concas) is a former commune in the Aveyron department in Southern France, in the Occitania region.
Cosquer Cave
Cosquer Cave is located in the Calanque de Morgiou in Marseille, France, near Cap Morgiou.
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Counter-Reformation
The Counter-Reformation, also sometimes called the Catholic Revival, was the period of Catholic resurgence that was initiated in response to, and as an alternative to, the Protestant Reformations at the time.
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Courtly love
Courtly love (fin'amor; amour courtois) was a medieval European literary conception of love that emphasized nobility and chivalry.
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Coutances Cathedral
Coutances Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Coutances) is a Gothic Catholic cathedral constructed from 1210 to 1274 in the town of Coutances, Normandy, France.
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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.
Culture of France
The culture of France has been shaped by geography, by historical events, and by foreign and internal forces and groups.
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Dada
Dada or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centres in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (in 1916), founded by Hugo Ball with his companion Emmy Hennings, and in Berlin in 1917.
Decalcomania
Decalcomania (from décalcomanie) is a decorative technique by which engravings and prints may be transferred to pottery or other materials.
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Dijon
Dijon is a city that serves as the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.
Dolmen
A dolmen or portal tomb is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more upright megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table".
Dordogne
Dordogne (or;; Dordonha) is a large rural department in south west France, with its prefecture in Périgueux.
Duchy of Burgundy
The Duchy of Burgundy (Ducatus Burgundiae; Duché de Bourgogne) emerged in the 9th century as one of the successors of the ancient Kingdom of the Burgundians, which after its conquest in 532 had formed a constituent part of the Frankish Empire.
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Duchy of Lorraine
The Duchy of Lorraine (Lorraine; Lothringen), originally Upper Lorraine, was a duchy now included in the larger present-day region of Lorraine in northeastern France.
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Early Christianity
Early Christianity, otherwise called the Early Church or Paleo-Christianity, describes the historical era of the Christian religion up to the First Council of Nicaea in 325.
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Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas (born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas,; 19 July 183427 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings.
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Enguerrand Quarton
Enguerrand Quarton (or Charonton) (1410 – 1466) was a French painter and manuscript illuminator whose few surviving works are among the first masterpieces of a distinctively French style, very different from either Italian or Early Netherlandish painting.
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Eugène Boudin
Eugène Louis Boudin (12 July 1824 – 8 August 1898) was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors.
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Eustache Le Sueur
Eustache Le Sueur or Lesueur (19 November 161730 April 1655) was a French artist and one of the founders of the French Academy of Painting.
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Expressionism
Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century.
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Façade
A façade or facade is generally the front part or exterior of a building.
Faure Museum (Aix-les-Bains)
The Faure Museum is an art museum situated at Aix-les-Bains in France in the department of Savoie.
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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.
Figeac
Figeac (Fijac) is a commune in the southwestern French department of Lot.
Flamboyant
Flamboyant is a lavishly-decorated style of Gothic architecture that appeared in France and Spain in the 15th century, and lasted until the mid-sixteenth century and the beginning of the Renaissance.
Flavigny Abbey
Flavigny Abbey is a former Benedictine monastery, now occupied by the Dominicans, in Flavigny-sur-Ozerain, Côte-d'Or département, France.
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Fluxus
Fluxus was an international, interdisciplinary community of artists, composers, designers, and poets during the 1960s and 1970s who engaged in experimental art performances which emphasized the artistic process over the finished product.
Fondation Calvet
La Fondation Calvet is an art foundation in Avignon, France, named for Esprit Calvet, who left his collections and library to it in 1810.
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Fondation Maeght
The Maeght Foundation or Fondation Maeght is a museum of modern art on the Colline des Gardettes, a hill overlooking Saint-Paul de Vence in the southeast of France about from Nice.
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Fontaine-Chaalis
Fontaine-Chaalis is a commune in the Oise department in northern France.
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Fountain (Duchamp)
Fountain is a readymade sculpture by Marcel Duchamp in 1917, consisting of a porcelain urinal signed "R.
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François Boucher
François Boucher (29 September 1703 – 30 May 1770) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style.
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François Clouet
François Clouet (– 22 December 1572), son of Jean Clouet, was a French Renaissance miniaturist and painter, particularly known for his detailed portraits of the French ruling family.
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François Girardon
François Girardon (17 March 1628 – 1 September 1715) was a French sculptor of the Louis XIV style or French Baroque, best known for his statues and busts of Louis XIV and for his statuary in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles.
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François Mansart
François Mansart (23 January 1598 – 23 September 1666) was a French architect credited with introducing classicism into the Baroque architecture of France.
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François-Thomas Germain
François-Thomas Germain (1726–1791) was a French silversmith who was often commissioned by European royalty.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
Francesco Laurana
Francesco Laurana, also known as Francesco de la Vrana (Frane Vranjanin; c. 1430 – before 12 March 1502) was a Dalmatian sculptor and medallist.
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Francesco Primaticcio
Francesco Primaticcio (April 30, 1504 – 1570) was an Italian Mannerist painter, architect and sculptor who spent most of his career in France.
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Francis Picabia
Francis Picabia (born Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia; 22January 1879 – 30November 1953) was a French avant-garde painter, writer, filmmaker, magazine publisher, poet, and typographist closely associated with Dada.
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Franks
Aristocratic Frankish burial items from the Merovingian dynasty The Franks (Franci or gens Francorum;; Francs.) were a western European people during the Roman Empire and Middle Ages.
French architecture
French architecture consists of architectural styles that either originated in France or elsewhere and were developed within the territories of France.
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French formal garden
The French formal garden, also called the garden in the French manner, is a style of "landscape" garden based on symmetry and the principle of imposing order on nature.
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French language
French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
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French literature
French literature generally speaking, is literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak traditional languages of France other than French.
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French Polynesia
French Polynesia (Polynésie française; Pōrīnetia Farāni) is an overseas collectivity of France and its sole overseas country.
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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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Fresco
Fresco (or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster.
Gallo-Roman culture
Gallo-Roman culture was a consequence of the Romanization of Gauls under the rule of the Roman Empire.
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Gascony
Gascony (Gascogne; Gasconha; Gaskoinia) was a province of the southwestern Kingdom of France that succeeded the Duchy of Gascony (602–1453).
Gaul
Gaul (Gallia) was a region of Western Europe first clearly described by the Romans, encompassing present-day France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, and Northern Italy.
Gavrinis
Gavrinis (Gavriniz) is a small island in the Gulf of Morbihan in Brittany, France.
Genre art
Genre art is the pictorial representation in any of various media of scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, work, and street scenes.
Georges Braque
Georges Braque (13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963) was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor.
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Georges de La Tour
Georges de La Tour (13 March 1593 – 30 January 1652) was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648.
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Georges Rouault
Georges-Henri Rouault (27 May 1871, Paris – 13 February 1958, Paris) was a French painter, draughtsman, and printmaker, whose work is often associated with Fauvism and Expressionism.
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Georges Seurat
Georges Pierre Seurat (2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist.
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Germain Boffrand
Germain Boffrand (16 May 1667 – 19 March 1754) was a French architect.
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Germain Pilon
Germain Pilon (c. 1525 – 3 February 1590)Connat & Colombier 1951; Thirion 1996.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
Germigny-des-Prés
Germigny-des-Prés is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France.
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Gian Lorenzo (or Gianlorenzo) Bernini (Italian Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 159828 November 1680) was an Italian sculptor and architect.
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Gilles-Marie Oppenordt
Gilles-Marie Oppenordt (27 July 1672 – 13 March 1742) was a celebrated French designer at the Bâtiments du Roi, the French royal works, and one of the initiators of the Rocaille and Rococo styles, nicknamed "the French Borromini".
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Gisors
Gisors is a commune in the French department of Eure, Normandy, France.
Glanum
Glanum (Hellenistic Γλανόν, as well as Glano, Calum, Clano, Clanum, Glanu, Glano) was an ancient and wealthy city which still enjoys a magnificent setting below a gorge on the flanks of the Alpilles mountains.
Gobelins Manufactory
The Gobelins Manufactory is a historic tapestry factory in Paris, France.
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Goldsmith
A goldsmith is a metalworker who specializes in working with gold and other precious metals.
Gothic art
Gothic art was a style of medieval art that developed in Northern France out of Romanesque art in the 12th century AD, led by the concurrent development of Gothic architecture.
Goya Museum
The Goya Museum (in French: Musée Goya) is an art museum located in Castres, France.
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Graffiti
Graffiti (plural; singular graffiti or graffito, the latter rarely used except in archeology) is writing or drawings made on a wall or other surface, usually without permission and within public view.
Gravettian
The Gravettian was an archaeological industry of the European Upper Paleolithic that succeeded the Aurignacian circa 33,000 years BP.
Grenoble
Grenoble (or Grainóvol; Graçanòbol) is the prefecture and largest city of the Isère department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France.
Grenoble Archaeological Museum
Grenoble Archaeological Museum is a museum located in Grenoble, France.
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Guebwiller
Guebwiller (Alsatian: Gàwiller) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin département in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
Gustave Caillebotte
Gustave Caillebotte (19 August 1848 – 21 February 1894) was a French painter who was a member and patron of the Impressionists, although he painted in a more realistic manner than many others in the group.
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Gustave Courbet
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting.
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Gustave Moreau
Gustave Moreau (6 April 1826 – 18 April 1898) was a French artist and an important figure in the Symbolist movement.
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Haguenau
Haguenau (Hàwenau or Hàjenöi; Hagenau; historical i) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department of France, of which it is a sub-prefecture.
Hallstatt culture
The Hallstatt culture was the predominant Western and Central European archaeological culture of the Late Bronze Age (Hallstatt A, Hallstatt B) from the 12th to 8th centuries BC and Early Iron Age Europe (Hallstatt C, Hallstatt D) from the 8th to 6th centuries BC, developing out of the Urnfield culture of the 12th century BC (Late Bronze Age) and followed in much of its area by the La Tène culture.
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Hôtel d'Assézat
The Hôtel d'Assézat in Toulouse, France, is a French Renaissance hôtel particulier (individual mansion) of the 16th century which houses the Bemberg Foundation, a major art gallery of the city.
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Hôtel particulier
Hôtel particulier is the French term for a grand urban mansion, comparable to a British townhouse.
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Henri Manguin
Henri Charles Manguin (23 March 187425 September 1949), 2008 was a French painter, associated with the Fauves.
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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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Hierarchy of genres
A hierarchy of genres is any formalization which ranks different genres in an art form in terms of their prestige and cultural value.
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Historical fiction
Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events.
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History of France
The first written records for the history of France appeared in the Iron Age.
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History painting
History painting is a genre in painting defined by its subject matter rather than any artistic style or specific period.
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Holy Thorn Reliquary
The Holy Thorn Reliquary was probably created in the 1390s in Paris for John, Duke of Berry, to house a relic of the Crown of Thorns.
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Honfleur
Honfleur is a commune in the Calvados department in northwestern France.
Hubert Robert
Hubert Robert (22 May 1733 – 15 April 1808) was a French painter in the school of Romanticism, noted especially for his landscape paintings and capricci, or semi-fictitious picturesque depictions of ruins in Italy and of France.
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Hugues Sambin
Hugues Sambin (ca. 1520–1601) was a Franc-comtois sculptor, trained as a menuisier or wood-worker; as a designer of Mannerist ornaments, his published designs, such as Oevvre de la diversite des termes, dont on use en architecture, reduicts en ordres, Lyon, 1572, inspired luxury furnishings, such as dressoires, armoires and cabinets.
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Human
Humans (Homo sapiens, meaning "thinking man") or modern humans are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of the genus Homo.
Iconography
Iconography, as a branch of art history, studies the identification, description and interpretation of the content of images: the subjects depicted, the particular compositions and details used to do so, and other elements that are distinct from artistic style.
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Illuminated manuscript
An illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared document where the text is decorated with flourishes such as borders and miniature illustrations.
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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.
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Informalism
Informalism or Art Informel is a pictorial movement from the 1943–1950s, that includes all the abstract and gestural tendencies that developed in France and the rest of Europe during the World War II, similar to American abstract expressionism started 1946.
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International Gothic
International Gothic is a period of Gothic art which began in Burgundy, France, and northern Italy in the late 14th and early 15th century.
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Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.
Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.
Italian Renaissance
The Italian Renaissance (Rinascimento) was a period in Italian history covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Italian Wars
The Italian Wars were a series of conflicts fought between 1494 and 1559, mostly in the Italian Peninsula, but later expanding into Flanders, the Rhineland and Mediterranean Sea.
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J. M. W. Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 177519 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist.
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Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau
Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau, also given as Du Cerceau, DuCerceau, or Ducerceau (1510–1584) was a well-known French designer of architecture, ornament, furniture, metalwork and other decorative designs during the 16th century, and the founder of the Androuet du Cerceau family.
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Jacques Lemercier
Jacques Lemercier (c. 1585 in Pontoise – 13 January 1654 in Paris) was a French architect and engineer, one of the influential trio that included Louis Le Vau and François Mansart who formed the classicizing French Baroque manner, drawing from French traditions of the previous century and current Roman practice the fresh, essentially French synthesis associated with Cardinal Richelieu and Louis XIII.
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Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David (30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era.
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Jansenism
Jansenism was a 17th- and 18th-century theological movement within Roman Catholicism, primarily active in France, which arose as an attempt to reconcile the theological concepts of free will and divine grace in response to certain developments in the Roman Catholic Church, but later developing political and philosophical aspects in opposition to royal absolutism.
Jean Bullant
Jean Bullant (1515 – 13 October 1578) was a French architect and sculptor who built the tombs of Anne de Montmorency, Grand Connétable of France, Henri II, and Catherine de' Medici.
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Jean Clouet
Jean (or Janet) Clouet (1480–1541) was a miniaturist and painter who worked in France during the High Renaissance.
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Jean Dubuffet
Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet (31 July 1901 – 12 May 1985) was a French painter and sculptor of the Ecole de Paris (School of Paris).
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Jean Fouquet
Jean (or Jehan) Fouquet (–1481) was a French painter and miniaturist.
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Jean Goujon
Jean GoujonThirion, Jacques (1996).
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Jean Henri Riesener
Jean-Henri Riesener (Johann Heinrich Riesener; 4 July 1734 – 6 January 1806) was a famous German ébéniste (cabinetmaker), working in Paris, whose work exemplified the early neoclassical "Louis XVI style".
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Jean Siméon Chardin
Jean Siméon Chardin (November 2, 1699 – December 6, 1779) was an 18th-century French painter.
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter.
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Jean-Étienne Liotard
Jean-Étienne Liotard (22 December 1702 – 12 June 1789) was a Genevan painter, art connoisseur and dealer.
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Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (21 August 1725 – 4 March 1805) was a French painter of portraits, genre scenes, and history painting.
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Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Jean-Baptiste Oudry (17 March 1686 – 30 April 1755) was a French Rococo painter, engraver, and tapestry designer.
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Jean-Baptiste Perronneau
Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (c. 1716 – 19 November 1783) was a French painter who specialized in portraits executed in pastels.
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (16 July 1796 – 22 February 1875), or simply Camille Corot, was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching.
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Jean-François Oeben
Jean-François Oeben, or Johann Franz Oeben (9 October 1721 – 21 January 1763) was a German ébéniste (cabinetmaker) whose career was spent in Paris.
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Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (5 April 1732 (birth/baptism certificate) – 22 August 1806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism.
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Jean-Léon Gérôme
Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism.
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Jews
The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.
John, Duke of Berry
John of Berry or John the Magnificent (French: Jean de Berry,; 30 November 1340 – 15 June 1416) was Duke of Berry and Auvergne and Count of Poitiers and Montpensier.
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Joseph-Marie Vien
Joseph-Marie Vien (sometimes anglicised as Joseph-Mary Wien; 18 June 1716 – 27 March 1809) was a French painter.
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Jules Hardouin-Mansart
Jules Hardouin-Mansart (16 April 1646 – 11 May 1708) was a French Baroque architect and builder whose major work included the Place des Victoires (1684–1690); Place Vendôme (1690); the domed chapel of Les Invalides (1690), and the Grand Trianon of the Palace of Versailles.
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Jules Pascin
Julius Mordecai Pincas (March 31, 1885 – June 5, 1930), known as Pascin (erroneously or), Jules Pascin, also known as the "Prince of Montparnasse", was a Bulgarian artist of the School of Paris, known for his paintings and drawings.
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Juste family
Juste or Giusti is the name conventionally applied to a family of Italian sculptors.
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Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier
Juste-Aurèle Meissonier (1695 – 31 July 1750) was a French goldsmith, sculptor, painter, architect, and furniture designer.
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La Piscine Museum
La Piscine (French for "the swimming pool") is a museum of art and industry, located in the city of Roubaix in northern France.
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La Tène culture
The La Tène culture was a European Iron Age culture.
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Landes (department)
Landes (Lanas; Landak) is a department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, Southwestern France, with a long coastline on the Atlantic Ocean to the west.
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Landscape painting
Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composition.
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Languedoc
The Province of Languedoc (Lengadòc) is a former province of France.
Laon Cathedral
Laon Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Laon) is a Roman Catholic church located in Laon, Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France.
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Lascaux
Lascaux (Grotte de Lascaux, "Lascaux Cave") is a network of caves near the village of Montignac, in the department of Dordogne in southwestern France.
Last Judgment
The Last Judgment, Final Judgment, Day of Reckoning, Day of Judgment, Judgment Day, Doomsday, Day of Resurrection or The Day of the Lord (translit or label) is a concept found across the Abrahamic religions and the Frashokereti of Zoroastrianism.
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Laurent de La Hyre
Laurent de La Hyre (27 February 1606 – 28 December 1656) was a French Baroque painter, born in Paris.
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Le Cateau-Cambrésis
Le Cateau-Cambrésis (before 1977: Le Cateau) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
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Le Havre
Le Havre (Lé Hâvre) is a major port city in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northern France.
Le Mans
Le Mans is a city in northwestern France on the Sarthe River where it meets the Huisne.
Le Nain
The three Le Nain brothers were painters in 17th-century France: Antoine Le Nain (c.1600–1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1603–1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677).
Le Puy-en-Velay
Le Puy-en-Velay (literally Le Puy in Velay; Lo Puèi de Velai) is the prefecture of the Haute-Loire department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of south-central 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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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
(The Young Ladies of Avignon, originally titled The Brothel of Avignon) is a large oil painting created in 1907 by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.
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Les Invalides
The Hôtel des Invalides ("house of invalids"), commonly called italic, is a complex of buildings in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France, containing museums and monuments, all relating to the military history of France, as well as a hospital and an Old Soldiers' retirement home, the building's original purpose.
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Libourne
Libourne (Liborna) is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.
Ligier Richier
Ligier Richier (1567) was a French sculptor active in Saint-Mihiel in Northeastern France.
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Lille
Lille (Rijsel; Lile; Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, within French Flanders.
Limbourg brothers
The Limbourg brothers (Gebroeders van Limburg or Gebroeders Van Lymborch; fl. 1385 – 1416) were Dutch miniature painters (Herman, Paul, and Jean) from the city of Nijmegen.
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Limoges
Limoges (Lemòtges, locally Limòtges) is a city and commune, and the prefecture of the Haute-Vienne department in west-central France.
Limoges enamel
Limoges enamel has been produced at Limoges, in south-western France, over several centuries up to the present.
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List of French artists
The following is a chronological list of French artists working in visual or plastic media (plus, for some artists of the 20th century, performance art).
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Locmariaquer megaliths
The Locmariaquer megaliths are a complex of Neolithic constructions in Locmariaquer, Brittany.
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Loire
The Loire (Léger; Lêre; Liger; Liger) is the longest river in France and the 171st longest in the world.
Loiret
Loiret is a department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of north-central France.
Lot (department)
Lot (Òlt) is a department in the Occitanie region of France.
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Louis Le Vau
Louis Le Vau (1612 – 11 October 1670) was a French Baroque architect, who worked for Louis XIV of France.
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Louis XII
Louis XII (27 June 14621 January 1515) was King of France from 1498 to 1515 and King of Naples from 1501 to 1504.
Louis XIII
Louis XIII (sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown.
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.
Louis XV style
The Louis XV style or Louis Quinze is a style of architecture and decorative arts which appeared during the reign of Louis XV.
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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.
Louvre Palace
The Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre), often referred to simply as the Louvre, is an iconic French palace located on the Right Bank of the Seine in Paris, occupying a vast expanse of land between the Tuileries Gardens and the church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois.
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Lugdunum
Lugdunum (also spelled Lugudunum,; modern Lyon, France) was an important Roman city in Gaul, established on the current site of Lyon.
Lugdunum (museum)
Lugdunum, formerly known as the Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon-Fourvière or Museum of Roman Civilisation, is a museum of Gallo-Roman civilisation in Lyon (Roman Lugdunum).
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Lyon
Lyon (Franco-Provençal: Liyon), formerly spelled in English as Lyons, is the second largest city of France by urban area It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, northeast of Saint-Étienne.
Magdalenian
The Magdalenian cultures (also Madelenian; French: Magdalénien) are later cultures of the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic in western Europe.
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Maison carrée
The Maison carrée (French for "square house") is an ancient Roman temple in Nîmes, southern France; it is one of the best-preserved Roman temples to survive in the territory of the former Roman Empire.
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Mannerism
Mannerism is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, when the Baroque style largely replaced it.
Manufacture nationale de Sèvres
The Manufacture nationale de Sèvres is one of the principal European porcelain factories.
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Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall (born Moishe Shagal; – 28 March 1985) was a Belarusian-French artist.
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Marcel Duchamp
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art.
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Marie de' Medici
Marie de' Medici (Marie de Médicis; Maria de' Medici; 26 April 1575 – 3 July 1642) was Queen of France and Navarre as the second wife of King Henry IV.
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Marseille
Marseille or Marseilles (Marseille; Marselha; see below) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.
Mask of la Roche-Cotard
The Mask of la Roche-Cotard, also known as the "Mousterian Protofigurine", is an artifact dated to around 75,000 years ago, in the Mousterian period.
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Masseot Abaquesne
Masseot Abaquesne (c. 1500-1564) was a manufacturer of Rouen faience, in France between 1535 and 1557.
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Matisse Museum (Le Cateau)
The Matisse Museum (Musée Départemental Henri Matisse) is a museum in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France that primarily displays paintings by Henri Matisse.
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Maurice de Vlaminck
Maurice de Vlaminck (4 April 1876 - 11 October 1958) was a French painter.
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Maurice Denis
Maurice Denis (25 November 1870 – 13 November 1943) was a French painter, decorative artist, and writer.
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Maurice Quentin de La Tour
Maurice Quentin de La Tour (5 September 1704 – 17 February 1788) was a French painter who worked primarily with pastels in the Rococo style.
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Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.
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Megalith
A megalith is a large stone that has been used to construct a prehistoric structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones.
Melun Diptych
The Melun Diptych is a two-panel oil painting by the French court painter Jean Fouquet (–1481) created around 1452.
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Menhir
A menhir (from Brittonic languages: maen or men, "stone" and hir or hîr, "long"), standing stone, orthostat, or lith is a large upright stone, emplaced in the ground by humans, typically dating from the European middle Bronze Age.
Merovingian art and architecture
Merovingian art is the art of the Merovingian dynasty of the Franks, which lasted from the 5th century to the 8th century in present-day France, Benelux and a part of Germany.
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Merovingian dynasty
The Merovingian dynasty was the ruling family of the Franks from around the middle of the 5th century until 751.
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Mesolithic
The Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, mesos 'middle' + λίθος, lithos 'stone') or Middle Stone Age is the Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic.
Metz
Metz (Divodurum Mediomatricorum, then Mettis) is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers.
Michel Colombe
Michel Colombe was a French sculptor whose work bridged the late Gothic and Renaissance styles.
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Michelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance.
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Moissac
Moissac is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Occitanie region in southern France.
Mont-Saint-Michel
Mont-Saint-Michel (Norman: Mont Saint Miché) is a tidal island and mainland commune in Normandy, France.
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Montargis
Montargis is a commune in the Loiret department, Centre-Val de Loire, France.
Montauban
Montauban (Montalban) is a commune in the southern French department of Tarn-et-Garonne.
Montignac-Lascaux
Montignac-Lascaux (Limousin: Montinhac or Montinhac de Las Caus; before 2020: Montignac, also called Montignac-sur-Vézère), is a commune in the Dordogne department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Southwestern France.
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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.
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Montpellier
Montpellier (Montpelhièr) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea.
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Montsoreau
Montsoreau is a commune of the Loire Valley in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast and from Paris. The village is listed among The Most Beautiful Villages of France (Les Plus Beaux Villages de France) and is part of the Loire Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Motif (visual arts)
In art and iconography, a motif is an element of an image.
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Mousterian
The Mousterian (or Mode III) is an archaeological industry of stone tools, associated primarily with the Neanderthals in Europe, and to the earliest anatomically modern humans in North Africa and West Asia.
Mulhouse
Mulhouse (Alsatian: Mìlhüsa;, meaning "mill house") is a city of the European Collectivity of Alsace (Haut-Rhin department, in the Grand Est region of France), close to the Swiss and German borders.
Musée Bonnat
The Musée Bonnat-Helleu is an art museum in Bayonne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
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Musée Bourdelle
The Musée Bourdelle (Bourdelle Museum) is an art museum located at 18, rue Antoine Bourdelle, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, France, located in the old studio of French sculptor Antoine Bourdelle (1861–1929).
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Musée Camille Claudel
The Musée Camille Claudel is a French national museum which honors and exhibits the art of sculptor Camille Claudel.
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Musée Cantini
The Musée Cantini is a museum in Marseille that has been open to the public since 1936.
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Musée Carnavalet
The Musée Carnavalet in Paris is dedicated to the history of the city.
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Musée Cognacq-Jay
The Musée Cognacq-Jay (Cognacq-Jay Museum) is a museum located in the Hôtel Donon in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris.
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Musée Condé
The – in English, the Condé Museum – is a French museum located inside the Château de Chantilly in Chantilly, Oise, 40 km north of Paris.
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Musée Crozatier
The Musée Crozatier is a museum in Le Puy-en-Velay in the French Auvergne.
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Musée d'art moderne (Saint-Étienne)
The Musée d'art moderne et contemporain (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art), or MAMC, is an art museum in Saint-Étienne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
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Musée d'Art Moderne de Céret
Le Musée d'Art Moderne de Céret is a modern art museum in Céret, Pyrénées-Orientales, France, created by Pierre Brune and Frank Burty Haviland in 1950 with the personal support of their friends Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse who were involved in its creation.
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Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (in full the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris) or MAM Paris, is a major municipal museum dedicated to modern and contemporary art of the 20th and 21st centuries, including monumental murals by Raoul Dufy, Gaston Suisse, and Henri Matisse.
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Musée d'Arts de Nantes
The Fine Arts Museum of Nantes, along with 14 other provincial museums, was created, by consular decree on 14 Fructidor in year IX (31 August 1801).
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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 départemental d'Art ancien et contemporain
The Musée départemental d'Art ancien et contemporain is a museum in Épinal, Vosges, France.
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Musée départemental Maurice Denis "The Priory"
The Musée départemental Maurice Denis "The Priory" is a museum dedicated to Nabi art located in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, in the Parisian region (Île-de-France).
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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 de l'Arles antique
The Musée de l'Arles antique or Musée départemental Arles antique or Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence antiques is an archeological museum housed in a modern building designed and built in 1995 by the architect Henri Ciriani, at Arles in the Bouches-du-Rhône département of France.
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Musée de l'École de Nancy
The Musée de l'École de Nancy is a museum devoted to the École de Nancy, an Art Nouveau movement founded in 1901 by Émile Gallé, Victor Prouvé, Louis Majorelle, Antonin Daum and Eugène Vallin in the city of Nancy in Lorraine, north-eastern France.
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Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame
The Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame (or Frauenhausmuseum in German) is the city of Strasbourg's museum for Upper Rhenish fine arts and decorative arts, dating from the early Middle Ages until 1681.
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Musée de l'Homme
The Musée de l'Homme (French, "Museum of Mankind" or "Museum of Humanity") is an anthropology museum in Paris, France.
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Musée de l'Orangerie
The Musée de l'Orangerie (Orangery Museum) is an art gallery of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings located in the west corner of the Tuileries Garden next to the Place de la Concorde in Paris.
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Musée de Picardie
The Musée de Picardie is the main museum of Amiens and Picardy, in France.
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Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
The Musée des Arts Décoratifs (English: Museum of Decorative Arts) is a museum in Paris, France, dedicated to the exhibition and preservation of the decorative arts.
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Musée des Arts décoratifs, Strasbourg
The Musée des Arts décoratifs (Museum of Decorative Art) of the city of Strasbourg, France, is found on the ground floor of the Palais Rohan, the former city palace of the Prince-Bishops from the Rohan family.
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Musée des Augustins
The Musée des Augustins de Toulouse is a fine arts museum in Toulouse, France which conserves a collection of sculpture and paintings from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century.
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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux is the fine-art museum of the city of Bordeaux, France.
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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Brest
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Brest is the main art museum in the city of Brest, Brittany, France, housing French and Italian old masters as well as more modern art.
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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen is a fine arts museum in the French city of Caen, founded at the start of the 19th century and rebuilt in 1971 within the ducal château.
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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon is a museum of fine arts opened in 1787, in Dijon, France.
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Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille
The Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille is one of the main museums in the city of Marseille, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.
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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse is a municipal art museum in Mulhouse, France.
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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes is the fine arts museum of Nîmes.
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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice in Nice, France at 33 av.
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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pont-Aven
The Musée des Beaux Arts de Pont-Aven also known as Museum of Pont-Aven was created in 1985 with the support of the French Museum Department and the Finistère Conseil Général.
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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen is an art museum in Rouen, in Normandy in north-western France.
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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg (Museum of Fine Arts of Strasbourg) is the old masters paintings collection of the city of Strasbourg, located in the Alsace region of France.
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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes
The musée des beaux-arts de Valenciennes is a municipal museum in the French town of Valenciennes.
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Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon
The musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie (Museum of Fine Arts and Archeology) in the French city of Besançon is the oldest public museum in France.
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Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon
The Musée du Petit Palais is a museum and art gallery in Avignon, southern France.
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Musée Fabre
The Musée Fabre is a museum in the southern French city of Montpellier, capital of the Hérault département.
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Musée Granet
The Musée Granet is a museum in the quartier Mazarin, Aix-en-Provence, France devoted to painting, sculpture and archeology.
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Musée historique de Haguenau
The Musée historique (Historical museum) is one of the three museums of Haguenau, France.
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Musée Ingres Bourdelle
The Musée Ingres Bourdelle (In English: Ingres Bourdelle Museum) is located in Montauban, France.
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Musée Jacquemart-André
The Musée Jacquemart-André (Jacquemart-André Museum) is a private museum located at 158 Boulevard Haussmann in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.
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Musée Maillol
The Musée Maillol is an art museum located in the 7th arrondissement at 59–61, rue de Grenelle, Paris, France.
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Musée Marmottan Monet
Musée Marmottan Monet (Marmottan Museum of Monet) is an art museum in Paris, France, dedicated to artist Claude Monet.
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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 national Eugène Delacroix
The Musée national Eugène Delacroix (National Eugène Delacroix Museum), also known as the Musée Delacroix, is an art museum dedicated to painter Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) and located in the 6th arrondissement at 6, rue de Furstenberg, Paris, France.
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Musée national Gustave Moreau
The Musée national Gustave Moreau (National Gustave Moreau Museum) is an art museum dedicated to the works of Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau (1826–1898).
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Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner
The Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner is a French art museum dedicated to the works of painter Jean-Jacques Henner (1829–1905).
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Musée Nissim de Camondo
The Musée Nissim de Camondo is a historic house museum of French decorative arts located in the Hôtel Moïse de Camondo at 63, rue de Monceau, on the edge of Parc Monceau in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, 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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Musée Saint-Raymond
Musée Saint-Raymond (in English, Saint-Raymond museum) is the archeological museum of Toulouse, opened in 1892.
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Musée Saint-Remi
The Musée Saint-Remi is an archeology and art museum in Reims, France.
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Musée Toulouse-Lautrec
The Musée Toulouse-Lautrec is an art museum in Albi, southern France, dedicated mainly to the work of the painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec who was born in Albi.
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Musée Zadkine
The Musée Zadkine is a museum dedicated to the work of Russian sculptor Ossip Zadkine (1890–1967).
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Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon
The Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon) is a municipal museum of fine arts in the French city of Lyon.
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Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy
The Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy), one of the oldest museums in France, is housed in one of the pavilions on the Place Stanislas, in the heart of the 18th-century urban ensemble, a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
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Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes
The Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes (Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes) is a municipal museum of fine arts in the French city of Rennes, the capital of Brittany.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Reims
The Museum of Fine Arts (Musée des beaux-arts) is a fine arts museum in Reims, France.
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Museum of Grenoble
The Museum of Grenoble (Musée de Grenoble) is a municipal museum of Fine Arts and antiquities in the city of Grenoble in the Isère region of France.
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Museum of modern art André Malraux - MuMa
The Musée d'art moderne André Malraux (also known as Musée Malraux and simply MuMa) is a museum in Le Havre, France containing one of the nation's most extensive collections of impressionist paintings.
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Museums of Metz
The Museum of Metz (Musée de la Cour d'Or - Metz Métropole), in Metz, France, was founded in 1839.
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Myth
Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society.
Nabis (art)
The Nabis (les nabis) were a group of young French artists active in Paris from 1888 until 1900, who played a large part in the transition from Impressionism and academic art to abstract art, symbolism and the other early movements of modernism.
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Nancy, France
Nancy is the prefecture of the northeastern French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle.
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Nantes
Nantes (Gallo: Naunnt or Nantt) is a city in Loire-Atlantique of France on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast.
Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.
Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions.
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National Archaeological Museum, France
The National Archaeological Museum (French: Musée d'Archéologie nationale) is a major French archaeology museum, covering pre-historic times to the Merovingian period (450–750).
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Nîmes
Nîmes (Nimes; Latin: Nemausus) is the prefecture of the Gard department in the Occitanie region of Southern France.
Neanderthal
Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis or H. sapiens neanderthalensis) are an extinct group of archaic humans (generally regarded as a distinct species, though some regard it as a subspecies of Homo sapiens) who lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago.
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Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity.
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Neolithic
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Neolithic Europe
The European Neolithic is the period from the arrival of Neolithic (New Stone Age) technology and the associated population of Early European Farmers in Europe, (the approximate time of the first farming societies in Greece) until –1700 BC (the beginning of Bronze Age Europe with the Nordic Bronze Age).
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Niccolò dell'Abbate
Niccolò dell'Abbate, sometimes Nicolò and Abate (1509 or 15121571) was a Mannerist Italian painter in fresco and oils.
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Nice
Nice (Niçard: Niça, classical norm, or Nissa, Mistralian norm,; Nizza; Nissa; Νίκαια; Nicaea) is a city in and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France.
Nicolas Lancret
Nicolas Lancret (22 January 1690 – 14 September 1743) was a French painter.
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Nicolas Poussin
Nicolas Poussin (June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was a French painter who was a leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome.
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Niki de Saint Phalle
Niki de Saint Phalle (born Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle; 29 October 193021 May 2002) was a French-American sculptor, painter, filmmaker, and author of colorful hand-illustrated books.
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Nogent-sur-Seine
Nogent-sur-Seine is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France.
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Normandy
Normandy (Normandie; Normaundie, Nouormandie; from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy.
Normans
The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; Normands; Nortmanni/Normanni) were a population arising in the medieval Duchy of Normandy from the intermingling between Norse Viking settlers and locals of West Francia.
Northern Renaissance
The Northern Renaissance was the Renaissance that occurred in Europe north of the Alps.
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Notre-Dame de Paris
Notre-Dame de Paris (meaning "Our Lady of Paris"), referred to simply as Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité (an island in the River Seine), in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France.
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Nymph of Fontainebleau
The Nymph of Fontainebleau (Nymphe de Fontainebleau), also known as the Nymph of Anet (Nymphe d'Anet) or the Nymph with the Stag (Nymphe au cerf), is a 1543 bronze relief (Paris, Louvre, MR 1706), created by the Italian sculptor Benvenuto Cellini for the Château de Fontainebleau in France.
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Odilon Redon
Odilon Redon (born Bertrand Redon;; 20 April 18406 July 1916) was a French Symbolist artist.
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Oil painting
Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder.
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Op art
Op art, short for optical art, is a style of visual art that uses optical illusions.
Orange, Vaucluse
Orange (Provençal: Aurenja or Aurenjo) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France.
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Orientalism
In art history, literature and cultural studies, orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects of the Eastern world (or "Orient") by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world.
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Othon Friesz
Achille-Émile Othon Friesz (6 February 1879 – 10 January 1949), who later called himself Othon Friesz, a native of Le Havre, was a French artist of the Fauvist movement.
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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
A palace is a large residence, often serving as a royal residence or the home for a head of state or another high-ranking dignitary, such as a bishop or archbishop.
Palace of Tau
The Palace of Tau (Palais du Tau) in Reims, France, was the palace of the Archbishop of Reims.
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Palace of the Dukes of Lorraine
The Ducal Palace of Nancy (French: Palais ducal du Nancy) is a former princely residence in Nancy, France, which was home to the Dukes of Lorraine.
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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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Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
The Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (Lille Palace of Fine Arts) is a municipal museum dedicated to fine arts, modern art, and antiquities located in Lille.
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Palais Galliera
The Palais Galliera, also formally known as the Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris (City of Paris Fashion Museum), and formerly known as Musée Galliera, is a museum of fashion and fashion history located at 10, avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France.
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Paleolithic
The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic, also called the Old Stone Age, is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost the entire period of human prehistoric technology.
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Panel painting
A panel painting is a painting made on a flat panel of wood, either a single piece or a number of pieces joined together.
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Panelling
Panelling (or paneling in the United States) is a millwork wall covering constructed from rigid or semi-rigid components.
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France.
Parisian Atticism
In the history of art, Parisian Atticism is a movement in French painting from 1640 to 1660, when painters working in Paris elaborated a rigorous neo-classical style, seeking sobriety, luminosity and harmony, and referring to the Greco-Roman world.
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Parmigianino
Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (11 January 150324 August 1540), also known as Francesco Mazzola or, more commonly, as Parmigianino ("the little one from Parma"), was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma.
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Pastel
A pastel is an art medium that consist of powdered pigment and a binder.
Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Pau is a commune overlooking the Pyrenees, and prefecture of the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, 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 Gauguin
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements.
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Paul Sérusier
Paul Sérusier (9 November 1864 – 7 October 1927) was a French painter who was a pioneer of abstract art and an inspiration for the avant-garde Nabis movement, Synthetism and Cloisonnism.
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Paul Signac
Paul Victor Jules Signac (11 November 1863 – 15 August 1935) was a French Neo-Impressionist painter who, with Georges Seurat, helped develop the artistic technique Pointillism.
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Pech Merle
Pech Merle is a French hillside cave at Cabrerets, in the Lot département of the Occitania region, about 32 kilometres (19.88 miles) east of Cahors, by road.
Pepin the Short
Pepin the Short (Pépin le Bref; – 24 September 768), was King of the Franks from 751 until his death in 768.
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Perpignan
Perpignan (Perpinyà,; Perpinhan) is the prefecture of the Pyrénées-Orientales department in Southern France, in the heart of the plain of Roussillon, at the foot of the Pyrenees a few kilometres from the Mediterranean Sea and the scrublands of the Corbières massif.
Peter Paul Rubens
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat.
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Petit Palais
The (Small Palace) is an art museum in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France.
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Philibert de l'Orme
Philibert de l'Orme (3-9 June 1514 – 8 January 1570) was a French architect and writer, and one of the great masters of French Renaissance architecture.
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Philippe de Champaigne
Philippe de Champaigne (26 May 1602 – 12 August 1674) was a Brabançon-born French Baroque era painter, a major exponent of the French school.
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Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (Philippe Charles; 2 August 1674 – 2 December 1723), was a French prince, soldier, and statesman who served as Regent of the Kingdom of France from 1715 to 1723.
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Pierre Bonnard
Pierre Bonnard (3 October 186723 January 1947) was a French painter, illustrator and printmaker, known especially for the stylized decorative qualities of his paintings and his bold use of color.
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Pierre Bontemps
Pierre Bontemps (c. 1505–1568) was a French sculptor known for his funeral monuments; he was, with Germain Pilon, one of the pre-eminent sculptors of the French Renaissance.
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Pierre Gouthière
Pierre Gouthière (1732–1813) was a French metal worker.
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Pierre Le Gros the Younger
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Pierre Lescot
Pierre Lescot (– 10 September 1578) was a French architect active during the French Renaissance.
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Pierre Puget
Pierre Paul Puget (16 October 1620 (or 31 October 1622) – 2 December 1694) was a French Baroque painter, sculptor, architect and engineer.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style.
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Pierre-Philippe Thomire
Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751–1843) a French sculptor, was the most prominent bronzier, or producer of ornamental patinated and gilt-bronze objects and furniture mounts of the First French Empire.
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Place de la Bourse, Bordeaux
The Place de la Bourse ("Stock Exchange Square") is a square in Bordeaux, France, and one of the city's most recognisable sights.
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Place de la Concorde
The Place de la Concorde is one of the major public squares in Paris, France.
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Plastic arts
Plastic arts are art forms which involve physical manipulation of a plastic medium, such as clay, wax, paint or even plastic in the modern sense of the word (a ductile polymer) to create works of art.
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Pointillism
Pointillism is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image.
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Pont du Gard
The Pont du Gard is an ancient Roman aqueduct bridge built in the first century AD to carry water over to the Roman colony of Nemausus (Nîmes).
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Pont-Aven
Pont-Aven (Breton: 'River Bridge') is a commune in the Finistère department in the Brittany region in Northwestern France.
Pop art
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the United Kingdom and the United States during the mid- to late-1950s.
Portable art
Portable art (sometimes called mobiliary art) refers to the small examples of Prehistoric art that could be carried from place to place, which is especially characteristic of the Art of the Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic eras.
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Portrait
A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant.
Post-Impressionism
Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism.
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Pre-Romanesque art and architecture
Pre-Romanesque art and architecture is the period in European art from either, the emergence of the Merovingian kingdom in about 500 AD or from the Carolingian Renaissance in the late 8th century, to the beginning of the 11th century Romanesque period.
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Prehistoric art
In the history of art, prehistoric art is all art produced in preliterate, prehistorical cultures beginning somewhere in very late geological history, and generally continuing until that culture either develops writing or other methods of record-keeping, or makes significant contact with another culture that has, and that makes some record of major historical events.
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Prehistory of Brittany
This page concerns the prehistory of Brittany.
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Printmaking
Printmaking is the process of creating artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces.
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Propaganda
Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is being presented.
Proto-Celtic language
Proto-Celtic, or Common Celtic, is the hypothetical ancestral proto-language of all known Celtic languages, and a descendant of Proto-Indo-European.
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Provence
Provence is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône to the west to the Italian border to the east; it is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the south.
Psalter
A psalter is a volume containing the Book of Psalms, often with other devotional material bound in as well, such as a liturgical calendar and litany of the Saints.
Psalter of Saint Louis
Two lavishly illustrated illuminated manuscript psalters are known as the Psalter of Saint Louis (and variants) as they belonged to the canonized King Louis IX of France.
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Raoul Dufy
Raoul Dufy (French:; 3 June 1877 – 23 March 1953) was a French painter associated with the Fauvist movement.
Rayonnant
Rayonnant was a very refined style of Gothic Architecture which appeared in France in the 13th century.
Régence
The Régence (Regency) was the period in French history between 1715 and 1723 when King Louis XV was considered a minor and the country was instead governed by Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (a nephew of Louis XIV of France) as prince regent.
Rössen culture
The Rössen culture or Roessen culture (Rössener Kultur) is a Central European culture of the middle Neolithic (4,600–4,300 BC).
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Readymades of Marcel Duchamp
The readymades of Marcel Duchamp are ordinary manufactured objects that the artist selected and modified, as an antidote to what he called "retinal art".
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Realism (arts)
Realism in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding speculative and supernatural elements.
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Reims
Reims (also spelled Rheims in English) is the most populous city in the French department of Marne, and the 12th most populous city in France.
Reims Cathedral
Notre-Dame de Reims (meaning "Our Lady of Reims"), known in English as Reims Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the French city of the same name, the archiepiscopal see of the Archdiocese of Reims.
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Renaissance art
Renaissance art (1350 – 1620) is the painting, sculpture, and decorative arts of the period of European history known as the Renaissance, which emerged as a distinct style in Italy in about AD 1400, in parallel with developments which occurred in philosophy, literature, music, science, and technology.
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René of Anjou
René of Anjou (Renato; Rainièr; 16 January 1409 – 10 July 1480) was Duke of Anjou and Count of Provence from 1434 to 1480, who also reigned as King of Naples as René I from 1435 to 1442 (then deposed).
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Rennes
Rennes (Roazhon; Gallo: Resnn) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the rivers Ille and Vilaine.
Rhetoric
Rhetoric is the art of persuasion.
Rixheim
Rixheim (Alsatian: Rìxa) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in northeastern France.
Robert de Cotte
Robert de Cotte (1656 – 15 July 1735) was a French architect-administrator, under whose design control of the royal buildings of France from 1699, the earliest notes presaging the Rococo style were introduced.
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Rococo
Rococo, less commonly Roccoco, also known as Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, and trompe-l'œil frescoes to create surprise and the illusion of motion and drama.
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
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Roman Theatre of Orange
The Roman Theatre of Orange (French: Théâtre antique d'Orange) is a Roman theatre in Orange, Vaucluse, France.
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Romanesque art
Romanesque art is the art of Europe from approximately 1000 AD to the rise of the Gothic style in the 12th century, or later depending on region.
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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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Rosso Fiorentino
Giovanni Battista di Jacopo (8 March 1495 – 14 November 1540), known as Rosso Fiorentino (meaning "Florentine Redhead" in Italian) or Il Rosso ("The Redhead"), was an Italian Mannerist painter who worked in oil and fresco and belonged to the Florentine school.
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Roubaix
Roubaix (or; Robaais; Roboais; Picard: Roubés) is a city in northern France, located in the Lille metropolitan area on the Belgian border.
Rouen
Rouen is a city on the River Seine in northern France.
Rouen Cathedral
Rouen Cathedral (primatiale Notre-Dame de l'Assomption de Rouen) is a Catholic church in Rouen, Normandy, France.
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Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans
The Saline Royale (Royal Saltworks) is a historical building at Arc-et-Senans in the department of Doubs, eastern France.
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Rubbing (art)
A rubbing (frottage) is a reproduction of the texture of a surface created by placing a piece of paper or similar material over the subject and then rubbing the paper with something to deposit marks, most commonly charcoal or pencil but also various forms of blotted and rolled ink, chalk, wax, and many other substances.
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Saône-et-Loire
Saône-et-Loire (Arpitan: Sona-et-Lêre) is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in France.
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Saint Martial
Martial (3rd century), called "the Apostle of the Gauls" or "the Apostle of Aquitaine", was the first bishop of Limoges.
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Saint-Étienne
Saint-Étienne (Franco-Provencal: Sant-Etiève) is a city and the prefecture of the Loire département, in eastern-central France, in the Massif Central, southwest of Lyon, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
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Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire
Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire (literally Saint-Benoît on Loire) is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France.
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Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis
Saint-Denis is a commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, France.
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Saint-Germain-des-Prés (abbey)
The Church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés is a Roman Catholic parish church located in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés quarter of Paris.
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Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Saint-Germain-en-Laye is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France.
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Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert
Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert (or; Sant Guilhèm dau Desèrt) is a commune in the Hérault department in the Occitania region in Southern France.
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Saint-Paul-de-Vence
Saint-Paul-de-Vence (literally Saint-Paul of Vence; Sant Pau de Vença; San Paolo di Venza) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of Southeastern France.
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Saint-Riquier
Saint-Riquier is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
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Saint-Sever-de-Rustan
Saint-Sever-de-Rustan is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France.
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Saint-Sulpice-de-Faleyrens
Saint-Sulpice-de-Faleyrens (Languedocien: Sent Sulpici de Faleirens) is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.
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Sainte-Chapelle
The Sainte-Chapelle (Holy Chapel) is a royal chapel in the Gothic style, within the medieval Palais de la Cité, the residence of the Kings of France until the 14th century, on the Île de la Cité in the River Seine in Paris, France.
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Salomon de Brosse
Salomon de Brosse (c. 1571 – 8 December 1626) was an early 17th-century French architect who moved away from late Mannerism to reassert the French classical style and was a major influence on François Mansart.
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Sarcophagus
A sarcophagus (sarcophagi or sarcophaguses) is a coffin, most commonly carved in stone, and usually displayed above ground, though it may also be buried.
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Sèvres
Sèvres is a French commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris.
School of Fontainebleau
The School of Fontainbleau (École de Fontainebleau) refers to two periods of artistic production in France during the late French Renaissance centered on the royal Palace of Fontainebleau that were crucial in forming Northern Mannerism, and represent the first major production of Italian Mannerist art in France.
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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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Sculpture
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.
Senlis
Senlis is a commune in the northern French department of Oise, Hauts-de-France.
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche, through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of mind and human agency derived from it.
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Simon Vouet
Simon Vouet (9 January 1590 – 30 June 1649) was a French painter who studied and rose to prominence in Italy before being summoned by Louis XIII to serve as Premier peintre du Roi in France.
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Smiling Angel
The Smiling Angel (French: L'Ange au Sourire), also known as the Smile of Reims (Le Sourire de Reims) or Angel of the Annunciation, is a stone sculpture at the cathedral of Reims.
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Solutrean
The Solutrean industry is a relatively advanced flint tool-making style of the Upper Paleolithic of the Final Gravettian, from around 22,000 to 17,000 BP.
Somme (department)
Somme (Sonme) is a department of France, located in the north of the country and named after the Somme river.
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Stained glass
Stained glass is coloured glass as a material or works created from it.
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Still life
A still life (still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or human-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, etc.). With origins in the Middle Ages and Ancient Greco-Roman art, still-life painting emerged as a distinct genre and professional specialization in Western painting by the late 16th century, and has remained significant since then.
Strasbourg
Strasbourg (Straßburg) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France, at the border with Germany in the historic region of Alsace.
Strasbourg Cathedral
Strasbourg Cathedral or the Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg (Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg, or Cathédrale de Strasbourg, Liebfrauenmünster zu Straßburg), also known as Strasbourg Minster (Straßburger Münster), is a Catholic cathedral in Strasbourg, Alsace, France.
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Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
The Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg (MAMCS, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art) is an art museum in Strasbourg, France, which was founded in 1973 and opened in its own building in November 1998.
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Suger
Suger (Sugerius; 1081 – 13 January 1151) was a French abbot and statesman.
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.
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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Tachisme
Tachisme (alternative spelling: Tachism, derived from the French word tache, stain) is a French style of abstract painting popular in the 1940s and 1950s.
Tapestry
Tapestry is a form of textile art, traditionally woven by hand on a loom.
Tempera
Tempera, also known as egg tempera, is a permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of pigments mixed with a water-soluble binder medium, usually glutinous material such as egg yolk.
Textile Arts Museum
The Textile Arts Museum (French Musée des Tissus) is a museum in the city of Lyon, France.
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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 Holocaust
The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.
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The Raft of the Medusa
The Raft of the Medusa (Le Radeau de la Méduse) – originally titled Scène de Naufrage (Shipwreck Scene) – is an oil painting of 1818–19 by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault (1791–1824).
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The Times of Israel
The Times of Israel is an Israeli multi-language online newspaper that was launched in 2012.
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Thermes de Cluny
The Thermes de Cluny are the ruins of Gallo-Roman thermal baths lying in the heart of Paris' 5th arrondissement, and which are partly subsumed into the Musée national du Moyen Âge - Thermes et hôtel de Cluny.
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Thomas Germain
Thomas Germain (1673–1748) was the pre-eminent Parisian silversmith of the Rococo.
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Tomb of Francis II, Duke of Brittany
The tomb of Francis II, Duke of Brittany is a monument located in Nantes, in the Cathedral of St. Peter.
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Toulouse
Toulouse (Tolosa) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania.
Tournus
Tournus is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.
Tours
Tours (meaning Towers) is the largest city in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France.
Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
The italic (The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry), or italic, is an illuminated manuscript that was created between and 1416.
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Troyes
Troyes is a commune and the capital of the department of Aube in the Grand Est region of north-central France.
Tumulus culture
The Tumulus culture (German: ''Hügelgräberkultur'') was the dominant material culture in Central Europe during the Middle Bronze Age (1600 to 1300 BC).
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Tympanum (architecture)
A tympanum (tympana; from Greek and Latin words meaning "drum") is the semi-circular or triangular decorative wall surface over an entrance, door or window, which is bounded by a lintel and an arch.
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Unconscious mind
In psychoanalysis and other psychological theories, the unconscious mind (or the unconscious) is the part of the psyche that is not available to introspection.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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Unterlinden Museum
The Unterlinden Museum (French: Musée Unterlinden) is located in Colmar, in the Alsace region of France.
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Upper Paleolithic
The Upper Paleolithic (or Upper Palaeolithic) is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age.
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Urnfield culture
The Urnfield culture was a late Bronze Age culture of Central Europe, often divided into several local cultures within a broader Urnfield tradition.
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Utrecht Caravaggism
Utrecht Caravaggism (Utrechtse caravaggisten) refers to the work of a group of artists who were from, or had studied in, the Dutch city of Utrecht, and during their stay in Rome during the early seventeenth century had become distinctly influenced by the art of Caravaggio.
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Vaison-la-Romaine
Vaison-la-Romaine (Vaison) is a town in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.
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Valenciennes
Valenciennes (also,,; Valencijn; Valincyinnes or Valinciennes; Valentianae) is a commune in the Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France.
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Valentin de Boulogne
Valentin de Boulogne (before 3 January 1591 – 19 August 1632), sometimes referred to as Le Valentin, was a French painter in the tenebrist style.
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Vaux-le-Vicomte
The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte is a Baroque French château located in Maincy, near Melun, southeast of Paris in the Seine-et-Marne department of Île-de-France.
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Venus figurine
A Venus figurine is any Upper Palaeolithic statue portraying a woman, usually carved in the round.
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Venus of Lespugue
The Venus of Lespugue is a Venus figurine, a statuette of a female figure of the Gravettian, dated to between 26,000 and 24,000 years ago.
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Verdun
Verdun (official name before 1970: Verdun-sur-Meuse) is a city in the Meuse department in Grand Est, northeastern France.
Victor Vasarely
Victor Vasarely (born Győző Vásárhelyi,; 9 April 1906 – 15 March 1997) was a Hungarian-French artist, who is widely accepted as a "grandfather" and leader of the Op art movement.
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Vienne, Isère
Vienne (Vièna) is a town in southeastern France, located south of Lyon, at the confluence of the Gère and the Rhône.
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Vincennes porcelain
The Vincennes porcelain manufactory was established in 1740 in the disused royal Château de Vincennes, in Vincennes, east of Paris, which was from the start the main market for its wares.
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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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Visual arts
The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, comics, design, crafts, and architecture.
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Vix Grave
The Vix Grave is a burial mound near the village of Vix in northern Burgundy.
Walters Art Museum
Walters Art Museum is a public art museum located in the Mount Vernon section of Baltimore, Maryland.
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Watercolor painting
Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also aquarelle (from Italian diminutive of Latin aqua 'water'), is a painting method"Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to the Stone Age when early ancestors combined earth and charcoal with water to create the first wet-on-dry picture on a cave wall." in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution.
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Western world
The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to various nations and states in the regions of Australasia, Western Europe, and Northern America; with some debate as to whether those in Eastern Europe and Latin America also constitute the West.
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (30 November 1825 – 19 August 1905) was a French academic painter.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
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Xenophobia
Xenophobia (from ξένος (xénos), "strange, foreign, or alien", and (phóbos), "fear") is the fear or dislike of anything which is perceived as being foreign or strange.
Yitzhak Frenkel
Yitzhak Frenkel (יצחק פרנקל; 1899–1981), also known as Isaac Frenkel or Alexandre Frenel, was an Israeli painter, sculptor and teacher.
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Yves Klein
Yves Klein (28 April 1928 – 6 June 1962) was a French artist and an important figure in post-war European art.
1504
Year 1504 (MDIV) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
1520
Year 1520 (MDXX) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
1540
Year 1540 (MDXL) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
1545
Year 1545 (MDXLV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_art
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