Crossword clues for louvre
louvre
- "The Da Vinci Code" setting
- Where the "Mona Lisa" smiles
- Right Bank attraction
- Museum on the Seine
- Musée Napoléon, today
- Home of ''The Inverted Pyramid''
- "Da Vinci Code" setting
- World's most-visited museum
- World's most-visited art museum
- Where to find a Pei pyramid
- Where the Mona Lisa smiles
- Venus de Milo's home
- Site of Pei's pyramid
- Site of controversial glass pyramid
- Setting for part of "The Da Vinci Code"
- Parisian art gallery, with "The"
- Museum on the Right Bank
- Museum conspiracy-theoried in "The Da Vinci Code"
- Mona Lisa museum
- Home of the "Mona Lisa"
- Home of "The Dying Slave"
- ___ : Paris :: Prado : Madrid
- Paris attraction
- Home of "Winged Victory"
- Where the "Mona Lisa" hangs
- Home to the Venus de Milo
- Where the Code of Hammurabi is displayed
- An art museum that is a famous tourist attraction in Paris
- One of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain
- Home for Nike of Samothrace
- Home for "Mona Lisa"
- Where the Gallery of Apollo is
- Where to see Nike
- Converted palace
- Ventilation for the gallery
- Slat in a window or door
- Set of door slats
- Paris museum; slat
- Paris art gallery
- Historical knowledge about invisible radiation in gallery
- Paris art museum
- "The Da Vinci Code" locale
- Paris museum
- Ventilating slat
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Louver \Lou"ver\, Louvre \Lou"vre\, n. [OE. lover, OF. lover, lovier; or l'ouvert the opening, fr. overt, ouvert, p. p. of ovrir, ouvrir, to open, F. ouvrir. Cf. Overt.] (Arch.) A small lantern. See Lantern, 2 (a) . [Written also lover, loover, lovery, and luffer.]
2. Same as louver boards, below
3. A set of slats resembling louver boards, arranged in a vertical row and attached at each slat end to a frame inserted in or part of a door or window; the slats may be made of wood, plastic, or metal, and the angle of inclination of the slats may be adjustable simultaneously, to allow more or less light or air into the enclosure.
Louver boards or Louver boarding, the sloping boards set to shed rainwater outward in openings which are to be left otherwise unfilled; as belfry windows, the openings of a louver, etc.
Louver work, slatted work.
Wiktionary
n. An alternative spelling of '''louver''' in US English; the only spelling of this word in UK English.
Wikipedia
The Louvre or the Louvre Museum (, ) (French ) is the world's largest museum and a historic monument in Paris, France. A central landmark of the city, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement (ward). Nearly 35,000 objects from prehistory to the 21st century are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square metres (652,300 square feet). The Louvre is the world's second most visited museum after the Palace Museum in China, receiving more than 9.26 million visitors in 2014.
The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace, originally built as a fortress in the late 12th century under Philip II. Remnants of the fortress are visible in the basement of the museum. The building was extended many times to form the present Louvre Palace. In 1682, Louis XIV chose the Palace of Versailles for his household, leaving the Louvre primarily as a place to display the royal collection, including, from 1692, a collection of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture. In 1692, the building was occupied by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres and the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, which in 1699 held the first of a series of salons. The Académie remained at the Louvre for 100 years. During the French Revolution, the National Assembly decreed that the Louvre should be used as a museum to display the nation's masterpieces.
The museum opened on 10 August 1793 with an exhibition of 537 paintings, the majority of the works being royal and confiscated church property. Because of structural problems with the building, the museum was closed in 1796 until 1801. The collection was increased under Napoleon and the museum renamed the Musée Napoléon, but after Napoleon's abdication many works seized by his armies were returned to their original owners. The collection was further increased during the reigns of Louis XVIII and Charles X, and during the Second French Empire the museum gained 20,000 pieces. Holdings have grown steadily through donations and bequests since the Third Republic. The collection is divided among eight curatorial departments: Egyptian Antiquities; Near Eastern Antiquities; Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities; Islamic Art; Sculpture; Decorative Arts; Paintings; Prints and Drawings.
The Louvre or the Louvre Museum is a museum and a historic monument in Paris.
Louvre may also refer to:
- Louvre Palace, a former royal palace in Paris
- Louvre Accord, signed by the G6 in 1987 in the palace
- École du Louvre, an institution of higher education located in the palace
- Louvre (window), a window blind or window shutter
- L'Œuvre, a novel by Émile Zola
Usage examples of "louvre".
Chaudieu to Theodore de Beze, as they crossed the little bridge of the Louvre.
Leibnitz will show you that the architecture of the Louvre is less learned than that of a snail: the eternal geometer has unrolled his transcendent spirals on the shell of the mollusc that you, like the vulgar profane, know only seasoned with spinach and Dutch cheese.
Louvre, les guichets, le Pont-Royal, avec des cris de vengeance et de fureur.
In the month of August the Royal Academy had an exhibition at the Louvre, and as there was not a single battle piece I conceived the idea of summoning my brother to Paris.
A thermometer, a hygrometer, and the other thermograph were placed in a screen on high posts, and with louvred sides, which stood at a distance of fifteen yards to the south-west of the house.
She rather liked two invalidish maiden ladies from Boston and went shopping with them sometimes and to see the pictures in the Louvre.
Lorenzo Lotto painting, and for a consideration contact some Louvre stringer.
Louvre then announces the discovery of a priceless old Lorenzo Lotto painting, got for a song!
Miss Neveu assisted in your escape from the Louvre, and we have a man tied up in the back of the plane.
All that I could find, after weeks of coming and going in Paris, was a post as a saleswoman at the Magasins du Louvre.
France, and the spoliation of the Louvre was not pleasant even to the Royalists.
For Spain we were lodged comfortably enough, and the next day we went out under the charge of a cicerone, who took us to the Alcazar, the Louvre of Toledo, formerly the palace of the Moorish kings.
Angeli Lugano, altar-pieces Duomo Como, Ambrosian Library Milan, Brera, Uffizi, Louvre, Madrid, St.
Examples of his work can be viewed at the Louvre in Paris, the Image Museum in London, and the International Center of Photography in New York.
Disappointed with the cramped accommodations available to him this time at the Hotel de Valois, Adams changed lodgings, moving to the Hotel du Roi on the Place du Carrousel, between the Palais Royal and the Quai du Louvre, which was to remain his headquarters.