Those in the Cour Marly were created for Louis XIV's private château at Marly. During the Revolution, the "Horses of Marly" were placed on the Place de la Concorde, but they moved to the Louvre ...

Before it was a museum, the Louvre served as a royal residence for a number of French powers, including Louis XIV. It was after Louis XIV left the Louvre in favor of Versailles that the Louvre ...

She had a long, narrow, somewhat decadent-looking face framed by an ornate coiffure that reminded me of Rigaud's portrait of Louis XIV in the Louvre. The other woman, Alain Cuny whispered to me ...

For museums and their public, Impressionism is the Goldilocks movement: not too old or too new, not too challenging or too ...

Within walking distance of the Louvre museum, or the Jardin des Tuileries ... the secretary to the Sun King, Louis XIV, and an adjacent residence built by architect Armand-Claude Mollet, who ...

The Louvre is the world’s largest art museum. This building was once the home to French Kings, including Louis XIV. The Louvre was converted to a museum during the French Revolution in the 18th ...

It was originally built as the Louvre castle in the late 12th to 13th ... starting with the reign of Louis XIV and ending ...

A one-time site of high-profile executions, the Place de la Concorde is located in a wealthy neighborhood between the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe ... built in the 17th century by the "Sun King" ...

Expansion and Crisis in Louis XIV's France' examines these central yet understudied aspects of the age of the Sun King through the experience of Franche-Comté, a possession of the Spanish empire with ...

The painting passed through the hands of prominent owners such as King Charles I of England and King Louis XIV of France. It eventually found its permanent home at the Louvre Museum in the year 1793.