Louvre

Louvre

national museum of art in Paris, on the Seine: converted from a royal palace in the 18th cent.

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Noun

(plural louvres)

An alternative spelling of louver in US English; the only spelling of this word in UK English.

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A famous art museum in Paris, France.

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The so-called " Stele of the Vultures," now in the Louvre, was erected as a monument of the victory.
Some of his statues, now in the Louvre, are carved out of Sinaitic dolerite, and on the lap of one of them (statue E) is the plan of his palace, with the scale of measurement attached.
Numerous fine works of art have been found on this site, notably the Aphrodite of Melos in the Louvre, the Asclepius in the British Museum, and the Poseidon and an archaic Apollo in Athens.
He was lodged in `the Louvre, received the grant of an income equal to that he had hitherto enjoyed, and, with the title of "veteran pensioner" in lieu of that of "foreign associate" (conferred in 1772), the right of voting at the deliberations of the Academy.
He was also a member of the Academy, and of the Academy of Moral and Political Science, and curator of the Department of Antiquities at the Louvre (from 1870).

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