| Place | Type | AsNotedIn | Area |
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| Place | Type | AsNotedIn | Area |
| Pyramide | |||
| Salle des Etats, Louvre |
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1779/00/00 | Pierre Julien | Sculptor | Julien exhibits a plaster model of "Dying Gladiator" at Salon de 1779. It is set in the centre of the Louvre's Salon Carre between Sergel's plaster "Spartiate Othryades expirant" (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm) and Dejoux's marble "Saint Sebastien" (Louvre). | Dying Gladiator (Julien plaster) | ||
| 1813/00/00 | Spoils of the Napoleonic looting of artworks in Italy, Giotto's "St Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata" and Cimabue's "Maesta" are acquired by the Louvre. | St Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata (Tempera on Panel) | ||||
| 1830/07/29 | The Louvre is taken by the revolutionaries. | French Revolution of July 1830 | ||||
| 1835/00/00 | The original Egyptian pedestal of the "Obelisque de Louxor", decorated with carvings of baboons, is determined too obscene for public exhibition. The pedestal is on display in the Egyptian section of the Musee du Louvre. | Obelisque de Louxor (sculpture) | ||||
| 1866/02/28 | Louvre acquires Pierre Julien's marble "Dying Gladiator" by decree. | Dying Gladiator (Julien Louvre) |
| Place | AsNotedIn | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Place | AsNotedIn | Type |
| Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris |
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| Pont des Arts |
| Particulars for Louvre Museum: | |
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| Area of Significance | Art |
| Sight Category | Building |
| Work | Type | AsNotedIn | Creator | Note |
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| The Ring of Thoth (Short Story) | Short Story | Arthur Conan Doyle | The preparation of this magnum opus entailed many hurried visits to the magnificent Egyptian collections of the Louvre, upon the last of which, no longer ago than the middle of last October, he became involved in a most strange and noteworthy adventure. |
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