Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seen in the present foundations are remains of the mighty fortress that King Philip Augustus erected on the site about 1190. But the Louvre of today owes its origins to France's great Renaissance prince of princes. Francis I, who on Aug. 2, 1546 gave the royal command to begin a palace and pride of kings...
...Spanish paintings plus 41 Italian and northern works of art. Added to these were 220 canvases willed by Scottish Admirer F. Hall Standish. Together they were one of the Louvre's greatest windfalls and lost opportunities. When Louis Philippe was forced to abdicate, he claimed the works as royal property, and they were sold in London after his death. "One does not dare to think of what the museum would have been if this collection had been retained," says Bazin mournfully. "It is the source of most of the Spanish pictures now dispersed in the galleries of Europe...
Constructed over the next 300 years with vast wings and galleries, each in its own varying but harmonious style, the Louvre, completed in 1857, became one of the greatest of royal palaces. Even the vandalism of the Paris Commune, which in 1871 burned down the Tuileries, caused but few tears to be shed. With the Tuileries palace gone, the Louvre acquired one of the world's most breathtaking vistas, extending two miles up the Champs-Elyéees to Napoleon's Arch of Triumph...
Largesse & Looting. France's "Sun King," Louis XIV, let fall his rays first on the Louvre before building Versailles, tripled and quadrupled the royal collection. Into the royal preserve came such masterpieces as Titian's Young Woman at Her Toilet (the property of Britain's Charles I until his beheading) and Titian's Madonna with a Rabbit (which Louis won from a French duke at tennis...
...sustained consistency in performance quality that is the important, the telling factor-and that only time can determine." Cliburn, meanwhile, kept up his wowing ways in Great Britain, where, after a word tussle with London airport officials over his working permit, he scored neatly with a concert in the Royal Albert Hall, mooned to his audience: "I am an unabashed romantic...