Showing posts with label paris. Show all posts
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Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Tour Eiffel, Paris

The Tour Eiffel soaring at 324 meters of height on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. Built as the entrance to 1889's World Fair, its observation deck stands at 276 meters from the ground, the highest in the European Union.

Thursday, December 1, 2016

Amore e Psiche, Paris

Antonio Canova's neoclassical sculpture Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss depicts the popular story of the two lovers. The Age of Enlightenment, at the end of the 18th century, experienced in Neoclassicism the rediscovery and imitation of the arts of Rome and ancient Greece, and of their values of simplicity and simmetry. The sculpture ended up in France after being acquired by Joachim Murat, Napoleon's general and brother-in-law.