24-504: (Redirected from Lion Hunt ) The Lion Hunt may refer to: Løvejagten , a 1907 silent film by Danish producer Ole Olsen and director Viggo Larsen The Lion Hunt (Delacroix) , a series of oil on canvas paintings produced by the French artist Eugène Delacroix in the mid-1850s The Lion and Leopard Hunt , a Rubens painting often simply called The Lion Hunt The Lion Hunt (Rubens) ,
48-474: A 1621 painting by Peter Paul Rubens The Lion Hunters , a 1951 American film. It was the fifth in the 12-film Bomba, the Jungle Boy series The lion hunts of Amenhotep III during the first ten years of his reign , one of a group of five historical and commemorative scarabs made during the reign of Amenhotep III Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal , appears on a famous group of Assyrian palace reliefs from
72-494: A conductive experience. The square next to the museum displays six bronze allegorical sculptural groups in a row, originally produced for the Exposition Universelle : Sculpture was in high demand in the 19th century and became widely used as a way to display a person's social and political standings. The style and ideology represented by many of the sculptures were out of fashion by the mid-20th century, and
96-437: A modern innovation for the time architects and designers alike expected a building that would embody the modern traits of this new mode of transportation. Gare d'Orsay instead gained inspiration from the past for the concept of the facade to the point of masking the cutting-edge technology within. It was the terminus for the railways of southwestern France until 1939. By 1939 the station's short platforms had become unsuitable for
120-797: Is a museum in Paris , France , on the Left Bank of the Seine . It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay , a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1914, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography. It houses the largest collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist masterpieces in the world, by painters including Berthe Morisot , Claude Monet , Édouard Manet , Degas , Renoir , Cézanne , Seurat , Sisley , Gauguin , and van Gogh . Many of these works were held at
144-406: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Lion Hunt (Delacroix) The Lion Hunt ( French : Chasse aux lions ) is a series of oil on canvas paintings produced by the French artist Eugène Delacroix in the mid-1800s. Delacroix often painted hunting scenes and animals fighting. Like many other artists of the romantic era , he
168-635: The Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume prior to the museum's opening in 1986. It is one of the largest art museums in Europe. In 2022 the museum had 3.2 million visitors, up from 1.4 million in 2021. It was the sixth-most-visited art museum in the world in 2022, and second-most-visited art museum in France, after the Louvre . The museum building was originally a railway station, Gare d'Orsay , located next to
192-546: The 1970s work began on building a 1 km-long tunnel under the station as part of the creation of line C of the Réseau Express Régional with a new station under the old station. In 1970, permission was granted to demolish the station but Jacques Duhamel , Minister for Cultural Affairs, ruled against plans to build a new hotel in its stead. The station was put on the supplementary list of Historic Monuments and finally listed in 1978. The suggestion to turn
216-550: The 2,000 or so paintings, 600 sculptures and other works. The museum officially opened in December 1986 by then-president François Mitterrand . At any time about 3,000 art pieces are on display within Musée d'Orsay. Within the museum is a 1:100 scale model created by Richard Peduzzi of an aerial view of Paris Opera and surrounding area. This model is encapsulated underneath glass flooring that viewers walk on as they proceed through
240-490: The Louvre , state loans, and Musée du Luxembourg . The museum also obtained more than 200 sculptures before opening though donations of art connoisseurs, the lineage of artists, and people in support of the Musée d'Orsay. Since the grand opening in 1986 the museum has collected works from exchanges that other museums or institutions once showcased such as Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science by Louis-Ernest Barrias that
264-712: The North Palace of Nineveh that are now displayed in room 10a of the British Museum See also [ edit ] Lion hunting Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Lion Hunt . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Lion_Hunt&oldid=937039184 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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#1732764724795288-580: The Seine river. Built on the site of the Palais d'Orsay, its central location was convenient for commuting travelers. The station was constructed for the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans and finished in time for the 1900 Exposition Universelle to the design of three architects: Lucien Magne , Émile Bénard and Victor Laloux . The Gare d'Orsay design was considered to be an "anachronism". Since trains were such
312-590: The art that has been donated, the Musée d'Orsay is scheduled to undergo a radical transformation over the next decade, 2020 on. This remodel is funded in part by an anonymous US patron who donated €20 million to a building project known as Orsay Grand Ouvert (Orsay Wide Open). The gift was made via the American Friends of the Musées d'Orsay et de l'Orangerie. The projected completion date is 2026, implementing new galleries and education opportunities to endorse
336-465: The contract which involved creating 20,000 square metres (220,000 sq ft) of new floorspace on four floors. The construction work was carried out by Bouygues . In 1981, the Italian architect Gae Aulenti was chosen to design the interior including the internal arrangement, decoration, furniture and fittings of the museum. The arrangement of the galleries she designed was elaborate and inhabited
360-500: The early 1970s. In 2016 the museum complied to keeping the collection of about 600 art pieces in one collection rather than dispersed throughout other exhibits. Since World War II, France has not been donated a collection of foreign art this large. The collection favors mostly post-impressionist works. Artists featured in this collection are Bonnard, Vuillard, Maurice Denis , Odilon Redon , Aristide Maillol , André Derain , Edgar Degas , and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot . To make room for
384-515: The longer trains that had come to be used for mainline services. After 1939 it was used for suburban services and part of it became a mailing centre during World War II. It was then used as a set for several films, such as Kafka 's The Trial adapted by Orson Welles , and as a haven for the Renaud – Barrault Theatre Company and for auctioneers, while the Hôtel Drouot was being rebuilt. In
408-462: The museum. This installation allows the viewers to understand the city planning of Paris at the time, which has made this attraction one of the most popular within the museum. Another exhibit within the museum is "A Passion for France: The Marlene and Spencer Hays Collection". This collection was donated by an Marlene and Spencer Hays, art collectors who reside in Texas and have been collecting art since
432-496: The people and material culture of North Africa to create his pictures. The dramatism so typical of Romanticism is created here by energetic brushstrokes and the contrast of complementary colours - red and green, blue and orange - and bright and dark patches. The Lion Hunt, painted more than twenty years after his expedition to Morocco, was also influenced by the hunt pictures of the seventeenth-century master Peter Paul Rubens , such as The Lion Hunt . The most monumental version of
456-510: The sculptures were put into storage and no longer displayed. It wasn't until the conversion of the Orsay railway station into the Musée d'Orsay museum in the 1970s that many sculptures from the 19th century were placed on exhibit again. The substantial nave inside the new museum offered a perfect area for the display of sculptures. During the grand opening in December 1986 of the museum, 1,200 sculptures were present, brought in from collections such as
480-883: The series is the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux version from 1855 whose top half was severely damaged during a fire in 1870. Delacroix made at least two sketches of the painting, which now are in the collections at Musée d'Orsay and Nationalmuseum respectively. Later he did similar paintings which now are in the Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and Art Institute of Chicago . Mus%C3%A9e d%27Orsay The Musée d'Orsay ( UK : / ˌ m juː z eɪ d ɔːr ˈ s eɪ / MEW -zay dor- SAY , US : / m juː ˈ z eɪ -/ mew- ZAY - , French: [myze dɔʁsɛ] ) (English: Orsay Museum )
504-694: The station into a museum came from the Directorate of the Museum of France . The idea was to build a museum that would bridge the gap between the Louvre and the National Museum of Modern Art at the Georges Pompidou Centre . The plan was accepted by Georges Pompidou and a study was commissioned in 1974. In 1978, a competition was organized to design the new museum. ACT Architecture, a team of three young architects (Pierre Colboc, Renaud Bardon and Jean-Paul Philippon), were awarded
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#1732764724795528-444: The three main levels that are under the museum's barrel vault atrium. On the main level of the building, a central nave was formed by the surrounding stone structures that were previously the building's train platforms. The central nave's structures break up the immense sculpture and gallery spaces and provided more organized units for viewing the art. In July 1986, the museum was ready to receive its exhibits. It took 6 months to install
552-566: Was fascinated by oriental and exotic locales. In 1832 he made a long trip to Morocco that provided lasting inspiration for his work. In large, colourful paintings, lions, tigers, and hunters on horseback fight to the Death. But Delacroix had most likely never seen such scenes, nor even wild animals in their natural habitat (although Barbary lion was not extinct in Morocco until the 1960s). Instead, he used detailed studies of animals in zoos and of
576-457: Was initially commissioned for Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers , as well as The Thinker and The Gates of Hell by Auguste Rodin . The museum also purchases specific works to fill gaps and finish the collections already in the museum such as one of the panels of Be Mysterious by Paul Gauguin , the full set of Honoré Daumier 's Célébrités du Juste Milieu , and Maturity by Camille Claudel . There are currently more than 2,200 sculptures in
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