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The Most Famous Paintings in the Louvre

Thursday, July 02, 2009
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Mona Lisa

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    The Mona LisaLeonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, the best-known painting in the world, in the early sixteenth century.

The Coronation of Napoleon

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    The Coronation of NapoleonFrench painter Jacques-Louis David--a former revolutionary who became Napoleon's official painter--created The Coronation of Napoleon in 1807.

The Raft of the Medusa

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    This grim and brooding work of Romanticism was painted by Theodore Gericault in 1819.

Liberty Leading the People

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    Liberty Leading the PeopleOne of France's most famous paintings was created by Eugene Delacroix in 1830, celebrating the overthrow of Charles X that year.

The Three Graces

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    The Three GracesThe Three Graces is a 1794 painting by Jean Baptiste Regnault.

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