Vivant Denon information

Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon (4 January 1747 – 27 April 1825) was a French artist, writer, diplomat, author, and archaeologist. Denon was a diplomat for...

date as part of the painting see The Death of Marat. Dominique-Vivant Denon, Vivant Denon, Directeur des musées sous le Consulat et l'Empire, Correspondance...

south, the "Denon Wing" is the array of buildings between the Cour Napoléon and the Seine, named after the Louvre's first director Vivant Denon. the Louvre's...

divided into two parts. The sparse outline of the scene was published by Vivant Denon in 1802, who was part of Napoleon's expedition to Egypt in 1798 to 1801...

constitute an extraordinary sight once brought to Paris. Similarly, Vivant Denon recalls in his 1802 Voyage dans la basse et la Haute Égypte the possibility...

finally by a number of scientists of the Napoleon expedition, including Vivant Denon, during 1798–1799. Claude-Étienne Savary describes the complex in rather...

: 100,107  In November 1802, First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte appointed Vivant Denon director of the Louvre, the museums of Versailles, and the royal castle...

aide de camp to Napoleon Bonaparte. He also became friends with Muiron, Vivant Denon, Lazare Carnot, Augereau, and Bourienne. His name is engraved on the...

class medal in 1819. Between 1802 and 1814, under the direction of Baron Vivant Denon, the director of the Louvre, he created a series of drawings illustrating...

l'Égypte series.: 189  Illustrations produced by Edme-François Jomard and Vivant Denon form much of the evidence of these remains, because since the 19th century...

February 1841 in Paris) was the French painter and antiquary who succeeded Vivant Denon as curator of the Musée du Louvre and the other museums of France. Born...

the Papal States. Yet the chauvinist curator of the Musée Napoléon, Vivant Denon, falsely claimed that Veronese's canvas was too fragile to travel from...

May and his coronation at Notre-Dame de Paris on 2 December. Dominique Vivant Denon, who participated in Bonaparte's expedition to Egypt and was now director...

Galerie d'Apollon. On 19 November 1802, Napoleon appointed Dominique Vivant Denon, a scholar and polymath who had participated in the Egyptian campaign...

symbolism of the bees on a suggestion by Cambacérès. The design was made by Vivant Denon, Director of the Louvre. Sometimes called Flavius Childeric I. The name...

the scrolls to Institut de France under charge of Gaspard Monge and Vivant Denon. In 1810, eighteen unrolled papyri were given to George IV, four of which...

the same temple's pronaos. During the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt, Vivant Denon drew the circular zodiac, the more widely known one, and the rectangular...

278 BC. In 1799, members of Napoleon's expedition to Egypt (especially Vivant Denon) drew maps and plans of the known tombs, and for the first time noted...

ambassador in Rome François Cacault and the director of French museums Vivant Denon both saw the sculpture while it was a work in progress: Cacault wrote...

Engraving of the castle in the early nineteenth century by Vivant Denon...

Way. Translated by Lydia Davis. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-243796-4. Vivant Denon (2009). Peter Brooks (ed.). No Tomorrow. Translated by Lydia Davis. New...

by Vivant Denon, where he described the sphinx as "the character is African; but the mouth, the lips of which are thick." Following Volney, Denon, and...