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The Jardin du Luxembourg seen from Montparnasse Tower The Luxembourg Palace and the Grand Bassin. The Jardin du Luxembourg (French pronunciation: [ʒaʁdɛ̃ dy lyksɑ̃buʁ]), known in English as the Luxembourg Garden, colloquially referred to as the Jardin du Sénat (Senate Garden), is located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France.
The Medici Fountain (French: la fontaine Médicis) is a monumental fountain in the Jardin du Luxembourg in the 6th arrondissement in Paris. Built in about 1630, it was commissioned by Marie de' Medici, the widow of King Henry IV of France and regent of King Louis XIII of France. It was moved to its present location and extensively rebuilt in ...
The Fontaine de l'Observatoire (1867-1874) The Fontaine de l'Observatoire is a monumental fountain located in the Jardin Marco Polo, south of the Jardin du Luxembourg in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, with sculpture by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. It was dedicated in 1874.
After the death of Henry IV in 1610, his widow, Marie de' Medici, became regent to her son, Louis XIII.Having acceded to a much more powerful position, she decided to erect a new palace for herself, adjacent to an old hôtel particulier owned by François de Luxembourg, Duc de Piney, which is now called the Petit Luxembourg and is the residence of the president of the French Senate.
Gardens of the Château de Villandry View of the Diane de Poitiers' garden at the Château de Chenonceau Medici Fountain in the Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris. Gardens of the French Renaissance were initially inspired by the Italian Renaissance garden, which evolved later into the grander and more formal jardin à la française during the reign of Louis XIV, by the middle of the 17th century.
The Delacroix Monument (French: Monument à Delacroix) is a memorial to the French artist Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863). It is located in the Jardin du Luxembourg, in Paris, France, on the north side of the garden, just east of the Orangerie du Sénat.
Luxembourg Gardens, Paris is an oil painting completed in 1887 by the Finnish artist Albert Edelfelt depicting a scene in the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris, France.The painting has become a kind of symbol of Edelfelt and the whole of Finnish art, at a time when Paris was the center of the art world. [1]
The Queens of France and Famous Women (Reines de France et Femmes illustres) is a group of sculptures in the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris.It consists of 20 marble sculptures arranged around a large pond in front of the Palais du Luxembourg.