... France's main manufacturing center. Some of Paris's famous landmarks are the Eiffel Tower, the Cathedral of Notre Dame, and the Louvre, the art museum where the Mona Lisa is kept. France's climate is different depending on where you are in France. Away from the Atlantic Ocean, ... 1300, the greatest works of art in Medieval France were the magnificent Gothic cathedrals. They are in Amiens, Chartes, Reims, and Rouen. The Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris is the most famous. All the cathedrals were decorated with French sculpture. The Renaissance period during the 1400's and ... represent...

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Gothic architecture first got its name during the Italian renaissance when the people considered all buildings of the Middle Ages barbaric and associated them with the savage Goths. With the passing of many centuries, Gothic became more clearly associated with ... time, the separation point would set around the style, which followed, the Romanesque era. The title was later limited to the hardly barbaric architecture of the period between Romanesque and Renaissance. Gothic architecture emerged from Romanesque architecture in the year 1144 AD. A Benedictine abbot called Suger was building a ne...

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... many artists. What is thought to be the "most famous work of this theme is Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus."" (Loggia) Since the creation of this painting in the early Renaissance, the Birth of Venus has become a model for artists though the centuries due to the soft features and how Botticelli captured the beauty of the goddess of Love (Loggia). But ... now located in the Louvre in France. Even though she misses her arms and a few pieces were reattached, this Aphrodite is still a symbol of love and beauty (Paris). Even today, art from previous centuries is being displayed for the pu...

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