Vasa Stern

The high stern allowed men with muskets to shoot down into the decks of a lower ship.
Vasa should be splendid, a hull built of more than a thousand oak trees with 64 cannon, masts over 50 meters high and hundreds of painted and gilded sculptures.

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Vasa Port

What made Vasa perhaps the most powerful warship in the world up to that time was her broadside, the combined weight of the shot that could be fired from one side of the ship, more than 300 kg in all. A truly fearsome machine of war!
Armament:
64 bronze cannon.

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Vasa, Model of different parts

The Vasa Museum or Vasamuseet displaying the Swedish warship Vasa (or Wasa) that was built from 1626 to 1628.
Time stopped on Vasa at five o’clock in the afternoon on August 28th, 1628. When the ship was salvaged 333 years later, the crew’s seachests were still packed with provisions, clothing and personal mementoes.

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Vasa Museum, Life on Board

Over 450 men should have shared the space inside Vasa if she had sailed on. Crowding on the warship was extreme. Several men shared the space between each pair of cannon, where they would live, eat and sleep. The officers had somewhat better conditions. The great cabin was decorated with sculptures on the walls and they could sleep in fold-out beds instead of directly on the deck.

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Salon Denon

The vestibule of Room Denon, the Salon Denon (named after the first director of the Louvre Museum under Napoleon I), located at the other end of the room, whose extraordinary ceiling painted by Charles-Louis Müller glorifies state patronage in France. This vestibule associated the dual function of the Palais du Louvre, monarchic and artistic, for it also led to two galleries of paintings (now the Salle Daru and the Salle Mollien).

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Salle du Manege (Antique Sculptures)

Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities
This department oversees works from the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman civilizations, illustrating the art of a vast area that encompasses Greece, Italy, and the whole of the Mediterranean basin, spanning a period that stretches from Neolithic times (4th millennium BC) to the 6th century AD.

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'Raft of the Medusa' in Salle Mollien

The Salle Mollien was created and decorated in 1863 for the imperial museum, as conveyed by its red and gold decor. It houses large French Romantic paintings such as The Raft of the Medusa, July 28. Liberty Leading the People and The Death of Sardanapalus are on display here.

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Napoleon III Apartments (The Salon Théâtre)

The new Louvre opened by Napoleon III boasted a number of sumptuous reception halls. Those of the Palais des Tuileries have unfortunately been lost. However, the rooms in the Ministry of State, opened in 1861 in the Aile Richelieu, have retained their decor of gold, stuccos, marble, bronze, silk and velvet. They also feature ornate painted ceilings. Running parallel to the small rooms, the entrance gallery leads to the large hall (the "salon-théâtre"), the small dining room, and the large dining hall.

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