Paris The Arts

Literature And Philosophy

An oasis for egotistical visionaries, ennui-ridden madmen, and their ensuing authority issues, Paris has been an intellectual epicenter since its more sensitive cavemen discovered rock drawing. Due to ...more

Fine Arts And Architecture

Exchanging the |homoerotic nudes of the Classical age for excessive portrayals of passion, religion maintained a stranglehold on the art world throughout the Middle Ages. Saint-Denis Basilica, considered ...more

Music

Early Music To The Revolution. The early years of music in Paris date back to the Gregorian chant of 12th-century monks in Notre Dame. Early sacred music can still be heard in Paris’s churches, including ...more

Film

French Cinema. Not long after he and his brother Louis presented the world’s first paid screening in a Paris cafe in 1895, Auguste Lumière remarked, “The cinema is a medium without a future.” ...more

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