page_title: Cour Carrée
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Cour Carrée / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Reliefs in the cour carrée du Louvre on the right of the pavilon de l'Horloge at the top (Paris, France). At the top, the Law. On the left, Moses and Isis. On the right, Manco Capac and Numa Pompilius. Français&#160;: Reliefs dans la cour carrée du Louvre à droite du pavillon de l'Horloge en haut (Paris). En haut, la Loi. A gauche, Moïse et Isis. A droite, Manco Capac et Numa Pompilius.
context_page_description: The Cour Carrée is one of the main courtyards of the Louvre Palace in Paris. The wings surrounding it were built gradually, as the walls of the medieval Louvre Castle were progressively demolished in favour of a Renaissance palace.
context_section_description: The buildings form a square of about 160 meters on each side. It consists of eight wings punctuated with eight pavilions. Starting at the northwest corner and going clockwise, the names of the eight pavilions are:
  Pavillon de Beauvais (at the northwest corner)
  Pavillon de Marengo (between the two north wings)
  Pavillon Nord-Est (at the northeast corner)
  Pavillon Central or Pavillon Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois (between the two east wings, with the Colonnade on the east side)
  Pavillon Sud-Est (at the southeast corner)
  Pavillon des Arts (between the two south wings)
  Pavillon du Roi or King's Pavilion (at the southwest corner)
  Pavillon Sully, also referred to as the Pavillon de l'Horloge or Clock Pavilion (between the two west wings)
  The Pavillon de l'Horloge is recognisable by its clock, its four groups of monumental caryatids, its friezes of children, and its high domed roof, the prototype of all the domes of the Louvre, to maintain the harmony sought by successive architects of the Louvre.
  The two wings on either side of the Sully Pavilion are named:
  Lescot Wing, built from 1546 to 1558, leading to the King's Pavilion to the south
  Lemercier Wing, built in 1639, leading to the Beauvais Pavilion to the north
  At the center of the Cour Carrée, there is a fountain.
  Although the buildings were built over a period of 250 years, they show great homogeneity. The ground floor and the two floors have successions of windows, bas-reliefs, and statues in niches. The French sovereigns left their monograms on the parts they built. Those of Henri II, Charles IX, Henri IV, Louis XIII and Louis XIV can easily be identified and they help track the history of construction.
  The Republic did not want to be outdone and installed a rooster in the pediment of the west facade of the central pavilion of the east wing.
caption: Reliefs on the pavilion Sully. Top, the Law; left, Moses and Isis; right, Manco Capac and Numa Pompilius.
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