Carnival's Conquest

The 110,00-ton Carnival Conquest, will be the largest vessel in the Carnival fleet and the first ship in the cruise line's new Conquest-class. 

The Carnival Conquest has interior spaces unified by a theme based on the works of great Impressionist and post-Impressionist painters. The 2,974-passenger ship, which is slated to debut in New Orleans in December, will operate 7-day Western Caribbean cruises year-round from the "Big Easy".

The ship's main atrium and lobby is as a testimonial to Impressionist and post-Impressionist painters. The Artists' Lobby design is dominated by a large hand-painted mural collage of details from famous Impressionist paintings on the central ceiling dome and vertical wall of the Atelier Atrium. The Toulouse-Lautrec Show Lounge takes as its inspiration the diminutive French painter's sketches and portraits drawn from the subjects he found in the cabarets, theater, circus and brothels of Paris' Montmartre district.

The ship features two two-level dining rooms, which are architecturally identical and feature panels of stylized wood veneered images of the Eiffel Tower in the walls and ceiling. The fabrics and colors are based on different works by the two namesake painters. The forward Renoir Restaurant takes its inspiration from "Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise," while the aft Monet Restaurant, one of the artist's famous "Water Lilies" series of nature scenes sets the atmosphere. 

The two-level Restaurant Cezanne on Lido Deck takes elements from the post-Impressionist painters works to create the atmosphere of a 19th-century French café. The Point is the Conquest's reservations-only supper club, located high up on Panorama Deck. The restaurant takes its name from the style of Georges-Pierre Seurat, known as pointillism, which is the rendering of images through thousands of individual dots, or points, of color. 

New for the Conquest-class is an expanded game room and teen area that serves as a "second promenade for teenagers" decorated to resemble the back alleys of the infamous Montmartre district of 19th-century Paris.

The Polynesian world of post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin is re-created in the Tahiti Casino. Beams and columns of bamboo and wood, and cast thatch ceiling panels impart the feeling of a Tahitian village. 

Henri's Dance Club takes its theme from the exotic jungle paintings of Henri Rousseau. Painted metal cutouts made to look like the coarse grass of Rousseau's paintings are mounted on the wall, with occasional three-dimensional heads of animals similar to the kind often seen lurking in the artist's works. 

Vincent's Piano Bar breaks with the design of the other public rooms by not reproducing any actual Van Gogh works as part of the décor.

The Blue Piano Bar takes as its theme from the blue color commonly found in the works of Henri Matisse, considered the greatest French painter of the 20th century. 

Alfred's Bar, located on Atlantic Deck beneath the dance club, is named for Alfred Sisely, an Englishman raised in Paris and one of the fathers of the Impressionist movement. The room is decorated like a wood-paneled English drawing room with large reproductions of Sisely's cityscapes, landscapes and rural subjects displayed on the walls.

The Degas Lounge, aft on Promenade Deck, takes its theme from the artist's fascination with ballet dancers. Bronze cast sculptures of ballerina figures are fitted into niches around the room. The ceiling has case decorative bronze-colored moldings and chandeliers, and the fabrics are deep burgundy and gold, creating a very classy venue.