| Musée du Louvre | | | | | | Established | 1793 | | Location | Palais Royal, Musée du Louvre,
75001 Paris, France | | Visitor figures | 8.3 million (2007)[1] | | Director | Henri Loyrette | | Curator | Marie-Laure de Rochebrune | | Public transit access | Metro, Palais Royal -- Musée du Louvre | | Website | www.louvre.fr | Coordinates: 48°51′37″N 2°20′15″E / 48.860395, 2.337599 The cour dhonneur looking west The palais du Louvre in Paris, on the Right Bank of the Seine is a former royal palace, situated between the Tuileries Gardens and the church of Saint-Germain lAuxerrois. ...
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The Louvre (French: Musée du Louvre) in Paris, France, is one of the world's most visited art museums.[2][3] The collection contains nearly 35,000 pieces displayed over the structure's 60,000 square metres (650,000 sq ft).[4] The museum is on the Right Bank, in the neighborhood referred to as the 1st arrondissement and lies between the Seine River and the Rue de Rivoli. The Louvre is slightly askew of the axe historique, a long architectural straightaway that cuts through the centre of Paris.[5] This article is about the capital of France. ...
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Nighttime view of Rue de Rivoli, Paris, France Rue de Rivoli as it runs along the north wing of the Musée du Louvre, Paris, France Rue de Rivoli as it runs through Le Marais, in Pariss 4th arrondissement Rue de Rivoli is one of the most famous streets...
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The structure originated as a palace during the Capetian dynasty under the reign of Philip II and was gradually developed into the structure visible today.[6] It was used as an art depository from the time of François I, but it was not opened to the public until the French Revolution. At that time, the Louvre was intended to symbolize the progress of Liberty and was a destination for many of the spoils following Napoleon's victorious armies, which enriched the museum's collection. The cour dhonneur looking west The palais du Louvre in Paris, on the Right Bank of the Seine is a former royal palace, situated between the Tuileries Gardens and the church of Saint-Germain lAuxerrois. ...
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Philip II Augustus (French: Philippe Auguste) (21 August 1165 – 14 July 1223) was the King of France from 1180 until his death. ...
Francis I (French: François Ier) (September 12, 1494 – July 31, 1547), called the Father and Restorer of Letters (French: le Père et Restaurateur des Lettres), was crowned King of France in 1515 in the cathedral at Reims and reigned until 1547. ...
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The museum's collection, divided among eight curatorial departments, contains some of the world's most celebrated artworks, such as Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, The Virgin and Child with St. Anne, and Madonna of the Rocks; Jacques Louis David's Oath of the Horatii; Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People; and Alexandros of Antioch's Venus de Milo. “Da Vinci†redirects here. ...
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The Virgin and Child with St Anne is an oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci depicting St Anne, her daughter the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus. ...
The Virgin of the Rocks and Madonna of the Rocks are terms used to describe both of two different paintings with almost identical compositions. ...
Self portrait Jacques-Louis David (August 30, 1748 - December 29, 1825), most usually known as David (pronounced Dah-veed rather than Day-vid), was a French painter. ...
Oath of the Horatii (1784) is a painting by Jacques-Louis David, painted before the French Revolution, depicting the Roman salute. ...
Liberty Leading the People (French: ) is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled Charles X. A woman personifying Liberty leads the people forward over the bodies of the fallen, holding the tricolore flag of the French Revolution in one hand and brandishing a...
Alexandros of Antioch was an otherwise unknown master of the Hellenistic age who is most well known today for the Venus de Milo (Aphrodite of Milos) at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France. ...
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History
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The Louvre has grown through a series of building projects completed over the past 800 years.[7]A fortress was built under Philip Augustus from 1190 to 1202 to defend Paris from foreign attacks.[8][9] It is unknown whether this was the first building to be constructed on that spot, although contemporaries referred to the early Louvre as the "New Tower", indicating a predecessor.[6][8] The origin of the name Louvre is murky. The historian Mary Knight Potter contends that King Philip II of France referred to the structure as L'Œuvre (the masterpiece) because it was the largest building in 13th-century Paris. Henri Sauval proposes a derivation from a word leouar (castle, fortress) which he claims to have found in an "old Latin-Saxon glossary", but which has no independent verification, [5] while Henry Sutherland Edwards posits rouvre (oak), referring to the building's location in a forest.[8] The cour dhonneur looking west The palais du Louvre in Paris, on the Right Bank of the Seine is a former royal palace, situated between the Tuileries Gardens and the church of Saint-Germain lAuxerrois. ...
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Philip II Augustus (French: Philippe Auguste) (21 August 1165 – 14 July 1223) was the King of France from 1180 until his death. ...
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The only portion still extant from this period is the foundation of the southeast corner.[5] Additions were subsequently completed, notably by Charles V who, in 1358, built a defensive wall around the fortress and converted the Louvre into a royal residence, although later monarchs used it as a prison.[9] Louis IX (Saint-Louis) added a dungeon and François I an annex.[6] Additionally, François rebuilt the Louvre using plans of architect Pierre Lescot. Following François' death in 1547, his successor Henry II retained the architect, and the west and south sides of the Louvre were completed and Jean Goujon's bas-relief sculptures were added.[10] Lescot's renovations modified the Louvre from a fortress to the style visible today.[11] Charles V the Wise (French: Charles V le Sage) (January 21, 1338 – September 16, 1380) was king of France from 1364 to 1380 and a member of the Valois Dynasty. ...
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Francis I (French: François Ier) (September 12, 1494 – July 31, 1547), called the Father and Restorer of Letters (French: le Père et Restaurateur des Lettres), was crowned King of France in 1515 in the cathedral at Reims and reigned until 1547. ...
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Henry II (French: Henri II) (March 31, 1519 – July 10, 1559), a member of the Valois Dynasty, was King of France from March 31, 1547, until his death. ...
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In 1594, King Henry IV united the Palais du Louvre with the Palais des Tuileries. This "Grand Design" called for a Grande Galerie to connect to the Pavillon de Flore on the southern end and the Pavillon de Marsan to the north. Louis XIII (1610–43) completed the Denon Wing, begun in 1560 by Catherine de Medici.[10][12] In 1624, the classical architects Le Vau and Lemercier completed the design of the Cour Carrée under Louis XIII and Louis XIV reigns, effectively quadrupling the size of the old courtyard.[13] Progress on the building halted after Louis XIV chose Versailles as his residence. The Louvre remained unchanged until the 18th century, when it began its transformation into a museum under Louis XV. However, the transformation did not accelerate until the French Revolution.[8][10] Henry IV of France, also Henry III of Navarre (13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), ruled as King of France from 1589 to 1610 and King of Navarre from 1572 to 1610. ...
Tuileries Palace before 1871 - View from the Louvre courtyard The Tuileries Palace stood in Paris, France, on the right bank of the River Seine until 1871, when it was destroyed. ...
Tuileries Palace before 1871 - View from the Louvre courtyard The Tuileries Palace stood in Paris, France, on the right bank of the River Seine until 1871, when it was destroyed. ...
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Louis XIV King of France and Navarre By Hyacinthe Rigaud (1701) Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné) (September 5, 1638–September 1, 1715) reigned as King of France and King of Navarre from May 14, 1643 until his death. ...
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 The Richelieu Wing of the Louvre at night The Louvre as a showplace for works of art dates from the time of François I. However it was not until the French Revolution that the royal Louvre collection became the "Muséum central des Arts" and opened to the public.[8] The public display of art in France began in Paris at the Luxembourg Palace. This museum was inaugurated in October 1750 after publication of an article by La Font de Saint-Yvenne, who called for a public gallery, arguing that the national art treasures were being overlooked. He wanted the work to be displayed in the Louvre structure, but the Luxembourg Palace was chosen instead.[14] This gallery contained about 99 works placed in two wings. The collection, open to all social classes, was an enormous success with French and foreign visitors alike. Despite this, Saint-Yvenne again criticized what he called the neglect of much of France's artistic treasures, and requests to make the Louvre a museum intensified. In 1780, the comte de Provence, the future Louis XVIII, began moving works from the Luxembourg Palace to the Palais de Louvre in response to these requests and to insinuations that the royal collection was not as grand as collections belonging to other members of the nobility.[8][14] Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2048x3072, 3545 KB) Summary Aile Richelieu du Louvre 2005 Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: Louvre Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. ...
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Francis I (French: François Ier) (September 12, 1494 – July 31, 1547), called the Father and Restorer of Letters (French: le Père et Restaurateur des Lettres), was crowned King of France in 1515 in the cathedral at Reims and reigned until 1547. ...
The French Revolution (1789–1815) was a period of political and social upheaval in the political history of France and Europe as a whole, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the aristocracy and Catholic clergy, underwent radical change to forms based on...
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On 10 August 1792, the Bourbon monarchy collapsed and Louis XVI was imprisoned. As part of the revolution, all art in the royal collection was declared to be national property (biens nationaux), and the National Assembly decided to turn the palace into a museum. The legislature declared that the collection was in disrepair from being "dispersed" and that the matter was "urgent".[14] The royal collection was combined with Church property, which had been appropriated by the State in 1789.[15] Further, the marquis de Marigny and his successor, the comte d'Angiviller began developing the Louvre's permanent collection, which was legally authorised on 6 May 1791.[14] is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Louis XVI Louis XVI (August 23, 1754 - January 21, 1793), was King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791, and then King of the French in 1791-1792. ...
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Opening to the public The museum officially opened to the public on 10 August 1793, with much fanfare, because the display of the nation's artistic treasures was seen to be based on the ideals of the revolution. The notion that the works which had once been reserved for the ancien régime were now viewable by the public was important to the nascent republic as a "benefit of Liberty".[14] The name of the institution changed many times, from Muséum de la République, to Muséum Français, Muséum Central des Arts, and finally the Louvre.[5] Particularly significant additions to the young collection were masterpieces from Italy (including the Laocoon and his sons and the Apollo Belvedere, both from the papal collection), which arrived in Paris in July 1798 with much pomp and ceremony. A Sèvres vase was commissioned for the occasion.[8][14][15] Initially, the museum's opening was hectic as artists still lived in residence and works were placed randomly throughout the old palace. However, the republic dedicated a considerable sum, 100,000 livres per year, to help the institution expand its collection with works from abroad.[5] From 1794 onwards, France's victorious revolutionary armies brought back increasing numbers of artworks from across Europe, aiming to establish the Louvre as a major European museum and a symbol of revolutionary progress.[14] is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Ancien Régime, a French term meaning Former Regime, but rendered in English as Old Rule, Old Order, or simply Old Regime, refers primarily to the aristocratic social and political system established in France under the Valois and Bourbon dynasties. ...
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Napoleon During Napoleon's conquests throughout Europe, the museum continued augmenting its collection. The building was redecorated and inaugurated in 1800. It was given its first director, Dominique Vivant, baron de Denon, by Napoléon after the Egyptian campaign of 1798–1801, and renamed the "Musée Napoléon" in 1803. Many works were added to its collection from countries such as Spain, Austria, Holland, and Italy. These were often met by gleeful Parisians, who escorted the works along the quais of the Seine to the museum.[5] Self-portrait by Canova, 1792. ...
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After the French defeat at Waterloo, the former owners of many acquisitions sought their return. The administrators of the Louvre were loathe to comply, and hid some of the works within their private collections. Many foreign states sent emissaries to London to seek help in requiring the French to comply. Eventually, many of the pieces were returned, and the diminished Louvre began adding articles from other Paris institutions such as the Luxembourg Palace, from which the Rubens' collection, the Life of St. Bruno, and works by Vernet were acquired.[5] Many things bear the name Waterloo. ...
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Luxembourg Palace The Luxembourg Palace in the VIe arrondissement of Paris, north of the Luxembourg Garden, is where the French Senate meets. ...
19th century after Napoleon After the fall of Napoleon, during the Restoration (1814-1830), the monarchies of Louis XVIII and Charles X together added 135 pieces at a cost of 720,000 francs. This was considerably less than the amount given for rehabilitation of Versailles and as a result the Louvre suffered relative to the rest of Paris. However, during the reign of Louis XVIII the Venus de Milo and Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss by Antonio Canova were added.[5] After the creation of the French Second Republic in 1848, the new government allocated two million francs for repair work neglected by the monarchy and ordered the completion of the Galerie d'Apollon, the Salon Carré, and the Grande Galerie, large additions facing the Seine river. During this period the museum's works, lacking order, were arranged chronologically.[5] Not to be confused with the group of prehistoric statuettes known as Venus figurines. ...
Louis XVIII (November 17, 1755 - September 16, 1824) was King of France from 1814 (although he declared that he considered his reign to have begun in 1795) until his death in 1824. ...
Louis XVIII (November 17, 1755 - September 16, 1824) was King of France from 1814 (although he declared that he considered his reign to have begun in 1795) until his death in 1824. ...
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Antonio Canovas statue Psyche Revived by Cupids Kiss, first commissioned in 1787, exemplifies the Neoclassical obsession with love and emotion. ...
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On 2 December 1851, Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, who had been elected President of the Republic, staged a coup d'état by dissolving the National Assembly and ushering in what became the Second French Empire. Between 1852 and 1870, the French economy generally grew, and the museum added about 20,000 new pieces to its collections. Additionally, the link between the Tuileries and the museum was completed via the Pavillon de Flore.[15][5] is the 336th day of the year (337th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Several thousand artworks, including 200 paintings and many bronzes and sculptures arrived after the acquisition of the Campana museum. These additions included the Sarcophagus of a Married Couple, jewellery, and various maiolicas.[15] Further purchases or gifts of 133 more works and 256 pieces given to the institution were styled the Collection Lacaze. These included works by Rembrandt such as Bathsheba at Her Bath.[15] This period of rapid growth continued into the early 20th century, when it became evident that the structure was too small for the amount of work displayed.[5] Majolica is earthenware with a white tin glaze, decorated by applying colorants on the raw glazed surface. ...
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Third Republic to present Following the demise of the Second Empire after the Franco Prussian War of 1870, the French Third Republic began. During this period, the Louvre acquired new pieces via donations. The institution received large gifts from Baron Devaillier and Madame Boucicaut, and the Société des Amis du Louvre donated the Pieta of Villeneuve lès Avignon. In 1863, the sculpture Winged Victory of Samothrace was uncovered in an archaeological expedition in the Aegean Sea. This particular piece, despite being heavily damaged, is considered one of the Louvre's most valuable pieces and has been on prominent display since 1884.[15][5] Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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The Winged Victory of Samothrace The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called Nike of Samothrace, is a marble sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike (Victory), discovered in 1863 on the island of Samothrace (Greek: ΣαμοθÏακη, Samothraki) by the French consul and amateur archaeologist Charles Champoiseau. ...
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The Winged Victory of Samothrace The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called Nike of Samothrace, is a marble sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike (Victory), discovered in 1863 on the island of Samothrace (Greek: ΣαμοθÏακη, Samothraki) by the French consul and amateur archaeologist Charles Champoiseau. ...
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This period of rapid growth for the museum was disrupted by the First and Second World Wars. During both, many of the structure's most valuable pieces were hidden. As the Nazis advanced on Paris during the Second World War, the Venus de Milo, Mona Lisa, and other works were moved to safety. After the wars, the museum was unable to acquire many significant works, with exceptions of Georges de la Tour's Saint Thomas and the collection of prints and drawings given via the donation of Baron Edmond de Rothschild's (1845–1934) collection in 1935. This donation contained more than 40,000 engravings, nearly 3,000 drawings and 500 illustrated books.[15] Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ...
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St Joseph, 1642, Louvre Georges de La Tour (March 13, 1593–1652) was a painter from the Duchy of Lorraine, now in France. ...
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Main article: Axe historique The destroyed Tuileries Palace, once connected to the Louvre, lay at the eastern end of the Axe historique (Historic Axis), an 8-kilometre (5 mi) long straightaway that begins at La Défense and includes the Champs Élysées and Arc de Triomphe. The axis was begun in 1572 when architect André Le Nôtre planted a line of trees from the Louvre courtyard to the Tuileries.[17] In 1871, when the Paris Commune burned the palace to the ground, it became possible to see that the Louvre was not aligned on the long axis. The museum had appeared to be along the same sight line as the Champs Élysées, but after destruction of the palace, it was clear that it was not.[18] Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x763, 123 KB) A version of fr:Image:Plan louvre1. ...
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The Axe historique (historical axis) is a line of monuments, buildings and thoroughfares that extends from the centre of Paris, France, to the west. ...
The Axe historique (historical axis) is a line of monuments, buildings and thoroughfares that extends from the centre of Paris, France, to the west. ...
Tuileries Palace before 1871 - View from the Louvre courtyard The Tuileries Palace stood in Paris, France, on the right bank of the River Seine until 1871, when it was destroyed. ...
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Painting of André Le Nôtre by Carlo Maratti André Le Nôtre (March 12, 1613 - September 15, 1700) was a landscape architect and the gardener of King Louis XIV of France from 1645 to 1700. ...
Le Père Duchesne looking at the statue of Napoleon I on top of the Vendome column: Eh ben ! bougre de canaille, on va donc te foutre en bas comme ta crapule de neveu !… (Well now! buggering rascal, we will knock you the fuck off just like your crook of...
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Main article: Louvre Pyramid The central courtyard of the museum, slightly askew of the Champs-Élysées, is occupied by the Louvre Pyramid, which serves as the main entrance to the museum. The pyramid, made of glass, was commissioned by former French president François Mitterrand and designed by I. M. Pei, a Chinese-American architect. The construction work on the pyramid base and underground lobby was carried out by Dumez and inaugurated in 1989.[19] This was the most famous renovation of the Grand Louvre Project, part of Mitterand's Grands Projets to create monuments to the role of France in art, politics, and the world economy.[20] The Carre Gallery, where the Mona Lisa was exhibited, was also renovated. The pyramid covers the Louvre entresol and forms part of the new entrance to the museum.[21] The large glass pyramid of le musée du Louvre The Louvre Pyramid is a large metal and glass pyramid which serves as the main entrance to the Musée du Louvre and has become a landmark for the city of Paris. ...
The Champs-Élysées (pronounced ) is the most prestigious and broadest avenue in Paris. ...
The large glass pyramid of le musée du Louvre The Louvre Pyramid is a large metal and glass pyramid which serves as the main entrance to the Musée du Louvre and has become a landmark for the city of Paris. ...
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Main article: Louvre-Lens
 View of the outside from inside the Louvre Pyramid To relieve the crowded Paris Louvre, increase total museum visits, and improve the economy of the industrial north, French officials decided in 2004 to build a satellite museum on the site of an abandoned coal pit in the former mining town of Lens.[22] Six cities were considered for the project: Amiens, Arras, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Calais, Lens, and Valenciennes. In 2004, French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin chose Lens, Pas-de-Calais, to be the site of the new building, to be called Le Louvre-Lens. Museum officials predicted that the new building, capable of receiving about 600 works of art, would attract as many as 500,000 visitors a year when it opened in 2009.[22] The architectural joint-venture team of Sanaa of Tokyo and the New York-based Imrey Culbert LP were awarded the project in 2005 after an international competition for the work.[23] The Louvre-Lens is a new museum which will open in 2010 in the industrial French city of Lens, Pas-de-Calais. ...
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Amiens is a city and commune in the north of France, 120 km north of Paris. ...
Arras (Dutch: ) is a town and commune in northern France, préfecture (capital) of the Pas-de-Calais département. ...
Boulogne-sur-Mer is a city and commune in northern France, in the Pas-de-Calais département of which it is a sous-préfecture. ...
Calais (Kales in Dutch) is a town in northern France, located at 50°57N 1°52E. It is in the département of Pas-de-Calais, of which it is a sous-préfecture. ...
Lens is commune in northern France, in the Pas-de-Calais département. ...
Valenciennes (Dutch: Valencijn, Latin: Valentianae) is a town and commune in northern France in the Nord département on the Escaut river. ...
Jean-Pierre Raffarin Jean-Pierre Raffarin listen? (born August 3, 1948) is a French conservative politician. ...
Lens is commune in northern France, in the Pas-de-Calais département. ...
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In March 2007, the Louvre announced that a Louvre museum would be completed by 2012 in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. A 30-year agreement, signed by French Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres and Sheik Sultan bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan, will establish a Louvre museum in downtown Abu Dhabi in exchange for €832,000 (US$1.3 billion). The Louvre Abu Dhabi, designed by the French architect Jean Nouvel and engineers Buro Happold, will occupy 24,000 square metres (260,000 sq ft) covered by a roof in the shape of a flying saucer. France has agreed to rotate between 200 and 300 artworks through the Louvre Abu Dhabi during a 10-year period, to provide management expertise, and to provide four temporary exhibitions a year for 15 years. The art will come from multiple French museums, including the Louvre, the Georges Pompidou Centre, the Musée d'Orsay, Versailles, the Musée Guimet, the Musée Rodin, and the Musée du Quai Branly.[24] Model of the future Louvre Abu Dhabi In March 2007, the Louvre announced that a Louvre museum would be completed by 2012 in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The thirty-year agreement, signed by French Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres and Sheik Sultan bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan, will prompt the construction...
Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres is Frances Minister of Culture since 2003. ...
Jean Nouvel (born August 12, 1945) is a French architect. ...
// View of the Great Court Buro Happold is a professional services firm providing engineering consultancy, design, planning, project management and consulting services for all aspects of buildings, infrastructure and the environment. ...
Centre Georges Pompidou (constructed 1971–1977 and known as the Pompidou Centre in English) is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the IVe arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles and the Marais. ...
, The Musée dOrsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine, housed in the former railway station, the Gare dOrsay. ...
The Palace of Versailles, or simply Versailles, is a royal château in Versailles, France. ...
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The Musée Rodin in Paris, France, is a museum that was opened in 1919 in the Hôtel Biron and surrounding grounds. ...
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Departments The Musée du Louvre's collection contains more than 380,000 objects and displays 35,000 works of art drawn from eight curatorial departments. More than 60,600 square metres (652,000 sq ft) of exhibition space is dedicated to the permanent collection.[25] According to the 2005 annual report, the collection includes 11,900 paintings, the second largest holding of western pictorial art in the world after the State Hermitage in Russia. Six thousand paintings are on permanent display, and 5,900 are in storage. Besides paintings, the Louvre exhibits include sculptures, objets d'art, and archaeological finds.[5][15] The State Hermitage Museum (Russian: ) in Saint Petersburg, Russia is one of the largest museums in the world, with 3 million works of art (not all on display at once), [1] and one of the oldest art galleries and museums of human history and culture in the world. ...
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In the English language the term Art object may also be encountered in its French form Objet DArt. ...
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Decorative arts The decorative arts department contains jewelry, ceramics, furniture, and tapestries. The collection began through appropriation of royal property during the 18th century after the fall of the Ancien regime. Acquisitions continued through the 19th century as pieces were moved from Sainte-Chapelle and Saint-Denis. In modern times, the apartments of Napoléon were added to the collection. The department formerly included the Bureau du Roi, completed by Jean Henri Riesener in the 18th century, but it was later returned to the Palace of Versailles.[26] Jewelry (the American spelling; spelled jewellery in Commonwealth English) consists of ornamental devices worn by persons, typically made with gems and precious metals. ...
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There is an album by Carol King called Tapestry A tapestry cushion, depicting pansies Tapestry is a form of textile art. ...
Ancien R gime means Old Regime or Old Order in French; in English, the term refers primarily to the social and political system established in France under the Valois and Bourbon dynasties, and secondarily to any regime which shares the formers defining features: a feudal system under the control...
La Sainte-Chapelle (French for The Holy Chapel) is a Gothic chapel on the Ile de la Cité in the heart of Paris, France. ...
Saint Denis can refer to: a Christian saint: see Denis Seine-Saint-Denis a département of France Several communes in France: Saint-Denis,in the Aude département Saint-Denis, in the Gard département Saint-Denis, in the Seine-Saint-Denis département, home of Saint Denis Basilica Saint-Denis, in the...
Bonaparte as general, by Antoine-Jean Gros. ...
The Bureau du Roi (Kings desk), known in France as the Secrétaire à cylindre de Louis XV (Louis XV roll-top secretary), is the name given to the richly ornamented royal Cylinder desk whose construction was started under Louis XV and finished under France. ...
Jean-Henri Riesener (1734 - 1806) was born in Gladbeck in Germany and became a master cabinet maker at the court of France. ...
The Palace of Versailles, or simply Versailles, is a royal château in Versailles, France. ...
Egyptian antiquities  The Seated Scribe, a piece added to the Louvre's collection from the findings of Auguste Mariette The Louvre contains a large collection of art from the Nile civilizations, dating from around 4000 BCE to the 4th century CE. The collection is not rooted directly in Napoléon's expeditionary trip to Egypt, which occurred between 1798 and 1801. Egyptian artifacts taken from the royal collections were displayed before the department existed. The department opened in 1826 following a decree by King Charles X, impressed by the collection of Jean-François Champollion, who was appointed director. The department grew with acquisitions by Auguste Mariette, founder of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Mariette, after being dispatched to Egypt, sent back crates of archaeological finds, including the Seated Scribe.[27] A statue of Auguste Mariette in his home city of Boulogne-sur-Mer. ...
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The name Charles X is used to refer to numerous persons in history: Kings: Charles X of France Charles X of Sweden This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
For the Champollion comet rendezvous spacecraft, see Champollion (spacecraft). ...
A statue of Auguste Mariette in his home city of Boulogne-sur-Mer. ...
Main entrance of the Egyptian Museum The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, known commonly as the Egyptian Museum, in Cairo, Egypt, is home to the most extensive collection of pharaonic antiquities in the world. ...
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The collection includes art, papyrus scrolls, mummies, and artifacts. During the Grand Louvre renovation project, the collection was reorganized and split between two floors. The ground floor consists of 20 rooms dedicated to the time period and arranged chronologically. The Denon Wing houses a funerary display, including mummies.[27] For other uses, see Papyrus (disambiguation). ...
Greek, Etruscan, and Roman This department displays pieces coming from throughout the Mediterranean Basin and dating from the Neolithic to the 6th century. As with the Egyptian collection, the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman collections began with appropriated royal art. Initially, the collection focused on marble sculptures, such as the Venus de Milo. However, in the 19th century the Louvre acquired vases from the Durand collection, bronzes such as the Borghese Vase from the Bibliothèque nationale, and work from other mediums. The Mediterranean Basin refers to the lands around and surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea. ...
An array of Neolithic artifacts, including bracelets, axe heads, chisels, and polishing tools. ...
Extent of Etruscan civilization and the twelve Etruscan League cities. ...
Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew from a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC to a massive empire straddling the Mediterranean Sea. ...
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Not to be confused with the group of prehistoric statuettes known as Venus figurines. ...
Chinese vase A vase with a sunflower pattern A modern designed vase The vase is an open container, often used to hold cut flowers. ...
Bronze figurine, found at Öland Bronze is the traditional name for a broad range of alloys of copper. ...
The Borghese Vase is a monumental krater sculpted in Athens from Pentelic marble in the second half of the 1st century AD as a garden ornament for the Roman market. ...
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From 1975 the department underwent a reorganization during which much of the Roman sculpture was placed in the Salle d'Auguste and the Petite Galerie. Roman copies were ordered into galleries paralleling the Seine . Notable pieces in the department include the Winged Victory of Samothrace, the Kore of Samos, the Lady of Auxerre, and the Venus de Milo.[28] This article is about the river in France. ...
The Winged Victory of Samothrace The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called Nike of Samothrace, is a marble sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike (Victory), discovered in 1863 on the island of Samothrace (Greek: ΣαμοθÏακη, Samothraki) by the French consul and amateur archaeologist Charles Champoiseau. ...
Not to be confused with the group of prehistoric statuettes known as Venus figurines. ...
Islamic art The Islamic art collection, the youngest department in the museum, contains works spanning "thirteen centuries and three continents".[29] The collection was originally part of the decorative arts department but became a separate department in 2003. The holdings include the Pyxide d'al-Mughira, an ivory box dating from 968 CE from Andalusia, and a basin named the Baptistry of Saint-Louis that was transferred to the museum from the royal collection in 1793.[29] This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
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Khorsabad (Khursabad), village in Iraq, 15 km northeast of Mosul, with well-preserved ruins of the large, rectangular Dur-Sharrukin. ...
For the town in Pakistan, see Shedu (town). ...
Paintings The paintings department currently comprises more than 6,000 works from 13th century through 1848. The 12 curators of the paintings department oversee the arrangement and display of the collection, which predates the Louvre as a museum. The use of the museum structure as a depository for painted works began with François I, who envisioned a collection that would rival those in Italy. To achieve this, the king acquired works from Italian masters such as Raphael and Michelangelo. Additionally, others such as Leonardo Da Vinci were asked to attend to his court.[30] Francis I (French: François Ier) (September 12, 1494 – July 31, 1547), called the Father and Restorer of Letters (French: le Père et Restaurateur des Lettres), was crowned King of France in 1515 in the cathedral at Reims and reigned until 1547. ...
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After the French Revolution, these works formed the nucleus of the nascent Louvre. The collection continued to grow throughout the years of the First French Empire during Napoleon's European Wars. When the d'Orsay train station was converted into the Musée d'Orsay in 1986, the painting collection was split, and the pieces completed after the 1848 Revolution were moved to the newly formed museum. French works and art from Northern Europe are in the Richelieu wing and Cour Carrée, while Spanish and Italian paintings are on the first floor of the Denon wing.
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