LOUVRE MUSEUM
HISTORY
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The Louvre is probably the most famous museum on the planet!
To take full advantage of the museum and all its collections, first go to the large square called Cour Napoleon. Here you're surrounded on...
COLLECTIONS
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To help you avoid losing your orientation, I'll outline how the Louvre is organized. Oriental antiquities are located at level 0 of the Richelieu and Sully wings, where you can admire many objects and...
HAMMURABI STELE RICHELIEU WING HALL 3
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You are in front of one of the most exciting works in the Louvre, the stele on which the so-called Code of Hammurabi - the earliest collection of written laws in the history of man - is engraved....
VENUS DE MILO SULLY WING HALL 16
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You're standing before Venus de Milo, one of the most famous sculptures of Hellenistic art and also one of the most impressive representations of feminine beauty.
"Our Lady of Beauty", as...
MONA LISA DENON WING HALL 6
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You are now in front of the most famous painting in the world. Well, you might not be standing right in front of it, you could be in the middle of a crowd; everyone wants to see La Gioconda by...
MONA LISA ROBBERY
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You may not know, but the Mona Lisa was the object of one of the most sensational robberies in history. A maintenance worker for the Louvre, the Italian Vincenzo Peruggia, detached the painting from...
CARAVAGGIO DEATH OF THE VIRGIN DENON WING HALL 11
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You probably know that the Louvre contains three works by Caravaggio: the first is the early La Buona Ventura, depicting a gypsy reading a gentleman's hand, the second is the Portrait of Alof de...
PIERROT GILLES WATTEAU RICHELIEU WING HALL 35
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The masterpiece by Antoine Watteau that you're admiring, known as Pierrot or Gilles, symbolizes the new French artistic and cultural season that occurred between the end of Louis XIV's lengthy...
DAVID THE OATH OF THE HORATII DENON WING HALL 75
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Jacques Louis David was the dominant figure of painting in his time. Thanks to his exemplary clear style, virtually two entire generations of French painters between the 1700s and 1800s are bound to...
RAFT OF THE MEDUSA DENON WING HALL 77
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You're standing before The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault, the protagonist of European art in the early decades of the nineteenth century.
Born in Rouen at the end of the 18th...
DELACROIX DENON WING HALL 77
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You are now looking at a painting called The death of Sardanapalus By Eugène Delacroix, the most iconic and exuberant exponent of French romantic art. Delacroix is the most prominent...
