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The following is a very incomplete list of notable works in the collections of the Musée du Louvre in Paris. For a list of works based on 5,500 paintings catalogued in the Joconde database, see the Catalog of paintings in the Louvre Museum .
Pages in category "Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities in the Louvre" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Louvre's extensive collections of Asian art were moved to the Guimet Museum in 1945. Nevertheless, the Louvre's first gallery of Islamic art opened in 1893. [60] Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt is seen with a plaster model of the Venus de Milo, [61] while visiting the Louvre with the curator Alfred Merlin on 7 October 1940.
The principal sources for the story behind David's Oath are the first book of Livy (sections 24–26) which was elaborated by Dionysius in book 3 of his Roman Antiquities. [4] However, the moment depicted in David's painting is his own invention. [5] [6] It grew to be considered a paragon of neoclassical art. The painting increased David's fame ...
Egyptian antiquities in the Louvre (15 P) Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities in the Louvre (4 C, 11 P) Near Eastern and Middle Eastern antiquities in the Louvre (44 P)
It came into the possession of the historian Franz Cumont, who dated it between the beginning of the 2nd century and the end of the 3rd century AD, and in 1939 it was acquired by the Louvre Museum in Paris where it is kept in the Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities with number of catalog MA 3441.
Pages in category "Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures in the Louvre" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In 1808, Prince Camillo Borghese, Napoleon's brother-in-law, [5] was forced to sell the Borghese Roman sculptures and antiquities to the Emperor. The result is that the Borghese Gladiator, renowned since the 1620s as the most admired single sculpture in Villa Borghese, must now be appreciated in the Musée du Louvre.