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[1] The original Louvre was nearly square in plan, at seventy-eight by seventy-two meters, and enclosed by a 2.6-metre thick crenellated and machicolated curtain wall. The entire structure was surrounded by a water-filled moat. On the outside of the walls were ten round defensive towers: one at each corner and at the center of the northern and ...
The Musée du Louvre owns 615,797 objects [1] of which 482,943 are accessible online since 24 March 2021 [83] and displays 35,000 works of art in eight curatorial departments. [2] The Louvre is home to one of the world's most extensive collections of art, including works from diverse cultures and time periods.
Christ and Abbot Menas icon, Louvre, Paris. The Icon of Christ and Abbot Mena (French: L'Icône du Christ et de l'Abbé Ménas) a Coptic painting which is now in the Louvre museum, in Paris. [1] The icon is an encaustic painting on wood and was brought from the Apollo monastery in Bawit, Egypt.
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Louis La Caze, self-portrait, c. 1843. Louis La Caze (6 May 1798 – 28 September 1869 [1]) was a successful French physician and collector of paintings whose bequest of 583 paintings to the Musée du Louvre was one of the largest the museum has ever received. [2]
The two "slaves" of the Louvre date to the second version of the tomb of Pope Julius II which was commissioned by the Pope's heirs, the Della Rovere in May 1513. Although the initial plans for a gigantic mausoleum were set aside, the work was still monumental, with a corridor richly decorated with sculpture and Michelangelo was immediately put in charge of the work.
The Drapery Study for the Virgin is a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci in the Louvre.Executed in charcoal, Indian ink, and gray wash, with highlights of ceruse white on yellowed, black-tinted paper, it is a preparatory study for the drapery of the Virgin Mary's cloak in Leonardo's painting The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, also in the Louvre.
Vincent Delieuvin is an art historian and chief curator of Italian painting of the sixteenth century paintings department of the Louvre since 2006. [1] He has written several books on Leonardo da Vinci. [2]