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The Musée de la mode et du textile (Museum of Fashion and Textiles) was a museum located in the Louvre Palace at, 107, rue de Rivoli, in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. It is now a department of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. [1] Works from the former museum are regularly displayed in temporary exhibitions.
After a fire in the small gallery destroyed much of it on 6 February 1661, Louis XIV ordered this part of the Louvre to be rebuilt. [1] Architectural work was entrusted to Louis Le Vau , who carried out reconstruction activities between 1661 and 1663, while Charles Le Brun was assigned responsibility for decorations by Jean-Baptiste Colbert . [ 1 ]
The two nearest Métro stations are Louvre-Rivoli and Palais Royal-Musée du Louvre, the latter having a direct underground access to the Carrousel du Louvre commercial mall. [11] Before the Grand Louvre overhaul of the late 1980s and 1990s, the Louvre had several street-level entrances, most of which are now permanently closed.
La salle des terres cuites du musée Napoléon III au Louvre, by Sébastien Charles Giraud, Salon of 1866. Beyond the name of the palace itself, the toponymy of the Louvre can be treacherous. Partly because of the building's long history and links to changing politics, different names have applied at different times to the same structures or rooms.
In the first place, the Louvre welcomed 8.5 million visitors, much more than next highest, the British Museum, even though it does not charge for admission unlike the Louvre. Paris' Musée National d'Art Moderne occupies the 8th place with 2,981,000 visitors, more than many famous museums such as New York City's Museum of Modern Art, Madrid's ...
That upper room was known at the time as Grand Salon or Salon du Louvre. [ 2 ] : 11 This room was destroyed together with the nearby Galerie des Rois by the fire of 6 February 1661. Louis Le Vau rebuilt it on an expanded footprint, including further space to the north that gave it more width and its current name, even though its plan is ...
The Louvre: The History, the Collections, the Architecture, with photographs by Gérard Rondeau. New York: Rizzoli Electa ISBN 9780847868933. Fonkenell, Guillaume (2004). "La Petite Galerie avant la galerie d'Apollon", pp. 24–31, in La galerie d'Apollon au palais du Louvre, edited by Geneviève Bresc-Bautier. Paris: Gallimard / Musée du Louvre.
Visitors in the Grande Galerie. The Grande Galerie (French pronunciation: [ɡʁɑ̃d ɡalʁi]), in the past also known as the Galerie du Bord de l'Eau (Waterside Gallery), is a wing of the Louvre Palace, perhaps more properly referred to as the Aile de la Grande Galerie (Grand Gallery Wing), [1] since it houses the longest and largest room of the museum, also referred to as the Grande Galerie ...