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The open spaces surrounding the pyramid were inaugurated on 15 October 1988, and its underground lobby was opened on 30 March 1989. New galleries of early modern French paintings on the 2nd floor of the Cour Carrée, for which the planning had started before the Grand Louvre, also opened in 1989.
It is now mostly used by the Louvre Museum, which first opened there in 1793. While this area along the Seine had been inhabited for thousands of years, [1] the Louvre's history starts around 1190 with its first construction as the Louvre Castle defending the western front of the Wall of Philip II Augustus, the then new city-wall of Paris.
The Louvre in Paris opens to the public as an art museum. 23 August – French Revolution: The following universal conscription decree is enacted in France: "The young men shall go to battle and the married men shall forge arms. The women shall make tents and clothes and shall serve in the hospitals; children shall tear rags into lint.
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Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Marat (1793) William Beechey. Sir Francis Ford's Children Giving a Coin to a Beggar Boy; Sarah Siddons with the Emblems of Tragedy; William Blake – For Children: The Gates of Paradise (engravings) Antonio Canova – Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss (marble statue, 1st version, commissioned 1787, enters Louvre 1824)
Probably originally meant for the hôtel de Toulouse, it passed through the collections of Louis II Phélypeaux de La Vrillière [1] then Louis Jean-Marie de Bourbon, duc de Penthièvre (1725-1793) and was seized with the rest of the latter's collection at the château d'Anet by the republican French state in 1793, [2] before being placed in ...
The world’s largest art museum turns its eye to fashion for the first time in its 231-year-history with a “joyful” multi-designer exhibition.
1793 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1793rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 793rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 93rd year of the 18th century, and the 4th year of the 1790s decade. As of the start of 1793, the ...