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The Louvre, like many other museums and galleries, felt the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the arts and cultural heritage. It was closed for six months during French coronavirus lockdowns and saw visitor numbers plunge to 2.7 million in 2020, from 9.6 million in 2019 and 10.2 million in 2018, which was a record year. [79] [80]
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.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), is an art museum located in the Houston Museum District of Houston, Texas. With the recent completion of an eight-year campus redevelopment project, including the opening of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building in 2020, [ 2 ] it is the 12th largest art museum in the world based on square feet of gallery space.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places in downtown Houston, Texas. It is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the Downtown Houston neighborhood, defined as the area enclosed by Interstate 10 , Interstate 45 , and Interstate 69 .
However, much of the Louvre art collection was hauled on trucks (203 vehicles transporting 1862 wooden cases) and sent to Château de Chambord. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The crates had a marking to identify the importance of the art pieces they contained: a yellow circle for very valuable art pieces, green for major works and red for world treasures ...
All 13 locations closed permanently in late 2020, with company officials attributing the decision to rising food and operational costs even once restaurants had reopened from their initial COVID ...
The Catalog of paintings in the Louvre Museum lists the painters of the collection of the Louvre Museum as they are catalogued in the Joconde database. The collection contains roughly 5,500 paintings by 1,400 artists born before 1900, and over 500 named artists are French by birth.
After expanding to hundreds of stores worldwide and later selling off various stores to other companies, it closed all locations in the U.K., U.S., and Australia by 2012. The stores are still open ...