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The École du Louvre was created in 1882 with the mission to "extract from the collections the knowledge they contain, and to train curators, missionaries and excavators". The school was originally dedicated to archaeology, but soon expanded to related disciplines, such as history of art, anthropology and ancient languages. [1]
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.
But the gallery was only opened to the public after the start of the French Revolution, as the Muséum central des arts opened on 10 August 1793. Together with the Salon Carré it became the core of the Louvre's exhibition spaces, soon enlarged to the Galerie d'Apollon (1797) and the ground-floor summer apartment of Anne of Austria (1800), and ...
The promoters immediately got to work and in January 1648 formulated statutes with 13 articles (approved in February and published on 9 March 1648), a key element of which was a public art school. [ n 2 ] There were 22 founding members, [ n 3 ] who, in February 1648, elected 12 anciens (elders), who would be in charge of the academy in turn ...
The Louvre Pyramid and its underground lobby, the Hall Napoléon, opened to the public on 29 March 1989. [46] A second phase of the Grand Louvre project, completed in 1993, created underground space below the Place du Carrousel to accommodate car parks, multi-purpose exhibition halls and a shopping mall named Carrousel du Louvre .
Pei said the Louvre was undoubtedly the most difficult job of his career. When it opened in 1993 he said he had wanted to create a modern space that did not detract from the traditional part of ...
The academy was housed in the Louvre for most of its existence, and included a school of architecture. Its members met weekly. [1] Jacques-François Blondel describes the academy quarters in his Architecture françoise of 1756. The main rooms were on the ground floor and included two lecture halls, one for meetings of the academy members on ...
The Belvedere Palace of the Habsburg monarchs in Vienna opened with a collection of art in 1781. [8] The Teylers Museum in Haarlem (The Netherlands) established in 1778 and is the oldest Dutch museum. The Louvre Museum in Paris , also a former royal palace, opened to the public in 1793.