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The Louvre museum is located inside the Louvre Palace, in the center of Paris, adjacent to the Tuileries Gardens. 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]
No fewer than twenty building campaigns have been identified in the history of the Louvre Palace. [21] The architect of the largest such campaign, Hector Lefuel, crisply summarized the identity of the complex by noting: "Le Louvre est un monument qui a vécu" (translatable as "The Louvre is a building that has gone through a lot").
The Grévin Museum, which welcomed 762,000 visitors in 2007, continues to rank as the top private museum by admissions. In 2008, according to The Art Newspaper, Paris accounted for 3 of the 10 most-visited museums in the world: the Louvre, Orsay and the Museum of Modern Art. In addition, the Centre Pompidou held 12th place. [11]
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Louvre Museum, Paris The Coronation of Napoleon: 1806–07 oil on canvas 621 × 979 Louvre Museum, Paris Sappho and Phaon: 1808 oil on canvas 225,3 × 262 Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia The Coronation of Napoleon (copy of 1806–07 painting) 1808–1822 oil on canvas 610 × 971 Museum of the History of France, Versailles
The glory meant ever so many things at once, not only beauty and art and supreme design, but history and fame and power, the world in fine raised to the richest and noblest expression. [5] As part of the Louvre, the Galerie d'Apollon is both a national and World Heritage Site. [6]
The Louvre Castle (French: Château du Louvre), also referred to as the Medieval Louvre (French: Louvre médiéval), [1] was a castle (French: château fort) begun by Philip II of France on the right bank of the Seine, to reinforce the city wall he had built around Paris.
Paris, Musée du Louvre: A Young Man Being Introduced to the Seven Liberal Arts: c. 1483–1486: Fresco: 237 × 269 cm: Paris, Musée du Louvre: Bardi Altarpiece (The Virgin and Child Enthroned) 1484: Tempera on panel: 185 × 180 cm: Berlin, Gemäldegalerie: Annunciation: 1485: Tempera and gold on panel: 19.1 × 31.4 cm: New York, Metropolitan ...