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From 16th century Venice, the Louvre displays Titian's Le Concert Champetre, The Entombment, and The Crowning with Thorns. [21]: 378 [110] The La Caze Collection, a bequest to the Musée du Louvre in 1869 by Louis La Caze, was the largest contribution of a person in the history of the Louvre. La Caze gave 584 paintings of his personal ...
This is a list of the most-visited museums in France in 2023, as reported as of January 14, 2024. It is based on statistics from the French Ministry of Culture, the press service of the Île-de-France region. and "Le Figaro" (January 6, 2024), and the list of the Club-Innovation & Culture published on 6 January 2024.
The Louvre. The 1st arrondissement forms much of the historic centre of Paris. Place Vendôme is famous for its deluxe hotels such as Hôtel Ritz, The Westin Paris – Vendôme, Hôtel de Toulouse (headquarters of Banque de France), Hôtel du Petit-Bourbon, Hôtel Meurice, and Hôtel Regina [1] Les Halles were formerly Paris's central meat and produce market, and, since the late 1970s, are a ...
stonechat, flickr The Louvre in Paris topped the art museum attendance numbers for 2009, with 8.5 million
The Mona Lisa Room at the Louvre. The Louvre is the world's largest and most famous museum, [12] [13] housing many works of art, including the Mona Lisa (La Joconde) and the Venus de Milo statue. [14] Known as the Great Louvre, it is the national museum and art gallery of France.
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.
French President Emmanuel Macron gives a speech to announce a multi-year overhaul, long-term investments to modernize the Louvre museum, next to Leonardo da Vinci's painting of the Mona Lisa, at ...
Plans of the southwest corner of the Renaissance Louvre, west at the top (1576 engraving by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau). The plan on the right shows the ground floor with the single-storey Petite Galerie at the top. The plan on the left shows the floor above the ground floor of the main part of the Louvre.