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Geographic Information
Contact 48 51 '40 "North
2 20 '09 "East / 48.861073, 2.335784
Country Flag: France France
Locality Paris
General Information
Opening Date 1793
Collections Near Eastern Antiquities
Egyptian Antiquities
Greek Antiquities
Etruscan
Roman antiquities
Islamic Art
Sculptures
Works of Art
Paintings
Graphic Arts
Number of Works 35 000 on display
445 000 total (including 140 000 graphic works)
Area 210,000 sqm of which 60,600 sq galleries
Visitor Information
Visitors / year 6894000 ( 2004 )
7553000 ( 2005 )
8348000 ( 2006 )
8500000 ( 2008 ) - ( 2009 ) - ( 2010 )
Address Palais Royal
Muse du Louvre
75001 Paris
Website www.louvre.fr

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The Louvre Museum is the largest museum in Paris and its area (210,000 m 2 including 60 600 for the exhibitions The Royal Palace

The original Louvre was a fortress , built by King Philippe Auguste in 1190 , and occupied the southwest quarter of the current Court Square. The plan of the fort was a quadrangle of about 70 to 80 meters square, surrounded by moats, towers and flanked with two entries, in the midst of which was a strong keep, Grosse tower of the Louvre. One of its main tasks was monitoring the portion downstream of the Seine , one of the traditional ways borrowed during invasions and raids since the days of the Vikings. With the transfer of property of the Knights Templar to the Order of the Hospital , the Royal Treasury previously stored at the House of the Temple of Paris is transported in 1317 at the Louvre. Charles V made the castle a royal residence.

Become obsolete, Grosse tower is destroyed by Francis I in 1528. In 1546 , King began the transformation of the fortress in luxurious residence in doing down the western part of the medieval walls that is replaced by a wing of Renaissance style built by Pierre Lescot. This work continues under the reign of Henry II and Charles IX : the southern part of the enclosure of the "old Louvre" is in turn demolished to make, again, the way to a Renaissance wing.

In 1594 , Henri IV decided to join the palace of the Louvre to the Tuileries palace built by Catherine de Medici : the "Grand Design", the first step is the Grand Hall, which joins the flag Lesdiguieres (in the honor of Francois de Bonne , Baron de Champsaur, last constable of France and first Duke of Lesdiguieres) at The Pavilion Trmolle (in honor of Henri de La Trmolle (1598-1674), mestre de camp of the light cavalry France).

Court Square is built by the architect Lemercier and Le Vau , in the reign of Louis XIII and Louis XIV , quadrupling the size of the old courtyard of the Renaissance (thus requiring the demolition of the remains of the medieval). The decoration and furnishings of the palace are then led by painters such as Poussin , Romanelli and Le Brun. But all this was abruptly interrupted when Louis XIV chose Versailles as the center of power and royal residence in 1678. The Louvre is so long as it is. Not until the eighteenth century as new projects, especially conducted by Gabriel and Soufflot , just continue and complete the "Grand Design". One of these new projects is to transform the Louvre museum. It arises under Louis XV , but unsuccessful with the real revolution.

History Museum

The beginnings

Courtyard and roof of the Clock

Everything starts with an exhibition of the finest paintings from the Royal Collection, held in Galerie Royale de Peinture installed at the Palais du Luxembourg in 1750 to 1785 and was a huge success. The Marquis de Marigny , Director General of the King's Buildings , and its successor, the Earl of Angiviller then develop the project to a permanent museum of the Louvre.
The project turns into law on May 6th 1791 , and 10 August 1793 was the inauguration of the new museum called the Museum Central des Arts of the Republic. First created as a training ground for artists of the time, they were only up to 1855 to gain entry to week, the public was admitted on Sunday.
Under the Empire , the Louvre museum is named Napoleon. Dominique-Vivant Denon is the first director, he is the greatest museums in the world and presides over its dismantling at the fall of the Emperor (in two times). The museum was enlarged by Percier and Fontaine , who build the wing of the Rue de Rivoli.

Other transformations take place under Napoleon III and in particular the realization of the grand design: The north gallery linking the Louvre to the Tuileries is completed by the addition of buildings by Hector Martin Lefuel (in terms of Louis Visconti ). Others are also added to the south to ensure symmetry in this now gigantic architectural complex. But in 1871 the museum was burned during the Commune , and the architect Lefuel must rebuild some buildings. The Tuileries will never be rebuilt, and after several years of deliberation, the ruins are finally razed in 1882.

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World War II

During the Second World War , the masterpieces of the museum were evacuated in a plane designed in 1938 by the Director of National Museums of time, Jacques Jaujard . Having helped himself to the transfer by France to Switzerland of the masterpieces of the Prado during the Spanish Civil War began in 1936, he has designed a plan if Paris would be bombed. Yet, as noted by the author Hector Feliciano, the account also the fact that: "He

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By August 1939, when the armistice following the Battle of France is signed, fifty works are displaced, Jacques Jaujard relying on preservatives Germain Bazin , Andr Chamson and Rene Huyghe. Places of destination, of course, kept secret, are the castles of Chambord ( Loir-et-Cher ), Louvigny ( Sarthe ), Pau , etc.. The peripheral location of these caches is usually done with the help of local directors: 200 trips take place, 5,446 cases are displaced. The statue of Winged Victory joined the Castle Valenay while the Mona Lisa , "enclosed in a red velvet upholstery, and then in a box, which is placed . Other transfers take place while the progress of the war led to greater caution (land of the free zone, landings, etc..), Although the Germans eventually learn the exact location of storage facilities, which closes eyes the head of the German commission for the protection of works of art ( Kunstschutz ), Count Franz Graf Wolff Metternich , which simply states that we must "convey .

During the Occupation , the Germans, under the administration of "Special Staff for Pictorial Art" (Sonderstab Bildende Kunst) Institute of Reichsleiter Rosenberg in the Occupied Territories (Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg fr die Gebiete besetzen or ERR) starts across France a systematic looting of works of museums and private collections, mainly those belonging to Jews deported or fled. Six rooms of the Department of Oriental Antiquities at the Louvre are then partially emptied a warehouse where transit works stolen from Jews and where the wealthy Reichsmarschall Hermann Gring himself just like the 3 May 1941 to choose pieces that will adorn his residences . The National Gallery of the Jeu de Paume became an annex for storage. Stored in boxes marked with the initials of former owners, the stolen art objects are listed in secret by Rose Valland (curator of the museum Jeu de Paume), which will make after the war to its rightful their antiquities. The Louvre Museum found him after a trip contrast, almost all of his masterpieces.

The Grand Louvre

Main article: Grand Louvre.

Under the first term of Francois Mitterrand , the decision is taken to restore the museum's Richelieu wing, which houses the Ministry of Finance (which will be relocated to a new building at Bercy ). Significant work is then carried out under the direction of IM Pei (architect of Chinese descent and American citizenship), the museum is renovated and considerably enlarged. Building a new entry in the form of pyramid transforms the exterior of the museum.

Richelieu wing of the Louvre at night

History of Acquisitions

The museum was first established by the royal collections, mainly of tables (about 2500 to the death of Louis XVI ). These collections had been largely assembled by Francis I (many Italian paintings) and Louis XIV (orders, miscellaneous purchases, including 200 paintings from the banker Everhard Jabach ). Be added to the tables crown jewels, which were part of the museum since its inception, and many sculptures from the Museum of French Monuments or revolutionary seizures.

Then come the various seizures in Europe during the Napoleonic wars , and particularly in Italy and numerous artifacts from excavations in Greece , in Egypt or the Middle East. What must be added the important recommendations and bequests to the museum, for example the collection of Edmond de Rothschild , and many purchases throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

In other words, the works of various origins and ages, although the ancient and Renaissance periods are preferred, especially due to the extensive archaeological excavations taking place throughout the nineteenth century, especially in the East. At the most famous paintings, the Mona Lisa ( Leonardo da Vinci ) or the Belle Jardiniere ( Raphael ) were part of the collection of Francis I (he bought the Mona Lisa in 1519 ). The Marriage at Cana ( Veronese ) from the looting a convent in Venice in 1798 . The Young Beggar ( Murillo ) was bought by Louis XVI in 1782. The Lacemaker ( Vermeer ) or the famous Self-Portrait with thistle ( Drer ) were purchased by the museum respectively in 1870 and 1922. Finally, the cross of Christ El Greco did not cost the museum, which was recovered at the Palace of Justice Prades ( Pyrnes-Orientales ) in 1908.

The two most famous statues in the museum are the Venus de Milo , discovered in 1820 and acquired the same year by the Ambassador of France to the Turkish government and the Victory of Samothrace , which was discovered in pieces in 1863 on the island Winged by Charles Champoiseau , archaeologist and vice-consul of France in Adrianople.

Major recent acquisitions and donations

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Year 2009

Directorate of Museum

Since the 1980s, the mutation of the Louvre has been accompanied by slow structural reforms. The Louvre became a public institution with a degree of autonomy. Since the arrival of Henri Loyrette as director of the museum, the Louvre markets its brands to the affluent, the United States or the Gulf countries. He continues to receive a large grant from the Ministry of Culture, as patronage is still too low to completely substitute public money .

Directors and Presidents

CEOs
Chief executive

Conservatives departments

Keepers of the Greek and Roman Antiquities
Conservatives in the Greek and Roman Sculpture
Conservatives of Oriental Antiquities (and ancient ceramics from 1881)
Keepers of the Ancient Egypt
Curators Paintings
Conservatives Drawings
  • From 1797 to 1827: Louis Morel Arleux (1755-1827), "guardian of the drawings" from 1797 to 1802, 1 Conservative.
  • From 1827 to 1850: post removed (the drawings are the responsibility of the Conservator of paintings).
  • From 1850 to 1861: Frederick Reiset (1815-1891).
  • From 1861 to 1881: post removed (the drawings are the responsibility of the Conservator of paintings).
  • From 1881 to 1886: Pierre-Paul Botha Tauzia (1823-1888).
  • From 1886 to 1935: post removed (the drawings are the responsibility of the Conservator of paintings).
Conservatives Sculpture (and art objects until 1893)
Conservatives of Decorative Arts of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and modern times

The various collections

The Louvre currently has several rich collections of works of art from many civilizations, cultures and epochs. It is rich of approximately 445,000 rooms (including 140 000 graphic works), of which 35 000 are exposed. It is impossible to show the drawings more than three consecutive months for conservation reasons. The rest is composed of secondary works, in disrepair, or archaeological series.

Near Eastern Antiquities

Department of Oriental Antiquities preserves artifacts from a region located between the current India and the Mediterranean Sea (Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan ...).

Since the Neolithic , many civilizations have succeeded in this region, which shows in particular reveal a political administration, military and religious. It is also the birthplace of writing, which appeared to -3300 in Uruk , in Mesopotamia.

The Louvre Museum has three collections within this department, which are divided according to geographical and cultural groupings:

Islamic Art

This department, created in August 2003, combines the collections from an area located between Spain and India , dating from the origins of Islamic civilization ( 622 ) until the nineteenth century.

This department brings together several gems of Islamic art: the pyxis of al-Mughira , an ivory box Spanish dated 968, the flat peacock , a large Ottoman ceramics, and especially the Baptistery of St. Louis , one of the pieces best known and most enigmatic of all Islamic art, founded by Muhammad ibn al-Zayn early fourteenth century. It is also notable for the important material from the excavations at Susa ( Iran ), which the museum has participated.

The museum will soon double the museum space for the arts of Islam to present at least 3,000 works. In July 2010, the Louvre has presented the project to create a space entirely dedicated to Islam. The Cour Visconti will be covered with a veil air consists of a glass of 1600 triangles, overlaid with two layers of different thickness aluminum. This project should result in 2011 .

Ancient Egypt

The Department of Antiquities was established on 15 May 1826 by royal decree of Charles X. He made Jean-Francois Champollion , who had just acquired the collection of the British consul Salt (4000 pieces), the curator of what was then called the Egyptian Museum. The latter was installed in the south wing of the Court Square and arranged with the help of the architect Fontaine. The ceiling paintings are due to Franois-Edouard Picot (The Survey and Engineering Arts unveiling of Egypt to Greece) and Abel de Pujol (Egypt saved by Joseph).

The collection was greatly enlarged by Mariette , with more than 6,000 artefacts from the excavation of Serapeum of Memphis. Other items come from excavations made by the French Institute in Cairo, a fund from the Guimet Museum ( 1948 ) and various purchases.

Currently, the Egyptian Antiquities are spread over three floors: on the mezzanine, the Roman Egypt and Coptic Egypt ; the ground floor and first floor, the Egyptian pharaohs.

Greek, Etruscan and Roman

The department is divided into three stages: the pre-classical Greece mezzanine, on the ground floor of classical Greece and the Hellenistic and Etruscan and Roman antiquities in the first floor, which can be accessed by the stairs where Daru stands the Victory of Samothrace , the Greek ceramics, terracotta figurines, bronzes and precious objects.

On July 7, 2010, after extensive redevelopment, the Louvre museum opens to the public the new galleries devoted to classical Greek art and Hellenistic (450-30 BC).

Following this work, the Venus de Milo , one of the best-known works from the museum is on the ground floor of the southwest corner of Court Square (Sully wing).

Sculptures

At its inception, the museum does that ancient sculptures, the only exceptions being the two statues of slaves of Michelangelo. It was not until 1824 that the gallery is open to Angouleme, with five rooms dedicated to works from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century. From 1850 we add medieval sculpture, but it was not until 1893 that the Sculpture Department became autonomous and ceases to be linked to that of Antiquities.

Among recent changes, we note the grouping of all the statues created for the park of Chteau de Marly , particularly due to large equestrian statues Coysevox Antoine and Guillaume Coustou.

French sculpture, spread across numerous venues around two covered courtyards, is located in the Richelieu wing, while the sculpture Italian, Spanish as well as the northern schools is exposed in the Denon wing, ground floor. Among the artists exhibited, in addition to the many anonymous (especially for the Middle Ages), we see Jean Goujon , Germain Pilon , Pierre Puget , Jean-Antoine Houdon , Francois Rude , Donatello , Francesco Laurana , Andrea della Robbia , Michelangelo , Giambologna , Bernini and Canova.

Works of Art

One of the richest departments of the museum is constantly enlarged by donations and purchases. There is jewelry, statuettes and trinkets, but also furniture and tapestries. The objects cover a period from the early Middle Ages to the mid nineteenth century.

Paintings

The Marriage at Cana of Paul Veronese , oil on canvas, 1562-1563.

The Department of Paintings currently has about 6,000 paintings covering a period from the Middle Ages until 1848. With few exceptions, the later works were transferred to the Orsay museum at its inception ( 1986 ). The collection consists initially works belonging to the royal collection and was subsequently expanded through acquisitions (very important in the Second Empire and the Third Republic ), and also thanks to bequests in decision- Napoleon Bonaparte ( which in its time was also renamed the museum's name). From 1794 , the collection has been divided by national schools, and the organization of the collections of detractors. Thus the early Italians are on the first floor, near the large paintings of French romantic school, while the French primitives are on the second floor, next to Dutch painting of the seventeenth century. But whatever reservations we can do is a series of masterpieces that pass before the eyes of visitors.

Much of the paintings in the museum are works by French painters, the Louvre is a temple of French painting until the nineteenth century, each century is represented by major works and often unique. Such is the case of the Portrait of Jean le Bon , half of the fourteenth century, the oldest independent portrait preserved since antiquity. The fifteenth century the museum preserves including the Avignon Pieta of Enguerrand Quarton and the portrait of Charles VII by Jean Fouquet , the first picture where the subject is painted front and not in profile. For the sixteenth century, the School of Fontainebleau , which then dominates the art scene, is particularly well represented with a series of portraits and miniatures of Jean and Franois Clouet whose famous portrait of Francis I. The seventeenth century , the Grand Siecle , boom and emancipation of French painting, has a huge collection punctuated by several masterpieces including The Rape of the Sabines of Poussin (including forty works are shown), The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds by Georges de La Tour or the Portrait of Louis XIV by Hyacinthe Rigaud. The brothers Le Nain , Philippe de Champaigne , Claude Lorrain and Charles Le Brun are also particularly well represented. For the eighteenth century the museum has no fewer than thirteen works by Antoine Watteau which Pierrot and the Pilgrimage to Cythera , twenty-five of Fragonard , thirty of Chardin whose La Raie , twenty-one of Francis Boucher or another twenty-six paintings by Hubert Robert. Finally the Napoleonic period and the first half of the nineteenth century is the ultimate flagship of the Louvre is found particularly for those periods the Raft of the Medusa of Gericault , Liberty Leading the People by Delacroix , La Grande Odalisque of Ingres or yet The Coronation of Napoleon by David and 81 tables of Camille Corot.

The Louvre also has one of the largest collections of paintings in northern Europe with 1130 tables (Netherlands, Flanders and Germany). The Dutch and Flemish schools are best represented with works of prominent as The Virgin of Chancellor Rolin of Jan van Eyck , the Ship of Fools of Hieronymus Bosch , fifteen paintings Rembrandt with Bathsheba Bathing taking David's letter , ten- nine of Van Dyck , 51 by Rubens whose twenty-one paintings Cycle Marie de Medicis as well as two paintings by the hand of Vermeer with The Astronomer. For German painting found in works of Albrecht Drer , from Lucas Cranach the Elder or even Hans Holbein the Younger.

Course of Italian painting is also well represented, with about 1100 of which 600 works are exhibited permanently. Among them are many masterpieces of the greatest painters, including one that is perhaps the most famous paintings in the world, the Mona Lisa of a href = "% C3% L A9onard_De_Vinci" class = "mw-redirect" title = "Leonardo da Vinci> Leonardo Da Vinci. The Louvre also four other works from the hand of the great Renaissance master, in particular St. John the Baptist and The Virgin and Child Jesus and St. Anne. Moreover, the Italian collection includes some fifteen paintings by Veronese , whose Marriage of Cana , fourteen tables of Titian , whose concert setting, seven of Perugino or ten of Raphael , whose portrait of Baldassare Castiglione.

The Spanish collection (about 60 works), nevertheless has a selection of interesting works with some unusual names. But there are also all the great artists of the Golden Age as El Greco , Velazquez , Murillo , Ribera and Zurbaran. In addition, the Louvre has many paintings of Goya.

The collection of British paintings (about a hundred works), is composed of significant works of the masters of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries such as Thomas Gainsborough , John Constable and JMW Turner.

Paintings schools Scandinavian, Russian and Greek are present despite a reduced collection.

Graphics

Three heads of men in connection with the lion, Charles Le Brun , black chalk, pen and black ink, 1671.

The Graphic Arts Department is now with over 130 000 pieces. It encompasses three different funds:

  • The firm designs, made originally by the former collection of the kings of France, constantly enlarged thereafter through seizures and donations.
  • The Engraving , which maintains some 14,000 brass with engraved brass in particular from the cabinet of engravings of the king. Of prints obtained with the original copper can be ordered for about 600 boards.
  • Edmond de Rothschild's collection, donated to the Louvre in 1936, with about 40,000 prints, drawings and 500 3 000 illustrated books.

Given the number of parts and the fragility of the paper to light, it is impossible to permanently display all documents. These can be seen either in temporary exhibitions, either in the consultation room. In addition, a great effort scanning was done.


  • Five jays, Pisanello , watercolor, pen and brown ink, XV century.

  • Study of a bust of a young boy with shaved head, Gerard David , silver mine, XV century.

  • Isabella d'Este , Leonardo da Vinci, black chalk, red chalk and stump, tan chalk, circa 1500.

  • Three young black studies, Jean-Antoine Watteau , black chalk, red chalk, stump and gray wash, before 1727.

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History of the Louvre and Medieval Louvre

Various rooms are devoted to the history of the Louvre. They are located on the mezzanine (Sully wing).

Art and Civilization of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas

Presented annually since 2000 , this collection brings together one hundred objects of art, mainly sculptures, selected by Jacques Kerchache. Exhibited at the Pavillon des Sessions, it is intended to be a permanent embassy in the Louvre's Muse du Quai Branly , which opened in June 2006.

Activities of the museum

The Louvre has many temporary exhibitions, many of which help showcase the works of art or drawings that are not on permanent display. Temporary exhibitions are largely financed by companies such as:

. In 2004, the exhibition devoted to the Master of the Fontainebleau School Primaticcio received financial support from the company Morgan Stanley.

. In 2005, the museum has also signed an agreement with the High Museum of Art of Atlanta in the United States which allowed the American Museum exhibit for three years 142 works from the Louvre. This yielded a total of more than 5 million Euro for the renovation of the new rooms of furniture from the eighteenth century The Louvre in literature, film, and video games

Literature

Cinema - TV

Video Games

  • Louvre: the ultimate curse, video game developed by Index +, where a young woman named Morgan must return to the past from the Louvre to accomplish the mission that his father could not succeed, and died.
  • Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness video game developed by Eidos, Lara Croft must explore the Louvre at the request of his deceased friend Werner Von Croy to find the Obscura paintings

and the adaptation of the film Da Vinci Code

CD-Rom Cultural

  • Louvre: Palace and Collections, cd-rom cultural (1992) developed by Montparnasse Multimedia
  • Louvre: Virtual Visit, dvd-rom cultural (1999) developed by Montparnasse Multimedia, produced by the Muse du Louvre, RMN, Shogakukan and Montparnasse Multimedia

Museum dependent on public administrative Louvre

The Muse National Eugne Delacroix is now attached to the Louvre, although located on the other side of the Seine, in Saint-Germain-des-Pres ( 6th arrondissement ). Too small to be alone a public institution, the legal solution was the easiest to entrust the management at the Louvre. The curator is Christopher Leribault.

Antennas Louvre

The Louvre-Lens

Main article: Louvre-Lens.

For political reasons (decentralization), Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Jean-Jacques Aillagon , then Prime Minister and Minister of Culture , have decided to establish a branch of the Louvre elsewhere in France. Six cities were candidates for this location: Amiens , Arras , Boulogne-sur-Mer , Calais , Lens and Valenciennes. On 29 November 2004 , during a visit to Lens, Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin has announced the selection of this city.

The project, project management has been entrusted to the Japanese cabinet of architecture SANAA of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa , should materialize in 2012 by opening a new facility capable of receiving between 500 and 600 major pieces, alternating with the Paris museum. It should accommodate 500,000 visitors a year.

Louvre Abu Dhabi "

Main article: Louvre Abu Dhabi.

As part of creating a cultural district on Saadiyat Island, or "island of happiness" in Abu Dhabi , the UAE government has turned to France for the implementation and development of a universal museum. The architectural project was entrusted to Jean Nouvel, designer of the Muse du Quai Branly. The two countries signed March 6, 2007 an agreement on this subject, which organizes the operation of cultural cooperation for 30 years and provides that the museum will be called the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

France is entrusted with a mission to provide advice in the areas of design and construction of the building and is responsible for developing the scientific and cultural project of the museum. From the opening of the museum and for the next ten years, the Louvre Abu Dhabi will be borrowed works from French collections (300 in the early years, then 250 and 200). Similarly, for fifteen years, France will provide annually to the Louvre Abu Dhabi four exhibitions. Finally it will help the museum to clean up a collection to replace the works on loan from French museums.

The United Arab Emirates have pledged to counterparties about one billion euros over thirty years, which will benefit the Louvre and other museums partners in the operation. To implement the agreement on cultural cooperation, France has created a specific structure, the Agence France-Museums of which are shareholders in about a dozen major French cultural institutions.

Controversy

In Le Monde of 13 December 2006 , an article by Francoise Cachin , former director of the Museums of France, Jean Clair and Roland Recht , harshly criticizes trade policies of some French museums, particularly loans to pay the Louvre Atlanta and particularly the creation of the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Their position has met a wide response among art professionals. A petition , published in La Tribune de l'Art, has been signed by over 5000 people. She received during a time some media coverage . In response to this controversy, Jack Lang , in an article in Le Monde on January 31, 2007, took position in favor of the project. The ban on photographing the ancient works belonging to the public domain yet also led to controversy. The decision, dated 2005, was denounced by the visitors, and by commentators as not legal and goes against the cultural mission of public and national museums. The arguments in favor of the ban on photography is the danger of flash works, and discomfort generated by a photographer in an alley. Commentators have assumed a drift rather interested and would encourage the purchase of photographs in the museum shops. The ban has been lifted, and applies only to flash .

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The palace of the Louvre in 1908.
The Louvre in 2006, from the Place du Carrousel.

  • The Louvre Pyramid

  • The Cour Marly, Richelieu wing

  • The Cour Marly

  • The court Puget

  • One of the rooms of the Louvre

  • One of the rooms of the Louvre

  • Dining room

  • Ceiling of a room in the Louvre

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  • Apartments Napoleon Grand Salon

  • Royal bed

  • Apollo Gallery

  • Richelieu Wing

  • View of the Louvre seen from the dome of the Institut de France

  • The inverted pyramid

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    Ile-de-France: National Museum of Archaeology National Ceramics Museum Museum of the castle of Fontainebleau Museum chateaux de Malmaison and Bois-Awning Muse national des Granges de Port-Royal Renaissance Museum Museum castles of Versailles and Trianon

    Rest of France: Napoleonic Museum and African Museum of Island d'Aix Franco-American Museum Castle Blerancourt Bonaparte House Museum Musee Marc Chagall National Museum of the Two Victories Museum Chteau de Compigne National Museum of porcelain Adrien Dubouch Fernand Leger Museum Muse Magnin Pau Castle Museum Museum Picasso War and Peace National Museum of Prehistory
    Museum of Fine Arts Agen (47) Aix-en-Provence (13) Ajaccio (2A) Albi (81) Amiens (80) Angers (49) Arras (62) Avignon (84) Besanon (25) Bordeaux (33) Brest (29) Caen (14) Calais (62) Cambrai (59) Carcassonne (11) Chlons-en-Champagne (51) Chambry (73) Chartres (28) Cherbourg ( 50) Clermont-Ferrand (63) Colmar (68) Dijon (21) Dole (39) Douai (59) Dunkirk (59) Grenoble (38) La Rochelle (17) Le Havre (76 ) Le Mans (72) Libourne (33) Lille (59) Limoges (87) Lyon (69) Marseille (13) Meaux (77) Metz (57) Montpellier (34) Nancy ( 54) Nantes (44) Nice (06) Nmes (30) Orleans (45) Paris (75) Pau (64) Poitiers (86) Pont-Aven (29) Quimper (29) Reims (51) Rennes (35) Rouen (76) Strasbourg (67) Toulon (83) Toulouse (31) Tourcoing (59) Tours (37) Troyes (10) Valenciennes (59) Valves (56)
    Museum of Modern Art Cantini Museum Museum of Modern Art in Ceret Lille Metropolitan Museum of modern art, contemporary art and art brut Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nice Museum of Modern Art in the City of Paris Museum of Modern Art in Saint-Etienne Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Strasbourg Museum of Modern Art in Troyes Centre Pompidou-Metz
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