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    The Musée du Louvre is located in Paris, France. It is one of the largest and most visited art museums in the world. The museum is housed in the historic Louvre Palace, which was originally built as a fortress in the 12th century. It has since been expanded and renovated over the centuries. The museum first opened to the public in 1793 and contains over 380,000 objects from various collections including Egyptian antiquities, Near Eastern antiquities, Greek/Roman works, Islamic art, decorative arts, paintings, and prints/drawings.

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    The Musée du Louvre is located in Paris, France. It is one of the largest and most visited art museums in the world. The museum is housed in the historic Louvre Palace, which was originally built as a fortress in the 12th century. It has since been expanded and renovated over the centuries. The museum first opened to the public in 1793 and contains over 380,000 objects from various collections including Egyptian antiquities, Near Eastern antiquities, Greek/Roman works, Islamic art, decorative arts, paintings, and prints/drawings.

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    The Musée du Louvre is located in Paris, France. It is one of the largest and most visited art museums in the world. The museum is housed in the historic Louvre Palace, which was originally built as a fortress in the 12th century. It has since been expanded and renovated over the centuries. The museum first opened to the public in 1793 and contains over 380,000 objects from various collections including Egyptian antiquities, Near Eastern antiquities, Greek/Roman works, Islamic art, decorative arts, paintings, and prints/drawings.

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    The Musée du Louvre is located in Paris, France. It is one of the largest and most visited art museums in the world. The museum is housed in the historic Louvre Palace, which was originally built as a fortress in the 12th century. It has since been expanded and renovated over the centuries. The museum first opened to the public in 1793 and contains over 380,000 objects from various collections including Egyptian antiquities, Near Eastern antiquities, Greek/Roman works, Islamic art, decorative arts, paintings, and prints/drawings.

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    The document provides an overview of the Louvre museum in Paris, including its history, collections, and architecture.

    The museum is divided into three wings - Sully Wing, Richelieu Wing, and Denon Wing. It has over 380,000 objects across eight curatorial departments ranging from Egyptian antiquities to decorative arts.

    The collections span from prehistory to the 19th century, exhibiting over 35,000 works of art.

    Musée

    MUSEUM OF FRANCE
    TEAM

    MEMBER’S

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    ØRakesh Singh
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    Musée du Louvre

    Musée du Louvre
    Musée du Louvre
    The Louvre palace (Sully wing)
    Ø Established - 1793
    Ø Location - Palais Royal, Musée du Louvre, 75001 Paris,
    France.
    Ø Type - Art museum, Design, Textile Museum,
    Historic site
    Ø Visitor figures – 8.3 million (2007), 8.5 million
    (2008)
    Ø Director - Henri Loyrette
    Ø Curator - Marie-Laure de Rochebrune
    Ø Public transit access - Palais Royal – Musée
    du Louvre
    Ø Website - www.louvre.fr
    INTRODUCTION
    The Musée du Louvre, or officially the Grand
    Louvre — in English, The Great Louvre Museum

    is the“largest national museum” of France, the

    most
    visited museum in the world, and a historic

    monument. It is a central landmark of Paris,

    located
    on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st

    arrondissement (neighborhood). Nearly

    35,000 objects
    from prehistory to the 19th century are

    exhibited over
    The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace (Palais du
    Louvre)
    which began as a fortress built in the late 12th century

    under
    Philip II. Remnants of the fortress are still visible. The

    building
    was extended many times to form the present Louvre

    Palace. In
    1672, Louis XIV chose the Palace of Versailles for his

    household,
    leaving the Louvre primarily as a place to display the

    royal
    collection, including, from 1692, a collection of antique


    sculpture. In 1692, the building was occupied by the
    Académie
    des Inscriptions et Belles Letters and the Académie

    Royale de
    The museum opened on 10 August 1793 with an exhibition of
    537 paintings, the majority of the works being confiscated

    church and
    royal property. Because of structural problems with the

    building, the
    museum was closed in 1796 until 1801. The size of the

    collection
    increased under Napoleon when the museum was renamed

    the Musée
    Napoléon. After his defeat at Waterloo, many works seized by

    Napoleon's armies were returned to their original owners. The

    collection was further increased during the reigns of Louis XVIII

    and
    Charles X, and during the Second French Empire the museum

    gained
    20,000 pieces. Holdings have grown steadily through

    donations and
    gifts since the Third Republic, except during the two World
    HISTORY
    The Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre) which houses the museum was
    begun as a fortress by Philip II in the 12th century, with remnants of

    this building still visible in the crypt. It is not known if this was the

    first building on that spot, but it is possible that Philip modified an

    existing
    tower. The etymology of the name Louvre is also uncertain: it may

    refer to
    the structure's status as the largest in late 12th century Paris (from

    the French
    L'Œuvre, masterpiece), its location in a forest (from the French

    rouvre, oak), or,


    according to Larousse, a wolf-hunting den (via Latin: lupus, lower

    Empire:
    lupara).

    The Louvre Palace was altered frequently throughout the Middle

    Ages. In the
    14th century, Charles V converted the building into a residence and

    in 1546,

    Francis I renovated the site in French Renaissance style. Francis
    By the mid-18th century there were an increasing number of
    proposals to create a public gallery with Lafont Saint-Yenne

    publishing, in 1747, a call for the royal collection's display. In

    1750, Louis XV agreed and sanctioned the display of some of

    the royal collection in the Louvre. A hall was opened for public

    viewing on Wednesdays and Saturdays and contained Andrea

    del Sarto's Charity and works by Raphael. Under Louis XVI,

    the royal museum idea became policy. The comte

    d'Angiviller broadened the collection and in 1776 proposed

    conversion of the Grande Galerie—which contained maps—

    into
    The "French Museum". Many proposals were offered for the

    Louvre's renovation into a museum, however none was agreed

    on. Hence the museum remained incomplete until the French

    Revolution.


    Administration

    The Louvre is owned by the French government; however, since the nineties it

    has become
    more independent. Since 2003, the museum has been required to generate

    funds for
    projects. By 2006, government funds had dipped from 75 percent of the total

    budget to
    62 percent. In 2008, the French government provided $180 million of the

    Louvre's yearly
    $350 million budget; the remainder came from private contributions and ticket

    sales.


    Grand Louvre and the Pyrids

     Louvre Pyramid
    The Louvre Palace is an almost rectangular structure, composed of the square

    Cour Carrée and two wings which wrap the Cour Napoléon to the north and

    south. In the heart of the complex is the Louvre Pyramid, above the visitor's

    center. The museum is divided into three wings: the Sully Wing to the east,

    which contains the Cour Carrée and the oldest parts of the Louvre; the

    Richelieu Wing to the north; and the Denon Wing, which borders the Seine to

    the south.


     Cour Carrée of the museum
    In 1983, French President François Mitterrand proposed the Grand Louvre plan

    to renovate the building and relocate the Finance Ministry, allowing displays

    Co lle c t io

    ns
    The Seated Scribe from Saqqara, Egypt, limestone and
    alabaster, circa
    2600 and 2350 BCE.

    The Musée du Louvre contains more than 380,000 objects and


    displays
    35,000 works of art in eight curatorial departments.

    Like :-

    Ø Egyptian antiquities
    Ø Near Eastern antiquities
    Ø Greek, Etruscan, and Roman
    Ø Islamic art
    Ø Decorative arts
    Ø Painting
    Ø Prints and drawings
    The Battle of issue
    Stucco Figures, Gallery of Francis I, designed for the
    Room of the Duchesse d'Éstampes, Château of
    Fontainebleau, France.
    Saltcellar of Francis
    Tomb of Henry II and Catherine de' Medici, Abbey Church
    of St.-Denis, Paris.
    Gisants of the king and queen, detail of the Tomb of Henry II
    and Catherine de' Medici, Abbey Church of St.-Denis, Paris.
    Adam and Eve
    Landscape with St. Jerome Removing
    the Thorn from the Lion’s Paw
    Romanesque architecture
    from France, St Michael and
    the Devil
    Islamic art
    Three Lion - like heads
    Merci Beaucoup…!!!!

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