The Musée du Louvre, generally just referred to as “The Louvre,” is the most famous and most visited museum in the entire ...

But a pick-and-choose tour of famous masterpieces ignores the ... antiquity through the mid-19th century. The Louvre is the granddaddy of public art museums. In 1793 the medieval fortress-turned ...

One urban legend tells how Pierre Bonnard was arrested in the Louvre for "bonnarding" - but is it true? And why couldn't he ...

The Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda, is an oil painting of a Renaissance woman painted by Da Vinci in 16th century ...

Speaking in front of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece yesterday, Emmanuel Macron said the famous work ... may ruin the Louvre's "ecosystem as a place where high art becomes popular culture".

the most famous work of art in the world. The hordes of visitors who jam into her alcove in the Louvre museum in Paris every day are one proof of her popularity, but more telling is the way the ...

For the Louvre, history ended in 1848—later masterpieces are in France’s other national museums—but its transformation ...

As a visual art critic and arts reporter, here’s what caught my eye when I was in Paris — and what I suggest doing when you go next. What is it? The Louvre is one of the most famous art ...

FIND out if you have perfect vision by spotting the difference in the two semi-identical images from famous paintings. A few subtle differences can be found in the images below, but only the ...

And when the Louvre reopened a week later ... "He thinks that this patriotic act of stealing this famous painting and bringing it back to Italy will bring him sort of fame and thanks from the ...