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Painters have learnt by copying works in the museum for centuries. Now a group of high-profile contemporary artists have been ...
Items from Adèle de Rothschild's cabinet of curiosities will be returned to the foundation after they erroneously ended up in ...
Be it da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, or Raphael’s depiction of the defeat of Satan, all of the iconic paintings call Louvre their home. So, if you are visiting Louvre anytime soon, here are 5 paintings ...
While French governments form and fall, while France tries to halt its descent among the world powers, the Louvre holds its rank at the top of the world’s art museums. Even as demonstrators ...
The change will actually help visitors experience the Louvre in a truly personal way—through the art of food. Here's how. Why is no one eating in "The Wedding Feast at Cana," by Paolo Veronese ...
The Louvre-Lens Museum is shining a spotlight on the clothing styles of painters, visual artists and sculptors through July.
Bonnard’s belief that his art could always be tweaked and improved even led—allegedly—to him being arrested, paintbrush in hand, in the Louvre. Bonnard was born in 1867, and began his ...
Karl Lagerfeld maintained that “Art is Art, Fashion is Fashion.” But a new exhibition, “ Louvre Couture, Art and Fashion: Statement Pieces,” might just prove the late German fashion ...
Louvre Chief Curator Germain Bazin thinks he knows the reason. First, he points out in his forthcoming book, Impressionist Paintings in the Louvre, “impressionism has not yet become part of history.