Louvre Museum

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The Louvre Museum is a Parisian museum located in the Louvre Palace in the 1st arrondissement. He has the status of national museum in France. Ordained in nine departments, his collections present Western art from the Middle Ages to 1848, that of ancient civilizations that preceded and influenced him (eastern, Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan and Roman), the arts of early Christians and those of Islam.

With 72,735 m2 of rooms and galleries, it is the largest art museum in the world in front of the Hermitage Museum (66,842 m2) in Russia and the National Museum of China (65,000 m2). Immense royal residence of eight hundred years, on the right bank of the Seine, the Louvre Palace is closely linked to the arts and their conservation. In the 16th century, Francis I made it the emblem of the Renaissance in Paris.

Following the departure of Louis XIV for the Palace of Versailles at the end of the seventeenth century, part of the royal collections of ancient paintings and sculptures are stored. For a century, the palace houses several academies including painting and sculpture, as well as various artists and their workshops housed by the king. The project was born in the Enlightenment...