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Louvre Museum

The Lauvre Museum is a historic

monument and is one of the largestmuseums in the world. It is located

in Paris in the antique royal palace

of Louvre. The museum was

inaugurated on the ends of the 18th

century and it is the most important

of France. Actually, it receives more

than 8 millions of visitors a year.

The Louvre Palace began like strength for Felipe II in the twelve century but was altered a lot of

times during the middle age. Some kings, like Carlos V y Felipe II used the palace like royal

residence and in this time their artistic collections accumulated. When the royal residence was

transferred to Versalles Palace, the building would begin the process to transform in one of the

most important museums in the world.

By the middle of 18th

century, it has several proposals to create a public gallery in 1747. During the

France revolution the Louvre was transform in a public museum, in May of 1791. The Louvre was a

place that joins all the monuments of the arts and science. So, the museum opened on 10 August

1793, the first anniversary that the monarchy disappeared. In 1989 a glass pyramid was

constructed.

The collection in Louvre has about 300,000 works before to 1948 and exposed about 35,000. Thegreat collection was organized for themes, in different departments: Eastern antiquities, Egyptian,

Greek, Roman and Etruscan antiquities, history of medieval Louvre and the Louvre, paintings,

sculpture, art, graphic arts and art of Islam. Among the most important paintings are: La Gioconda

by Leonardo da Vinci, Liberty Leading the People by Delacroix, The Wedding at Cana by Verons.

Among the sculptures the most important works are: The Venus de Milo in ancient Greece, The

seated scribe Ancient Egyptian, The Winged Victory by Samotracia in the Hellenistic period of

ancient Greece.

The Louvre is bigger and the art lovers could spend several days crossing it. If you want to make a

general idea and see the principal works, it is necessary spend at least a complete morning for

crossing the museum.

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