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How To Virtually Tour of Paris’ Louvre & See Every Masterpiece

If you’re an art enthusiast, the Louvre is probably at the top of your Paris or museum wish list.

As the world’s largest and most visited museum, it boasts an impressive collection of 35,000 artworks, ranging from the 6th century BC to the 19th century AD, all housed within a magnificent Renaissance palace.

However, as you might imagine, visiting the Louvre can be quite the experience.

It’s often packed with crowds, flashing cameras, selfie sticks, and people bustling around or trying to touch the art. This can make it feel a bit chaotic and overwhelming.

But there’s good news! You can now explore the Louvre from the comfort of your home, avoiding the hustle and bustle.

I’ll guide you through how to virtually visit this iconic museum and view all its must-see masterpieces. Get ready to enjoy your personal Leonardo or Michelangelo experience in peaceful solitude.

Layout of the Louvre

The Louvre is a U shape, divided into three wings: Denon, Sully, and Richelieu. Each of the wings has four floors.

The Denon Wing is home to the Louvre’s best known art work, including the world’s most famous painting, the Mona Lisa .

The Sully Wing is known for its statuary and antiquities.

The Richelieu Wing houses the lavish apartments of Napoleon III and some famed Dutch art works.

Virtual Tour of Louvre Masterpieces

Let’s take an online virtual tour of the Louvre, wing by wing.

You can see all the must see masterpieces via 360 video tours, YouTube videos, or online tours on the Louvre Website itself. For a lengthy overall YouTube tour of the Louvre, click here .

The Denon Wing

The Denon Wing is the most visited part of the Louvre. It boasts the fabulously ornate Apollo Gallery, with high arches and frescoed ceilings.

It’s a shrine to Sun King Louis XIV. The paintings were begun by Charles Le Brun and completed by Eugene Delacroix.

1. French Paintings in the Denon Wing

The Denon Wing is most renowned for its iconic French paintings from the Neoclassical and Romantic periods of art history. The must see French masterpieces include:

• Eugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People
• Jacques-Louis David, The Coronation of Napoleon
• Theodore Gericault, Raft of the Medusa
• Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Grand Odalisque

You can take a virtual tour of the recently restored Apollo Gallery on the Louvre’s website here . You can learn about the Coronation of Napoleon from this Louvre YouTuber .

You can take a virtual video tour of the world’s most famous French painting, Liberty Leading the People here . And learn about the Grand Odalisque here .

Via my blog, you can also explore the Louvre’s underrated masterpieces in the Denon Wing.

I also have a guide to what I think is the best painting in the Louvre , Gericault’s Raft of the Medusa , a then-scandalous painting based on a true story.

2. Italian Paintings in the Denon Wing

The Denon Wing also boasts treasures from the Italian Renaissance.

This is where you’ll find works by Sandro Botticelli , Leonardo da Vinci , Raphael , and Titian. The must see masterpieces include:

• Leonardo Da Vinci, Mona Lisa
• Leonardo Da Vinci, The Virgin and Child With St. Anne
• Titian, Pastoral Concert
• Raphael, Portrait of Baldasarre Castiglione
• Paolo Veronese, The Wedding Feast at Cana

You can take a virtual 360 tour of the Grand Gallery, which houses much of the Louvre’s Italian art.

If you’re a Mona Lisa fan, the Louvre is offering the museum’s first virtual reality experience , which brings to life the story of the enigmatic portrait. You can also take a virtual tour of the Mona Lisa here , with Smarthistory, an artsy YouTube channel.

In the Louvre’s busiest room, the Mona Lisa stares across at Veronese’s massive Wedding Feast at Cana . You can take a virtual tour and get the full scoop on the Louvre’s largest painting here .

You can virtually tour Raphael’s paintings, including Baldasarre , on Google Arts & Culture . Learn about Titian’s Pastoral Concert , which inspired Edouard Monet’s groundbreaking painting Luncheon on the Grass , here .

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3. Sculptures in the Denon Wing

If you prefer sculpture to painting, the Denon Wing has one of the world’s most magnificent sculptures — the Winged Victory of Samothrac e.

It also has a room on the ground dedicated to Italian sculpture, the Michelangelo Gallery. It’s one of my favorites spots in the Louvre.

It’s home to Michelangelo’s Dying Slave and Rebellious Slave , from 1513-15. These sculptures seem to struggle to escape the marble.

They were originally intended for the Tomb of Pope Julius II in Rome. But Michelangelo got distracted with the ceiling of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel and could never finish the tomb.

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You can also find Antonio Canova’s incredibly romantic Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss . It’s considered Canova’s master work.

You can take a virtual tour of Michelangelo’s Slaves here , a virtual tour of Canova’s work on Google Arts & Culture , and a virtual tour of Canova’s Psyche here . You can take a virtual 360 tour of the Winged Victory here .

2. The Sully Wing

In the Sully Wing, you’ll find some of the world’s most beautiful sculptures, antiquities, and the remains of the Medieval Louvre.

One of the Louvre’s greatest ladies, a Hellenistic masterpiece, is here — the Venus de Milo . Even without arms, Venus de Milo is considered the classical epitome of female beauty.

You can also see another masterwork, Sleeping Hermaphrodite , a mythological merger of a male and female body. The ancient sculpture was discovered in Rome near the Baths of Diocletian.

Cardinal Scipione Borghese commissioned the Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini to carve the mattress in 1619. He later sold the piece to the French when he was strapped for cash.

READ : The Bernini Trail in Rome

The Egyptian Antiquities are a well loved highlight of the Sully Wing. The collection features the 12 ton Great Sphinx of Tanis, model ships, ancient sculptures, a massive statue of Ramses II, and a sarcophagus room.

The medieval Louvre is also a fascinating place. Originally, the Louvre was a 12th century fortress built by King Philippe Auguste.

The lower levels are all that remain. Archeologists discovered and excavated the underground medieval remains during the construction of I.M. Pei’s pyramid in 1983-85.

You can take a virtual tour of all the Louvre’s Roman Antiquities here , the Venus de Milo here , and the Sleeping Hermaphrodite here . You can take a virtual tour of the famed Egyptian Antiquities here and walk around the Medieval Louvre here .

3. The Richelieu Wing

In Richelieu Wing, you can admire the Louvre’s Mesopotamian Antiquities, Napoleon III’s Second Empire rooms, sculptures, and some amazing Dutch masterpieces.

The Richelieu Wing boasts the spectacular Cour Marly, a spacious glass roofed courtyard.

It’s stuffed with 17th and 18th marble and white stone sculptures, many commissioned by Sun King Louis XIV and Louis XV. There’s also a magnificent Fountain of Diana, dating from 1550.

Perhaps the most famous part of the Richelieu Wing is the Napoleon III apartments. They were built between 1852-57 to accommodate visiting dignitaries. They’re sumptuous.

Crystal chandeliers glitter, gilded furniture gleams, and the ceilings sport beautiful frescos — all set amid red velvet and red drapery. The Rococo state dining room could seat almost 100 people.

You can virtually tour the Cour Puget here and the Cour Marly here . You can take a virtual tour of Napoleon’s Apartments here .

The Richelieu Wing is also home to some unmissable Dutch old master paintings, including:

• Johannes Vermeer, The Lacemaker
• Johannes Vermeer, The Astronomer
• Rembrandt, Bathsheba at Her Bath.
• Hieronymous Bosch, Ship of Fools
• Georges de la Tour, The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds

From the Louvre’s website, you can see and get an education on The Lacemaker here , Bathsheba here , Ship of Fools here , and The Cheat here .

If you’re a Beyonce fan, her recent music video featured pieces from the Louvre. Now, you can follow the Beyonce Louvre Trail on the Louvre website.

The Louvre is also featuring an Artwork of the Day . If you’re interested in the history of the Louvre, here’s my guide .

Tickets For The Louvre

Naturally, if you decide to visit the Louvre in person, it’s essential to p re-book a skip the line ticket . If you take your art seriously, you may want to  book a guided tour .

I hope you’ve enjoyed my guide to taking a virtual tour of the Louvre. You may enjoy these other Paris travel guides:

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Not Heading To Paris This Summer? The Louvre Has Digitized 482,000 Artworks

The Apollon Gallery at the Louvre museum in Paris on Jan. 14, 2020. Stephanie de Sakutin/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

The Apollon Gallery at the Louvre museum in Paris on Jan. 14, 2020.

One of the world's most massive museums has announced an encompassing digitization of its vast collection.

"The Louvre is dusting off its treasures, even the least-known," said Jean-Luc Martinez, President-Director of the Musée du Louvre, in a statement on Friday . "For the first time, anyone can access the entire collection of works from a computer or smartphone for free, whether they are on display in the museum, on loan, even long-term, or in storage."

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Some of this is hyperbole. The entire collection is so huge, no one even knows how big it is. The Louvre's official release estimates about 482,000 works have been digitized in its collections database , representing about three quarters of the entire archive. (The museum's recently revamped homepage is designed for more casual visitors, especially those on cellphones, with translations in Spanish, English and Chinese.)

"It's just overwhelming," says Andrew McClellan, a Tufts University professor and author of Inventing the Louvre: Art, Politics and the Origins of the Modern Museum . The strategy of putting nearly everything online is in keeping with the Enlightenment ideals that shaped the museum after the French Revolution, he says: "collecting the world's knowledge together under one roof, and then making it available for researchers and the general public."

Major institutions have been digitizing their collections for many years, but the Louvre's online archives required especially exhaustive labor. Every image, according to the museum, is accompanied with scientific data: "title, artist, inventory number, dimensions, materials and techniques, date and place of production, object history, current location and bibliography. ... These documentary entries, drawn up by museum curators and researchers, come from two museum collection databases, and are updated on a daily basis."

Given the expense of running those databases, McClellan and other observers have wondered whether the Louvre may find ways to monetize some of these images, and whether the online collection will affect real-life attendance. ( " I am sure that this digital content is going to further inspire people to come to the Louvre to discover the collections in person," the museum's director said in his statement.)

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It's also unclear how many of the online images may be of sacred objects, from countries other than France, and not meant to be casually viewed. The digital catalog includes items that may have been plundered — by Nazis or colonial forces — in a separate album titled "MNR" works , which stands for Musées Nationaux Récupération, or National Museums Recovery.

"This has to be coming up against these questions around restitution and repatriation and thinking about what the digitization of cultural heritage means within a context that is contested," observes Suse Anderson, a professor of Museum Studies at George Washington University , who studies the impact of digital technology on museums. She's generally impressed, she says, by the Louvre's online expansion, especially since it steers visitors beyond the obvious marquee works of art such as the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo .

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"I'm a serendipitous browser," she says. "I'm not the person seeking the hero works. They're so easy to find. I'm the person who wants to find the unexpected."

Like the actual museum, the Louvre's online collection provides pathways towards new discoveries, Anderson says. "It helps you see things you might not otherwise. It helps you find surprises. And that's where I think you often get the connection to your own life, is when you find something that resonates, that isn't the thing you went looking for."

And online, you can ... Louvre ... the jostling crowds of tourists far behind.

You Can Now Explore the Louvre’s Entire Collection Online

A new digital database features 480,000 works from the Paris museum’s holdings

Nora McGreevy

Correspondent

When cultural institutions around the world were forced to shutter last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic , even the most popular art museum in the world felt the effects. The Louvre , home to such masterpieces as the Mona Lisa , welcomed just 2.7 million visitors in 2020—a 72 percent drop from 2019, when 9.6 million people flocked to the Paris museum.

But even as physical museums remained closed, art enthusiasts continued to seek inspiration in new ways : In that same pandemic year, 21 million people visited the Louvre’s website, according to a statement .

Thanks to a major website redesign and a new online collection database, browsing the historic museum’s holdings from home is easier than ever, reports Alaa Elassar for CNN . For the first time ever, the Louvre’s entire art collection is available to search online. The updated catalogue boasts more than 480,000 entries, from rare items stowed away in storage to the iconic Venus de Milo and Winged Victory of Samothrace . (Though the digital database is free to browse, offerings are not open access , meaning users cannot directly download, share or reuse the images.)

“Today, the Louvre is dusting off its treasures, even the least-known,” says the museum’s president, Jean-Luc Martinez, in the statement. “… [A]nyone can access the entire collection of works from a computer or smartphone for free, whether they are on display in the museum, on loan, even long-term, or in storage.”

Martinez adds, “The Louvre’s stunning cultural heritage is all now just a click away.”

Viewers can also click through an interactive map of the museum, virtually walking through the cavernous halls of the Renaissance castle or the sleek steel-and-glass pyramid designed by American architect I.M. Pei in 1989.

Previously, the public only had access to about 30,000 listings of works in the Louvre’s collections, reports Vincent Noce for the Art Newspaper . Per France24 , more than three-quarters of the entries in the Louvre’s online collection contain images and label information. The museum plans to continue to expand and improve the database in the coming months.

The archive also includes the collections of the Musée National Eugène-Delacroix , which is run by the Louvre, and the nearby Tuileries Garden , as well as a number of Nazi-looted artworks that are in the process of being returned to their original owners’ families.

According to the new online catalogue , about 61,000 works stolen by the Nazis were retrieved from Germany and brought back to France after World War II. Of these works, 45,000 have been returned to their rightful owners. A number of others were sold by the French state. The remaining 2,143 unclaimed works were categorized as National Museum Recovery (MNR) and entrusted to French cultural institutions, including the Louvre, for safekeeping.

Despite the Louvre’s involvement in repatriation efforts, lingering concerns remain that Nazi-looted art may have made its way into the Louvre’s permanent collections during the war. Since hiring curator Emmanuelle Polack to lead a wartime provenance research project in January 2020, the Louvre has checked nearly two-thirds of the 13,943 works it acquired between 1933 and 1945, Martinez tells the Art Newspaper .

In the future, the museum plans to debut the findings of this research project on its website. The director notes that he has instructed curators to conduct a similar investigation of the thousands of artworks in the Louvre’s collections that hail from countries formerly under French control, such as Algeria, Tunisia, Syria and Lebanon.

The goal of this long-term project, he says, will be to identify which items in the Louvre’s encyclopedic collections were obtained through looting or colonial violence.

“Our collections are mostly archaeological and come from digs shared with the countries of origin,” Martinez tells the Art Newspaper , adding that the museum often obtained new archives through “bilateral” legal agreements.

At the same time, Martinez adds, “[M]useums like the Louvre served imperial ambitions and we have to deal with this history.”

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Nora McGreevy is a former daily correspondent for Smithsonian . She is also a freelance journalist based in Chicago whose work has appeared in Wired , Washingtonian , the Boston Globe , South Bend Tribune , the New York Times and more.

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Visite virtuelle du Musée du Louvre

Célèbre musée de la capitale française, le Louvre est un véritable monument incontournable lors d’un passage à Paris. Avec ses 243.000 mètres carrés de galeries, il fait partie des destinations culturelles les plus importantes au monde.

De quoi effrayer quelques visiteurs à la pensée du parcours à effectuer pour avoir l’opportunité d’observer toutes les œuvres qui s’y trouvent. Aujourd’hui, il vous est possible de vous familiariser avec les salles, les expositions et les oeuvres d'art du musée. Que ce soit pour préparer votre excursion ou pour parcourir le musée sans quitter votre salon, confortablement installé devant votre ordinateur, embarquez pour une  visite virtuelle saisissante de réalisme  !

Expositions virtuelles sur le site officiel du Louvre

De nombreux sites proposent un  visite virtuelle   des lieux cultes dans Paris. Le plus célèbre musée de Paris, et même de France, en fait définitivement partie. Ce sont trois visites en ligne que l’on retrouve sur le site internet officiel du musée.

Trois visites virtuelles sont proposées  : l’une du  Louvre médiéval , une autre des  collections de l’Egypte pharaonique et une de la  galerie d’Apollon . Les deux premières sont très bien réalisées car elles permettent de déambuler dans l’espace des galeries comme si l’on s’y trouvait. La qualité des images rend cette expérience très agréable.

La dernière sur la galerie d’Apollon est différente, elle se fait sous la forme d’une photographie de l’œuvre principale qui se trouve sur le plafond de l’édifice. Cependant, il n’est pas possible de s’y promener comme si nous étions un visiteur mais uniquement de faire défiler l’œuvre à l’aide de son curseur. Le point hautement intéressant de ce concept repose sur l’explication de l’œuvre d’art avec le détail de chaque représentation.

Pour la visite virtuelle de la Galerie d’Apollon ou déambuler dans les galeries du Louvre médiéval et de l’Egypte pharaonique :  https://www.louvre.fr/visites-en-ligne

Une promenade virtuelle à 360° à l’extérieur du site

Cette visite panoramique peut donner un peu le tournis, mais peut s’avérer pratique pour préparer sa venue au musée. Ce lieu remarquable possède pas moins de 5 portes et autant d’accès différents. Sa surface gigantesque pourrait mener plus d’un visiteur à se perdre ou ne pas savoir où se rendre. Il peut donc être une bonne idée d’avoir un premier aperçu des entrées, savoir à quoi elles ressemblent, quel est leur nom et où est ce qu’elles se situent.  Cette visite virtuelle du Louvre  se fait par des photos des différents lieux et zones du musée. Il n’est pas possible de se rendre d’une porte à l’autre via le panorama, mais cela reste utile pour l’orientation.

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Juxtaposition de photos pour une visite détaillée

Pour finir, le célèbre outil  Google Maps  permet une visite virtuelle principalement extérieure du lieu. Nous pouvons alors avancer dans les rues de Paris qui bordent l’édifice comme si nous y étions. Cependant, dans l’enceinte du monument, la visite se fait sous forme de photos. Les clichés sont pris uniquement à certains endroits par des visiteurs lambdas qui les soumettent ensuite à Google.  La cour Napoléon  par exemple possède plusieurs points de vue de visiteurs différents, à des heures et des saisons différentes. On peut déambuler sur la place de photo en photo et donc de saison en saison, ce qui peut donner lieu à une représentation un peu biaisée du lieu. Il est aussi possible d’avoir un aperçu de l’immense galerie commerciale du musée. La visite de la Pyramide du Louvre en verre quant à elle est aussi possible en photo mais pas sous la forme d’une promenade virtuelle.

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Interact with a virtual Mona Lisa at the Louvre’s new Da Vinci Exhibition

Oct 31, 2019 • 2 min read

Paris’ Musée du Louvre has unveiled a brand new Leonardo da Vinci exhibition, set up to mark the 500-year anniversary of the esteemed painter’s death. As well as displaying 160 unique pieces of the work, the exhibition includes something truly special; a virtual reality experience that allows visitors to actually interact with the Mona Lisa in 3D.

The exhibition aims to illustrate the importance Da Vinci placed on art, and how he sought to bring life to his work through what he referred to as “the science of painting”. Alongside its own collection of five paintings by Leonardo and 22 of his drawings, the Louvre will display more than 135 other works in the form of manuscripts, sculptures and objects from some of the most prestigious European and American institutions, including the Royal Collection, the British Museum, the National Gallery in London, the Vatican Pinacoteca, and the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan.

The exhibition concludes with a virtual reality experience developed in partnership with HTC Vive that allows visitors to get closer than ever to the Mona Lisa. Called Mona Lisa: Behind the Glass , it presents the opportunity for guests to approach the painting and have a personal encounter with it in the virtual space. The seven-minute immersive experience sees participants donning a headset and stepping in front of a version of the painting with the protective glass and frame removed. Alone with the famous masterpiece, the viewer can see the vivid details of the oil painting, including the texture of the wood panel seen through the paint layer.

The VR experience combines moving image, sound and interactive design to create something engaging for visitors. Guests can see first-hand how Da Vinci used the sfumato technique, which involved numerous layers of thinly applied paint making the transition from shadow to light almost invisible. 

“Da Vinci was a profoundly creative thinker who innovated across the disciplines of art and technology. Virtual reality as an inherently interdisciplinary medium enables today’s creative practitioners to transcend the boundaries between fields that were once considered to be more separated. By using VR to tell the story of this renowned artwork, and to present it in a heightened, intimate setting, we hope visitors to the Louvre will have an enriched experience,” said Victoria Chang, Director of Vive Arts at HTC.

The project is the culmination of more than ten years of work, including new scientific examinations of the Louvre’s paintings and the conservation treatment of three of them (the Saint Anne, La Belle Ferronnière, and the Saint John the Baptist), allowing for better understanding of Da Vinci’s artistic practice and technique. The exhibition also aims to shed light on the painter’s biography through the re-examination of historical documentation.

More information on the Leonardo da Vinci exhibition is available at the official Louvre website .

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Explore the Palace of Versailles and relive its temporary exhibitions remotely, with our collection of 360° virtual tours. 

Horace vernet 

Find all the artworks in this exhibition in a unique setting using 360° photo technology. An immersive experience, to discover the world of Horace Vernet. A key figure at Versailles during the reign of  Louis-Philippe , the artist produced, over period of 13 years, some of the most beautiful paintings in the  Historical Galleries , making Versailles home to the largest collection of his works today.

Curator:  Valérie Bajou, General Curator at the National Museum of the Palaces of Versailles and Trianon.

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louis xv passions of a king exhibition (2023)

Discover all the works of this exhibition in a unique scenography thanks to the 360° photo technology. An immersive experience, to discover the passions of Louis XV.

Curators : Yves Carlier, Chief Heritage Curator at the Musée National des Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, Hélène Delalex, Heritage Curator at the Musée National des Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon.

the king's animals exhibition (2021-2022)

The Palace of Versailles, located in the heart of a huge forest in Île-de-France, has fostered the development of a new relationship with the animal world. From the object of study and collection to the animal as a political attribute and symbol of power, what relations did the Court have with pets, wild and exotic animals?

Exhibition curators : Alexandre Maral, Curator General, Head of the Sculpture Department of the Musée National des Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon and Nicolas Milovanovic, Head Curator of the Paintings Department of the Louvre Museum.

hyacinthe rigaud or the sun portrait exhibition (2021)

The palace of Versailles presents the first major monographic exhibition dedicated to the work of  Hyacinthe Rigaud . This most famous portraitist of the Sun King dominated portraiture for nearly a century and set new codes in the discipline.

Exhibition curators : Laurent Salomé, Director of the Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, Élodie Vaysse, Curator of Heritage and Ariane James-Sarazin, Curator General of Heritage, Deputy Director of the Musée de l'Armée.

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versailles revival exhibition (2020)

The exhibition «Versailles Revival» shows the enthusiasm and passion for the Versailles of the Ancien Régime, which developed a hundred years after the French Revolution through 350 works, documents and photographs. In parallel, the Republic gathers its assemblies and receives foreign sovereigns, gardens attract tourists and large waters become a popular destination. 

Exhibition curator : Laurent Salomé, Director of the Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon et Claire Bonnotte, scientific collaborator of the Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon.

the king is dead exhibition (2015-2016)

The exhibition explores the role of the king’s death in the monarchical imagination and court society, placing the death of Louis XIV in the context of the funeral rituals of European rulers from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. It presents major works of art and historical documents, some of which have never been exhibited before, relating to the survival of this ritual after the French Revolution .

Exhibition curators : Béatrix Saule, Director and Head Curator of the Musée National des Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, assisted by Hélène Delalex, Conservation Officer at the Musée National des Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon

versailles and the ancient exhibition (2012-2013)

A political and aesthetic ideal, antiquity was glorified in all the courts of Europe since the Renaissance and the Greek and Roman remains were collected with passion by the princes and powerful. But with the reign of Louis XIV, this admiration took on a completely different dimension. To impose in the eyes of all the advent of the absolute monarchy and the power of France, the Sun King conceived his palace as a new Rome dedicated to the cult of Apollo, as well as a sanctuary for his prestigious collection of statues, busts, vases, cameos and medals.

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wardrobe of LOUIS xvi

The wardrobe cabinet , made in 1788, is considered the masterpiece of Versailles royal art. It is a small cabinet of about 13 m2, located in the interior apartment of Louis XVI and accessible through a hidden door. The white and golden woodwork is unique in Europe and represents a peak of French decorative art of the 18th century.  

napoléon rooms

The Napoleonic collections are now presented in several spaces in the palace: in the Coronation Chamber showcasing Napoleon 's rise to become Emperor ; in the rooms known as the « Revolution Room », the « Consulate Room » and the « Empire Room », on the ground floor of the South Wing, presenting the most important moments in Napoleon's rise and his reign in the political, military, diplomatic and dynastic domains ; and in the Gallery of Battles , on the first floor of the same wing. On the second floor, known as the Chimay and South Attics, the story of Napoleon is illustrated by other works, accompanied by many portraits of the Emperor's entourage and the society of his time.

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#LouvreChezVous : visiter le musée du Louvre gratuitement depuis son canapé

La fermeture des musées ne signifie pas que l'on ne peut pas s'y rendre... virtuellement. Aujourd'hui, Connaissance des Arts vous propose de visiter le Louvre, sans bouger de votre canapé, reconfinement oblige.

Bien que le reconfinement obligatoire ne soit pas une partie de plaisir, on peut lui reconnaître tout de même certains avantages. Si vous preniez un moment, seul ou en famille, pour visiter calmement un musée et toutes les ressources qu’il peut offrir ? Après une pause virtuelle au Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York , pourquoi ne pas faire une petite escale à Paris pour découvrir toutes les richesses numériques que propose le Louvre ? Dessin animé, vidéos, podcasts , conférences, base d’images, commentaires d’œuvres, visites virtuelles , expérience de réalité virtuelle avec La Joconde, animation sur les réseaux sociaux… Faites le plein d’art, à consommer sans modération.

Vue de la Cour carrée du Louvre ©Agathe Hakoun, 2019

#UnJourUneOeuvre ou l’art de mettre en avant des chefs-d’œuvre

Le Louvre a beau être fermé depuis le 30 octobre, conformément aux directives gouvernementales prises en  raison de la pandémie de coronavirus , nombreux sont les contenus qu’offre  le site  du musée pour s’occuper gratuitement et intelligemment. On retrouve notamment un passionnant cycle de conférences consacré à la question des couleurs au Moyen Âge présenté, en 2012, par l’historien Michel Pastoureau, spécialiste du sujet.

Le musée met également en avant ses chefs-d’œuvre. De la  Vénus de Milo  au  Radeau de la Méduse  de Théodore Géricault, en passant par La Joconde de Léonard de Vinci, une sélection d’œuvres témoignant de la diversité de la collection du Louvre est analysée pour le plus grand plaisir des visiteurs 2.0. Pour celles et ceux qui suivent l’institution sur les réseaux sociaux, le musée donne quotidiennement rendez-vous à ses  followers  pour découvrir sa collection et son histoire à travers les hashtags #UnJourUneOeuvre, #HistoireDuLouvre et #LouvreALaLoupe.

View this post on Instagram . ?? Inspectons les œuvres du musée avec #LouvreALaLoupe ! Aujourd’hui, focus sur un détail d’« Œdipe explique l’énigme du sphinx » ? – ❓Ingres peint ce tableau en 1808. Œdipe, personnage de la mythologie grecque, répond à l'énigme posée par le sphinx, monstre fabuleux. Dans un paysage rocheux et escarpé, Œdipe est nu et de profil. Le sphinx, au visage et au buste de femme, au corps de lion et aux ailes d'oiseau, s'est placé dans l'ombre d'une grotte. – ??Au bas du tableau, un pied coupé et des ossements humains évoquent les voyageurs précédents qui ont péri après avoir échoué à répondre. Au fond, un compagnon d'Œdipe épouvanté s'enfuit. On devine plus loin encore des constructions de la ville de Thèbes. – ??‍? La netteté des contours et l'emploi réduit du clair-obscur confèrent un aspect archaïque au tableau. En 1827, le peintre transforme la toile pour atténuer cet aspect. Il agrandit le sphinx et ajoute le personnage à l'arrière-plan, donnant à son œuvre une apparence plus moderne et romantique. – ? Aile Denon, salle 702. — ? Let's inspect the works of the museum with #LouvreDetails! Today, focus on ‘’Œdipus and the Sphinx’’ ? – ❓Ingres painted this artwork in 1808. Œdipus, a character from Greek mythology, is answering the riddle asked by the fabulous monster, the Sphinx. In a steep, rocky landscape, Œdipus is seen naked, in profile. The Sphinx, with the face, head, and shoulders of a woman, a lion's body, and bird's wings, is standing in the shadows of a cave. – ??At the bottom of the picture, a discarded foot and human bones recall the previous travelers who have perished after failing to reply. In the background, one of Œdipus's companions is running away, terrified. Further away, in the distance, the buildings of the city of Thebes can just be made out. – ??‍? The clarity of the contours and the muted use of chiaroscuro add an archaic flavor to the picture. However, Ingres transformed the canvas in 1827. He enlarges the Sphinx and adds the figure in the background, giving his artwork a more modern and romantic appearance. – ? Denon wing, room 702. – ? ©️ RMN–Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre) / Stéphane Maréchalle . . . #Louvre A post shared by Musée du Louvre (@museelouvre) on Mar 6, 2020 at 3:14am PST

Vous êtes amateurs de pages interactives ? La rubrique « Œuvres à la loupe » est faite pour vous. Dans celle-ci, le Louvre propose des dossiers multimédias pour aller au plus près d’une sculpture, d’une peinture ou d’un objet d’art de sa collection. Ainsi vous pourrez découvrir en détail le cabinet d’ébène, un des exemples les plus beaux et luxueux de la production parisienne des « menuisiers en ébène » de la première moitié du XVIIe siècle, ou encore le pastel du  Portrait de la marquise de Pompadour , réalisé par Maurice-Quentin de La Tour entre 1752 et 1755.

La Joconde et la peinture de Léonard de Vinci comme vous ne les avez jamais vues

Pour tout savoir sur La Joconde , œuvre emblématique de l’institution parisienne, le site lui consacre pléthore de contenus. Afin d’observer, comprendre et comparer le tableau de Léonard de Vinci , le Louvre lui dédie un focus spécifique. Aussi,  En tête-à-tête avec La Joconde ,  la première expérience de réalité virtuelle proposée par l’institution, est quant à elle accessible via l’application  La Joconde en VR  et disponible gratuitement sur Google Play Store et Apple Store. Les chanceux équipés d’un casque à réalité virtuelle peuvent même reproduire l’expérience de chez eux.

Retrouvez l’expérience de réalité virtuelle "En tête-à-tête avec la Joconde" chez vous ! ? ? Téléchargez l’application conçue avec @htcvive pour rencontrer Monna Lisa en personne depuis votre smartphone ! ? https://t.co/H93oXrCFDY #LouvreChezVous #MuseumFromHome pic.twitter.com/vZFcZld2VT — Musée du Louvre (@MuseeLouvre) March 19, 2020

À l’occasion de l’exposition événement «  Léonard de Vinci  », le musée du Louvre a créé une série de cinq podcasts intitulée  Quand la peinture raconte Léonard . À travers cinq chefs-d’œuvre du maître de la Renaissance  conservés au musée, découvrez les histoires contées par les visiteurs et les conservateurs qui démêlent le vrai du faux. Pour celles et ceux voulant aller plus loin, le Louvre a mis en ligne sur sa chaîne Youtube des conférences des spécialistes du maître florentin.

Visiter virtuellement le musée et ses expositions

Côté collections permanentes, l’institution parisienne propose trois visites virtuelles dédiées aux antiquités égyptiennes, au Louvre médiéval et aux arts décoratifs mis à l’honneur dans la Galerie d’Apollon. Dans une optique d’exhaustivité, le site du Louvre présente aussi ses différentes salles, en plus de répertorier les 30 000 œuvres exposées au musée dans sa base Atlas.

Côté exposition temporaire, si celle sur l’artiste de la Renaissance germanique, Albrecht Altdorfer, et « Le Corps et l’âme. De Donatello à Michel-Ange . Sculptures italiennes de la Renaissance » sont reportées, le Louvre propose tout de même une visite virtuelle de son exposition de la Petite Galerie «  Figure d’artiste  », interrompue inopinément. L’occasion d’admirer de chez soi les autoportraits de Dürer, Rembrandt ou Delacroix, pour «  retracer la construction de la figure de l’artiste à travers les âges  », précise le musée.

Grandir avec le Louvre

Vous souhaitez initier facilement vos petits amateurs d’art en herbe ? Rien de plus simple avec  1 minute au musée.  Créé par Les Films de l’Arlequin, le musée du Louvre, le musée d’Orsay et la Réunion des musées nationaux (RMN), ce dessin animé décrypte de façon ludique les œuvres phares des musées à travers trois enfants cartoon : Mona, Rafaël et Nabi. En une minute, chaque personnage apporte un commentaire, livre une explication et exprime une émotion face à une œuvre d’art. Tous les épisodes sont disponibles sur la chaîne Youtube d’Une minute au musée officiel.

Avec tous ces éléments accessibles en quelques clics, vous êtes équipé pour affronter l’ennui et serez fin prêt à retrouver la collection et les expositions du Louvre en chair et en art une fois le confinement terminé.

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The Musée du Louvre or officially Grand Louvre, in English, the Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre in Paris, France, is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre) which began as a fortress built in the late 12th century. The building was extended many times to form the present Louvre Palace. In 1682, Louis XIV chose the Palace of Versailles for his household, leaving the Louvre primarily as a place to display the royal collection. The Musée du Louvre houses 35,000 works of art drawn from eight departments, displayed in over 60,000 square meters of exhibition. In the 1st arrondissement, at the heart of Paris, France , The Louvre is one of the best known major visitor attractions in France.

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Salon Denon

The vestibule of Room Denon, the Salon Denon (named after the first director of the Louvre Museum under Napoleon I), located at the other end of the room, whose extraordinary ceiling painted by Charles-Louis Müller glorifies state patronage in France. This vestibule associated the dual function of the Palais du Louvre, monarchic and artistic, for it also led to two galleries of paintings (now the Salle Daru and the Salle Mollien).

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The Mona Lisa Room

In this room you will find the most famous portrait painting of the world, Mona Lisa (by Leonardo da Vinci). Anybody that visits the Louvre Museum for the first time, wants to see this lady if this is the only work that has to be seen. But this is not the only masterpiece in the room. Opposite to Mona Lisa you can see The Wedding Feast at Cana (by Veronese), a huge (6.77 x 9.94 m) painting, which depicts Jesus 1st miracle, where he turns water to wine. This room is full of wonderful Italian paintings, but these 2 paintings steal the most of the attention.

Michelangelo Gallery

The Galerie Michel-Ange (Michelangelo Gallery), with its magnificent marble floor houses the Italian sculptures, notably Michelangelo's famous Slaves. In the Michelangelo Gallery at the Louvre (Musée du Louvre), the visitors crowd around this idyllic image of a loving couple: a winged man and a swooning woman in a voluptuous embrace, their lips about to join in a kiss. take a closer look at this masterful composition of Psyche and Cupid .

The Salle Daru

The Salle Daru was created and decorated in 1863 for the imperial museum, as conveyed by its red and gold decor (the French imperial colors). In this section of the Louvre Museum (Musée du Louvre) you can see Davids masterpiece The Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon and the Coronation of Empress Joséphine along other large-scale French Neoclassical paintings.

'Raft of the Medusa' in Salle Mollien

The Salle Mollien was created and decorated in 1863 for the imperial museum, as conveyed by its red and gold decor. It houses large French Romantic paintings such as The Raft of the Medusa , July 28. Liberty Leading the People and The Death of Sardanapalus are on display here.

Completed in 1857, these were occupied by the Ministry of Finance from 1871 to 1989. The Cour Marly was covered with a glass roof designed by Ieoh Ming Pei (the architect of the Pyramid) and opened in 1993. It now contains statues from the park at Marly, Louis XIV's favorite residence. The terraced floor provides a splendid setting for the works, bathed in constant natural light.

Galerie d'Apollon

The Galerie d'Apollon - an iconic room of the Louvre, home to some of its most precious historical collections, is a part of the Louvre, famous for its high vaulted ceilings with painted decorations. Originally designed as a reception hall for Louis XIV, the Galerie d'Apollon was decorated by some of the greatest artists in French history (including Le Brun, Girardon, Lagrenée, and Delacroix) and served as a model for the Hall of Mirrors at the Château de Versailles. The gallery has a total surface area of 600 m² (61.34 m long and 15 m high). It was built over 350 years ago and decorated over the course of two centuries. The Louvre Museum, Musee de Louvre.

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The Cour Puget formed part of the wing of Napoleon IIIs palace. It was initially given over to the Ministry of State, which was in charge of large-scale building projects, and later, from 1871 to 1989, to the Ministry of Finance. Since 1993, under a glass roof similar to that of the Cour Marly, it has housed outdoor statuary from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.

Darius Palace

Vessel handle in the form of a winged ibex with its hooves resting on a mask of Silenus Its back legs rest on a mask of Silenus, a figure associated with the cult of Dionysus and wine-drinking, alluding to the function of the metal vessel. The king and his court would take these gold and silver pieces with them on military campaigns. Rhyton (drinking horn) with gazelle protome This silver vessel testifies to the taste for luxury tableware among the dignitaries of the Achaemenid Empire. Animals were often chosen to decorate these splendid pieces in an Iranian tradition reaching back thousands of years. In Iran, animals appeared on painted pottery in the 4th millennium BC, especially on the large bushels found at Susa.

Darius Palace, Apadana (Audience Hall)

Darius Palace (Frieze of Griffins)

Painters of Louis XIV

The room of paiters of Louis XIV in the department of French Paintings. Louis XIV commissioned the portrait of himself as a gift for his grandson Philip V of Spain. It remained in the royal collections until after the Revolution, when in 1793 it was handed over to the Muséum Central des Arts de la République, later known as the Musée du Louvre (The Louvre Museum).

Napoleon III Apartments (Grand Salon)

The new Louvre opened by Napoleon III boasted a number of sumptuous reception halls. Those of the Palais des Tuileries have unfortunately been lost. However, the rooms in the Ministry of State, opened in 1861 in the Aile Richelieu, have retained their decor of gold, stuccos, marble, bronze, silk and velvet. They also feature ornate painted ceilings. Running parallel to the small rooms, the entrance gallery leads to the large hall (the "salon-théâtre"), the small dining room, and the large dining hall.

Napoleon III Apartments (The Salon Théâtre)

Napoleon III Apartments (Dining Rooms)

French Romantic Sculptures

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Diana in Salle des Caryatides

The room contains the Louvre's collection of Roman copies after Greek originals from the Hellenistic period. The Diana of Versailles, a slightly over lifesize marble statue of the Greek goddess Artemis (Diana), with a deer, in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. It is a Roman copy (1st or 2nd century AD) of a lost Greek bronze original attributed to Leochares, c. 325 BC.

The Musée Charles X

The Musée Charles X is housed in nine rooms in the south wing of the Cour Carrée. It was under the reign of Charles X that the best artists of the time were commissioned to execute the decoration, inspired by the Antiquities collections. The painted ceilings of the first four rooms evoke Homer, Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Cour Khorsabad, Assyria

This courtyard houses the impressive remains of the palace inaugurated in 706 BC by King Sargon II (721-705 BC) in Khorsabad (northern Iraq). He created an immense city that required a huge workforce. Carefully proportioned monsters, the fruit of mathematical calculations, guarded the gateways.

Lion-taming spirits were part of a complex architectural and decorative system governed by artistic and religious criteria. They symbolized divine and royal power, and the calm strength that emanated from them protected the palace and ensured the continuity of the ruler's power.

Anne of Austria's summer apartments 2

Between 1655 and 1658, Anne of Austria, the queen mother and regent during Louis XIV's childhood, created a suite of private apartments on the ground floor of the Petite Galerie. The six interconnecting rooms (a common arrangement at the time) comprised a large salon, anteroom, and vestibule, a grand cabinet (study or private sitting room), a bedchamber, and a petit cabinet overlooking the Seine. The decoration was carried out by the Italian Romanelli (frescoes and ceilings) and Anguier (stucco).

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Anne of Austria's summer apartments

Le Brun room (The Battles of Alexander The Great)

4 huge paintings of Alexander's adventures by Charles Le Brun, royal painter to Louis XIV are found in here. Passage of the Granicus River Alexander's 1st clash with Persians just after crossing Granicus river entering Asia in 334 BC. The battle of Arbella (Gaugamela) The final clash between the armies of Alexander and the Persian great king "Darius III", 331 BC Alexander in Babylon Alexander makes his triumphant entry into Babylon, the administrative capital of the Persian Empire in 331 BC. Alexander and Porus Four soldiers carry the wounded Punjabi king Porus before Alexander in the Battle of the Hydaspes River in 326 BC.

Neo-Babylonian period, reign of Nebuchadnezzar II (604-562 BC) Babylon, Iraq. This glazed-brick relief was once part of the decoration of the walls that lined processional path at Babylon, during the period when the city was at its apogee under the Chaldean dynasty. The lion is shown with his jaws open in a menacing manner. He is the vigilant guardian of the long life of the city and the prosperity of its inhabitants.

Salle du Manege (Antique Sculptures)

Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities This department oversees works from the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman civilizations, illustrating the art of a vast area that encompasses Greece, Italy, and the whole of the Mediterranean basin, spanning a period that stretches from Neolithic times (4th millennium BC) to the 6th century AD.

The Louvre Museum Main Entrance

The main entrance through the pyramids.

Cour Carrée

The Carrée court yard. In 1660 Louis Le Vau was appointed to oversee the completion of the Louvre. This entailed a new facade for the Petite Galerie, the completion of the north wing of the Cour Carrée,

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Aquí te proponemos una serie de visitas virtuales para disfrutar del Louvre desde donde tú quieras.

Llegados de lejos. Materiales y objetos itinerantes

Los materiales y objetos que se muestran en esta exposición reflejan los intercambios que se produjeron entre regiones del mundo alejadas. Unos intercambios, cuyos orígenes trascienden a menudo las exploraciones del siglo 16.  Y es que desde la más alta Antigüedad, la cornalina, el lapislázuli, el ébano o incluso el marfil emprendieron ya las rutas comerciales, considerándose también como “preciosos” por su lejanía.

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Figura de artista

El tema de la quinta edición de la Pequeña Galería del Louvre se centra en la aparición de la figura del artista y de su estatus como ente independiente. Una exposición en la que se podrán ver obras de Delacroix, Rembrandt e, incluso, de Tintoretto.

El teatro del poder

El arte y el poder siempre han estado estrechamente ligados. La relación entre ambos constituye el tema principal de la tercera edición de la Pequeña Galería del Louvre, en la que se descifran los códigos que se esconden tras la representación del poder político, desde la Antigüedad hasta nuestros días.

El cuerpo en movimiento

La segunda edición de la Pequeña Galería del Louvre expone la manera en la que los artistas representan el movimiento, a través de distintos materiales y técnicas, y estableciendo un diálogo con otro arte invitado: la danza.

Mitos fundadores: de Hércules a Darth Vader

La primera edición de la Pequeña Galería del Louvre se centra en aquellos mitos que han inspirado a artistas del mundo entero (dibujantes, escultores, pintores, marionetistas, cineastas y músicos). Mitos que han cobrado vida y forma a través de sus obras.

Disfrutar del Louvre es algo que puede hacerse desde cualquier parte, gracias a los contenidos disponibles en línea. Importante: Algunos contenidos solo están disponibles en francés o en inglés.

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