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THE LOUVRE

The Louvre has been around 800 years the residence of French kings and emperors. Successive enlargements have made it the largest palace in the world with the Vatican.

heritage of the Louvre museum boasts more than 360 000 works of which 145 000 drawings, 7,500 paintings, 45,000 antique. This fabulous collection of artwork has been collected from five centuries by kings, princes, artists, antique dealers, patrons and donors. It covers the period from Antiquity The most distant (about 7000 BC) and the 1850s. "Only" 35,000 are exposed to the general public, most rooms are reserved for researchers.

The total area of the museum is 160,100 m2 including 60,700 m2 of exhibition space. By comparison, the Prado Museum offers 46,000 m2 and the Metropolitan New York 58,820 m2. The museum employs 1,500 people including 950 guards, 60 Conservatives and 48 firefighters. Must maintain 16 hectares of floor, 2,500 doors and locks as many, 90 lifts, 350 valves, 67,000 lamps ... etc..

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The Louvre contains thousands of works including some favorites such as the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo and Winged Victory.

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http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoire_de_Samothrace

Mona Lisa

On 21 August 1911, the glazier Italian Vincenzo Perugia, who had participated in the development of glass as the most important paintings of the museum, steals the picture and keeps it for two years in his room in Paris. During the investigation police suspected the museum staff and even artists. The poet Guillaume Apollinaire, who had once claimed that he had "Burn the Louvre, is arrested and his home searched. Back in Italy, Perugia tried to sell the Mona Lisa was a Florentine antique dealer who gives warning December 10, 1913. The abduction triggered a media frenzy across newspapers, magazines and cartoons. The Mona Lisa became a favorite sacred to an excess, especially after his exhibition in New York in 1963 and Japan in 1974. His admirers (between 20 000 and 40 000 per day) can now contemplate the most visited museum in the world.

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The Venus de Milo

The Venus de Milo is one of the finest works from the Louvre. The statue is surrounded by many mysteries: the woman who is given the name of Venus de Milo is quite uncertain that they can be recognized. Experts have always seen it as the Roman Venus, the Greek Aphrodite, the goddess of love as his features are full of femininity and sensuality but also perhaps Amphitrite, the sea goddess worshiped in the island was found the statue. The position of his missing right arm caused other assumptions that have all helped shape his well-known celebrity. Assume now, according to the position of the shoulder, the arm fell to the drapery. Finally, the author is unknown, one thing is certain: the dating of the late second century BC

Venus de Milo is composed of two blocks assembled together: the legs on the one hand, torso and head another. The fall of the drapery on the hips causing the tightness in the legs and cover the junction of the two blocks.
Found in 1820 by a farmer on a Greek island Cyclades (Milo or Melos) near an ancient theater, it is acquired by the Marquis de Riviere, ambassador of France to Istanbul, who donated it to King Louis XVIII.

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Victory of Samothrace

Placed at the convergence of several steps to the famous Victory of Samothrace is required by its 3.28 meters high. In 1863 Charles Champoiseau, Vice-Consul of France at Adrianople (Turkey), this monument unearthed in Samothrace, a small island north-east of the Aegean The statue represents the notion of victory, the Greeks associated it with the goddess Nike. Recognizable by its wings, the goddess recalls a victory Rhodian Sea, where the presence of a prow of galley as a base of support.

assured him his right leg needed stability in terms of its position: in direct confrontation with the vagaries of the sea, wind and storm. The theme of the wind is clearly visible in both its wings giving it a boost, as in the rendering of the drapery. Thus the artist has worked drapes to give the impression that the wind plastered the Goddess clothing on her body. It is revealed to the spectator as evidenced by the visible boundaries of the legs or smaller anatomical details such as the navel.

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For almost everything about The Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home.jsp?bmLocale=fr_FR
http://canal-educatif.fr/arts.htm ? gclid = CJiq3pvFyqACFdlj4wodI271Zw
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