Louvre

Antiques Louvre (French: Musée du Louvre) of the most important art museums in the world , and is located on the north bank of the River Seine in Paris, capital of France. The Louvre's largest showroom for art worldwide and has many Egyptian antiquities stolen during the French campaign on Egypt, and was a fortress built by Philippe Auguste in 1190, so as to avoid surprises disturbing attack on the city during periods of absence long in the Crusades, and took the castle name of the place constructed therefore, to turn later to a royal palace known as the Louvre Palace Qatanna kings of France and the last of the decision based officially Louis XIV which he left to the Palace of Versailles year 1672 to be the headquarters of the new ruling, leaving the Louvre for the seat contains a set of artifacts property and sculptures in particular. In 1692 occupancy Okadimitan representation, sculpture and painting, which opened the first Sallonatha year 1699. Occupies the building has been for 100 years. During the French Revolution the National Assembly declared that the Louvre should be a national museum to showcase the masterpieces of the nation. To open the museum on August 10, 1793. The Louvre is the largest national museum in France and more museums frequented by visitors in the world. Underwent in the era of the late French President Francois Mitterrand to reform processes and a major expansion.Qassam Museum
The museum is divided into several parts according to the type of art and history. The total lengths halls about 13 square kilometers, which contain more than one million pieces of art, whether paintings or sculpture. Museum and an impressive array of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Egyptian and ancient civilization of Mesopotamia - numbering 5664 artifact - in addition to paintings and sculptures dating back to the eighteenth century.
Enters the visitor to the Louvre through pyramid huge glass was inaugurated in 1999, and the most important sections of the museum Great Hall built by Catherine de Medici, in the seventeenth century, and contains dozens of paintings rare geniuses painters, led masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa's famous painted in 1503 and renamed the Mona Lisa because she fee includes Amon and Isis. Djiokanda Leonardo painted in more than four years Lnh loves, astronomer sees 6 was telling her that he did not end it was amended. And also of the masterpieces of paintings Hall face of Francis I of the painter Titan.
And to the right of the Great Hall, there is a narrow hall displays some of the paintings painter French Tolotrick who accompanied named Moulin Rouge cafe. In another room of the museum, you can seefamous painting is a painting coronation of Napoleon I of painter David. The museum also contains statue Albelajura, which were used in the film (Albelajura ghost Louvre). The museum also contains many Middle Eastern archeology and that Europeans had stolen during their colonial crusader over the centuries Abu Fahad, where it is currently displayed in the exhibition. He has written about this museum many novels interesting, the most important of the novel (Da Vinci Code) of the World Writer Dan Brown. Idea Louvre day began Francois first collected anthology new art consisting of twelve panel then continued Henry II and Catherine de Medici process enrich the work distinctive, as did a lot of other rulers.
Contributed to Napoleon I in turn modify the architectural palace drive, maintenance columns, carving and facade overlooking the river .. Work continued to modify its halls, and studied the project for linking the Louvre Palace of the Tuileries Palace to be one palace but that the loss of the battle of Waterloo, and the arrival of allied and they seized the greatest possible treasures accumulated without being able to intercepted a ...
Forums and technical schools comprising the museum as follows:
- Belly. - Ancient Egypt. - Elhoudartan Greek and Roman
In addition to technical schools the following:
- French school. - Italian school. - School, Dutch, Finnish. - English School
The collections are divided into 7