The famous Museum in the French capital, after 225 years, not just a culture but a cult. Abu Dhabi, Sudan, China: France exports the Louvre, in the meantime, in the whole world.
The glass pyramid in the courtyard of the Louvre, has become the symbol of Paris. Like the Eiffel tower represents the city on the Seine, which was attended last year by more than a Million German tourists.
The Museum presented 225 years ago, on 27. July 1793 for the first time. Then later in the same year, the Louvre was opened as a Museum for the General Public officially. There was, of course, to see the glass pyramid. The was built between 1985-89.
The Louvre in Paris in 1950
Today, the Louvre is the most popular and most visited Museum in the world. The building in which the exhibition rooms are located, was already impressive. The high walls with the glass roof Windows are ideal for sculptures and paintings to be kept.
The Mona Lisa was since the end of the 16th century. Century part of the private art collection of the French kings
From the Royal depot and the castle of Art
The history of the Louvre will begin in 12. Century: king Philip II ordered the defiant fortress for the protection of the right Bank building. After repeated renovation, the castle was in the 16th century. Century to the main residence of the French king.
After king Louis XIV, decided in 1682, to move into the Palace of Versailles, threatened to loose the building to the Depositary. Later, the French Academy a then moved and used the building as a working space. Meanwhile, the rooms of the Louvre were also used as a Depot for works of art in the Royal collection. The politician Charles-Claude Flahaut de La Billarderie wanted to make the collection, finally open to the Public. During the French Revolution, the Louvre was opened by a decree.
After the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte, the image of the Mona Lisa into the bedroom to hang
Napoleon Bonaparte and Napoleon III. worked further on the project. They bought plants from abroad, and opened branches in other cities of France. In 1870, the collection was nationalized. François Mitterrand, initiated more than 100 years later, the tag. And in 1989, the Chinese-American architect Ieoh Ming Pei, opened in designed glass pyramid as a new entrance area.
The glass pyramid in the courtyard of the Grand Louvre
The pyramid is raps before Jay-Z in his latest music video “going apeshit”,. 83 million Times the Video was clicked on, and the Louvre now offers a guided tour of the 17 plants, appearing in the music video. The highly respected Museum is not afraid to sell his brand. How much Beyoncé and Jay-paid Z for the permission to film in the Museum, was not yet known.
The Louvre Abu Dhabi
Louvre, as an export hit
His whole name, the Museum sold to the United Arab Emirates. 11. November 2017 opened the “Louvre Abu Dhabi”. At the opening were projected on to the glass pyramid in Paris images from the desert state. Overall, the Museum in the United Arab Emirates is an area of 64,000 square meters. About 300 exhibits of the Louvre Museum of Paris will lend a year. In return, the Louvre in Paris money alone 73.4 million in the year 2017, for the use of the Name. The French President, Emmanuel Macron, visited the Louvre Abu Dhabi three days before the official opening. He spoke of the beauty as a connective Element. The buildings in Abu Dhabi designed by French star architect Jean Nouvel. A characteristic of the 180-Meter-long dome over the 55 box-shaped white buildings.
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Da Vinci’s MasterpiecesSalvator Mundi
For the record sum of $ 450 million in 2017, Leonardo da Vinci’s work at the auction house Christie’s auction for the saudi Arabian crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. About 1500 originated, it is one of the less than 20 surviving paintings by the master. In 1958, the factory had changed for only $ 60 to the owner – in the Belief that it was not an Original. The authenticity is still controversial.
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Da Vinci’s MasterpiecesMona Lisa
The most famous paintings of Leonardo da Vinci from the high phase of the Italian Renaissance, hangs in the Louvre in Paris. The year of its completion is unclear, as is the true identity of the Lisa: The Florentinerin Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of cloth and silk merchant Francesco di Bartolomeo di Zanobi del Giocondo, is regarded as the hot candidate – many art historians doubt that.
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Da Vinci’s MasterpiecesJohn the Baptist
John the Baptist, recognizes Jesus in the New Testament as the Messiah and his forerunner, also in the Louvre. His joy is an expression of his knowledge. Leonardo stood between 1513 and 1515 in the services of the Vatican, probably Pope Leo x gave him the order for the image to da Vinci’s last Painting could be.
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Da Vinci’s MasterpiecesThe Lord’s Supper
Not the Mona Lisa, but the Lord’s supper on the North wall of the dining hall of the Dominican convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, is considered the culmination of the creative work of Leonardo da Vinci’s. It has been restored, because the applied secco painting from the end of the 15. Century is in comparison to the damp plaster painted frescoes less durable. The sacrament is a world heritage site.
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Da Vinci’s MasterpiecesMadonna with the spindle
The Original image is not preserved, however, there are two copies, derived from Leonardo’s pupils: A picture is part of a New York private collection, the other was stolen in 2003 from Scotland’s Drumlanrig Castle. In 2007, it emerged during a RAID, today it hangs in the Scottish national gallery. Although it is not an Original, was its value at the time of 40 million euros.
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Da Vinci’s MasterpiecesSelf-portrait
In the case of 500-year-old works of art, doubts as to the authenticity include: self-portrait, in the possession of the Royal library in Turin, neither the authorship nor the identity of the depicted Person. The year of creation of the sanguine could be, according to experts, far behind da Vinci’s death. Whether the master would probably be laughing about all the discussions?
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Da Vinci’s MasterpiecesAir screw
Finally, the universal genius made less from painting than from other Sciences: To designed architecture, biology, engineering, and anatomy, da Vinci sketches, his research, his energy should have been the urge is sometimes in the way. The shown here is a sketch of a flying machine, the Helix Pteron, a forerunner of the helicopter. For the implementation of the materials were missing him.
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Da Vinci’s MasterpiecesThe Vitruvian man
His inventive spirit is probably one of the reasons why there are so few paintings by da Vinci: He came so often to Paint. This sketch is based on the representation of the ancient architect Vitruvius from the man with idealized proportions. He is regarded as a Symbol for symmetry, beauty, and body awareness, and most of the German carry it with them every day – on your health insurance card.
In the Museum will be on view starting in September, also the most expensive paintings in the world: Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi”. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, bought it for 450 million U.S. dollars in November, lend it to the Museum.
The Louvre is no longer only active in France. The annual report shows that the Museum had 2017 contact to 75 different countries. It cooperates with scientists in the United States, Egypt and the Sudan. 737 works are currently awarded to other museums in the world, and in nine exhibitions in the Louvre with other countries has worked. In addition, the Louvre has been involved in the training of six Libyan Museum Directors.
Galerie d’Apollon in the Louvre of Paris
Even if the Louvre for export has become a best seller, visit the people to the Museum in Paris. 2017 8.1 million people interested in art. 14 percent more than the year before.
The goddess of victory of Samothrace is one of the most popular works in the Louvre of Paris
More than 380,000 works are included in the collection: the ancient Greek and Roman collection, paintings by Italian painter from the Renaissance, Flemish painting from the 16th century. and 17. Century as well as works by French painters of the 15th century. to 19. Century. The most famous work is probably the painting “Mona Lisa” by Leonardo da Vinci.
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The French capital is the place for travelers from all over the world. Every year, 16 million come into the city on the Seine.
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Paris remains ParisCity of art
About 200 museums exist in Paris. In 1793, the Musée du Louvre, which is one of the most important museums in the world opened. In the building of 35,000 exhibits – from ancient times to be issued up to the Modern era. Including the Mona Lisa, the world-famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci.
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Paris remains ParisCity of love
On the 130 metre high Montmartre hill in the North of Paris, a tribute to love: “Le mur des je t’aime is a little bit hidden on the Square Jéhan-Rictus”. On 40 square metres of 612 tiles of the artists have written in over 300 languages “I love You”.
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Paris remains ParisCity of fashion
Coco Chanel is regarded as the revolutionary of women’s fashion, because you could have the corset references. Dior designed the “New Look” and Yves Saint Laurent invented the Trouser suit for women. Today, the fashion keeps-Zar, Karl Lagerfeld, the court in Paris. For film actress Romy Schneider, the city was a revelation: “In Paris, I live and love, to move me and to dress me learned”.
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Paris remains ParisCity of the philosophers
Thinking, debating, the world re-invent. The Café de Flore in the artists ‘ quarter, Saint-Germain-des-Pres stands for the free spirit of the metropolis on the Seine. In the 1930s, the Bohemians met here and made the night into day. As a local cafe, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, the “Flore” addressed in the story.
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Paris remains ParisCity of music
In September approximately 350,000 Techno Fans dancing through Paris. The enthusiasm for music of electro, Rock and classical music to Chanson from the city. About his home, the conductor Sergiu Celibidache said: “Paris is the only place where man can really live as he wants.”
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Paris remains ParisCity of Foodies
The French love good food and socializing. In no other city you can try the self-as in Paris. It must be a no star restaurant! The heart of the original French cuisine in the brasseries, with their tiny tables on the sidewalk. Particularly in the case of family-run Restaurants are guaranteed to be taste and hospitality.
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Paris remains ParisCity of His
Since 1991, the recognised Bank of the UNESCO as a world heritage site. 37 bridges to connect the southern shore (rive gauche) with the North Bank (rive droite). “As I stand on the bridge and am in the midst of Paris, in our home. As the water flows, you’re, and I throw my heart into the river and dive in you and love you”, wrote Kurt Tucholsky.
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Paris remains ParisTown of freedom, equality, fraternity
Here’s the national pride at home. Place de la République – one of the largest squares in Paris. Over all, Wake up Marianne. The Statue symbolizing the French Republic, their origin is told in the Reliefs on the Pedestal. Since 2013, the place is car-free and was the meeting place of the Parisian youth.