In the past year, as many people as have never visited the Louvre in Paris. To the 500. Anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, the Museum of 2019 shows an extensive exhibition.
They were in 2018 in the Louvre? Then you have helped the world-famous Museum in Paris with his attendance record. 10.2 million art lovers flocked to last year in the exhibition house. The are 25 per cent more than in 2017 and breaks the previous record from the year 2012. At the time, 9.7 million were in the Louvre.
Almost three-quarters of the guests came from abroad, with Americans and Chinese at the top. Also, the number of French has increased, with 2.5 million compared to the previous year.
The whole building is a work of art: the Galerie d’apollon in the Louvre
Reasons for the increase in Visitor numbers, there are apparently several. Because of the retrospective is attracted on the painter Eugène Delacroix, the 2018 around 540,000, art lovers, and thus, according to the Museum, the “most successful exhibition ever held in the Louvre”. Delacroix was one of the most important French painter, and is considered a pioneer of impressionism.
Also the increasing international Paris-tourism plays a role in the recover from terrorist attacks, and thereby a lack of guests in the past years. In addition, the Louvre Abu Dhabi, a Museum of art, which cooperates with the one in Paris opened in 2017. Through this event, the attention increased for the Louvre in Paris.
Pop stars as an art Ambassador
And a music video fuelled the popularity of the art house: pop star Beyonce and Rapper Jay Z had turned 2018, the Video to their Song “going apeshit” at the Louvre. Many of the masterpieces of the Museum are to be seen in the Video. In the case of YouTube it’s been clicked on more than 147 million Times.
“I am pleased that the Louvre is so popular,” says Museum Director Jean-Luc Martinez. The aim was not necessarily to attract more visitors, but to improve the conditions for the guests. Such as clearer signage and the introduction of Timeslot Tickets belonged to, in order to shorten the queues at the cash Desk.
Designed by the Chinese-American architect Ieoh Ming Pei, The pyramid has become a landmark
What visitors to 2019 expected to be in the Louvre
A highlight of the year will be the Celebration of the 30th anniversary of the famous glass pyramid. It is the entrance area of the Louvre, and was built in 1989. Today, it is next to the Eiffel tower is a Parisian landmark. On the last weekend in March it will be in the courtyard of the Louvre several events with free admission.
With voltage, the exhibition is expected on the occasion of the 500. Anniversary of the death of a brilliant artist Leonardo da Vinci. The Louvre has five of the 14 recognized Da Vinci paintings, including the world-famous “Mona Lisa”.
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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 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 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.
It was planned to get more paintings from Italian collections, for the exhibition to Paris. However there were quarrels with the Italian government to the loan. From the Louvre, it does not mean that the lender on the fixed would be. In any case, will be presented in addition to paintings, “a selection of drawings”. The Show is supposed to represent, according to the Louvre Museum is the result of more than ten years of work and research around Leonardo’s work: The paintings of the Louvre were re-examined by science, three of them restored. 24. October 2019 up to 24. February 2020 will be able to see the exhibition.
New in 2019, the “Saturday Night Opening”. Every first Saturday of the month of entry from 18 to 21:45 PM is free of charge. It starts at 5. January. So far, the entrance was only in the winter half of the year, on every first Sunday of the month.
cd/ks (dpa, afp, Louvre.fr)
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Paris, the beauty of HisCity 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, the beauty of HisCity 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, the beauty of HisCity 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, the beauty of HisCity 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, the beauty of HisCity 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, the beauty of HisCity 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, the beauty of HisCity 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, the beauty of HisTown 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.