Happy Birthday Museum Central des Arts: 10 Must-See Works Of Art At The Louvre
Today is the anniversary of the opening of the Museum Central des Arts, or the Musee du Louvre as it is known as today. Standing as one the largest and most visited museum in the world, the Louvre...
View ArticleThe moving of the Mona Lisa
This Wednesday, amid huge fanfare, the Mona Lisa is to be unveiled in her new home in the Louvre. John Lichfield asks what makes this painting the most visited, most written about, most sung about,...
View ArticleIn Paris, Size Matters
On my first trip to Paris, the friend I was visiting said, "We need to take a tour bus. Then you'll see everything and we can figure out what we want to do from there." So, at her recommendation, we...
View ArticleSo, she truly was Leonardo's labour of love
It has always been thought that Leonardo da Vinci took three years to paint his portrait of Lisa Gherardini, nicknamed La Gioconda, from 1503 to 1506. But evidence has surfaced that he actually took 16...
View ArticleMONA LISA ON THE MOVE
The world's most enigmatic smile is undergoing a change of scenery. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa has moved into the Salle des Efats, a recently refurbished showroom in the Louvre in Paris. The move...
View ArticleThe best way to thoroughly visit The Louvre
Related topics Travel LeisureDez BarteltParisTravelLouvre Museum Advertisement PARIS: MUSÉE DU LOUVRE Saying that the world-famous Musée du Louvre in Paris is intimidating is an understatement. With...
View ArticleQajar Art and Culture at Louvre
ART & CULTURE DESK TEHRAN - After his formal visit to Golestan Museum with its affluent collection of Qajar era's art and culture, head of Louvre Museum announced that a similar exhibition on the...
View ArticleLouvre staffers protest over museum's pickpocket problem
Louvre staffers staged a daylong demonstration on Wednesday, forcing the closure of the landmark Parisian art museum in a protest over "increasingly aggressive" pickpocketing at the venue. In an...
View ArticleParis on a budget
PARIS, France (AP) -- The perfect Paris picnic comes cheap: a crusty baguette ($1), a thick slab of Camembert ($2.50), a modest Bordeaux ($5). Take it to the sprawling park at the foot of the Eiffel...
View ArticleA Dog's Life
IT IS not just human beings who want the finer things in life. Turns out dogs do too. A new study has found that dogs steal a jaw-dropping $33 million worth of their owners' possessions, including cash...
View ArticleTourist fixation on Mona Lisa a golden curse for Louvre
Travel and the Arts Friday, March 25, 2005 By Daniel Michaels, The Wall Street Journal Jacques Brinon, Associated Press Visitors to the Louvre in Paris line up to view Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, at...
View ArticleDid the Nazis also steal the Mona Lisa?
December 13, 2013 -- Updated 1136 GMT (1936 HKT) More than 100 years ago, in August 1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen off the walls of the Louvre in Paris. The famous Leonardo da Vinci painting wasn't...
View ArticleMona Lisa: Still smiling 100 years after being stolen
Paris - It was the beginning of installation art. One hundred years ago, when the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre museum in Paris, people formed queues to see the space, where the painting of the...
View ArticleExhibit reveals how the Louvre kept 'Mona Lisa,' other masterpieces safe...
Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | By Remy de la Mauviniere, AP Photo A 1945 photo shows the unveiling of the Mona Lisa after it was returned to the Louvre from a safehouse in the French countryside....
View ArticleFilm to make queue stretch for smiles
The irony can hardly be missed: Oscar-winning star Julia Roberts, who has one of the toothiest grins in Hollywood, may well win her next Oscar for a role that links her to the Mona Lisa, the Leonardo...
View ArticleSmile, it's show time
The irony can hardly be missed: Oscar-winning star Julia Roberts, who has one of the toothiest grins in Hollywood, might well win her next Oscar for a role that links her to the Mona Lisa - the...
View ArticleAn American in Paris (Part trois)
Add a Comment by Chris Wessling, Dallas Adventure Examiner « Previous Notre Dame de ParisOnly one day left in Paris. As I lay in bed in my suite at the Hotel Napoleon [www.HotelNapoleonParis.com], I...
View ArticleMichelangelo Pistoletto, Italian Artist, Decorates The Louvre's Iconic...
PARIS — An Italian artist decorated the Louvre museum's glass pyramid Wednesday for the first time in the iconic monument's history, in a protest against capitalism. The artwork, a huge three-looped...
View ArticleCollections From Louvre Come To Korea
Copperplate prints of Sandro Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus,” left, and Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa,” both from the Louvre Museum in France, will be shown at the 2005 World Museum Culture Expo....
View ArticleGaming and art move ever closer as the Louvre gets 3DS audio guides
As part of an ongoing partnership between Nintendo and the Louvre Museum in Paris, Nintendo will be providing the Louvre with Nintendo 3DS systems that will house an exclusive audio guide from 11th...
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