President Emmanuel Macron said the museum will undergo a significant renovation and expansion, which will take several years.
Now that Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece is moving to another room at The Louvre, other Renaissance masterpieces hanging in the same space by Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese may finally get their due.
The Mona Lisa will be moved to a new space at the Louvre following warnings about overcrowding and crumbling infrastructure at the Parisian museum. Speaking in front of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece ...
due to the mass crowds overcrowding its famous galleries. “Visiting the Louvre is a physical ordeal; accessing the artworks takes time and is not always easy,” she wrote. “Visitors have no ...
posing a risk to the art’s safety. She also characterized visiting the Louvre as a “physical ordeal,” especially due to the nature of viewing the most famous painting in the world.
He also announced that the Mona Lisa — one of the most famous of the estimated 35,000 works of art in the Louvre's collection — would be relocated to its own new, independently accessible and ...
The director of the Louvre last week sent a memo to France’s culture minister detailing the dilapidated state of the Paris museum, spurring President Emmanuel Macron to organise a visit on Tuesday.
They are arrayed not among the Louvre’s famous paintings and marble sculptures but throughout the nearly 100,000 square feet of its decorative arts department. The department, whose unwieldy ...
He also announced that the Mona Lisa — one of the most famous of the estimated 35,000 works of art in the Louvre's collection — would be relocated to its own new, independently accessible and ...