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The '''Louvre''' Museum is the largest, and most famous art gallery and museum in the world. The Louvre was established in 1793 in [[Paris]], [[France]] by French revolutionaries to show off the huge works of art that the French Kings had collected, and to show the people the opulence of the kings, as the Louvre was a massive palace.
The '''Louvre''' [[Museum]] is the largest, and most famous art gallery and museum in the world. The Louvre was established in 1793 in [[Paris]], [[France]] by French revolutionaries to show off the huge works of art that the French Kings had collected, and to show the people the opulence of the kings, as the Louvre was a massive palace.
<br>The Louvre has been used in a number of different movies and television shows, as well as locations in books.
A few of the more famous works of art displayed in the Louvre are [[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s [[Mona Lisa]], The Virgin and Child with St. Anne, Madonna of the Rocks, The Wedding at Cana, [[St. Francis of Assisi]] receives the stigmata, [[Eugene Delacroix|Delacroix]]'s Liberty Leading the People, Winged Victory of Samothrace and the [[Venus de Milo]]. This is only a small fraction of the 35,000 works of art, sculpture, history, furniture and even the architecture of the museum itself.
[[File:Louvre paintings.jpg|thumb|One of its famous paintings. <br> Portrait of Marie-Madeleine Guimard by [[Jean-Honoré Fragonard]], near 1769.]]
The Louvre has been used in a number of different movies and television shows, as well as locations in books such as [[The Da Vinci Code]].
Many citizens and art lovers were shocked by the proposal to build modern glass [[pyramid]]s in front of the Louvre, but in the years since their construction, people have grown to love their clearly pointed contrast to the old ways.
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'''[[Jacques-Louis David]] at the Louvre.'''
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File:David OathHoratti.jpg|Oath of the Horatii, 1784.
File:David The Death of Socrates.jpg|The Death of [[Socrates]], 1787.
File:Recamier David g.jpg|Portrait of Madame Récamier, 1800.
File:David. Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon I.jpg|Consecration of the Emperor [[Napoleon]] I, 1805–1807.
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[[File:Renoir, La Lecture, Louvre.jpg]]
[[Renoir]], La Lecture, 1892.
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== See also ==
== See also ==
*[[Painting Masterpieces]]
*[[Painting Masterpieces]]
*[[Painting Schools]]
*[[Painting Schools]]
*[[Musée d'Orsay]]
*[[Paul Getty Museum]]
*[[Academic Art]]
*[[Museum]]
*[[Famous French Art Museums]]
==External links==
* [http://www.louvre.fr/en/homepage Official Louvre Site.]
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