Andromeda has been the subject of numerous ancient and modern works of art, including, Andromeda Chained to the Rocks ( Rembrandt ), one of Titian's poesies ( Wallace Collection ), and compositions by Joachim Wtewael ( Louvre ), Veronese ( Rennes ), Rubens, Ingres, and Gustave Moreau.

" The Louvre Pyramid has become Pei's most famous structure.

The Louvre is owned by the French government ; however, since the nineties it has become more independent.

Under Loyrette, who replaced Pierre Rosenberg in 2001, the Louvre has undergone policy changes that allow it to lend and borrow more works than before.

The Louvre administration has thus argued in favor of retaining this item despite requests by Egypt for its return.

These notebooks — originally loose papers of different types and sizes, distributed by friends after his death — have found their way into major collections such as the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, the Louvre, the Biblioteca Nacional de España, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan which holds the twelve-volume Codex Atlanticus, and British Library in London which has put a selection from its notebook BL Arundel MS 263 online.

Other than during wartime, the Rosetta Stone has left the British Museum only once: for one month in October 1972, to be displayed alongside Champollion's Lettre at the Louvre in Paris on the 150th anniversary of its publication.

In what has been called a coup d ' état, the Cardinal of Lorraine and the Duke of Guise — whose niece, Mary, Queen of Scots, had married Francis the year before — seized power the day after Henry II's death and quickly moved themselves into the Louvre with the young couple.

It is known as the Isleworth Mona Lisa http :// en. wikipedia. org / wiki / Isleworth_Mona_Lisa, and has for years been the subject of much debate because it has many qualities that fit the history of the Mona Lisa, which the Louvre version does not possess, including the columns depicted in Raphael's 1504 sketch of the Mona Lisa, done in Leonardo's studio while visiting there, and showing a younger woman ( in her 20s ) which better suits the age Lisa Gherardini http :// en. wikipedia. org / wiki / Lisa_Gherardini would have been in 1504.

Consequently, the older axis extending from the courtyard of the Louvre is slightly skewed to the rest of what has become the Axe historique, but the Arc du Carrousel, at the fulcrum between the two, serves to disguise the discontinuity.

In Europe, the Musée du Louvre has a few example's of Lawrence's work, and the Vatican Pinacoteca has a swagger portrait of George IV ( presented by the king himself ) as almost its only British work.

Notably, the subject of the Attic calyx-krater from Orvieto conserved in the Musée du Louvre has provided the name for the so-called " Niobid Painter ".

It has begun construction on the northwest tip of Saadiyat Island, along with a performing arts center, the Zayed National Museum and a branch of the Louvre.

From 1672 to 1805, the official meetings of the Académie were held at the Louvre ; since 1805, the Académie française has met at the Collège des Quatre Nations ( now known as the Palais de l ' Institut ).

The artist presented his relief of the Deposition to Charles V at Genoa in 1529 ; though the relief has been lost, a bronze from it by Antonio Susini in 1600 ( Musée du Louvre ) shows the decisive inspiration of Donatello's emotional pitch and intensity ; Bandinelli made several drawings of the Donatello reliefs, though later in life he disparaged them in a letter to Cosimo I de ' Medici.

Paris has some of the world's largest and renowned museums, including the Louvre, which is the most visited art museum in the world, but also the Musée d ' Orsay, mostly devoted to impressionism, and Beaubourg, dedicated to Contemporary art.

( It has since come back to the Louvre ).

Witch Hazel has a cameo in the video game adaptation of Looney Tunes: Back in Action as a painting parodying the Mona Lisa in the Louvre Museum.

A Paris street near the Louvre Museum, the rue Nicolas Flamel, has been named after him ; it intersects with the rue Perenelle, named after his wife.

Since 1884, it has been prominently displayed at the Louvre and is one of the most celebrated sculptures in the world.

Since 1883, the marble figure has been displayed in the Louvre, while a plaster replica stands in the museum at the original location of the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace.

As my husband used to say, so far no one has dared go into the Louvre Museum to spray graffiti on the Mona Lisa, but some opera directors are spraying graffiti over masterpieces.

Various copies of portions of the Code of Hammurabi have been found on baked clay tablets, some possibly older than the celebrated diorite stele now in the Louvre.

The opening of the Louvre Pyramid coincided with four other projects on which Pei had been working, prompting architecture critic Paul Goldberger to declare 1989 " the year of Pei " in The New York Times.

In response, foreign states sent emissaries to London to seek help, and many pieces were returned, even some that had been restored by the Louvre.

However, the Louvre chose to spend the money that would have been spent on the insurance premium on security instead.

*" I've been lucky enough to win an Oscar, write a best-seller — my other dream would be to have a painting in the Louvre.

Less noted is his published call in 1749 for the roofing-over of Perrault's classical colonnaded east front of the Palais du Louvre and the clearing away of the ramshackle structures, both those that had been built against it, in order to form a proper Place du Louvre, and those in the centre of the Cour Carré itself Sections of the palace were in danger of collapse, scarcely touched by royal indifference after 1678 ; work did begin in 1755 to clear the facade of the Louvre, overseen by the architect Jacques-Germain Soufflot and Marigny, supervisor of the Bâtiments du Roi.

The next day, Louis Béroud, a painter, walked into the Louvre and went to the Salon Carré where the Mona Lisa had been on display for five years.

Many ancient works of art have been found there: the Fanciulla d ' Anzio, the Borghese Gladiator ( in the Louvre ) and the Apollo Belvedere ( in the Vatican ) were all discovered in the ruins of villas at Antium.

The fingerless hand had slid out of sight under a large rock, near where the statue had originally stood ; on the return trip home, Dr Phyllis Williams Lehmann identified the tip of the Goddess's ring finger and her thumb in a storage drawer at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, where the second Winged Victory is displayed ; the fragments have been reunited with the hand, which is now in a glass case in the Louvre next to the podium on which the statue stands.

Made for the new Cabinet du Roi at the Palace of Versailles, it was transferred to the Louvre Museum in Paris after the French Revolution, but has been returned to the Palace of Versailles in the 20th century where it stands again in the room where it was standing before the Revolution, i. e. the Cabinet intérieur du Petit Appartement (" Inner study of the Private Apartments "), the famous study room where kings Louis XV and Louis XVI carried out their daily work, and inside which King Louis XVI took the decision to support the American insurgents in 1777.

Installation works by Forsythe have been shown at the Louvre Museum, Venice Biennale, Artangel in London, Creative Time in New York, the Renaissance Society in Chicago, and other prominent locations.

They inform him that Saunière has been murdered and they would like his immediate assistance at the Louvre to help them solve the crime.

The Second Empire also completed the northern wing of the Louvre along the rue de Rivoli, linking the Tuileries Palace with the rest of the Louvre, and thus finally achieving the huge complex of the Louvre-Tuileries, whose master plan had been envisioned three centuries earlier.

In 1714 for Marly he collaborated in two marble sculptures representing Apollo Chasing Daphne ( both at the Louvre ), in which Nicolas Cousteau sculpted the Apollo and Guillaume the Daphne.

Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart was also a close friend of Jean Antoine Houdon, the pre-eminent French sculptor of the day who sculpted busts of his daughter Alexandrine-Emilie and his son Alexandre Jr. that are now in the Louvre Museum in Paris.

By the end of October so much material had accumulated at the Louvre that it was decided more space was needed.

The roof is a large glass and steel construction, while the exterior and interior walls and floor are made of a warm beige-colored limestone from France – the same material used by Pei in the reception hall of the Louvre.

The manuscripts were divided between the Louvre and the Royal Library ( now the Bibliothèque nationale de France ); many of the 27, 000 portraits went to the royal Estampes ( today part of the Bibliothèque nationale ; the printed material went to the archives of the Affaires Étrangères ; and documents that took Clairambault's fancy were kept by him and merged with his own collection ( today in the manuscript department of the Bibliothèque nationale ).

The galleries, which the museum had initially hoped to open by 2009, represent the first major architectural intervention at the Louvre since the addition of I. M.

It closed off the western end of the Louvre courtyard, which has remained open since the destruction of the palace.

Today, " Le Régent " as it came to be known, remains in the French Royal Treasury at the Louvre, where it has been on display, since 1887.

* His Leda won an award of merit in 1801, and is now in the château de Fontainebleau since 1932 deposit by the Louvre.

The result is that the Borghese Gladiator, renowned since the 1620s as the most admired single sculpture in Villa Borghese, must now be appreciated in the Musée du Louvre.

Both have been in the Louvre since 1940 and were restored during 2004-2006.

Facing the Place du Palais-Royal, it stands opposite the north wing of the Louvre, and its famous forecourt ( cour d ' honneur ), screened with columns and, since 1986, containing Daniel Buren's site-specific artpiece, Les Deux Plateaux, known as Les Colonnes de Buren.

The Avenue de l ' Opéra was an important thoroughfare in Hausmann's traffic scheme, since it linked the rue de Rivoli at the Louvre to the grands boulevards near the Opéra and gave better access to the wealthy neighborhoods being developed at that time in northwest Paris.

Wasserman suggests that perhaps the Louvre painting was extended to fit the arched shape, and that the joint is no longer visible since the painting was transferred to canvas in the 19th century.

The sword was kept in the Saint Denis Basilica since at least 1505, and it was moved to the Louvre in 1793.

Although Marsh had appreciated the drawings of Raphael, Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo since he was a child — his father ’ s studio was full of reproductions of the old masters ' work — the famous paintings that he saw at the Louvre and other museums stimulated in him a new fascination with the old masters.