Cassatt augmented her artistic training with daily copying in the Louvre ( she obtained the required permit, which was necessary to control the " copyists ", usually low-paid women, who daily filled the museum to paint copies for sale ).

It is currently on display in The Louvre, with exact replicas in the Oriental Institute in the University of Chicago, the library of the Theological University of the Reformed Churches ( Dutch: Theologische Universiteit Kampen voor de Gereformeerde Kerken ) in The Netherlands and the Pergamon Museum of Berlin.

Domitia Longina, with Flavian hairstyle ( Louvre )

Fresh fish, one of the favourite dishes of the Greeks ; platter with red figures, c. 350 – 325 BC, Louvre.

In Brown's novel, it is hinted that Jesus was merely a mortal man with strong ideals, and that the Grail was long buried beneath Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland, but that in recent decades its guardians had it relocated to a secret chamber embedded in the floor beneath the Inverted Pyramid near the Louvre Museum.

Pei also found the pyramid shape best suited for stable transparency, and considered it " most compatible with the architecture of the Louvre, especially with the faceted planes of its roofs ".

Pei decided that a pyramid was " most compatible " with the other structures at the Louvre, complementing their roofs ' faceted planes.

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.

Considering his work on such bastions of high culture as the Louvre and US National Gallery, some critics were surprised by his association with what many considered a tribute to low culture.

The Louvre Palace ( Palais du Louvre ) which houses the museum was begun as a fortress by Philip II in the 12th century, with remnants of this building still visible in the crypt.

By 1874, the Louvre Palace had achieved its present form of an almost rectangular structure with the Sully Wing to the east containing the square Cour Carrée and the oldest parts of the Louvre ; and two wings which wrap the Cour Napoléon, the Richelieu Wing to the north and the Denon Wing, which borders the Seine to the south.

The Musée du Louvre contains more than 380, 000 objects and displays 35, 000 works of art in eight curatorial departments with more than dedicated to the permanent collection.

Since 1996, the restitutions, according sometimes to less formal criteria, concerned 47 more pieces ( 26 paintings, with 6 from the Louvre including a then displayed Tiepolo ), until the last claims of French owners and their heirs ended again in 2006.

The department's origins lie in the royal collection, but it was augmented by Napoleon's 1798 expeditionary trip with Dominique Vivant, the future director of the Louvre.

In September 2000, the Louvre Museum dedicated the Gilbert Chagoury and Rose-Marie Chagoury Gallery to display tapestries donated by the Chagourys, including a 16th-century six-part tapestry suite, sewn with gold and silver threads representing sea divinities, which was commissioned in Paris for Colbert de Seignelay, Secretary of State for the Navy.

From 16th century Venice, the Louvre displays Titian's Le Concert Champetre, The Entombment and The Crowning with Thorns.

Among his famous drawings are the Vitruvian Man, a study of the proportions of the human body, the Head of an Angel, for The Virgin of the Rocks in the Louvre, a botanical study of Star of Bethlehem and a large drawing ( 160 × 100 cm ) in black chalk on coloured paper of The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and St. John the Baptist in the National Gallery, London.

It is thought that Leonardo never made a painting from it, the closest similarity being to The Virgin and Child with St. Anne in the Louvre.

Joachim Wtewael Perseus and Andromeda, 1616, Louvre, the composition displaying a Vanité of bones and seashells in the foreground and an elaborate academic nude with a palette borrowing from the forefront for Andromeda's cheeks.

Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People ( 1830, Louvre ), a painting created at a time where old and modern political philosophies came into violent conflict. During the Enlightenment period, new theories about what the human was and is and about the definition of reality and the way it was perceived, along with the discovery of other societies in the Americas, and the changing needs of political societies ( especially in the wake of the English Civil War, the American Revolution and the French Revolution ) led to new questions and insights by such thinkers as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu and John Locke.

Witnessing various experiments with Jackson's electromagnet, Morse developed the concept of a single-wire telegraph, and The Gallery of the Louvre was set aside.

Culturally, as the Sorbonne and Louvre are both establishing extensions in the UAE, a plan is in the works to recreate a miniature Lyon city in Dubai complete with public squares, restaurants and museums.

The Louvre is involved in controversies that surround cultural property seized under Napoleon I, as well as during World War II by the Nazis.

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.

The original was seized and taken to Paris by Napoléon Bonaparte after his conquest of Italy in 1799, and installed in a place of honour in the Musée Napoléon at the Louvre, where it was one of the inspirations of neoclassicism in French art.

We went to the Louvre for a few hours, then by Metro to a cabaret in Montmartre.

The Louvre Apollo Sauroctonos by Praxiteles ( 360 BC ).

* 1911 – The Mona Lisa is stolen by a Louvre employee.

2270 BC, Louvre, traded from the Mediterranean coast where it was used by Canaanites to make a purple dye.

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.

Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss, in the Louvre, Paris

* French page on Louvre site lnking to three sculptures by Canova and two portraits of the artist

The earliest painted Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle ( Albrecht Dürer ) | Self-Portrait ( 1493 ) by Albrecht Dürer, oil, originally on vellum ( Louvre, Paris )

Aegisthus being murdered by Orestes ( mythology ) | Orestes — Louvre.

Most of the antiquities Salt collected were purchased by the British Museum and the Musée du Louvre.

Though his popularity rested initially on paintings of animals and fruit, by the 1730s he introduced kitchen utensils into his work ( The Copper Cistern, ca. 1735, Louvre ).

* A sculpture by Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain can be seen at the Musée du Louvre.

Discus-thrower, tondo of a kylix ( drinking cup ) | kylix by the Kleomelos Painter, Louvre Museum

Pen and wash lion by Rembrandt in the Louvre

File: Madame Récamier painted by Jacques-Louis David in 1800. jpg | Madame Récamier ( 1800 ), Musée du Louvre, Paris

Hannibal counting the rings of the Roman senate | Roman senators killed during the Battle of Cannae, statue by Sébastien Slodtz, 1704, Louvre

Hannibal counting the signet rings of Roman nobles killed during the battle, statue by Sébastien Slodtz, 1704, Louvre.

The stele was later plundered by the Elamites and removed to their capital, Susa ; it was rediscovered there in 1901 and is now in the Louvre Museum in Paris.

In 1794, France's revolutionary armies began bringing pieces from Northern Europe, augmented after the Treaty of Tolentino ( 1797 ) by works from the Vatican, such as Laocoön and His Sons and the Apollo Belvedere, to establish the Louvre as a museum and as a " sign of popular sovereignty ".

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.

The Louvre Palace and the Pyramid, which was completed in 1989 ( by night )

The Louvre Palace and the Pyramid, which was completed in 1989 ( by day )