Louvre Museum

The Louvre contains a series of rooms with a particularly opulent decoration, the Napoleon III apartments. Despite their name, the […]

The Louvre museum is home to one of the oldest legal texts in History : the Code of Hammurabi. This

At the Louvre museum is a treasure of Flemish painting, the Medici Gallery. Painted by Rubens from 1622 to 1625,

The Louvre houses a famous painting by Nicolas Poussin, the Rape of the Sabine women. Painted circa 1637-1638, the work

The Marly courtyard of the Louvre museum and its neighbor the Puget courtyard are located on the site of the

The Raft of the Medusa, painted by Théodore Géricault in 1819, tells a tragic story. The boat transported politicians, administrators,

Although it’s “the most famous painting in the world” nowadays, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa hasn’t always had this reputation.

This imposing 5.32-meter-high pillar only forms the capital of a column measuring 22 meters in height. The work comes from

The famous portrait of Louis XIV painted by Hyacinthe Rigaud in 1701 quickly became the archetypal French royal portrait, highlighting

The famous Venus de Milo takes her name from the island Melos, called Milo by French cartographers, where she was

The Salle des Caryatides at the Louvre museum was built between 1546 and 1549. It takes its name from the