Student:Mariam Markozashvili.

Profesor:Ana Mzareulishvili.
My favorite
museum

.about museum
.location and visit
.decorative art
.painting
.21st century
About museum

• The Louvre Palace, which houses the

museum, was begun by King Philip II in
the late 12th century to protect the city
from the attack from the West, as
the Kingdom of England still
held Normandy at the time. Remnants
of the Medieval Louvre are still visible in
the crypt. Whether this was the first
building on that spot is not known, and
it is possible that Philip modified an
existing tower. The origins of the name
"Louvre" are somewhat disputed.
 Location and visit

• The Louvre museum is located inside

the Louvre Palace, in the center of Paris,
adjacent to the Tuileries Gardens. The two
nearest Métro stations are Louvre-
Rivoli and Palais Royal-Musée du Louvre, the
latter having a direct underground access to
the Carrousel du Louvre commercial mall.The
museum's entrance conditions have varied
over time. Initially, artists and foreign visitors
had privileged access, a feature that only
disappeared in the 1850s. At the time of
initial opening in 1793, the French Republican
calendar had imposed ten-days "weeks"
(French: décades), the first six days of which
were reserved for visits by artists and
foreigners and the last three for visits by the
general public.
Decorative art
• The works are displayed on the Richelieu
Wing's first floor and in the Apollo Gallery,
named by the painter Charles Le Brun, who
was commissioned by Louis XIV (the Sun
King) to decorate the space in a solar
theme. The medieval collection contains
the coronation crown of
Louis XIV, Charles V's sceptre, and the
12th century porphyry vase.[84] The
Renaissance art holdings
include Giambologna's bronze Nessus and
Deianira and the tapestry Maximillian's
Hunt.[82] From later periods, highlights
include Madame de
Pompadour's Sèvres vase collection
and Napoleon III's apartments.[82]
• 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.
painting
• The painting collection has more than 7,500 works[10]: 229  from the
13th century to 1848 and is managed by 12 curators who oversee the
collection's display. Nearly two-thirds are by French artists, and more than
1,200 are Northern European. The Italian paintings compose most of the
remnants of Francis I and Louis XIV's collections, others are unreturned
artwork from the Napoleon era, and some were bought.[88][13]: 199-201, 272-273, 333-
335  The collection began with Francis, who acquired works from Italian

masters such as Raphael and Michelangelo[89] and brought Leonardo da Vinci

to his court.[90][91] After the French Revolution, the Royal Collection formed
the nucleus of the Louvre. When the d'Orsay train station was converted into
the Musée d'Orsay in 1986, the collection was split, and pieces completed
after the 1848 Revolution were moved to the new museum. French and
Northern European works are in the Richelieu Wing and Cour Carrée; Spanish
and Italian paintings are on the first floor of the Denon Wing.[13]: 199 The High
Renaissance collection includes Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa,
21st century
• The room's floor and walls were redesigned in 2021 by Louvre architect Michel Goutal to revert the
changes made by his predecessor Albert Ferran in the late 1930s, triggering protests from the Cy
Twombly Foundation on grounds that the then-deceased painter's work had been created to fit with the
room's prior decoration.That same year, the Louvre commissioned French artist François Morellet to
create a work for the Lefuel stairs, on the first floor. For L'esprit d'escalier Morellet redesigned the
stairscase's windows, echoing their original structures but distorting them to create a disturbing optical
effect.The Louvre, like many other museums and galleries, felt the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on
the arts and cultural heritage. It was closed for six months during French coronavirus lockdowns and saw
visitor numbers plunge to 2.7 million in 2020, from 9.6 million in 2019 and 10.2 million in 2018, which
was a record year.
Thanks for your
attention.