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In a new partnership, the retail giant Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield and the Musée du Louvre have launched Louvre au centre, a ...
he witnessed what is now the flag of France being flown over Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral by the victorious rebels. The "Mona Lisa" is certainly the most famous piece from the museum, but if she ...
The Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda, is an oil painting of a Renaissance woman painted by Da Vinci in 16th century ...
"It's nine centuries of history, at the heart of Paris and at the heart of the history of France," said des Cars ... Louvre's most famous piece, the Mona Lisa. If you ask the people standing ...
Masterpieces such as "Liberty Leading the People" by Eugene Delacroix, "The Raft of the Medusa" by Théodore Géricault and Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa," the museum's biggest star, can be found ...
“You are fascinated and troubled,” the historian Jules Michelet imagined in his monumental book Histoire de France (1855), describing himself in the Louvre moving like hypnotised prey towards the ...
To some, Paris is the City of Light. To others, it’s the City of Love. But to art lovers, it’s simply the city of art — and ...
Two women threw pumpkin soup at the 'Mona Lisa' on Sunday at about 10 a.m ... the group said it wanted to raise awareness about hunger in France and unsustainable food production, saying it ...
The Mona Lisa led a peaceful existence for the next ... and another person threw acid on it during an exhibition in Montauban, France (it was at this point the decision was made to put glass ...
When Bernard Berenson learned that Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa had been stolen from the ... particularly in France. Writers newly praised the strange feelings that Leonardo’s paintings ...