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Louvre Couture, the Paris museum's first exhibition dedicated to fashion

Through July 21, 2025, the Louvre is hosting Louvre Couture. Art and fashion: statement pieces, the museum's first exhibition dedicated to fashion, curated by Olivier Gabet. The exhibition brings together 100 fashion masterpieces from 1949 to the pre...
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Louvre holds major exhibition on Cimabue with many masterpieces

In Paris, the Louvre opens its doors to a major exhibition dedicated to Cimabue, a key figure in the history of Western painting. Scheduled to run from Jan. 22 to May 12, 2025, the exhibition is curated by Thomas Bohl and tells the story of how betwe...
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The idea of hosting the Mona Lisa in Lombardy makes no sense: no appeal from the Louvre to find a place for it

Let's be serious: there is no appeal for the search of a different location for the Mona Lisa, as the Lombardy Region's councillor for culture, Francesca Caruso, implied in a note this morning. No one at the Louvre has yet dreamed of asking for help,...
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Louvre, critical situation: moves President Macron

The President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, will visit the Louvre next Tuesday, following leaked reports about the museum's precarious condition. The day before yesterday, in fact, the newspaper Le Parisien published a confidential note (o...
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Louvre restores masterpiece by Leonardo's Andrea Solario. Will it be the Mona Lisa's turn next?

Important restoration at the Louvre: the work by one of Leonardo's painters, Andrea Solario (Milan, c. 1470 - 1524), the Madonna and Child, also known as the Madonna of the Green Cushion , which now presents itself with its original colors, restored ...
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The story of beauty told through the works of the Louvre, in collaboration with L'Oréal

The Louvre Museum has launched De toutes beautés, an innovative cultural mediation program, supported by the L'Oréal Group, that invites visitors to explore more than 10,000 years of art and history through 108 selected works. This guid...
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How many and what are the Italian paintings requisitioned by the French today exhibited in the Louvre?

How many and what are the Italian paintings that were looted by the French in Italy at the time of the Napoleonic plundering that are now on display in the Louvre? There are a total of about fifty canvases and panels by Italian artists requisitioned ...
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Paris 2024, the Olympic flame goes through the Louvre

The path of the Olympic Flame has also passed through the Louvre. We are now in the run-up to the Paris 2024 Olympics , which will begin next Friday, July 26, and for the French national holiday, July 14, the flashlight, symbolizing the fire of Olym...
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