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Salon Denon

The vestibule of Room Denon, the Salon Denon (named after the first director of the Louvre Museum under Napoleon I), located at the other end of the room, whose extraordinary ceiling painted by Charles-Louis Müller glorifies state patronage in France. This vestibule associated the dual function of the Palais du Louvre, monarchic and artistic, for it also led to two galleries of paintings (now the Salle Daru and the Salle Mollien).

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The Mona Lisa Room

In this room you will find the most famous portrait painting of the world, Mona Lisa (by Leonardo da Vinci). Anybody that visits the Louvre Museum for the first time, wants to see this lady if this is the only work that has to be seen. But this is not the only masterpiece in the room. Opposite to Mona Lisa you can see The Wedding Feast at Cana (by Veronese), a huge (6.77 x 9.94 m) painting, which depicts Jesus 1st miracle, where he turns water to wine. This room is full of wonderful Italian paintings, but these 2 paintings steal the most of the attention.

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Michelangelo Gallery

The Galerie Michel-Ange (Michelangelo Gallery), with its magnificent marble floor houses the Italian sculptures, notably Michelangelo's famous Slaves.
In the Michelangelo Gallery at the Louvre (Musée du Louvre), the visitors crowd around this idyllic image of a loving couple: a winged man and a swooning woman in a voluptuous embrace, their lips about to join in a kiss. take a closer look at this masterful composition of Psyche and Cupid.

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The Salle Daru

The Salle Daru was created and decorated in 1863 for the imperial museum, as conveyed by its red and gold decor (the French imperial colors). In this section of the Louvre Museum (Musée du Louvre) you can see Davids masterpiece The Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon and the Coronation of Empress Joséphine along other large-scale French Neoclassical paintings.

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'Raft of the Medusa' in Salle Mollien

The Salle Mollien was created and decorated in 1863 for the imperial museum, as conveyed by its red and gold decor. It houses large French Romantic paintings such as The Raft of the Medusa, July 28. Liberty Leading the People and The Death of Sardanapalus are on display here.

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Cour Marly

Completed in 1857, these were occupied by the Ministry of Finance from 1871 to 1989. The Cour Marly was covered with a glass roof designed by Ieoh Ming Pei (the architect of the Pyramid) and opened in 1993. It now contains statues from the park at Marly, Louis XIV's favorite residence. The terraced floor provides a splendid setting for the works, bathed in constant natural light.

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Galerie d'Apollon

The Galerie d'Apollon - an iconic room of the Louvre, home to some of its most precious historical collections, is a part of the Louvre, famous for its high vaulted ceilings with painted decorations. Originally designed as a reception hall for Louis XIV, the Galerie d'Apollon was decorated by some of the greatest artists in French history (including Le Brun, Girardon, Lagrenée, and Delacroix) and served as a model for the Hall of Mirrors at the Château de Versailles. The gallery has a total surface area of 600 m² (61.34 m long and 15 m high). It was built over 350 years ago and decorated over the course of two centuries. The Louvre Museum, Musee de Louvre.

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Cour Puget

The Cour Puget formed part of the wing of Napoleon IIIs palace. It was initially given over to the Ministry of State, which was in charge of large-scale building projects, and later, from 1871 to 1989, to the Ministry of Finance. Since 1993, under a glass roof similar to that of the Cour Marly, it has housed outdoor statuary from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.

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Darius Palace

Vessel handle in the form of a winged ibex with its hooves resting on a mask of Silenus Its back legs rest on a mask of Silenus, a figure associated with the cult of Dionysus and wine-drinking, alluding to the function of the metal vessel. The king and his court would take these gold and silver pieces with them on military campaigns.
Rhyton (drinking horn) with gazelle protome This silver vessel testifies to the taste for luxury tableware among the dignitaries of the Achaemenid Empire. Animals were often chosen to decorate these splendid pieces in an Iranian tradition reaching back thousands of years. In Iran, animals appeared on painted pottery in the 4th millennium BC, especially on the large bushels found at Susa.

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Darius Palace, Apadana (Audience Hall)

Capital of a column from the audience hall of the palace of Darius I (510 BC).
This colossal capital from one of the thirty-six monumental columns which supported the roof of the apadana at Susa is evidence of an architectural tradition purely Iranian. It is typical of Achaemenid art in combining elements taken from different civilizations to form a coherent stylistic ensemble.

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Darius Palace (Frieze of Griffins)

Panel with sphinxes These decorative panels of polychrome glazed brick come from the palace of Darius I at Susa (510 BC). A pair of winged lions with bearded human heads sit facing each other. Above them hovers the winged disc of Ahura-Mazda. This complex traditional iconography is rendered in a pure Persian style
Frieze of Griffins
The artists of the Achaemenian period inherited a pictorial vocabulary rich in mythological creatures. The griffin-lion, often represented at Susa, is here pictured on an element of architectural decoration from the palace of King Darius I the Great (522-486 BC). It featured here alongside the lion and the winged bull passant on reliefs made with bricks, with or without colors.

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Painters of Louis XIV

The room of paiters of Louis XIV in the department of French Paintings.
Louis XIV commissioned the portrait of himself as a gift for his grandson Philip V of Spain. It remained in the royal collections until after the Revolution, when in 1793 it was handed over to the Muséum Central des Arts de la République, later known as the Musée du Louvre (The Louvre Museum).

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Napoleon III Apartments (Grand Salon)

The new Louvre opened by Napoleon III boasted a number of sumptuous reception halls. Those of the Palais des Tuileries have unfortunately been lost. However, the rooms in the Ministry of State, opened in 1861 in the Aile Richelieu, have retained their decor of gold, stuccos, marble, bronze, silk and velvet. They also feature ornate painted ceilings. Running parallel to the small rooms, the entrance gallery leads to the large hall (the "salon-théâtre"), the small dining room, and the large dining hall.

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Napoleon III Apartments (The Salon Théâtre)

The new Louvre opened by Napoleon III boasted a number of sumptuous reception halls. Those of the Palais des Tuileries have unfortunately been lost. However, the rooms in the Ministry of State, opened in 1861 in the Aile Richelieu, have retained their decor of gold, stuccos, marble, bronze, silk and velvet. They also feature ornate painted ceilings. Running parallel to the small rooms, the entrance gallery leads to the large hall (the "salon-théâtre"), the small dining room, and the large dining hall.

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Napoleon III Apartments (Dining Rooms)

The new Louvre opened by Napoleon III boasted a number of sumptuous reception halls. Those of the Palais des Tuileries have unfortunately been lost. However, the rooms in the Ministry of State, opened in 1861 in the Aile Richelieu, have retained their decor of gold, stuccos, marble, bronze, silk and velvet. They also feature ornate painted ceilings. Running parallel to the small rooms, the entrance gallery leads to the large hall (the "salon-théâtre"), the small dining room, and the large dining hall.

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French Romantic Sculptures

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French Romantic Sculptures 2

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Diana in Salle des Caryatides

The room contains the Louvre's collection of Roman copies after Greek originals from the Hellenistic period. The Diana of Versailles, a slightly over lifesize marble statue of the Greek goddess Artemis (Diana), with a deer, in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. It is a Roman copy (1st or 2nd century AD) of a lost Greek bronze original attributed to Leochares, c. 325 BC.

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The Musée Charles X

The Musée Charles X is housed in nine rooms in the south wing of the Cour Carrée. It was under the reign of Charles X that the best artists of the time were commissioned to execute the decoration, inspired by the Antiquities collections. The painted ceilings of the first four rooms evoke Homer, Pompeii and Herculaneum.

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Cour Khorsabad, Assyria

This courtyard houses the impressive remains of the palace inaugurated in 706 BC by King Sargon II (721-705 BC) in Khorsabad (northern Iraq). He created an immense city that required a huge workforce. Carefully proportioned monsters, the fruit of mathematical calculations, guarded the gateways.

Lion-taming spirits were part of a complex architectural and decorative system governed by artistic and religious criteria. They symbolized divine and royal power, and the calm strength that emanated from them protected the palace and ensured the continuity of the ruler's power.

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Cour Khorsabad, Assyria
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Anne of Austria's summer apartments 2

Between 1655 and 1658, Anne of Austria, the queen mother and regent during Louis XIV's childhood, created a suite of private apartments on the ground floor of the Petite Galerie. The six interconnecting rooms (a common arrangement at the time) comprised a large salon, anteroom, and vestibule, a grand cabinet (study or private sitting room), a bedchamber, and a petit cabinet overlooking the Seine. The decoration was carried out by the Italian Romanelli (frescoes and ceilings) and Anguier (stucco).

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Anne of Austria's summer apartments

Between 1655 and 1658, Anne of Austria, the queen mother and regent during Louis XIV's childhood, created a suite of private apartments on the ground floor of the Petite Galerie. The six interconnecting rooms (a common arrangement at the time) comprised a large salon, anteroom, and vestibule, a grand cabinet (study or private sitting room), a bedchamber, and a petit cabinet overlooking the Seine. The decoration was carried out by the Italian Romanelli (frescoes and ceilings) and Anguier (stucco).

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Le Brun room (The Battles of Alexander The Great)

4 huge paintings of Alexander's adventures by Charles Le Brun, royal painter to Louis XIV are found in here.
Passage of the Granicus River Alexander's 1st clash with Persians just after crossing Granicus river entering Asia in 334 BC.
The battle of Arbella (Gaugamela) The final clash between the armies of Alexander and the Persian great king "Darius III", 331 BC
Alexander in Babylon Alexander makes his triumphant entry into Babylon, the administrative capital of the Persian Empire in 331 BC.
Alexander and Porus Four soldiers carry the wounded Punjabi king Porus before Alexander in the Battle of the Hydaspes River in 326 BC.

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Le Brun room (The Battles of Alexander The Great)
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Babylon

Neo-Babylonian period, reign of Nebuchadnezzar II (604-562 BC) Babylon, Iraq. This glazed-brick relief was once part of the decoration of the walls that lined processional path at Babylon, during the period when the city was at its apogee under the Chaldean dynasty. The lion is shown with his jaws open in a menacing manner. He is the vigilant guardian of the long life of the city and the prosperity of its inhabitants.

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Salle du Manege (Antique Sculptures)

Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities
This department oversees works from the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman civilizations, illustrating the art of a vast area that encompasses Greece, Italy, and the whole of the Mediterranean basin, spanning a period that stretches from Neolithic times (4th millennium BC) to the 6th century AD.

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The Louvre Museum Main Entrance

The main entrance through the pyramids.

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The Louvre Museum Main Entrance
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Cour Carrée

The Carrée court yard. In 1660 Louis Le Vau was appointed to oversee the completion of the Louvre. This entailed a new facade for the Petite Galerie, the completion of the north wing of the Cour Carrée,

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