Tag: Louvre museum
A geologist thinks she has unlocked the mystery of the background of ‘The Mona Lisa’
This is a subject that has often hit the headlines. The background of The Mona Lisa, one of the most famous paintings in the world, by the Italian master Leonard…
Will “The Mona Lisa” one day leave France and the Louvre?
If lifting one’s eyes to the sky was an Olympic discipline, the curators of French heritage would have had a good chance of winning a medal this Thursday while the…
Test your knowledge on the most visited paid site in France
“The Louvre is not the place of contemporary art, it is the contemporary place of art”, according to Laurence des Cars, the president and director of the legendary museum. In…