Tuesday, July 13, 2010

A short tour of the Louvre Museum



The Louvre (in English: The Louvre Museum) (French: Musée du Louvre)
The museum is located on the northern bank of the River Seine in Paris
Is one of the most important museums of art in the whole world, is located on the northern bank of the River Seine in Paris, the capital of France. Is the most important museums of France, was a fortress built by Philippe Auguste in 1190, to avoid surprises disturbing attack on the city during the long periods of absence in the crusades, and took the name of the place where the castle was built on it.


Is the largest museum in the world. He underwent during the reign of the late French President Francois Mitterand to be repaired and a major expansion.


He was seen a lot of tourists in the Louvre in Paris and they arrived there to see a picture of the Mona Lisa painted by Leonardo da Vinci, the Mona Lisa painted by the famous in 1503 and renamed Mona Lisa, painted by da Vinci Otd in more than 4 years.


The Louvre is divided into several parts according to the type of art and history. The total length of about 13 km halls, which contain more than one million pieces of art, whether painting or sculpture.


The museum's collection of wonderful effects Greece and Romania and Egypt -which has a number of artifacts, 5664 -, in addition to paintings and sculptures dating back to the eighteenth century AD.


The visitor to enter the Louvre through a huge glass pyramid was opened in 1989, the most important sections of the Great Hall Museum built by Catherine de Medici, in the seventeenth century, and contains dozens of paintings, rare genius painters,
Led by the masterpiece of Leonardo da Vencimoneliza famous painted in 1503 and renamed it the Mona Lisa because they fee includes Amun and Oasis. And is Aljiokanda Leonardo painted in more than four years, money by the likes Aljioknda, in order to see he was saying it has not been terminated and was modify them. And also the masterpieces of the chamber paintings of Francis I of the painter Titan.


And to the right of the Great Hall, there is a narrow hall displays some of the paintings by French painter Tolotrick coupled with a coffee shop named Molan Rouge. In another room of the museum, you can see paintings of a famous painting The Coronation of Napoleon I to the painter David.
The museum also contains a statue Alpelejura, which were used in the movie (Ghost Alpelejura Louvre). As museum contains many relics of the Middle East, which Europeans had stolen during the Crusades and the colonial campaigns over the centuries, where it is currently displayed in the exhibition. He has written many novels Hmaaltv interesting, the most important novel (The Da Vinci Code) of the World Writer Dan Brown.






























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