The history of the Louvre

The history of the Louvre

 

The Louvre - Paris of the most remarkable public buildings, both in its vastness and architecture, and by him consisting in precious collections. The name comes from the building once stood here, "Wolf" forest (Luparia, Louverie), which was a hunting lodge of French kings. Charles V included this area in the city limits of Paris, and rebuilt the castle into a palace for himself. Francis I ordered this last break, and in its place in 1541 has laid a new, more extensive palace. Construction was started in the south-west. the angle of the current "Old Louvre" in excellent style of the French. Renaissance, designed by architect and Lesko. Then, the construction continued intermittently until 1857, with it, except the erection of new parts of the palace, altered some of the old. The main builders were Lesko after Andrue B. du Serso (under Henry IV), Lemercier (under Louis XIII), Left (under Louis XIV), Percier and Fontaine (under Napoleon I) and, finally, the Louvre and the Visconti Lefyuel (under Napoleon 3 .) Each of these architects with external and internal decoration of the building is more or less guided by your own taste and obey the direction prevailed in the architecture of his time. As a result, different parts in terms of style are not full of harmony, but each of them, taken individually, are very beautiful and majestic, but all together they form the most extensive and noble, iconic building not only in France but also in almost the whole of Europe. Occupying a space of approximately 195,000 square meters. meter., it consists of two main parts: the "Old Louvre," a square plan, encompassing the same yard, and from the "New Louvre" - extensions adjacent to this square with the north and south (from p. Seine and Rue de Rivoli), and a picturesque frame for employees located in between the two parks and the carousel area. In the Louvre V. The new two connected at their ends with the now defunct Tuileries Palace. Numerous halls and galleries of Old LA 1793 to become a repository of various art collections belonging to the French nation, but that the before the New Louvre, only the ground floor and second floor of his body, leaving the Seine, busy art gallery, but in other parts of the placed administrative agencies, primarily agencies of the Ministry of Finance.

Museum, located in the Louvre:

1) Egyptian antiquities;

2) The Assyrian and Phoenician Antiquities (comprised of the richest of their meeting after the collection of the British Museum in London);

3) Etruscan and Greek vases (Campana collection) and funerary urns;

4) antique marbles (among which are the famous statue of Venus de Milo, Diana Versailles, Borgezskogo Gladiator, etc.);

5) sculpture avg. Ages and the Renaissance (product Goujon, "Fontenebloskaya Diana" B. Cellini, "Two Slave" by Michelangelo, etc.);

6) The latest sculpture (works Puget, Kuazevo, shrubs, Houdon, Chaudet, Rude, etc.);

7) painting (one of the best art galleries in the whole world, enclosing a model of over 2,000 works of various schools of painting);

8) original drawings of famous artists;

9), gems, enamels and jewels that fit into the so-called. "Gallery of Apollo," remarkable for its size, luxury finishes, ceilings and wall panels picturesque;

10) of ancient bronzes;

11) works of applied art avg. Ages and the Renaissance;

12) Museum of Ethnography;

13), Marine

14) engraved copper plates (kalkografiya) with the sale of printed impressions from them

 

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In the museum of the Louvre, there are about 6,000 paintings, created by European artists from the late XIII and to the middle of the XIX century, the most diverse in format and style of performance from small to monumental canvases pictures - are all encyclopedic diversity.

Organized by the art department since 1794, when the reform of the national schools. At the end of the project "Grand Louvre" art department took about 17,850 square meters. exhibition area, which was divided by the various schools of painting.