Louvre: World's Favorite Museum

In 1793 the National Museum of the Louvre was opened, consisting of paintings and sculptures former royal collections. Not to mention even more loot by Napoleon, and finally through purchase, donation from outside parties, including archaeological finds. So on the basis of this addition, a growing number of departments were created.

One of the great Louvreis famous Oriental (Mesopotamia), the Egyptian antiquities to Greek and Roman sculptures and shops from the middle ages to the modern era, furniture and objects of art and paintings all over Europe. A part of the Museum of Islamic Art is dedicated.

Some previous works fairly well acquainted here. Call it the statue of Sumerian king Gudea, a stele of Hammurabi Code, an Egyptian painted stone statue of the scribe sitting cross-legged, the Venus de Milo and Winged Victory. While other works are quite famous are two marble Slaves by Michelangelo, the treasure of the monastery of Saint-Denis, and the diamond crown of France. To the lover of painting, see Avignon Pietà enjoyed painting Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and painting by Veronese, The Marriage of Cana (very large and was badly damaged in 1992 when it was installed in the new gallery), and the works of Watteau, embarkation for Cythera. Louvre Museum presents for the conservative art history and archeology of this special exhibition at the Louvre Review.