The Louvre Museum, which is one of the most impressive monuments in the world, perhaps even at the top of the list, is located on an area of 73,000 square meters (that is, up to 10 football fields) and is not presented to all visitors; as recorded.
Although the Louvre Museum has more than 350,000 works, it is open to visitors at any time and the number of works on display is about 35,000. And every year, more than 10 million people visit this museum.
In fact, the building that served as a museum today was originally a fortress. This castle was built by King Philip Augustus in 1190. It was converted into a mansion by King Charles in the early fourteenth century. In the 16th century, King Francis I used it as a royal palace.
At that time, the 12 paintings brought from Italy were created. In addition, the royal family of the time was not content to collect works of art, but in 1692, King XIV. Charles has established two art academies here. When the royal family moved to the Palace of Versailles as official residence in 1793, the Louvre was opened to visitors as a museum with a total of 537 works. The expansion of the collection also accelerated after this date and more than 350,000 works were achieved in a very short time.
The Louvre Museum also includes monuments from Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Egyptian and other Islamic monuments, paintings, sculptures and decorative artifacts from different galleries. owner
The paintings, which constituted most of the collection at the opening of the museum in 1793, are still the most impressive works of the largest museum in the world. The collection began with the works of masters such as Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo Da Vinci, Rosso and Primaticcio, and grew rapidly between the thirteenth century and the nineteenth century. Today, Italian, French and Spanish painters, in particular the works of the greatest artists of the world, including the collections Mona Lisa, Saint Jean Baptiste and Madame Récamier, as well as the most precious pieces of the collection, are exhibited in the Collection of paintings of the Louvre Museum.
The collection of decorative works made with different materials, such as jewelry, silver, ivory and bronze, from the Middle Ages to the 19th century, is impressive. There are antique vases, trinkets, consoles, gemstone crowns. The collection of decorative arts, where visitors are exposed to the most precious works of Gothic, Renaissance and Middle Ages, is one of the most important parts of the Louvre, the largest museum in the world.
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