1st Arrondissement
Passage in front of the Louvre
The Louvre Museum is a museum located in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France.
A foreshadowing was imagined in 1775-1776 by the Comte d'Angiviller, director general of the King's Buildings, as a venue for the presentation of masterpieces from the Crown collection. This museum was only inaugurated in 1793 under the name of Muséum central des arts de la République in the Louvre Palace, a former royal residence located in the center of Paris, and today it is the largest museum in art and antiques to the world. Its exhibition area is 72,735 m28.
At the end of 2019, the Louvre conserved more than 500,000 works, of which more than 36,000 were on display. They present Western art from the Middle Ages to 1848, that of the ancient civilizations which preceded and influenced it (Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan and Roman), the arts of the first Christians and of Islam.
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