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The collection Motais Narbonne - French and Italian paintings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Musée du Louvre

Opening : From the 2010-03-24 to the 2010-06-28
Timing : Open daily from 9 am to 18 pm, except Tuesdays.
Night until 22 pm Wednesday and Friday

Met with passion from eighty years by two enthusiasts familiar Parisian museum, this collection is revealed to the public through the Louvre forty-five paintings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

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Meroe, Empire on the Nile

Musée du Louvre

Opening : From the 2010-03-24 to the 2010-09-06
Timing : Open daily from 9 am to 18 pm, except Tuesdays.
Night until 22 pm Wednesday and Friday

he Louvre hosts its first exhibition reserved exclusively for Meroe, the capital of a majestic and enigmatic civilization that developed on the banks of the Nile between 270 BC and AD 350.
The 200 works on show reveal the multicultural character of this ancient African civilization.

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Sainte Russia, the Rus' of Kiev for Russia to Peter the Great

Musée du Louvre

Opening : From the 2010-03-05 to the 2010-05-24
Timing : Open daily from 9 am to 18 pm, except Tuesdays.
Night until 22 pm Wednesday and Friday

Sainte Russia, the Rus' of Kiev to Russia of Peter the Great to celebrate the
Year of Russia in France, the Louvre Museum presents a major exhibition tracing
the history of Russia since the Christianization end of the tenth century until
the time of Peter the Great in the first quarter of the eighteenth century.

"Holy Russia" will deliver a comprehensive overview of the founding
of the Russian civilization back to the origins of the nation, when the last
lights mingle pagan to Christianity, and covering nearly a thousand years of
history, ending the reign of Peter the tall. When a special exception, the exhibition
will showcase more than four hundred works from collections rarely french unveiled
to the public because of their fragility.

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For Love of Delacroix : The Karen B. Cohen Collection

Musée du Louvre

Opening : From the 2009-12-16 to the 2010-05-04
Timing : Open daily from 9 am to 18 pm, except Tuesdays.
Night until 22 pm Wednesday and Friday
Rates : 5 €uro

The Musée Eugène-Delacroix in Paris exhibits about a hundred of the artist’s works, purchased by the American collector Karen B. Cohen, before the majority of them joined the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

On this exceptional occasion, these diverse works, comprising paintings, sketchbooks and large murals, once again hang on the walls they adorned until 1864. They offer a summary of the artist’s career seen through the prism of a singular collection.

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Titien, Tintoret, Véronèse... Rivalités à Venise

Musée du Louvre

Opening : From the 2009-09-17 to the 2010-01-04
Timing : Open daily from 9 am to 8 pm, except Tuesdays.
Night until 22 pm Wednesday and Friday
Rates : Specific ticket to the exhibition: 11 euros.
Combined ticket (permanent collections and exhibition): 14 euros before
18 h, 12 euros after 18 pm on Wednesdays and Fridays.

The exhibition intends to take stock of the Venetian painting in the second half
of the sixteenth century, during which the artists of the lagoon make a unique
synthesis adapting mannerism in central Italy in their naturalistic vision of
the world.

After an introduction referring to the situation of painting in the metropolis
with the arrival of Véronèse (supremacy of Titian, Tintoretto
ascent) compared to what, in the work of the young artist of land, has attracted
the attention of sponsors who do come, the exhibition wants to show in a journey
of both chronological and thematic evolution of the lagoon painting after 1540.
Through a variety of common themes particularly dear to the Venetians of the
"Golden Century", will face the creations of the three major painters
of Venice until the end of the century ingenuity Titian, whose style of old
age rout by renewal constant, engineering Tintoretto dynamic, maturing art of
superhuman energy, engineering Véronèse decorative, whose palette
and Apollonian serenity fascinated all the artists to the twentieth century.

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Ugo Rondinone : Sunrise East

Musée du Louvre

Opening : From the 2009-09-17 to the 2009-11-15
Timing : Open daily from 9 am to 18 pm, except Tuesdays.
Night until 22 pm Wednesday and Friday

As part of the Festival d'Automne in Paris, the Louvre Museum invites contemporary
artist Ugo Rondinone to present an installation in the Jardin des Tuileries. Twelve
monumental sculptures in bronze patinated silver, representing the twelve months
of the year, are installed around a pool.

Sunrise East is composed of a set of enigmatic figures, each representing one
month of the year in an evocation of the cycle of seasons, of the eternal return
of the same and the inexorable passage of time. Their expressions are intriguing,
their monumentality is remote.

They continue the series of masks in which you guess the presence of the artist
in the guise of a clown disenchanted or, in the series of photographs I do not
live here anymore, a figure of fashion. His characters seem to spring poles
of a childhood dream or civilization disappeared forever. At once grotesque
and sublime, they come from sources as diverse as masks for non-Western civilizations
and the disguises for Carnival festivities. They also arise in the history of
art referring Surrealism research or plastic Picasso.

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Ugo Rondinone : Sunrise East

Musée du Louvre

Opening : From the 2009-09-17 to the 2009-11-15
Timing : Open daily from 9 am to 18 pm, except Tuesdays.
Night until 22 pm Wednesday and Friday

As part of the Festival d'Automne in Paris, the Louvre Museum invites contemporary
artist Ugo Rondinone to present an installation in the Jardin des Tuileries. Twelve
monumental sculptures in bronze patinated silver, representing the twelve months
of the year, are installed around a pool.

Sunrise East is composed of a set of enigmatic figures, each representing one
month of the year in an evocation of the cycle of seasons, of the eternal return
of the same and the inexorable passage of time. Their expressions are intriguing,
their monumentality is remote.

They continue the series of masks in which you guess the presence of the artist
in the guise of a clown disenchanted or, in the series of photographs I do not
live here anymore, a figure of fashion. His characters seem to spring poles
of a childhood dream or civilization disappeared forever. At once grotesque
and sublime, they come from sources as diverse as masks for non-Western civilizations
and the disguises for Carnival festivities. They also arise in the history of
art referring Surrealism research or plastic Picasso.

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Marie d’Orléans 1813–1839 - Princess and Romantic Artist

Musée du Louvre

Opening : From the 2008-04-18 to the 2008-07-21
Timing : Richelieu Wing
18 April - 21 July 2008
Admission included in the ticket to the permanent collections.
Rates : Accès avec le billet d’entrée au musée : 9 euros ; 6 euros après 18 h les mercredi et vendredi.

Marie d’Orléans, princess and Romantic artist, epitomizes the ideals
of the age in which she lived. Armed with a solid, open-minded education by her
father King Louis-Philippe, she developed a passionate interest in the arts and
took up drawing and sculpture herself.



Curator(s) : Anne Dion-Tenenbaum, Department of Decorative Arts, Musée
du Louvre.

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Jan Fabre at the Louvre - The Angel of Metamorphosis

Musée du Louvre

Opening : From the 2008-04-11 to the 2008-07-07
Timing : Richelieu Wing, 2nd floor
27 March 2008 - 23 June 2008
Admission included in the ticket to the permanent collections.
Rates : 9 euros ; 6 euros after 6 PM Wednesday and Friday

After the success of the past three annual “Counterpoint” exhibitions, the Louvre pursues its policy of promoting contemporary art and inviting living artists inside its walls by giving Jan Fabre carte blanche in 2008.

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Babylon

Musée du Louvre

Opening : From the 2008-03-14 to the 2008-06-02
Timing : Open daily except Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and until 10 p.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays.
Rates : Access to the exhibition is included in the purchase of an admission to the museum’s permanent collections: €9; €6 after 6 p.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays

For the first time assembling works from all over the world, this exhibition seeks to reconcile Babylon’s history with its legend. It explores the various stages in the foundation of the ancient city and the extent of its influence, as well as the way in which the Babylonian myth grew out of its historical reality.

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Van Dyck the Engraver

Musée du Louvre

Opening : From the 2008-02-07 to the 2008-05-05
Timing : Open daily except Tuesdays from a.m. to 6 p.m.,
and until 10 p.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays.
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Rates : Access to the exhibition is included in the purchase of an admission to the museum’s permanent collections: € 9; € 6 after p.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays. Free admission for youths under 18, the unemployed, and holders of the "Louvre Jeunes", "Louvre Profesionnels", "Louvre Enseignants", "Louvre Etudiants Partenaires" or "Amis du Louvre" cards.

Art of the Portrait

The Cabinet des Dessins, the Chalcography and the Edmond de Rothschild Collection
at the Musée du Louvre bring together an exceptional grouping of works
forming one of the finest series of engraved portraits by a painter: the Iconography
of Antoine van Dyck.

Inviting the public to discover first-state etchings as well as a number of
preparatory drawings and copper plates used to create the Iconography, this
exhibition offers an unprecedented view into the genesis and development of
this singular series.

Curator(s) : Pascal Torres, curator of the Edmond de Rothschild Collection and
of the Chalcography at the Musée du Louvre.

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Masterpieces of Islamic Art from the Aga Khan Museum

Musée du Louvre

Opening : From the 2007-05-10 to the 2008-07-01

As a preview to the opening of the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, this exhibition presents a selection of masterpieces from the Aga Khan remarquable collection of Islamic art.
Several folios from the most famous 16th-century Iranian manuscript, Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp, two wonderfully preserved medieval garments and diverse forms of calligraphy attest to the beauty and breadth of Islamic art from Spain to India.

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