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24/11/2008What's on: 3 tours in the Louvre

What's on: 3 tours in the Louvre For the holiday season there is no place better than the Louvre. Buy a decent pair of walking shoes and enjoy...

Thematic exhibitions: Picasso – Delacroix
from 10-09-2008 to 02-02-2009 
 
Picasso and his Masters
 
Coinciding with the major exhibition “Picasso and his Masters” held at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, the Louvre presents around 20 painted and graphic variations on Delacroix’s Women of Algiers in Their Apartment (1834), executed by Picasso in 1954-55.
 
For the first time the Musée d’Orsay, the Louvre, the Musée Picasso and the Réunion des Musées Nationaux join forces in an attempt to reconstruct the artistic pantheon of the painter who, as soon as he arrived in Paris, used the Louvre, as he had previously used the Prado, as one of the essential sources of inspiration for his creative production.
 
Thematic Trails : Masterpieces of the Louvre – Accessible Self-Guided Tour

Opening days: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Duration: 1 hr. 30 mins.
     

Three Ladies
Ongoing
On their first visit to the Louvre, people often want to see the museum’s three great ladies — the Venus de Milo, the Victory of Samothrace, and Mona Lisa. As you follow this accessible guided tour, you will (re)discover these and other key works and reflect upon that indefinable notion of “masterpiece.”

When the museum first opened in 1793, playing host to the former royal collections, its goal was to provide illustrious educational models for the artists of the future to ensure the revival of the “grand style” of the past. Although you will still come across students and copyists in the exhibition rooms today, museum policy has changed radically.

Nearly six million visitors from every country and culture in the world flock to the Louvre each year, and there are several different ways of visiting the museum. However, there is always a quasi-universal crowd around certain “masterpieces,” which seem to strike a chord in the hearts of all spectators, whatever their nationality or culture.

In the 4th century BC, the Greek philosopher Plato wrote that an artist could never attain ideal Beauty. Artists of every generation have been confronted with this question of supreme, timeless Beauty and suggested answers that reflected the age in which they lived and their particular genius. Some of these answers still seem to find an echo in us today. But with the arrival of the 19th century, the work of art acquired new functions and the masterpiece was no longer necessarily synonymous with Beauty, with aesthetic abstraction intended to delight the eye. Some works resounded with this new tone, in many ways heralding the status of contemporary works in present-day society.

Far from being chronological, this tour spotlights works in front of which visitors spontaneously come to a halt.

Mantegna
From September 26, 2008 to January 5, 2009.

For the first time in France, the Musée du Louvre presents an important retrospective exhibition of the work of Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506), the main representative of Renaissance ideas in northern Italy. His career took place, during the second half of the 15th century, in Padua and Mantua.The exhibition aims at showing, through his paintings, but also through drawings, engravings, manuscripts and sculptures, the career of this exceptional figure, the different influences which were important for him and, in turn, the powerful influence he had over several generations of artists.

 Andrea Mantegna Parnassus © RMN / DR
 Andrea Mantegna Parnassus © RMN / DR

Open every day except Tuesdays, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and until 10 p.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays (Rooms start closing at 5:30 p.m. or 9:30 p.m.).
Special late-night openings, until 8 p.m. all Saturdays, and December 27, 28, 29 and January 3, 4, 5.

Children's tour

A tour of with eleven stops, inside the exhibition, invites younger visitors to discover Mantegna's favorite themes, for example, Antiquity, perspective and nature.

This tour aims at helping the younger visitors to actively observe, compare, and analyze the different works of art exhibited. It thus accompanies parents and teachers in an educational process leading to a greater awareness in art.

The tour is available in three languages: French, English, Italian.

www.louvre.fr


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