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The Louvre Museum >> http://www.louvre.fr/
Established in 1793 by the French Republic, the Louvre Museum, in the company of the Ashmolean Museum, the Dresden Museum and the Vatican Museum, is one of the earliest European museums. Divided into 7 departments, the Louvre collections incorporate works dating from the birth of the great antique civilisations right up to the first half of the XIXth century, thereby confirming its encyclopedic vocation.

Collections to view here include: Oriental antiques / Islamic Art / Egyptian Antiques / Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities / Sculptures / Objets d' art, Paintings / Prints & Drawings / History of the Louvre and Medieval Louvre / Arts and civilisations of Africa Asia, Oceania and the Americas. You will find detailed information on these collections within their web site, you can even take a QuickTime virtual stroll around the museum itself.

If you are lucky enough to visit in person you will find much more than beautiful and inspiring art galleries . The Auditorium for example hosts art conferences and lectures, and is equipped with its own cinema. The Louvre also provides guided tours and workshops.

If you need to track down any specific piece exhibited then an extensive data base, named Atlas, is available online and allows the consultation of around 29000 works of art exhibited in the Louvre.

Featured artists and works over the course of this coming year include:

Primaticcio, Rosso Fiorentino featuring The Death of Christ, Bernardo Bellotto, Paintings from the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Piotr Michalowski , Masterpieces from the collection of Edmond de Rothschild, Drawings and engravings from the 15th to the 18th centuries, Ludovico Carracci. For photographic enthusiasts there is an exhibition by Patrick Faigenbaum. Other scheduled exhibitions include : Romanesque France 950- 1150, Florentine drawing under the last Medicis, Ceramics in Antiquity and 30 Masterpieces of Islamic Art.

Ordering from the Louvre Museum has an online shop is easy and a vast stock of the following goods are available: DVDs & CD-Rom, Art Books & Guides, Sculpture, Jewelry, Fashion & Accessories, Posters & Stationery, Home Accessories and Kids stuff >> http://www.louvre.fr/

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