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- Musée Du Louvre Launches Online Database In English
Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) Paris' Musée du Louvre announced today the launch of its first-ever English-language version of Atlas, its free-of-charge online collections database. Supported by €300,000 in grants raised by American Friends...
- The Louvre Takes Its Shows On The Road
International Herald Tribune (Dana Micucci) As growing numbers of art galleries and art fairs in Paris bid to restore the city's former luster as a center of international art, the Louvre Museum is also expanding its global reach, sending out expeditionary...
- Exhibition: The Louvre In Atlanta
Louvre Atlanta Home Page Be warned - as soon as you click on the above hyperlink, it launches a video interview accompanied by background music. I was still half asleep when I clicked on it, and I nearly jumped out of my skin. The website is the home...
- Exhibition: Egyptian Antiquities From The Louvre
http://tinyurl.com/ybew2k (smh.com.au) Article about a new exhibition opening soon in the National Gallery of Australia, Egyptian Antiquities from the Louvre: Journey to the Afterlife, based on an interview with co-ordinating curator Bronwyn Campbell:...
- The Louvre Suspension
Five fragments of wall paintings in the Louvre were stolen from an Egyptian tomb in 1980 in an area of the Theban necropolis known as "the tombs of the nobles". The Supreme council of antiquities informed the Louvre's director Henri Loyrette who apparently...
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Atlanta museum showcases masterpieces from Louvre
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Titled "The Louvre and the Masterpiece," the last leg of the three-year partnership challenges viewers to define what constitutes a masterpiece and explores how that definition has evolved over the years
"We are attempting to explore this fundamental question in the field of art, a question that has no definite answer, 'What is a masterpiece?'" said Louvre director Henri Loyrette at a preview earlier this week of the exhibit. . . .
The Find the Forgery gallery allows visitors to play museum curator. After examining two heads, one made of black stone and the other of blue glass, they can use one of four interactive screens to go through the process that Louvre curators used to determine in 2002 that one of the two pieces, both from the department of Egyptian antiquities, was a forgery.
See the above page for the full story.
- Musée Du Louvre Launches Online Database In English
Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) Paris' Musée du Louvre announced today the launch of its first-ever English-language version of Atlas, its free-of-charge online collections database. Supported by €300,000 in grants raised by American Friends...
- The Louvre Takes Its Shows On The Road
International Herald Tribune (Dana Micucci) As growing numbers of art galleries and art fairs in Paris bid to restore the city's former luster as a center of international art, the Louvre Museum is also expanding its global reach, sending out expeditionary...
- Exhibition: The Louvre In Atlanta
Louvre Atlanta Home Page Be warned - as soon as you click on the above hyperlink, it launches a video interview accompanied by background music. I was still half asleep when I clicked on it, and I nearly jumped out of my skin. The website is the home...
- Exhibition: Egyptian Antiquities From The Louvre
http://tinyurl.com/ybew2k (smh.com.au) Article about a new exhibition opening soon in the National Gallery of Australia, Egyptian Antiquities from the Louvre: Journey to the Afterlife, based on an interview with co-ordinating curator Bronwyn Campbell:...
- The Louvre Suspension
Five fragments of wall paintings in the Louvre were stolen from an Egyptian tomb in 1980 in an area of the Theban necropolis known as "the tombs of the nobles". The Supreme council of antiquities informed the Louvre's director Henri Loyrette who apparently...