TOKYO— Uniqlo has entered into a four-year partnership with the Louvre Museum in Paris that will see the Japanese fashion giant produce clothing lines with the museum, as well as sponsor some of its popular events. The program will launch with a collection of UT T-shirts for men and women featuring some of the Louvre’s […]
PARIS — From its bulletproof case in the Louvre, Mona Lisa’s smile encountered an unfamiliar sight the other morning: emptiness. The gallery where crowds of visitors thronged to ogle her day after day was a void, deserted under France’s latest coronavirus lockdown. Around the corner, the Winged Victory of Samothrace floated quietly above a marble […]
With more than 10 million visitors a year, the Louvre is the most visited museum in the world, and for good reason. It is also the largest art museum in the world, covering approximately 18 acres (72,000 square meters) divided into three wings: Denon, Richelieu, Sully. Each wing has over 70 rooms, and there are […]
The question of the decoration of the walls of Notre-Dame de Paris in the Middle Ages has been relaunched, since the very recent discovery of ancient polychromy, inside the emblematic cathedral of the capital. “We know that the cathedral was painted on the outside like any Gothic cathedral, but Viollet-le-Duc believed that it was also […]