The Palace of Versailles, France, was built in the 17th century. It all started with Louis XIII (1601-1643), first building a castle that served as a hunting lodge for the king and his entourage. It was his successor, Louis XIV (1638-1715), who transformed it into a marvelous palace that exudes luxury and power. Indeed, French […]
The recent death of the great British architect High Tech Modernist Richard Rogers has made us wonder about the fate of buildings like his and Renzo Piano’s Center Pompidou, which were initially vilified but have become icons. Looking only at Rogers’ London architecture – the Millenium Dome, Heathrow’s T5, the Lloyd’s building, the Leadenhall building […]
Images of the iconic spire of Notre Dame collapsing into a blaze on the evening of April 15, 2019 are still vivid in the minds of many around the world. The structure of the famous Gothic cathedral in Paris was finally secured last summer and now the restoration can start. The Archdiocese of Paris will […]
The non-fungible token (NFT) The boom of 2021 swept digital artists like Beeple, Pplpleasr and FEWOCiOUS from obscurity to stardom, and saw the mainstream art world struggle with how to present NFT artwork to its audience. . Now, photo editing and design software maker Pixlr is bringing its vast expertise and 500 million strong global […]
The Louvre is one of the most recognized and renowned museums in the world, housing some of the most famous works of art, including the Mona Lisa. This museum holds many secrets, including stolen art. While you might not be able to travel to Paris to take an official tour of the museum, here are […]
Iconic Samsung Lifestyle TV opens virtual doors to world-famous museum Samsung Electronics recently announced a new partnership with the iconic Louvre Museum. Through this partnership with the Louvre in Paris, France, Samsung will continue to develop the Art Store[1] on his lifestyle television, The Frame. With new works of art from the Louvre joining the […]
Samsung’s most iconic lifestyle TV opens virtual doors to world-famous museum Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced a new partnership with the iconic Louvre Museum. Through this partnership, Samsung will continue to develop the Art Store on its lifestyle television, The Frame, through an exclusive art partnership with the Louvre in Paris, France. With new […]
Over the past few decades, art and technology have intersected at a rate previously unimaginable – both to use technology to create art and to make art more accessible to the public. Samsung Electronics has been at the forefront of this change and has now partnered with the Louvre to help in its mission to […]
Art Industry News is a daily summary of the most important developments in the art world and the art market. Now we’ve got a streamlined new look, with the same attention to what you need to know this Friday, July 16. NEED TO READ Two rising stars perform during Art Basel Miami Beach – London […]
The spoils of war were positively magnificent. When Napoleon Bonaparte led his army across the Alps, he ordered the Italian states he conquered to hand over works of art that were the pride of the peninsula. The Vatican was gutted of Laocoon, a masterpiece of ancient Greek sculpture, and Venice was stripped of Veronese’s 1563 […]
For the first time ever, a hotel has opened within the grounds of the Palace of Versailles in France – and it is surely on its way to becoming one of the most sought-after stays in the world. A night in this ultra-exclusive spot on the outskirts of Paris, as you’d expect, doesn’t come cheap. […]
Great Artists on the Great Migration – Art stars including Mark Bradford and Carrie Mae Weems will create new works to reflect on the legacy of the Great Migration for an upcoming exhibition at two museums. Made in LA Branches – The typical local Hammer Museum biennial, co-presented at the Huntington, featured many works of […]
While walking around the Louvre galleries in person is a hard experience to beat, most people can’t make it to Paris on any given weekend. Additionally, the museum can only display a fraction of its hundreds of thousands of works of art at any given time. With an internet connection, you can now see them […]
The Apollon gallery at the Louvre museum in Paris on January 14, 2020. Stephanie de Sakutin/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Stephanie de Sakutin/AFP via Getty Images The Apollon gallery at the Louvre museum in Paris on January 14, 2020. Stephanie de Sakutin/AFP via Getty Images One of the most massive museums in […]
The pandemic may have forced both culture vultures and casual museum visitors to stay away from their favorite institutions. But the Louvre imagined a very good way to bring art back to as many people as possible. The most visited museum in the world, located in the bustling 1st arrondissement of Paris, has put its […]
Parisian museum moves many undisplayed works of art to a warehouse in northern France designed to withstand the effects of global warming By Melissa Godin LONDON, Feb. 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When the Seine that runs through Paris overflowed this month, Louvre museum officials were relieved that some of their most prized artifacts were […]
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When the Seine that runs through Paris overflowed this month, Louvre museum officials were relieved that some of their most prized items were safely stored in northern France. The largest and most visited museum in the world, with nearly 10 million visitors a year, had already transported some 100,000 works […]
The museum plans to store some 250,000 of its 620,000 artifacts in a new facility in Liévin. Rogers Stirk Harbor + Partners The most visited museum in the world ships a third of its collection. As Elaine Sciolino reports for the New York Times, the Louvre Museum in Paris has spent the past 16 months […]
LIÉVIN, France – This is the most ambitious move in the history of the Louvre – a five-year project to transfer a quarter of a million works of art to a state-of-the-art storage site 200 km in the North of France. For more than 16 months, a stream of trucks has been quietly transporting the […]
While only 36,000 works of art are on display at a time in the Louvre, its collection numbers more than 620,000 pieces, so this new center will house a third of its entire collections. The new center includes six storage areas, including dry and low humidity areas for metallurgy, a photography studio, workshop rooms, a […]
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 […]
A music video created by Beyoncé Knowles and Sean Jay-Z Carter and featuring them at the famous Louvre in Paris has sparked conversations about people traditionally invited to show their work – and interact with art objects – in museums . In an article published earlier this year in The international review of the inclusive […]
The museums of Paris offer a wide selection of art and objects to appreciate. You will find around 130 museums within the city limits. The Louvre is the best known. It is a world-class museum showcasing masterpieces like the mona-lisa and the Venus de Milo – and it’s huge. I recommend going to taste this […]
There’s something about his dark chocolate eyes, smirk and absent eyebrows that adds an element of mystery and fuels conspiracy theories. Maybe that’s why the mona-lisa, completed by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci in the early 1500s, is the most visited (and most parodied) painting in the world. You cannot visit the Louvre and not […]
Today, for the sake of accessibility, more and more museums are putting their collections online. While most institutions choose to simply digitize and catalog photographs of their objects, some go beyond that by offering virtual tours of their premises and clickable exhibits. The latest site to take this technologically impressive route is the Palace of […]
A new application offers a VR experience of the Palace of Versailles To share To share Facebook Twitter pinterest WhatsApp To post Or https://www.archdaily.com/925960/une-nouvelle-application-offre-une-experience-vr-du-chateau-de-versailles A new application takes visitors into the virtual world of the Palace of Versailles. A first on the cultural scene, the VR application offers a detailed visit of the Grand Royal […]
If you want to take a virtual reality trip to one of France’s most popular tourist attractions, Google has partnered with the Palace of Versailles to only offer that. HTC Vive and Oculus Rift users can walk around for free the royal residence King Louis XIV used it from 1682. A total of 21 rooms […]
Some of the most precious objects saved during the fire of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral on Monday evening must be transported to the Louvre museum from the Hotel de Ville, where they have been stored overnight, according to the French minister of Franck Riester Culture. At the risk of being seriously injured by falling drops […]
J he Notre-Dame Cathedral, the scene of a devastating fire last night, is of enormous historical and cultural significance to France and the world. This 12th century monument has housed priceless artefacts, paintings and sculptures and some 13 million people now visit the site each year. On Monday, the building’s main spire and roof collapsed […]
We’ve found the next exotic rave spot you’ll want to hit up this summer. Occurred on June 8 of this year, the Castle of Versailles will host a rave open to the public. Can you guess where exactly in the palace the party will take place? It’s true: the famous Hall of Mirrors was the […]
The Louvre is the largest museum in the world and houses one of the most impressive art collections in history. (Image credit: kan_khampanya Shutterstock.com) The Louvre is the largest museum in the world and houses one of the most impressive art collections in history. The magnificent Baroque-style palace and museum – LeMusée du Louvre in […]
In honor of architect IM Pei’s 100th birthday, we delve into the history of the Louvre: a cultural hub that predates it by some 700 years, but owes much of its current dynamism to its renovations in the 1980s . But first, let’s go back in time. The museum dates back to the 12th century, […]
For eight years, the Palace of Versailles has hosted a series of exhibitions which see internationally renowned artists interacting between their own work and the architecture of the French monument. this summer, olafur eliasson brings a sequence of spatial interventions to versailles — with waterfalls, fog, mirrors and luminous landscapes installed around the gardens and […]
Just when you thought the Palace of Versailles couldn’t get any more spectacular… an ‘impossible’ waterfall seen from above stuns visitors Artist Olafur Eliasson aims to turn visitors into explorers in his summer project outside Paris He created three water features, including a large waterfall in the palace’s famous 17th-century gardens. The attraction was created […]