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The Louvre, or the Louvre Museum, is the world's largest art museum and a historic monument in Paris, France, and is best known for being the home of the Mona Lisa.

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What famous pieces are at the Louvre?

Top 3 masterpieces and paintings : the best of Louvre artwork

1. The Mona Lisa

2. The Winged Victory of Samothrace.

3. La Venus de Milo.

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1. It Would Take 100 Days to See All of the Art in the Louvre Museum.

2. The Louvre is the Home to the Mona Lisa Painting.

3. 66% of the Art in the Louvre was Made by French Artists.

4. The Louvre Was Used by the Nazis During the War.

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What is inside the Louvre Museum?

The Musée du Louvre contains more than 380,000 objects and displays 35,000 works of art in eight curatorial departments with more than 60,600 square meters.
About the museum
Address: Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris, France

Departments: Librairie-Boutique du Musée du Louvre

Hours:

Open ⋅ Closes 6PM · More hours

Phone: +33 1 40 20 50 50

Description

Collection size: 615,797 in 2019

Established: August 10, 1793

Architects: Pierre Lescot, Louis Le Vau, Claude Perrault

Directors: Jean-Luc Martinez, Henri Loyrette

Public transit access: Palais-Royal - Musée du Louvre, Louvre - Rivoli

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FUN FACTS
1.TO HONOR
It was created not only to honour the goddess, Nike, but probably also to commemorate a naval action.
2. HOW OLD IT IS?
The winged victory is 2,210 years old Archeologists said it was created around  c. 190 BC.

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FUN FACTS:
1. SHE MIGHT NOT BE VENUS.

Some have suggested the sculpture is not Aphrodite or Venus, but Amphitrite, the sea goddess who was particularly adored on Milos.

2.SHE'S BEEN ROBBED!

Venus is missing more than just her arms. She was originally draped in jewelry including a bracelet, earrings and a headband. These flourishes are long lost, but the holes for fixing them to the piece remain in the marble.

3. SHE LOST HER COLOR.

While it’s easy for today’s art admirers to think of Greek statues as white, the marble was often painted in the style of polychromy.

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1. "MONA LISA" IS NOT HER NAME.

The painting's subject is commonly thought to be Lisa Gherardini, whose wealthy and presumably adoring husband Francesco del Giocondo. This explains the less prevalent title for the painting, La Gioconda, or La Joconde in French.

2. NAPOLEÓN

The french emperor once had Mona Lisa hanging in his Bedroom  in the Tuileries Palace for about four years, beginning in 1800.

3. THE MONA LISA IS ESSENTIALLY PRICELESS.

In the 1960s, the painting went on a tour where it was given a insurance valuation of $100 million but factoring in inflation, more recent assessment estimated it's worth $2.5 billion.