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Le Louvre Museum Musée du Louvre 法国卢浮宫 The geographical position . The?Louvre?Museum?is?the?largest?national?museum?of?France.?It?is?a?central?landmark?of?Paris,?located?on?the?Right?Bank?of?the? Seine?in?the?1st? neighborhood Basic Information The?museum?opened?on?10?August?1793?with?an?exhibition?of?537?paintings,?the?majority?of?the?works?being?confiscated?church?and?royal?property.?Because?of?structural?problems?with?the?building,?the?museum?was?closed?in?1796?until?1801.?Holdings?have?grown?steadily?through?donations?and?gifts?since?the?Third?Republic,?except?during?the?two?World?Wars.?As?of?2008,?the?collection?is?divided?among?eight?departments:?Egyptian?Antiquities;?Near?Eastern?Antiquities;?Greek,?Etruscan,?and?Roman?Antiquities;?Islamic?Art;?Sculpture;?Decorative?Arts;?Paintings;?and?Prints?and?Drawings.? The three treasures of Louvre Liberty Leading the People French romantic painter Eugène Delacroix was inspired to paint Liberty Leading the People after the French Revolution of 1830, which ended Frances absolute monarchy. Venus de Milo Venus de Milo (about 150-100 bc) is considered by many art historians to be the ideal of Hellenistic beauty. It was carved out of marble and stands approximately 205 cm (6 ft 10 in) high. It is housed in the Louvre in Paris, France. Mona Lisa? Mona Lisa (1503-1506), painted by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, was also known as La Gioconda, possibly referring to the subject’s husband, banker Zanobi del Giocondo. The artist’s use of very deep space in the background with a close-in portrait is typical of Renaissance painting style. The painting hangs in the Louvre, Paris The Louvre Pyramid The Louvre Pyramid is a large glass and metal pyramid , surrounded by three smaller ones, in the courtyard of the Louvre Museum (Musée du Louvre) in Paris, France. The large pyramid serves as the main entrance to the museum .Completed in 1989,it has become a landmark for the city of Paris. The solid is for the dead, but the transp