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Carrousel du Louvre

To say that this glamourous shopping centre of good taste and luxury is in the best location in Paris, would be falling short of the truth, because the Carrousel du Louvre is located, literally, in the centre of the world: right in the centre of Paris, in the junction between the Arc de Triomphe of [...]

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Tony Cragg in Paris

Alongside the retrospective of the work of German sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschimidt, the Louvre Museum has dedicated a space for the exhibition of the monumental sculptures of British artist Tony Cragg. Figure out / Figure in is on until the 24th of October, and is located in the part of the museum dedicated to the [...]

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The heads of Messerschmidt at the Louvre

Every now and then, artists come along whose main mission task could be described as a denial of progress, in terms of the history of art. Which is quite possibly the case of the contemporary of Alberto Durero, who we are going to call (to avoid any confusion) Matthias Grünewald de Aschaffenburg – or simply, [...]

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The great glass pyramid of The Louvre

It’s very easy to get lost in the Louvre Museum. Sometimes because we can’t find the exit, and sometimes because so many of the works of art captivate us and we lose all sense of time and space. The Louvre Museum is one of the most spectacular and best known museums in the world. It [...]

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