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France’s national museum of art and the most visited museum in the world, the Louvre occupies the Louvre Palace, the former royal residence on the Right Bank of the Seine, and opened to the public in 1793. Its eight curatorial departments cover Egyptian, Near Eastern, Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities, Islamic art, sculpture, decorative arts, paintings, and prints and drawings, from antiquity to the mid-19th century. Among its most famous works are the Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo and the Winged Victory of Samothrace. Since 1989 I. M. Pei’s glass pyramid has served as the main entrance.
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How nineteenth-century European painters built an “Orient” of harems, mosques and deserts, and how Said and museums rewrite that gaze
Orientalism in Western art names European pictures of North Africa and the Middle East shaped by empire, travel and studio fantasy. This guide traces Ingres, Delacroix, Gérôme and Matisse through dated museum works, then follows Said, Nochlin, and museum debates on display, provenance and restitution.
Ordinary people in ordinary rooms: how genre painting stages everyday life from Bruegel’s barns through to Hopper’s diner.
Genre painting pictures unnamed people at work, play, or rest rather than saints, monarchs, or battles. This guide defines the type against the other academy ranks, shows how painters build a scene, reads six named works from 1568 to 1942, and maps how contemporary painters still use kitchens, bars, and living rooms.
Mirrors, signatures and a free model: how painters made themselves the sitter from van Eyck’s 1433 panel to photography
A self-portrait is a likeness the maker produces of their own body, often with a mirror, a signature and a claim on professional status. This history follows that practice through oil, print and camera, four visitable works, and the critics who treated the genre as vanity, workshop drill or autobiography.
Artists associated with the museum's collection and programme.
Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664) was a Spanish Baroque painter known primarily for religious paintings of monks, nuns and martyrs and for his still lifes. His forceful use of chiaroscuro earned him the nickname “the Spanish Caravaggio”. He was the father of the painter Juan de Zurbarán.
Gregorio Fernández (1576–1636) was a Spanish Baroque sculptor of the Castilian school, following in the tradition of Alonso Berruguete, Juan de Juni, Pompeo Leoni and Juan de Arfe.
Juan de Zurbarán (1620–1649) was a Spanish Baroque painter, born in Llerena, the son of Francisco de Zurbarán, in whose Seville workshop he worked. Mainly a still-life painter, he reflects his father’s influence alongside Dutch, Lombard and Neapolitan models; works include Still Life with Fruit and Goldfinch and Flowers and Fruits in Chinese Porcelain (Art Institute of Chicago). His career was cut short when he died of the plague during the 1649 epidemic in Seville, aged 29.
Alonso Cano (1601–1667) was a Spanish painter, architect and sculptor born in Granada.
Juan de Mesa (1583–1627) was a Spanish Baroque sculptor, creator of several of the effigies carried in the Holy Week processions in Seville.
Pedro de Mena y Medrano (1628–1688) was a Spanish sculptor.
Luisa Roldán (1652–1706), known as La Roldana, was a Spanish Baroque sculptor and the earliest documented woman sculptor in Spain. Daughter of the sculptor Pedro Roldán, she became Court Sculptor to King Charles II, yet struggled financially and died poor; on the day of her death she was named Academician of Merit by the Accademia di San Luca in Rome.
Pedro Roldán (1624–1699) was a Baroque sculptor from Seville. His daughter Luisa Roldán, known as La Roldana, was also a major figure of Spanish Baroque sculpture.
José de Mora (1642–1724) was a Spanish sculptor, born in Baza, the eldest son of the sculptor Bernardo de Mora and a pupil of Alonso Cano in Granada and of Sebastián de Herrera in Madrid. In 1672 he became sculptor to King Charles II, returning to Granada in 1680, where he died. His masterpiece is the Christ of Salvation (now the Christ of Mercy) in the Church of St Gregory Baeticus, Granada.
Kader Attia (born 1970 in Dugny, France) is an Algerian-French artist who lives and works in Paris and Berlin. His work sits at the frontier between form and thought, between logical inquiry and contemporary ideas. In 2024–2026 he was one of the Louvre’s Hosts, working in a studio inside the museum.
Elizabeth Peyton (born 1965 in Connecticut) is an American contemporary artist working mainly in painting, drawing and printmaking. She is best known for portraits of figures from her own life and beyond – close friends, historical personae and icons of contemporary culture, including artists, writers, musicians and actors. She lives and works in Paris and New York, and was one of the Louvre’s Hosts in 2024–2026.
