10 Spectacular Hidden Gems at the Louvre Museum
The Louvre Museum in the heart of Paris is home to an incredible collection of artworks. Everyone knows it includes Mona Lisa, Nike of Samothrace,...
Camilla de Laurentis 9 January 2023
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All You Need to Know About Mona Lisa
The Mona Lisa is an icon and masterpiece featured in numerous movies, television shows, and music videos. It is famous for being Leonardo da...
Anna Ingram 6 January 2023
Masterpiece Story: Plate with Arabic Inscription
Plate with Arabic Inscription is a masterpiece of 10th-century Islamic art. It combines minimalism, abstraction, and morality into a beautiful and...
James W Singer 20 October 2022
The Louvre Pyramid and 5 Other Museums Designed by I. M. Pei
Ieoh Ming Pei (貝聿銘), known as I. M. Pei (1917-2019) was a Chinese American modernist architect with international acclaim. Exciting for art...
Isla Phillips-Ewen 3 October 2022
Mona Lisa’s Illnesses
Everyone has heard about the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece at the Louvre in Paris. But you have probably never heard about… her...
Camilla de Laurentis 14 September 2022
All Louvre Masterpieces from Beyoncé & Jay-Z’s APES**T Video Explained
The famous music video shows Jay-Z and Beyoncé at the Louvre Museum in Paris. There are shots of them standing in front of the Mona Lisa wearing...
Zuzanna Stańska 4 September 2022
Masterpiece Story: Portrait of Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters
To a 21st century viewer, the portrait of Gabrielle d’Estrées might seem homo-erotic. However, pictured with her sister, the Duchess of Villars,...
Anna Ingram 14 June 2022
Vanishing Pyramid: JR’s Art at the Louvre Museum
In 2016, the urban photographer “JR” decided to visually remove the famous pyramid known as the modern symbol of the Louvre. Three years...
Montaine Dumont 3 February 2022
Liberty Leading the People: Delacroix, French Revolution, and Coldplay
Liberty Leading the People is probably the best-known artwork of one of the greatest artists of French Romanticism Eugène Delacroix. The painting,...
Rute Ferreira 26 January 2022
Art Museums on Pinterest: I’d Pin That!
We all may again be stuck inside, and physical art museums may be again closed, but it’s the 21st century and thankfully we have more ways than...
Rachel Witte 22 May 2021
The Benefits of Visiting a Museum
During the protracted coronavirus lockdown, when all the art we see is digital, we can reflect on that which we took for granted before. There are so...
Nina Relf 21 May 2021
Armchair Museum Visits: Great Museums in Art
Armchair traveling, online art viewing, and virtual museum visits are all the rage these days. In this article, you can do those three things at once...
Alexandra Kiely 18 May 2021
