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The Louvre , also called Louvre Museum, is a Parisian museum of art and antiquities located in the Louvre Palace in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. Inaugurated on August 10, 1793, it is the largest museum in the world, but also the most visited. Among its most famous works are the Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo, the Red Scribe, the Nike of Samothrace and the Code of Hammurabi.
Alim Kubdel works there as director of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities.
See also[]
See Wikipedia:Louvre
Description[]
Entrance[]
The entrance to the Louvre Museum is through the Louvre Pyramid located in the center of the Hall Napoléon.
Hall Napoléon[]
The Hall Napoléon.
The Hall Napoléon is a huge two-story hall located directly beneath the Louvre Pyramid. The revolving entrance door leads directly to a spiral staircase wrapped around a column and an escalator that leads to the lower level of the hall. Empty cabinets and bas-reliefs can be seen near the wall, and in the distance the entrance to the rest of the museum. The main decoration is the numerous posters promoting the current exhibitions in the museum.
Department of Egyptian Antiquities[]
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The Egyptian Exhibition Hall.
Directed by Alim Kubdel, this department presents collections representative of the civilization that evolved on the banks of the Nile from the end of prehistory (4,000 years before our era) to the Christian period (4th century). It has 66,300 works distributed over three floors of the Sully wing, in about thirty rooms, nineteen of which form a thematic tour of Pharaonic Egypt.
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The Egyptian Papyrus.
One of the works appears to be an papyrus that illustrates and tells the legend of the existence of a sacrificial ritual prepared by Akhenaten to resurrect Nefertiti, but also of the intervention of a Ladybug to prevent this ritual from taking place.
Department of Paintings[]
This department has 7,500 works of art in the Louvre, 3,400 of which are on public display. These paintings cover a period from the Middle Ages to 1848. They represent the different major schools of painting in Europe during these periods, especially the French, Northern (Flanders, Netherlands and Germany) and Italian schools.
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A Red Room in the Louvre.
The works are displayed in large thematic rooms, including the famous Red Rooms. As the name suggests, these huge, rectangular rooms have red walls with gold decorations to make the paintings, often in brown tones, stand out. Illuminated by the glass ceiling, there are works by great French masters, as well as grandiose large-format paintings.
In one of these rooms are exhibited: The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci protected by glass and whose perimeter wall is white, Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix, Charging Officer of the Light Cavalry of the Imperial Guard and The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault, The Coronation of Napoleon and the Portrait of Madame Récamier by Jacques-Louis David, etc.
Other rooms[]
The Louvre Museum has other rooms without a particular theme.
However, one of them seems to house many works, actually hiding the stories of ancient bearers of the Miraculous, including a statue of Jeanne d'Arc, but also the Lady with a Rabbit by Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, which seems to be the portrait of a previous holder of the Rabbit Miraculous.
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Trivia[]
- The Louvre Museum has been classified as a historical monument since 1890.
- The Musée National Eugène-Delacroix, located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, depends on the Louvre Museum.
- The Louvre Museum is Nathaniel's favorite place. He spends a lot of time there with Alix.
- The Egyptian papyrus with hieroglyphics that tell how the Ladybug of ancient Egypt prevented a pharaoh from sacrificing an innocent woman is featured in the museum's Egyptian exhibit.
- In the series, The Mona Lisa is displayed in a Red Room, but in reality it is displayed in the Salle des Etats.
- In the series, the Louvre Museum displays "Lady with a Rabbit" by Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, while this painting is displayed at the art gallery of Yale University, in the United States.
- This painting hides a sign of the Order of the Guardians, thus opening the power of the Reunion.
- As seen in the episodes "The Pharaoh", "Feast" and "Reunion", the Louvre Museum houses artifacts of historical figures who were also previous Miraculous holders.
- In the series, the Louvre Museum has assumed some importance on several occasions:
- In "Copycat", the eponymous villain entered the museum to steal the Mona Lisa in order to undermine the reputation of Cat Noir. The police tried to lock the hero away, but ended up having to fight them in the Hall Napoléon.
- In "The Pharaoh", while Marinette and Alya went there to see the Egyptian exhibit, Jalil was akumatized and fought Ladybug and Cat Noir inside and outside the museum.
- In "The Puppeteer", Nathaniel was transformed into the Evillustrator thanks to the powers of the eponymous villain.
- In "Riposte", Ladybug hid Adrien in a sarcophagus in the Egyptian section, before fighting the eponymous villain with Cat Noir throughout the museum.
- In "Robostus", the eponymous villain took control of all the electronic devices in the Louvre.
- In "Reverser", Nathaniel and Alix were approached by the heroes of Paris in the museum to help them defeat the eponymous villain.
- In "Feast", the Louvre unveiled a new exhibit featuring an ancient statue discovered in Tibet, which was actually a dormant sentimonster. Later, Mayura entered the museum at night to wake up the sentimonster and allow Hawk Moth to akumatize it.
- In "Timetagger", Ladybug and Cat Noir took refuge in the museum to recharge. Later, with Alix's help, they discovered an adult version of Alix, who possessed the Rabbit Miraculous, imprisoned for several millennia inside an obelisk. Additionally, due to Timetagger sending several parisians into the past, some of the museum's ancient artifacts and paintings have changed to resemble different citizens, such as: Jagged Stone, Nadja Chamack, Caline Bustier, Denis Damoclès, André Bourgeois, and André the ice cream man.
- In "Evolution", Alim Kubdel took Alix to a room with paintings to discuss the future, but more importantly, to fulfill her destiny of becoming a superhero, tasked with leaving her family to stop Monarch from keeping the Rabbit Miraculous.
- In "Reunion", most of the episode took place in the museum, including Jalil's fourth akumatization into the Pharaoh. Due to the Pharaoh's new powers, the museum was covered by a giant pyramid.
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