The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum and home to Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa,” has requested urgent help from the French government to restore and renovate its ageing exhibition halls and better protect its countless works of art.
An underground tunnel network long rumored thanks to drawings by Leonardo da Vinci under Milan’s Sforza Castle are proven to exist. Ground-penetrating radar and laser scanning revealed that the historic passages made famous by a Leonardo da Vinci drawing is just one of multiple tunnel sections.
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that non-EU visitors will pay a higher entrance fee to visit the Louvre, the world's most-visited museum, which is plagued by overcrowding and outdated facilities.
The Louvre, the world's most-visited museum and home to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, has requested urgent help from the French government to restore and renovate its ageing exhibition halls and better protect its countless works of art.
A multi-year overhaul will see a new entrance built as well as a separate underground gallery for Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece in what Mr Macron called a "new renaissance".
France`s President Macron announced a renovation plan for the Louvre, including a dedicated, independently accessible space for the Mona Lisa.
I remember when, as a child, I fought my way to the front of a queue of sweaty tourists in the Louvre, only to be pulled aside by a security guard who mistook my enthusiasm for malign intent. When I visited a few years later – still in the pre-internet age – I had raised my expectations so much that the reality was,
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that the “Mona Lisa” will get its own dedicated room inside the Louvre museum, which he said will be renovated and expanded in a
The announcement comes after the Louvre Museum director revealed the dire state of the famous Parisian museum last week. View on euronews
A Louvre expansion that would put La Gioconda in her very own gallery has us envisioning the most mysterious sitter in iconic rooms of art history.
A 16th-century Florentine noblewoman, Lisa Gherardini was the wife of a successful silk merchant named Francesco del Giocondo. But was she also the subject of the Mona Lisa? Many scholars believe she was,