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Louvre curator Dominique de Font-Réaulx took us off the beaten path at the world-famous museum to discover some of its overlooked treasures. Price Database. 11 July 2025. Artworks.
Louvre curator Jean-Francois Charnier may see antiquities smuggling charges against him dropped after a decision by a French high court. The charges against museum director Jean-Luc Martinez, ...
PARIS (AP) — The Louvre Museum has invited Italian writer Umberto Eco to be a guest curator in coming months. Eco, whose novels include medieval murder mystery “The Name of the Rose,&#8… ...
Criminal charges against the French curator Jean-François Charnier, for having “facilitated the sales” of allegedly looted Egyptian antiquities to the Louvre Abu Dhabi, are being dropped ...
The Louvre Museum opened on 10 August 1793 with a modest collection of 537 paintings, with most of the works being from the royal collection or confiscated church property.