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Summary: The Louvre Museum in Paris, France, was designed and built by Philip the Second as a fortress, but it was later transformed into an art museum. Learn about the origins of the famous Louvre with information from an art history professor in this free video on art museums.
Professor Carlton Wilkinson is an assistant professor in the art and art history departments at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. His research interests include...read more
"I guess my understanding of the Louvre is just simply the fact that it is one of the world's finest museums. It combines very traditional architecture with very contemporary architecture and I guess most of it is down underground with where the contemporary portion is. The Louvre was built in the twelfth century by Philip the Second as actually the fortress and only later did it become made in a museum for the public. One of the biggest draws certainly that I am aware of is the Mona Lisa by Davinci who is one of our greatest considered painters certainly in Western art and certainly they have so much more than that but I think that is just one of the single most draws to that museum."
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