The Louvre: 800 years of history

from a medieval fortress to an art museum the Louvre palace has undergone eight centuries of architectural transformation making it an embodiment of French history in the Middle Ages to protect the city King Philippe Auguste built a square defensive fortress between the sin and the walls of Paris wanted a half centuries later in the heart of the city now enclosed by a new outer wall the louvre fortress was converted into a royal residence by king charles v false soir the first used the castle as his main residence but it was his son only the second who had the first wing of the modern Palace built which would become a prime example of the French Renaissance style when only the second died his widow Catherine de Medici started building and designing the twittery Palace and its gardens for her personal use outside the city walls King only the fourth had the groans gallery built on the waterfront to join their Louvre to the Tuileries palace at 460 meters it was the longest building ever seen in Paris and the first milestone of an ambitious project that would continue under his successors at the beginning of his reign louis xiv had the corekai made to its current dimensions and extended the twittery palace where he lived before leaving the Louvre to move permanently to the Chateau de Versailles the twittery was used as the seat of power during the French Revolution in 1793 do museums want holidays off opened in the Grand Gallery of the Louvre Emperor Napoleon the first created a focal point for the to Hillary garden with the Arctic oursel dedicated to his armies and had a gallery constructed to unite the northern parts of the two palaces to complete the works to unite the Louvre and to Lurie that had been ongoing since re4 s reign Emperor Napoleon the third boosted construction efforts and built new wings on either side of the colonel Napoleon he doubled the size of the Louvre and completed the great architectural project undertaken by the kings of France the Louvre survived the town Fire of 1871 that engulf the treilery Palace almost scathed free once the ruins had been fully removed in 1883 the Louvre continued to change acquiring its symbolic glass pyramid marking the entrance to the museum in the 20th century [Music]

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Published: Wed May 22 2019