MUSEUM THE LOUVRE

WESTERN PAINTING

The Louvre houses several of the masterpieces of world art, which have achieved iconic status and are instantly recognizable anywhere in the world.

La Gioconda

SCULPTURE

There are collections of sculpture, ranging from the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt to Neoclassical

Venus de Milo

ORIENTAL ANTIQUITIES

The oriental antiquities department keeps objects of the current region between India and the Mediterranean Sea.

Hammurabi code

ARTS OF ISLAM

This department, created in the fall of 2003, brings together the collections from the area between Spain and India, dating from the origin of Islamic civilization (622) until the nineteenth century.

Píxide de Al-Mughira

Psyche revived by the kiss of love, also called Psyche Love or The Kiss, is a marble sculpture neoclassic representing Cupid and Psyche, by sculptor Antonio Canova. The sculpture was made in 1787 but was not completed until 1793.