Louvre

Culture
by Silvia Donati | Tue, 01/07/2014 - 04:24
An attempt to bring the Mona Lisa back to Italy, even if just temporarily, has failed. French Minister of Culture Aurelie Filippetti has denied the request put…
Culture
by Carol King | Tue, 10/08/2013 - 11:30
The discovery of a Leonardo da Vinci portrait of Renaissance noblewoman Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, in a Swiss bank vault has stunned art experts –…
Culture
by Carol King | Fri, 06/07/2013 - 09:30
Veteran Hollywood producer Larry A. Thompson announced that he is making a film about the most famous art heist of all time: the theft of the ‘Mona Lisa’ in…
Culture
by Carol King | Mon, 06/03/2013 - 06:17
Imaging technology similar to that used in airport security scanners has detected the face of an Ancient Roman man hidden below the surface of a wall painting…
Culture
by Nicola Ferlei-Brown | Tue, 04/23/2013 - 11:00
"A 'thing' is not art, but the idea expressed by that same 'thing' may be". These are the words of Michelangelo Pistoletto.Born in Biella in 1933, Pistoletto…
Culture
by Carol King | Wed, 10/10/2012 - 04:58
Paris’ Louvre museum has rebuffed a request to allow the Mona Lisa to be displayed in Italy next year.Italian campaigners have collected more than 150,000…
Culture
by Gabi Logan | Tue, 08/14/2012 - 00:25
This summer, pickpocketing inside the Louvre Museum in Paris has reached epidemic proportions, with visitors to the "La Gioconda" (The Mona Lisa) as the most…
Lifestyle
by Gabi Logan | Tue, 06/19/2012 - 09:16
After single-handedly sponsoring the Louvre's exhibit centring around Leonardo da Vinci's "Saint Anne", Ferrgamo has finally claimed its priceless prize: the…
Lifestyle
by ITALY | Wed, 03/28/2012 - 05:32
As the sole sponsor of the Louvre’s latest exhibition on Leonardo da Vinci, the Italian fashion house, Salvatore Ferragamo, has been granted the historic…
Culture
by ITALY | Tue, 03/27/2012 - 06:32
The Louvre Museum proposes a major exhibition as part of the restoration of St. Anne by Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo’s masterwork The Virgin and Child with…