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Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water

Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water

Director(s): François Lunel

This documentary film is a portrait of internationally renowned Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-Liang, made on the occasion of the filming of Face, his tenth feature film, shot in the fall of 2008 at...
Anselm Kiefer at the Louvre

Anselm Kiefer at the Louvre

Director(s): Jean-Luc Perréard

Fifty years after Georges Braque, contemporary artist Anselm Kiefer was invited to create a decorative work for the Louvre. The resulting work, a painting entitled Athanor, now adorns a staircase in...

 

Ingres' Violin

Ingres' Violin

Director(s): Cécile Favier

The painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres deliberately placed a violin among thousands of sketches and preparatory studies in the trunks of personal archives he bequeathed to his home town. A humble...
At the Louvre with Miquel Barceló

At the Louvre with Miquel Barceló

Director(s): Valéria Sarmiento

Miquel Barceló has a passion for museums—especially for the Louvre, where he exhibited his watercolors illustrating Dante's Divine Comedy in 2004. He has his favorite artists, of course: Goya,...

The Horses of the Louvre

The Horses of the Louvre

Director(s): Jean-Luc Gunst

Throughout art history, artists have endeavored to capture the complicity between man and horse. From the first scenes of Mesopotamian horse training in the third millennium BC to the Romantic fervor...
David's Napoleon: the Coronation of the Image

David's Napoleon: the Coronation of the Image

Director(s): Patric Jean

December 1804. Napoleon Bonaparte commissioned Jacques-Louis David, the greatest painter of the day, to produce four monumental paintings to commemorate his coronation as emperor. Only two were...

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

Director(s): Jean-Claude Lubtchansky

Leonardo, the great Renaissance master, the artist of science and technology who penetrated the phenomena of the universe, dreamed of "representing the invisible." This film takes us through...
Pierre Soulages, A Visit to the Louvre

Pierre Soulages, A Visit to the Louvre

Director(s): Jean-Noël Cristiani

This film follows the artist Pierre Soulages on a visit to the Louvre to see a work that he has treasured since he first discovered it at the age of 17: The Virgin in Majesty, by Cimabue. In front of...