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Genre
Documentary
Copyright
1995
Length
6 minutes
Producer(s)
Cyril de Fouquières, Artefilm ; Pierre Coural, Musée du Louvre
The Apollo Gallery was created at the instigation of Louis XIV. Built and decorated between 1661 and 1851 by the greatest French painters, sculptors, and architects (including Le Brun, Delacroix, Louis Le Vau, and Félix Duban), this gallery in the Louvre is an ode to the sun god Apollo, patron of the arts. This short documentary takes a look at one of the Louvre's largest and most lavishly decorated galleries, a few years before its recent restoration (2002–2004).