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Face
Face by tsai Ming-Liang : a tribute to cinema and the French New Wave with the story of a Chinese filmmaker who makes a musical about the myth of Salome at the Louvre.
Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in...
The Battle of the Pyramid
Director(s): Frédéric Compain
On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, this film looks back at the genesis of the Louvre Pyramid. It is based on notebooks kept by architect Yann Weymouth (the closest collaborator of Grand Louvre...
The journey of Queen Hatshepsut
Director(s): Stéphane Bégoin
American archaeologist Cheryl Ward, a world specialist in ancient navigation, coordinates the construction of a replica of an Egyptian ship from the New Kingdom. The design is based on a bas-relief...
B for Babylon
Director(s): Bernard George
The city of Babylon, founded in Mesopotamia some 5,000 years ago, disappeared 2,000 years later and was rediscovered at the turn of the 20th century by a team of German archaeologists. Babylon has...
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...
Art and the Horse
Director(s): Jean-Luc Gunst
The Louvre's Horses (52 minutes): this film tells the story of the age-old bond between humans and horses that artists have endeavored to express over the centuries.
Horses of Orsay (52 minutes):...
Awakening Apollo
The 60 meter-long and 12 meter-high Apollo Gallery at the heart of the Musée du Louvre is remarkably decorated in French baroque style. Painting, sculpture, gilding, and tapestry combine to celebrate...
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Director(s): André Hatala
This CD-Rom compares the full text of Ovid's Metamorphoses (bilingual edition by Danièle Robert for Actes Sud) with the illustrations the work has inspired in Western art. It provides a lively...
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