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):...

Artus the mouse is a night watchman at the Louvre. Waiting in the library one night for his friend Panacea, the museum librarian, he notices a mysterious manuscript that reveals the secret of his...

In 1828–1829, Champollion, the decoder of hieroglyphs, led an expedition of scholars and artists up the Nile to the reaches of the Nubian desert. During this journey through time and space, they...

The diary kept by Eugène Delacroix from 1822 to 1863 is one of the most interesting texts written by a painter, and reveals a great writer hidden behind the brilliant artist. His fluid, elegant, and...

In 12th-century France, the brilliant young philosophy teacher Abelard seduced his student Heloise. The pair eloped and had a passionate love affair, as physical as it was spiritual. Heloise's...

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...

Three works by Felix Mendelssohn—Trio for piano n°1 in D minor, Trio for piano n°2 in C minor, and Sonata for violin in F major (1838)—performed by the Russian trio Dmitri Makhtin (violin), Boris...

"I was madly in love with the Countess of...; I was twenty, and I was naive; she deceived me, I protested, she left me. I was naive, I pined for her; I was twenty, she forgave me: and as I was...