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Plan / Information English Palais-Royal- N Musée du Louvre 99, rue de Rivoli entrance Passage Richelieu S Rue de Rivoli Louvre-Rivoli Passage Richelieu Tuileries Gardens Galerie Pyramid Cour Carrée du Carrousel main entrances entrance Porte des Lions entrance Information / Porte des Lions entrance Plan English The Seine Collections Near Eastern Antiquities Paintings Prints and Drawings This department presents the The collections in this department The Prints and Drawings Department civilizations of the ancient Middle cover the history of European painting contains the collection of drawings East, which date to seven thousand from the mid-13th century to the (more than one hundred thousand years BC. They succeeded each other mid-19th century. They are divided works), the Edmond de Rothschild in Mesopotamia, Iran, and the Levant, into three large groups: the French donation and the engraved plates a vast territory stretching from the school (a numerical majority), the collection. These works may be viewed Mediterranean Sea to India. Italian and Spanish schools, and the privately by arrangement. Remarkably Northern European schools (German, rich but extremely fragile, they are Egyptian Antiquities Flemish, and Dutch). displayed in regular temporary exhibitions, as well as in the exhibition Sculptures rooms of the museum on a rotational Created by Jean-François basis. Champollion, this department illustrates the art of ancient Egypt This department encompasses Viewing room, Department of Prints and Drawings. by means of two designated paths. European sculpture from the High Information: 01 40 20 52 51. The first is chronological, from the Middle Ages to the mid-19th century. origins to Cleopatra, and the second The collections contain French works is thematic, highlighting specific for the most part, with a number of Islamic Art aspects of Egyptian civilization. significant pieces from Italy, Spain and Two additional sections, devoted Northern Europe. On display in this department are to Coptic Egypt and Roman Egypt, works from Islamic areas including round off this presentation. Decorative arts various countries in the Mediterranean Basin, Iran, central Asia and India. Some items used to belong to the Greek, Etruscan, The collections in this French royal collections. This and Roman Antiquities department–e.g. objects from collection is composed primarily of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, objects made of ceramics, metals or This department contains works decorative arts of the 17th and 18th wood in addition to ivories, rugs, and produced by three ancient centuries, items from the Diamants paintings from the 7th to the 19th civilizations: Greece, Etruria, and de la Couronne collection belonging century. Rome. On the ground floor, to the French crown, 19th-century a chronological path concentrates objects and furniture, and the The exhibition rooms used for the on marble sculptures from the 3rd Napoleon III apartments–spans many Department of Islamic Art are currently millennium BC to the 6th century different periods. closed. A new gallery is scheduled to open AD. On the first floor, the collection in the Cour Visconti in 2012. The 18th century decorative arts section is organized by technique and type is closed until 2012 due to major of material used: bronzes, jewelry, restorations supported by the High Arts of Africa, Asia, Oceania, silverware, and glassware as well Museum of Art and its patrons: Mrs. Anne and the Americas as terracotta figurines and vases. Cox Chambers, Accenture, UPS, Turner Broadcasting System Inc., The Coca-Cola Company, Delta Air Lines, AXA Art This selection of works, on display at History of the Louvre Insurance Corporation and The Sara Giles the Louvre since April 2000, is part of and Medieval Louvre Moore Foundation, as well as the Cressent the collections from the Quai Branly Circle and American Friends of the Louvre. museum. These two rooms and an archeological path present the architectural history Find out more about of the palace. the collections: www.louvre.fr Visit rules In permanent collection rooms, visitors may take photographs and videos. However, the use of a flash or any other type of lighting equipment is prohibited. The Louvre Museum is starting a new campaign to make visitors realize the In temporary exhibition rooms, visitors connection between respect for works may not take photographs or videos. of art and their preservation, called «Les règles de l’art». 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