The unique Louvre, whose paintings are the cultural heritage of mankind

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

The Louvre, built as a castle-fortress, was turned into the residence of the French kings by the decision of Charles V in 1317. The values accumulated over the centuries within its walls allowed the provisional government of the French Republic to open the doors of the palace to the people in 1793, initiating the creation of one of the largest museums in the world.

The Louvre, whose paintings brought him worldwide fame, occupies a worthy place among the treasures of painting, such as the Prado, the Hermitage, the London National Gallery. The Louvre occupies the 3rd place in the world in terms of occupied area, which houses about 400,000 exhibits. But the value of the museum is characterized not only by the total number of paintings, but also by the presence of world masterpieces in the collection.

The Louvre Museum, whose paintings made it the most popular museum, is primarily due to this "La Gioconda" by Leonardo da Vinci, who is considered a magician, superman, genius because of the power of talent in many fields of science, culture, art. He created only 14 canvases (authorship15th disputed), but this did not stop him from becoming a painting genius.

Mecca of fine arts "Louvre" (paintings by Leonardo da Vinci are presented here in the amount of four priceless copies - "La Gioconda", "John the Baptist", "Madonna in the Grotto", "Mary and Child with Saint Anna") is known to anyone more or less educated person on Earth. And there is no connoisseur who would not know what the Louvre Museum is like, the paintings in it.

“La Gioconda”, covered with unprecedented glory, shrouded in legends, keeping dozens of experts awake, who have been arguing about it for hundreds of years, subjected, like no other canvas in the world, to theft and assassination attempts, was created by the master during 1514 -1515 years. She is considered the founder of all subsequent development of painting.

The next three canvases are written on biblical subjects and belong to the late period of Leonardo's work. "Mary with the Child and St. Anne", painted during 1483-1487, is the prototype of the canvas "Mary in the Rocks", of which two were created. One of them is in the Louvre, the other is in the National Gallery in London.

An extraordinary surge of interest in this particular artist and his paintings was the publication in 2003 of Dan Brown's novel "The Da Vinci Code", followed by its film adaptation, which was released on world screens in 2006. Few people in the civilized world, who haven't read the book or seen the movie. Thus, the modern bestseller contributed to the popularization of the geniusamong contemporaries, slaves of pop culture. It is impossible not to see a kind of continuity of generations in this. The famous paintings of the Louvre by Leonardo da Vinci have found a second life, although, in fact, they are immortal.

It has been repeatedly stated that modern youth associates the name "Leonardo" only with the "Ninja Turtles". And one can only be glad that the Louvre, whose paintings have always had millions of fans, has significantly increased the number of people who want to see the places where the action of the novel unfolds with their own eyes. This is a very effective method of attracting various segments of the population to high art.