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2025-05-01 18:55:55

Douglas E. Welch on Nostr: The Architectural History of the Louvre: 800 Years in Three Minutes via Open Culture ...

The Architectural History of the Louvre: 800 Years in Three Minutes via Open Culture [Shared]

Setting aside just one day for the Louvre is a classic first-time Paris visitor’s mistake. The place is simply too big to comprehend on one visit, or indeed on ten visits. To grow so vast has taken eight centuries, a process explained in under three minutes by the official video animated above. First constructed around the turn of the thirteenth century as a defensive fortress, it was converted into a royal residence a century and a half later. It gained its first modern wing in 1559, under Henri II; later, his widow Catherine de’ Medici commissioned the Tuileries palace and gardens, which Henri IV had joined up to the Louvre with the Grande Galerie in 1610.

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