Louvre Palace
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former royal palace, now hosting the Louvre Museum in Paris, France
Key facts
- Type
- Royal residence
- Architectural style
- Gothic (remains preserved underground), French Renaissance , Louis XIII style , French Baroque , Neoclassical , Neo-Baroque and Second Empire style , and Modernism (Pyramid)
- Location
- Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris, France
- Current tenants
- Louvre , Musée des Arts Décoratifs , École du Louvre , Center for Research and Restoration of Museums of France
- Construction started
- 1190 together with the Wall of Philip II Augustus
- Floor area
- 244,000 m2.
- Architects
- Numerous; include Pierre Lescot , Louis Métezeau , Jacques Lemercier , Louis Le Vau , Claude Perrault , Percier and Fontaine , Louis Visconti , Hector Lefuel , I. M. Pei
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- château
- Has part
- Louvre Pyramid
- Country
- France
- Located in
- 1st arrondissement of Paris
- Image
- Pavillon de Flore, Louvre Museum, Paris 5 November 2019.jpg
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- architectural style
- Second Empire style
- Commons category
- Palais du Louvre
- different from
- Louvre Museum
- topic's main category
- Category:Louvre Palace
- located on street
- rue de Rivoli
- architect
- I. M. Pei
- inception
- 1190-00-00
- hashtag
- PalaisDuLouvre
- P12749
- Johann Eustach von Görtz
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Encyclopedic overview
North wing of Louvre facing main courtyard
The Louvre Palace (French: Palais du Louvre, [palɛ dy luvʁ]), often referred to simply as the Louvre, is a palace located on the Right Bank of the Seine in Paris, occupying a large expanse of land between the Tuileries Gardens and the church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois. Originally a defensive castle, it has served several government-related functions in the past, including intermittently as a royal residence between the 14th and 18th centuries. It is now mostly used by the Louvre Museum, which first opened there in 1793.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Louvre Palace” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.