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Louvre: Paintings
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Countless books have been written on the many aspects of the Louvre’s complex and fascinating history (a number of good ones written in English can be found in the museum’s bookshop). For casual sightseeing purposes, it’s helpful to keep in mind a few essential historical points:
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There will be direct access to the "Espace Carrousel du Louvre" from the metro and from place du Carrousel. The virtue of the new parking spaces will be to clear Rue de Rivoli and place du Palais- Royal of the lines of coaches disgorging their passengers into the Louvre.
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Thematic Trails have been developed to help visitors to the Louvre explore a particular theme or movement in depth. Online visitors can ... gain insight from the descriptions and explanations of the works shown.
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The only two paintings by Correggio owned by the Louvre hang in this Salon Carré. Both are gems, and if one never saw another work of the man of Modena, they would be sufficient to give a just idea of this exquisite colourist, he who had too, a charm, a persuasion, a mystery and a mastery of chiaroscuro possessed by none other unless by Rembrandt.
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