This exhibition brings together a selection of some one hundred sheets from one of the most important collections of drawings of show clothes, that of the volumes of Costumes for Festivals, Ballets and Theater in the Time of Louis XIV donated by Baron Edmond de Rothschild (1845-1934) to the Louvre Museum. Their richness reveals the diversity of invention of the artists who dressed the entertainments staged at the...

In 2021, Greece will celebrate the bicentenary of its independence; it was also 200 years ago, in 1821, that the Venus de Milo entered the Louvre collections. The exhibition traces the cultural, diplomatic and artistic links between Greece and France in the 19th century, highlighting the way in which the European view of Greece was transformed with the rediscovery of Greek antiquity....

Through materials and objects, this exhibition describes exchanges between distant worlds - exchanges often far more ancient than the explorations of the 16th century. Forms, techniques, and themes intertwined to create new objects, reflecting all the complexity of our world as it could be perceived in Europe from the late Middle Ages on....