The sculpture is now displayed in the Louvre Museum in Paris. Created by the Greek sculptor Praxiteles in the 4th century BCE, this sculpture depicts the goddess Aphrodite, the embodiment of ...

Napoleon, who had little interest in art, liked to stand next to it ... Gloom and despondency settled over the Louvre. Antioch, a Greek city located in what is now Syria, had not been founded ...

In the suburbs of Paris, magic is made in the Louvre’s little-known ateliers, writes Elaine Sciolino in this excerpt from her ...

At the Louvre Abu Dhabi, you won’t find an “Impressionism” wing or “ancient Greek sculptures” hall. Walking into the first of 23 galleries, visitors encounter a statuette of an Egyptian ...