Ancient history of the Louvre Museum

 

                            Ancient history of the Louvre Museum

The Louvre Castle was built in 1202 under King Philip Augustus of France. Which is now widely known around the world as the Louvre Museum. The remains of this castle, built during the reign of King Philip Augustus, can still be seen on the ground floor of the museum. This ancient civilization was formed in 1202 on the banks of the River Seine in Paris. Later in the fourteenth century (from 1546), the castle was used as the royal residence of the then French King I of France. Then again in 1682, King Louis Louvre of France left the palace and converted his residence into the palace of Vesai. And Louvre built the palace as an exhibition of the royal museum. Which was under the auspices of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture and the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres as an exhibition center for the next 100 years from 1692. That is, the "Academy of French Painting and Sculpture" and the "Academy of French Engraving and Art Criticism" have used the palace as their office for almost 100 years.

Then, during the French Revolution, in the nineteenth century, it was decided in the French Parliament that ancient French artefacts would be collected and exhibited together. And the Louvre Museum was chosen as the center of that exhibition. Following this, the museum was inaugurated on August 10, 1793. The world's largest exhibition center started its journey with only 537 works of art. However, due to structural problems of the building, it was closed from 1796 to 1801.

Later, during the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte, the museum's collections were reprinted and enriched. Even the name of the museum was changed from Musée du Louvre to Musée Napoléon. But the sad thing is that after Napoleon's death, most of the artwork was removed from the museum and transferred to the original owners. However, during the reigns of the Second French Empire, Louis XVIII and Charles X, about 20,000 new works of art were added to the museum. Moreover, since the Third Republic (a system of government that existed in France from 1870 to 1940), various grants from various places have gradually enriched the museum. As a result, the museum seems to have regained its new life, its old form.

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                                                                                                              Tanvir Rahman