Elaine Sciolino, formerly the Paris bureau chief for the New York Times, has volunteered herself as a chatty, amiable tour ...

In 1793 the medieval fortress-turned-royal palace was opened to all the ... author of Inventing the Louvre and a professor of art history and museum studies at Tufts University.

The famous Parisian museum announced the Mona Lisa is moving into her own gallery. The change will actually help visitors ...

It contains over 600,000 works of art spanning almost 10,000 years of history ... the expansion of the Louvre was paused when Louis XIV moved his budget to the Palace of Versailles in the 1670 ...

The Louvre assigned her a “minder” who ... In her relatable, passionate, and colorful telling, she describes the history of the palace-turned-museum—which is also the story of France.

At the end of the 14th century, King Charles V and the rest of the palace's inhabitants moved to new residences at the Louvre ... entire building was deemed a historic monument and opened to ...

Galleria degli Uffizi is contained in a palace overlooking the Ponte Vecchio ... out of Italian modo magnifico central casting. The Louvre, by comparison, is just window dressing.