The Louvre Palace in Paris began as a defensive fortress built under King Philip II at the end of the twelfth century, whose foundations remain visible beneath the modern building, and was transformed over more than five centuries by successive French monarchs into a vast royal palace before becoming a public museum after the French Revolution. Its long wings and courtyards were extended and rebuilt by a succession of architects, giving the complex a layered mix of French Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical facades around the Cour Carree and the Cour Napoleon. In 1989 the architect I. M. Pei added a large glass and metal pyramid over a new underground entrance hall in the main courtyard, a strikingly modern intervention within the historic palace that was controversial when unveiled but has since become one of the building's most recognizable features. The palace complex is among the largest museum buildings in the world by floor area.
Facts
Building Type LocationRight Bank of the Seine, 1st arrondissement, Paris, France 1 Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Louvre, the same subject.
- Also in Geography Atlas: France, located there.
Sources
1. Louvre (Wikipedia)
Lead paragraph
It is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement (district).
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
The Louvre (French: Musée du Louvre [myze dy luvʁ] ) is a national art museum in Paris, France. It is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement (district) and home to some of the most canonical works of Western art, including the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, and Winged Victory. The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace, originally built in the late 12th to 13th century under Philip II. Remnants of the Medieval Louvre fortress are visible in the basement of the museum.
Wikipedia infobox building_type field
The Louvre (French: Musée du Louvre [myze dy luvʁ] ) is a national art museum in Paris, France. It is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement (district) and home to some of the most canonical works of Western art, including the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, and Winged Victory. The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace, originally built in the late 12th to 13th century u
View the Source2. Wikidata: The Louvre
- Wikidata Q19675, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q19675, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
View the SourceThe Louvre (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata date-of-opening/inception statement (1793)Quote, Wikidata date-of-opening/inception statement (1793)
Wikidata item Q19675, property P1619: 1793
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