Louvre stories:
Egypt Claims Louvre Stelae; French Minister in Favor
Oct 7th, 2009 - Bloomberg
Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Egypt suspended co-operation with theLouvre, saying the Paris museum refused to return four ancientEgyptian stelae stolen more than 20 years ago. The stelae were removed from Luxor in the 1980s...
Egypt Severs Ties with Louvre Over 'Stolen' Ancient Egyptian Artifacts
Oct 7th, 2009 - VOA News
Egypt's antiquities chief says Egypt is suspending ties with theLouvre, saying the French museum has not returned what he says arestolen artifacts.
Zahi Hawass on Wednesday said the Louvre hasrepeatedly ignored requests to return steles...Samsung Teases Masses With Omnia Pro
Jun 15th, 2009 - ChannnelWeb
Samsung stormed the CommunicAsia conference in Korea this week, pulling the curtain off the Omnia Pro, the follow-up to its widely popular Samsung Omnia, and showing off a host of new smartphones and devices...
Paris Air Show: aerospace industry gathers in search of a lift
Jun 15th, 2009 - Telegraph
But an atmosphere of sober restraint and hard work threatens to hang over the centenary Paris Air Show at Le Bourget, just north of the French capital. Certainly, the...
Construction begins on Jean Nouvel's Louvre Abu Dhabi
May 26th, 2009 - Los Angeles Times
It's been in the planning phase for years, and now the much-discussed Louvre Abu Dhabi is finally becoming a reality. Today, construction officially began on the cultural complex on the Persian Gulf city-state's Saadiyat Island...
Louvre videos from YouTube:
3:40Louvre
The Louvre Museum, Paris, France. Original soundtrack.
3:01Designing the Louvre
The designer of the Louvre Pyramid, IM Pei, talking about the design brief. Taken from OU course 'Art and its Histories' (A216) www3.open.ac.uk www.open.ac.uk -
4:37Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code - The Louvre in Paris
Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code - the Louvre in Paris
4:42Mona Lisa Leonardo da Vinci Louvre
Mona Lisa, or La Gioconda. (La Joconde), is a 16th century oil painting on poplar wood by Leonardo da Vinci, and is one of the most famous paintings in the world. Few works of art have been subject to as much scrutiny, study, mythologizing and parody ...
