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The Louvre was both a fortress and a royal palace, and he is now one of the world ' s largest museums that receives up to 10 million visitors a year.

Building in Filipe August in 1190, as a fortress, the Louvre lost his defensive functions in the fourteenth century, and the architect Carl V Raymond du Tamplle began to turn him into a royal residence. In the sixteenth century, in Francis I, the efforts of the architect Pierre Lesco and the sculptor Jean Gusson in the mid-century Louvre, the palace of the rebirth. Work continued with Henry II (Cariatide Hall, French Renessance Façade) and Carl IX and Henry IV (Lovereign Gallery linking Louvre to Tuilri). The expansion of the palace has had a major impact on the reign of the two Ludovics, XIII and XIV: the Quadrary has been completed, the eastern phase has been established with the colonnad. Jacques Lemercier, Louis Le Vo, Nikola Pussen, Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, Charles Lebren.

However, in 1627, the yard moved to Versal, Louvre was devastated. They already offered to create an art gallery. The liver, sculpture, jewellery have begun to be produced at Karl V. By the XVIIIth century, many masterpieces were stored in the Lover, including the works of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Tiziana, Rafael, Rubens, Rembrandta. In 1750, for the first time, there was a public display room from the royal collection. The great French revolution nationalized the collection, added confiscated church property to it, and in 1793 the museum opened doors to the public.

Since then, the meeting has been permanently enriched, in the times of Napoleon, the Restoration and so on to World War II. Before the war, in 1938, when Germany seized the Court, museums realized that the exponents must be saved. Many valuable works of art were sent to the castle of Shambor, and when the war began, most of the remaining paintings and sculptures were transported there and to other castles. At the beginning of 1945, after the liberation of France, the masters began to return to the Louvre, including Mona Lisa Leonardo da Vinci, Venus Miloskaya, Niko Sufraski.