a look at

Louvre Paintings

the louvre museum

The Louvre Museum opened in 1793, displaying the French monarch’s art collection as well as the results of Napoleon’s Empire’s pillaging. The Louvre’s official collection contains almost 300,000 artworks from before 1948, only 35,000 of those are open to the general populace.

famous paintings in the louvre

#1

St. Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata  (c. 1300) Giotto di Bondone

#2

The Virgin of the Rocks  (1483 – 1486) Leonardo da Vinci

#3

Minerva Expelling the Vices From the Garden of Virtue (1502) Andrea Mante

#4

The Battle Between Love and Chastity (1503) Pietro Perugino

#5

St. Michael Overwhelming the Demon  (1518) Raphael

#6

The Wedding Feast at Cana (1563) Paolo Veronese

#7

Death of the Virgin  (1606) Caravaggio

#8

David With the Head of Goliath (c. 1605) Guido Reni

#9

The Rape of the Sabine Women (1638) Nicolas Poussin

#10

Coronation of Napoleon (1807) Jacques-Louis David

#11

The Raft of the Medusa (1819) Théodore Géricault

#12

Dante and Virgil in Hell (1822) Eugène Delacroix

#13

Liberty Leading the People (1830) Eugène Delacroix