How To Virtually Tour Paris’ Louvre & See Every Masterpiece
If you’re an art enthusiast, the Louvre is probably at the top of your Paris or museum wish list.
As the world’s largest and most visited museum, it boasts an impressive collection of 35,000 artworks, ranging from the 6th century BC to the 19th century AD, all housed within a magnificent Renaissance palace.
However, as you might imagine, visiting the Louvre can be quite the experience.
It’s often packed with crowds, flashing cameras, selfie sticks, and people bustling around or trying to touch the art. This can make it feel a bit chaotic and overwhelming.
But there’s good news! You can now explore the Louvre from the comfort of your home, avoiding the hustle and bustle.
I’ll guide you through how to virtually visit this iconic museum and view all its must-see masterpieces.
Get ready to enjoy your personal Leonardo or Michelangelo experience in peaceful solitude.
Layout of the Louvre
The Louvre is a U shape, divided into three wings: Denon, Sully, and Richelieu. Each of the wings has four floors.
The Denon Wing is home to the Louvre’s best known art work, including the world’s most famous painting, the Mona Lisa .
The Sully Wing is known for its statuary and antiquities.
The Richelieu Wing houses the lavish apartments of Napoleon III and some famed Dutch art works.
Virtual Tour of Louvre Masterpieces
Let’s take an online virtual tour of the Louvre, wing by wing.
You can see all the must see masterpieces via 360 video tours, YouTube videos, or online tours on the Louvre Website itself. For a lengthy overall YouTube tour of the Louvre, click here .
The Denon Wing
The Denon Wing is the most visited part of the Louvre. It boasts the fabulously ornate Apollo Gallery, with high arches and frescoed ceilings.
It’s a shrine to Sun King Louis XIV. The paintings were begun by Charles Le Brun and completed by Eugene Delacroix.
1. French Paintings in the Denon Wing
The Denon Wing is most renowned for its iconic French paintings from the Neoclassical and Romantic periods of art history. The must see French masterpieces include:
- Eugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People
- Jacques-Louis David, The Coronation of Napoleon
- Theodore Gericault, Raft of the Medusa
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Grand Odalisque
You can take a virtual tour of the recently restored Apollo Gallery on the Louvre’s website here . You can learn about the Coronation of Napoleon from this Louvre YouTuber .
You can take a virtual video tour of the world’s most famous French painting, Liberty Leading the People here . And learn about the Grand Odalisque here .
Via my blog, you can also explore the Louvre’s underrated masterpieces in the Denon Wing.
I also have a guide to what I think is the best painting in the Louvre , Gericault’s Raft of the Medusa , a then-scandalous painting based on a true story.
2. Italian Paintings in the Denon Wing
The Denon Wing also boasts treasures from the Italian Renaissance.
This is where you’ll find works by Sandro Botticelli , Leonardo da Vinci , Raphael , and Titian. The must see masterpieces include:
- Leonardo Da Vinci, Mona Lisa
- Leonardo Da Vinci, The Virgin and Child With St. Anne
- Titian, Pastoral Concert
- Raphael, Portrait of Baldasarre Castiglione
- Paolo Veronese, The Wedding Feast at Cana
You can take a virtual 360 tour of the Grand Gallery, which houses much of the Louvre’s Italian art.
If you’re a Mona Lisa fan, the Louvre is offering the museum’s first virtual reality experience , which brings to life the story of the enigmatic portrait. You can also take a virtual tour of the Mona Lisa here , with Smarthistory, an artsy YouTube channel.
In the Louvre’s busiest room, the Mona Lisa stares across at Veronese’s massive Wedding Feast at Cana . You can take a virtual tour and get the full scoop on the Louvre’s largest painting here .
You can virtually tour Raphael’s paintings, including Baldasarre , on Google Arts & Culture . Learn about Titian’s Pastoral Concert , which inspired Edouard Monet’s groundbreaking painting Luncheon on the Grass , here .
READ : 3 Day Impressionism Tour of Paris
3. Sculptures in the Denon Wing
If you prefer sculpture to painting, the Denon Wing has one of the world’s most magnificent sculptures — the Winged Victory of Samothrac e.
It also has a room on the ground dedicated to Italian sculpture, the Michelangelo Gallery. It’s one of my favorites spots in the Louvre.
It’s home to Michelangelo’s Dying Slave and Rebellious Slave , from 1513-15. These sculptures seem to struggle to escape the marble.
They were originally intended for the Tomb of Pope Julius II in Rome. But Michelangelo got distracted with the ceiling of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel and could never finish the tomb.
READ : Masterpieces of the Vatican
You can also find Antonio Canova’s incredibly romantic Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss . It’s considered Canova’s master work.
You can take a virtual tour of Michelangelo’s Slaves here , a virtual tour of Canova’s work on Google Arts & Culture , and a virtual tour of Canova’s Psyche here . You can take a virtual 360 tour of the Winged Victory here .
2. The Sully Wing
In the Sully Wing, you’ll find some of the world’s most beautiful sculptures, antiquities, and the remains of the Medieval Louvre.
One of the Louvre’s greatest ladies, a Hellenistic masterpiece, is here — the Venus de Milo . Even without arms, Venus de Milo is considered the classical epitome of female beauty.
You can also see another masterwork, Sleeping Hermaphrodite , a mythological merger of a male and female body. The ancient sculpture was discovered in Rome near the Baths of Diocletian.
Cardinal Scipione Borghese commissioned the Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini to carve the mattress in 1619. He later sold the piece to the French when he was strapped for cash.
READ : The Bernini Trail in Rome
The Egyptian Antiquities are a well loved highlight of the Sully Wing. The collection features the 12 ton Great Sphinx of Tanis, model ships, ancient sculptures, a massive statue of Ramses II, and a sarcophagus room.
The medieval Louvre is also a fascinating place. Originally, the Louvre was a 12th century fortress built by King Philippe Auguste.
The lower levels are all that remain. Archeologists discovered and excavated the underground medieval remains during the construction of I.M. Pei’s pyramid in 1983-85.
You can take a virtual tour of all the Louvre’s Roman Antiquities here , the Venus de Milo here , and the Sleeping Hermaphrodite here . You can take a virtual tour of the famed Egyptian Antiquities here and walk around the Medieval Louvre here .
3. The Richelieu Wing
In Richelieu Wing, you can admire the Louvre’s Mesopotamian Antiquities, Napoleon III’s Second Empire rooms, sculptures, and some amazing Dutch masterpieces.
The Richelieu Wing boasts the spectacular Cour Marly, a spacious glass roofed courtyard.
It’s stuffed with 17th and 18th marble and white stone sculptures, many commissioned by Sun King Louis XIV and Louis XV. There’s also a magnificent Fountain of Diana, dating from 1550.
Perhaps the most famous part of the Richelieu Wing is the Napoleon III apartments. They were built between 1852-57 to accommodate visiting dignitaries. They’re sumptuous.
Crystal chandeliers glitter, gilded furniture gleams, and the ceilings sport beautiful frescos — all set amid red velvet and red drapery. The Rococo state dining room could seat almost 100 people.
You can virtually tour the Cour Puget here and the Cour Marly here . You can take a virtual tour of Napoleon’s Apartments here .
The Richelieu Wing is also home to some unmissable Dutch old master paintings, including:
- Johannes Vermeer, The Lacemaker
- Johannes Vermeer, The Astronomer
- Rembrandt, Bathsheba at Her Bath.
- Hieronymous Bosch, Ship of Fools
- Georges de la Tour, The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds
From the Louvre’s website, you can see and get an education on The Lacemaker here , Bathsheba here , Ship of Fools here , and The Cheat here .
If you’re a Beyonce fan, her recent music video featured pieces from the Louvre. Now, you can follow the Beyonce Louvre Trail on the Louvre website.
The Louvre is also featuring an Artwork of the Day . If you’re interested in the history of the Louvre, here’s my guide .
Tickets For The Louvre
Naturally, if you decide to visit the Louvre in person, it’s essential to p re-book a skip the line ticket . If you take your art seriously, you may want to book a guided tour .
I hope you’ve enjoyed my guide to taking a virtual tour of the Louvre. You may enjoy these other Paris travel guides:
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Last Updated on August 17, 2024 by Leslie Livingston
You Can Now Explore the Louvre’s Entire Collection Online
A new digital database features 480,000 works from the Paris museum’s holdings
Nora McGreevy
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When cultural institutions around the world were forced to shutter last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic , even the most popular art museum in the world felt the effects. The Louvre , home to such masterpieces as the Mona Lisa , welcomed just 2.7 million visitors in 2020—a 72 percent drop from 2019, when 9.6 million people flocked to the Paris museum.
But even as physical museums remained closed, art enthusiasts continued to seek inspiration in new ways : In that same pandemic year, 21 million people visited the Louvre’s website, according to a statement .
Thanks to a major website redesign and a new online collection database, browsing the historic museum’s holdings from home is easier than ever, reports Alaa Elassar for CNN . For the first time ever, the Louvre’s entire art collection is available to search online. The updated catalogue boasts more than 480,000 entries, from rare items stowed away in storage to the iconic Venus de Milo and Winged Victory of Samothrace . (Though the digital database is free to browse, offerings are not open access , meaning users cannot directly download, share or reuse the images.)
“Today, the Louvre is dusting off its treasures, even the least-known,” says the museum’s president, Jean-Luc Martinez, in the statement. “… [A]nyone can access the entire collection of works from a computer or smartphone for free, whether they are on display in the museum, on loan, even long-term, or in storage.”
Martinez adds, “The Louvre’s stunning cultural heritage is all now just a click away.”
Viewers can also click through an interactive map of the museum, virtually walking through the cavernous halls of the Renaissance castle or the sleek steel-and-glass pyramid designed by American architect I.M. Pei in 1989.
Previously, the public only had access to about 30,000 listings of works in the Louvre’s collections, reports Vincent Noce for the Art Newspaper . Per France24 , more than three-quarters of the entries in the Louvre’s online collection contain images and label information. The museum plans to continue to expand and improve the database in the coming months.
The archive also includes the collections of the Musée National Eugène-Delacroix , which is run by the Louvre, and the nearby Tuileries Garden , as well as a number of Nazi-looted artworks that are in the process of being returned to their original owners’ families.
According to the new online catalogue , about 61,000 works stolen by the Nazis were retrieved from Germany and brought back to France after World War II. Of these works, 45,000 have been returned to their rightful owners. A number of others were sold by the French state. The remaining 2,143 unclaimed works were categorized as National Museum Recovery (MNR) and entrusted to French cultural institutions, including the Louvre, for safekeeping.
Despite the Louvre’s involvement in repatriation efforts, lingering concerns remain that Nazi-looted art may have made its way into the Louvre’s permanent collections during the war. Since hiring curator Emmanuelle Polack to lead a wartime provenance research project in January 2020, the Louvre has checked nearly two-thirds of the 13,943 works it acquired between 1933 and 1945, Martinez tells the Art Newspaper .
In the future, the museum plans to debut the findings of this research project on its website. The director notes that he has instructed curators to conduct a similar investigation of the thousands of artworks in the Louvre’s collections that hail from countries formerly under French control, such as Algeria, Tunisia, Syria and Lebanon.
The goal of this long-term project, he says, will be to identify which items in the Louvre’s encyclopedic collections were obtained through looting or colonial violence.
“Our collections are mostly archaeological and come from digs shared with the countries of origin,” Martinez tells the Art Newspaper , adding that the museum often obtained new archives through “bilateral” legal agreements.
At the same time, Martinez adds, “[M]useums like the Louvre served imperial ambitions and we have to deal with this history.”
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Nora McGreevy is a former daily correspondent for Smithsonian . She is also a freelance journalist based in Chicago whose work has appeared in Wired , Washingtonian , the Boston Globe , South Bend Tribune , the New York Times and more.
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So, you’ve had to put off a trip to Paris, and a long-awaited visit to the Louvre , which “will remain closed until further notice,” has been pushed into the indefinite horizon. It could be worse, but the loss of engaging up close with cultural treasures is something we should all grieve in lockdown. Art is so important to human well-being that UK Secretary of Health Matt Hancock argued all doctors in the NHS should prescribe gallery visits and other art activities for everything from mental issues to lung diseases.
As you know from planning your trip (ideally several trips) to the famous museum—first opened to the public in 1793 on the first anniversary of Louis XVI’s imprisonment—you can luxuriate in art for days on end once there, provided you can evade the massive crowds.
The Louvre is immense, with 60,500 square meters of floor space and around 35,000 paintings, sculptures, and other artifacts. But with roughly 10 million visitors per year, who make it the world’s most visited museum, it isn’t easy to find space for contemplation.
Video visits are no substitute, but these days they’re the best we’ve got. If you’re eager to see what you’re missing—or what you could never get to in person even without a pandemic—take a look at the 4K virtual tours here from Wanderlust Travel Videos. Yes, you’ll see the heroic masterworks of Jacques-Louis David, Eugene Delacroix, and Théodore Géricault. You’ll see the famous glass pyramid, the treasures of Napoleon’s Apartments, and, yes, the Mona Lisa .
But you’ll also see hundreds and hundreds of works that don’t get the same kind of press, each one named in a timestamped list on the YouTube pages. The experience is admittedly like visiting the museum in person, rushing through each gallery, peering over and around the backs of heads to get a glimpse of the Fra Filippo Lippis, Cimabues, and Mantegnas. But you can mute the constant background chatter and pause and rewind as much as you like.
After touring a good bit of the museum, stroll around the Carrousel Arc de Triomphe, Jardin de l’infante, and the Pont Neuf, above. Judging by the comments, these videos are proving a balm to the psyches of homebound art lovers around the world, whether they’ve been to the Louvre before, just scrapped their travel plans, or know they’ll probably never get the chance to visit.
The virtual opportunity to tour this magnificent collection, or part of it, may refresh our exhausted imaginations. It may also soothe the part of us that really misses huge crowds of people all talking at once. Something about the experience, even on the screen, feels so strangely compelling right now you might find yourself hoping if and when you finally get to the Louvre, it’s simply mobbed.
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Through materials and objects, this exhibition describes exchanges between distant worlds – exchanges often far more ancient than the explorations of the 16th century. From deepest antiquity, carnelian, lapis lazuli, ebony and ivory circulated along trade routes... Launch virtual tour.
Let’s take an online virtual tour of the Louvre, wing by wing. You can see all the must see masterpieces via 360 video tours, YouTube videos, or online tours on the Louvre Website itself. For a lengthy overall YouTube tour of the Louvre, click here.
Filmed in Paris in the Spring, this 4K Virtual Louvre Museum tour takes from inside by the iconic Mona Lisa to outside, and the Carrousel Arc de Triomphe and...
For the first time ever, the Louvre’s entire art collection is available to search online. The updated catalogue boasts more than 480,000 entries, from rare items stowed away in storage to the...
In the Louvre online collection, you can see works from the Louvre and the Musée National Eugène-Delacroix. There are also sculptures from the Tuileries and Carrousel gardens, as well as works from the Musées Nationaux Récupération or National Museums Recovery.
The experience begins in the Salle des États in today’s Louvre, face to face with the painting of the Mona Lisa. It then takes us on a journey back in time to the original setting, where we meet the real woman da Vinci painted!
Walking Tour of the Louvre Museum in Paris, featuring the The Grande Galerie, Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, The Winged Victory of Samothrace or the The Raft of t...
Welcome to the Louvre – prepare your visit, explore the palace and museum collections and check out the latest news.
Video visits are no substitute, but these days they’re the best we’ve got. If you’re eager to see what you’re missing—or what you could never get to in person even without a pandemic—take a look at the 4K virtual tours here from Wanderlust Travel Videos.
Filmed in Paris in the Spring, our dreamy 4K Virtual Louvre Museum tour includes the iconic Mona Lisa, and leads us to the Carrousel Arc de Triomphe and the ...