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A New-Style Museum Visit—in 3D


A new multimedia feature on Louvre.fr presents artworks in an imagined or reconstructed 3D space. Visit these virtual "galleries" for a whole new look at works of art.


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List of 3D features
Les dessins de Charles Le Brun : reconstitution d’un escalier du château de Versailles
 

The Ambassadors' Staircase

A sumptuous staircase at the Palace of Versailles: via Charles Le Brun's preliminary drawings and cartoons this 3D recreation gives you access to the decor he designed and realized over ten years as a tribute to the reign of Louis XIV. The staircase was demolished seventy-two years later on the orders of Louis XV, to make way for new rooms.
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Exposition imaginaire<br />  L'église sud de Baouit en 3D<br />  Extérieur
 

The south church at Bawit in 3D

This virtual visit to the Bawit monastery takes us back in time to ancient Coptic Egypt in the first millennium of the Christian era. This imaginary exhibition presents the elements that were found during the site excavations and features a reconstruction of the church as archaeologists imagine it was in the 7th century AD.
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Exposition imaginaire - Restitution de la salle La Caze
 

Louis Lacaze: Reconstruction of the room dedicated to his collection

Discover a 3D modelization of the La Caze room – now the Bronzes room, Sully wing, first floor, room 32 – as it was in 1913, when it housed 177 paintings by masters such as Rembrandt, Chardin or Watteau, from the prestigious collection bequeathed by La Caze to the Louvre.
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<i>Le Verrou</i> <br> Jean-Honoré FRAGONARD
 

3D imaginary exhibition: Jean-Honoré Fragonard

This imaginary exhibition is a tribute to Fragonard, one of the greatest French painters of the 18th century, and also one of the first curators of the Musée du Louvre.
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Spotlight
The Villa Borghese in 1807: a 3D reconstruction of the decorated facades

The Villa Borghese in 1807: a 3D reconstruction of the decorated facades

In 1807, an imperial decree signed by Napoleon I finalized the French purchase of the artworks owned by Prince Camillo Borghese, thereby transferring the largest Roman antique collection from the Villa Borghese to the Musée Napoléon. Discover the 3D reconstruction of the facades of the Villa Borghese as they looked when the Emperor made his purchase, and view the artworks from the collection that are now in the Louvre.
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