Hello friends of the architecture and design community, today I bring you one of the most famous museums in the world, perhaps the most famous, is the museum that houses the most famous painting in the world which is the smooth monkey also known as the Mona Lisa, painted by Leonardo Davinci, but we are not to talk about art, here we talk about architecture and today I bring you the Louvre museum in Paris.

This place is really big, originally it was the palace where the French royal family lived, but then it was transformed into a museum of fine arts, it has an area of 210 thousand square meters, of which 60 thousand are gallery, the gallery has about 7 thousand paintings and 300 thousand sculptures.

This architectural work that we know today as the Louvre Museum was officially inaugurated in 1793 but everything is a rather complex history, the building dates back to the twelfth century, but the official year of construction is 1527 and the architect is Pierre Lescot and then be reformed in 1981 by the architect Ieoh Ming Pei.

The last important architectural annex to this place was ordered by Napoleon and it is the Arc du Carrousel which is the arch that you can see.

At the beginning in the Middle Ages in the 12th century this was a medieval castle until the architect Pierre Lescot by order of the king of France Francis I .

Later in 1564 Philibert de l'Orme was ordered to build a second residence and in 1595 everything was united to form what we know today.

We can say that this architectural work belongs to the style known as French Baroque and the architect Claude Perrault was responsible for the finishing touch after the royal family moved to the Versailles Palace,After the French Revolution it was declared that this building would be for the arts.

As it was the place of residence of the royal family for some centuries many works of art accumulated in this building.

I find very interesting all the history of how it began as a castle to become the royal palace and then a museum, I think many important buildings in the world have these characteristics and it is interesting how the architecture somehow mixed and evolved to be what it is now.

Another important topic is the fame that this museum acquired by being part of Dan Brown's novel The Davincci Code, where the museum is given an air of mystery and hidden secrets, although in the novel a homicide occurs inside the museum and importance is given to the painting of the Last Supper, all this is a fiction but a real theory is the fact of the panels that make up the pyramids, although it is known that officially there are 780 panels, conspiracy theorists claim that there are 666 panels and the museum hides satanic rituals.

This museum went from being the residence of the royal family to a museum thanks to the French Revolution, it is incredible to think that it was abandoned for some years, until the leaders of the French Revolution destined it for the enjoyment of the common people and dedicated it to the sciences and the arts, before being officially a museum.

Bye Bye Hivers

All photos were taken with my Iphone X .