Famous Paintings in the Louvre

When in the romantic city of Paris, you might skip a trip to the top of the Eiffel Tower, but do not miss an opportunity to visit the Louvre, one of the largest palaces in the world and also a national art museum. I am sure you must have read about the Louvre in the book The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, then you must know what this place is famous for. You are right! This museum is the home of some of the world's most famous paintings, paintings made by some of the world's most famous painters; Jean Clouet, Leonardo da Vinci, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and many others. No trip to Paris is complete without two things; visiting the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre. Want to know what are the most famous paintings in the Louvre? Given below is a list of some of the most famous paintings, and this list is sure to help you when you visit this magnificent place.

The Louvre

The Louvre (loov - ruh), as I have already mentioned above, is one of the largest palaces in the world and earlier, it was the home of the many French kings and queens. It was built in the 13th century by Phillip II Augustus, and that time, it was used as a fort in order to defend Seine from the Normans and the English. This fort was changed into a museum, Musee du Louvre, during the late 18th century. It contained some of the former royal sculptures and paintings of the royal family. More were added to this collection when the loots by the famous French Emperor, Napoleon, were also added. Today, this museum contains some famous antiquities from all ancient Egypt, the Middle Ages, the Greek and the Roman period, and even things from the Modern times.

List of Paintings

Famous Paintings	Painters
The Coronation of the Virgin	Fra Angelico
Woman in Blue	Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
The Battle at Issus	Jan Brueghel
Portrait of Francis I	Jean Clouet
Venus Standing in a Landscape	Lucas Cranach
The Return from Market	Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin
The Fortune Teller	Caravaggio
Diana Resting after Her Bath	Francois Boucher
The Beggars	Pieter The Elder Brueghel
The Marriage Feast at Cana	Gerard David
The Oath of the Horatii	Jacques-Louis David
Raft of the "Medusa"	Theodore Gericault
The Madwoman	Theodore Gericault
Mounted Officer of the Imperial Guard	Theodore Gericault
Pieta of Avignon	Enguerrand Quarton
The Virgin and Child with St. John the Baptist	Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio)
Baldassare Castiglione	Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio)
Napoleon in the Plague House at Jaffa	Antoine - Jean Gros
Echo and Narcissus	Nicolas Poussin
Empress Josephine	Pierre-Paul Prud'Hon
The Four Evangelists	Jacob Jordaens
Joseph the Carpenter	Georges de La Tour
The Boy with the Clubfoot	Jusepe de Ribera
L'Accordee du Village (The Village Betrothal)	Jean-Baptiste Greuze
The Flayed Ox	Rembrandt
Le Moulin de la Galette	Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Portrait of Louis XIV	Hyacinthe Rigaud
Henry IV Receiving the Portrait of Marie de'Medici	Peter Paul Rubens
The Bark of Dante (Dante and Virgil in Hell)	Eugene Delacroix
The Apotheosis of Henry IV and the Proclamation of the Regency of Marie de'Medici	Peter Paul Rubens
Gabrielle d'Estrees and One of her Sisters in the Bath	School of Fontainebleau
The Banker and His Wife	Quentin Mersys
The Battle of San Romano	Paolo Uccello
Death of Sardanapalus	Eugene Delacroix
Man with the Glove	Titian
Et in Arcadia ego (Even in Arcadia I am)	Nicolas Poussin
Oedipus and the Sphinx	Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
The Pastoral Symphony (or Fete Champetre)	Titian
Charles I of England	Sir Anthony van Dyck
The Marriage at Cana	Veronese (Paolo Caliari)
The Supper at Emmaus	Veronese (Paolo Caliari)
The Lacemaker	Jan Vermeer
The Turkish Bath	Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Diana the Huntress	School of Fontainebleau
The Supper at Emmaus	Veronese (Paolo Caliari)
La Charette	Louis Le Nain
Valpincon Bather	Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
The Mona Lisa	Leonardo da Vinci
The Virgin of the Rocks	Leonardo da Vinci
Portrait of an Old Woman	Hans Memling
Madonna and Child with Saint Anne	Leonardo da Vinci

These paintings takes you back to those times when they were actually painted and they tell you a story which you are surely going to love.