The group and Louvre's values and mission resemble each ... The "Sleeping Hermaphrodite" sculpture is Roman, from possibly the second century, after a Greek original created around 150 B.C ...

Ranging over centuries and geography, and migrating across syllabi, the book was as familiar to Dutch paintings experts as ...

The director of the Louvre, the Count de Forbin ... Although now thought to be a Roman copy, the statue was then considered the embodiment of all the intellect, imagination and inspiration ...

“Going to the Louvre is like reading the Bible or Shakespeare,” he later said. Paul Cézanne regularly trekked there to copy Michelangelo, Rubens and classical Greek and Roman statues.

PARIS, April 10.—Following an order issued by Minister of Public Instruction Doumergue, the equestrian statue of Joan of Arc, by Paul Dubois, which has stood in the Louvre for fifteen years ...