Art lovers who dream of viewing the treasures of the Louvre can skip the trip to Paris, now that Atlanta's High Museum of Art has launched a three-year partnership with the French museum.
"Louvre Atlanta," which began Oct. 14, will bring hundreds of works from the Louvre's collections, many of which have never been shown in America, to the High for a series of long-term thematic exhibitions.
The first show, "Kings as Collectors," which runs through Sept. 2, 2007, features 32 paintings amassed by Louis XIV and Louis XVI during their reigns. They include Raphael's "Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione" and Nicolas Poussin's "Et in Arcadia Ego."
"The King's Drawings," an exhibition of 60 "old master drawings," will complement the main show through Jan. 28. "The Decorative Art of the Kings," a showcase of luxury items commissioned by French royalty, will run March 3-Sept. 2, 2007. Exhibitions for the second and third years of the partnership will present works from two other periods, the Louvre as a public museum under Napoleon and the Louvre of today and the future.
Tickets, which include general admission to the museum, are $15 for adults, $12 for seniors and students with ID, $10 for ages 6-17 and free for ages 5 and younger.
For more information, call 404-733-4444, or go to louvre atlanta.org.
