With a wifi-enabled device, you can now have free access to the Louvre?s entire art collection as well as any information on the pieces gleaned from extensive research.
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Last Friday, the Musée du Louvre announced that its entire collection of artworks would be available online for all to freely browse. Before the release of the Collection, members of the public only had access to about 30,000 of the Louvre?s plethora of artworks. Now, people will be able to freely access all 482,000 pieces in the Collection as well as any associated research. The Collection is made up of art from the museum?s eight departments and ranges from famous paintings, to Egyptian antiquities, to Renaissance and Islamic art.
In a statement regarding the creation of the online database, President-Director of the Mussée du Louvre, Jean-Luc Martinez said, ?For the first time, anyone can access the entire collection of works from a computer or smartphone for free, whether they are on display in the museum, on loan, even long-term, or in storage.?

Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci; Image Credit: Courtesy of Joaqun Martnez

Apart from pieces in the Louvre?s catalogue, the online database will also include works from the Musée National Eugène-Delacroix, the Tuileries and Carrousel gardens sculptures, in addition to artworks under the Musées Nati...