The Louvre (French: Musée du Louvre) in Paris, France, is the most visited and famous museum in the world.[2] The structure is located on the Right Bank in the 1er arrondissement between the Seine River and the Rue de Rivoli.[3]
The structure originated as the palace during the Capetian dynasty under the reign of Philip II.[4] The building holds some of the world's most famous works of art, such as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, The Virgin and Child with St. Anne, Madonna of the Rocks, Jacques Louis David's Oath of the Horatii, Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People and Alexandros of Antioch's Venus de Milo.