Leonardo da Vinci until the end of the night. The masterful exhibition dedicated to Italian genius, at the Louvre Museum, will draw the curtain at the end of February. For three days and three nights, almost 24 hours a day, the great Parisian museum will welcome the last visitors to the work of the great Tuscan master who died in France in 1519, a little over five hundred years ago.
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Jean-Luc Martinez, president of the Louvre, made a point of announcing this final bouquet in person: " For visitors, this is the unique opportunity to see or see as many masterpieces gathered from this genius of the Renaissance, and this in a special atmosphere, specific to the night. "
During the last three days of the exhibition, Friday 21, Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 February, visitors will be able to come from 9 p.m. to 8:30 a.m. The entrance to these nights will be free but after a reservation, essential, online from this Tuesday noon on the Louvre website.
4 million free spaces per year
Some 30,000 new places will be offered for this exceptional fence, in the light of this extraordinary exhibition inaugurated on October 24, 2019. The largest ever devoted to this incomparable artist, who during the Renaissance revolutionized the art of drawing.
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Under the aegis of Jean-Luc Martinez, the Louvre has chosen to gracefully show all of Leonardo's work until the early hours of the morning, in order to " reiterate to everyone that the museum is open to everyone and that more than 40% of the nearly 10 million visitors who visit it each year spend nothing. "
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Reservations for the three major closing fairs of the Leonardo da Vinci exhibition: Friday February 21 at 9 p.m., the Louvre will be open 24 hours a day until Monday February 24, the last day of the exhibition. Online reservation of a specific time slot for visits on www.ticketlouvre.fr is compulsory, but all places between 9 p.m. and 8:30 a.m. are free.
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