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...throne and surrounded by puffy clouds and horn-blowing cherubs. . Flying toward him are two figures brandishing architectural plans and a model of the royal palace. The painting commemorates the Emperor's 1852 decision to expand the edifice by adding a new north wing, named after Cardinal Richelieu, to house his private apartments and expanding bureaucracy...
About their own culture, all Frenchmen are hyperbolists. But in this case, Toubon might be right. For when Mitterrand opened the newly rebuilt Richelieu wing last week, he vastly expanded the world's most famous museum and, for the first time in the palace's 447-year history, allowed the Louvre to be dedicated entirely to its extraordinary art collections. With its 231,400 sq. ft. of floor space, the three-story Richelieu wing will double the Louvre's display areas, allowing its curators to pull more than 4,000 works out of the reserves and put a total...
...Richelieu wing is only part of the $1 billion Grand Louvre project, which is likely to last three more years. But last week's opening, which also - marked the museum's 200th anniversary, completed Pei's vision of a subterranean crossroads linking every wing to a central starting point. Before the renovation, the entrances were confusing, and the Richelieu wing, occupied by the Finance Ministry, had been subdivided into a warren of cluttered, low- ceilinged offices. Apart from the Napoleon III apartments, the entire structure had to be gutted and rebuilt by an international team of architects under...
...also houses most of the 5,500-piece decorative-arts collection -- including jewel-encrusted gold crowns and carved ivory statuettes -- in handsome, well-lit glass display cases mounted on stone pedestals and trimmed in chrome. The cases, which are used in all the new areas, are one of the Richelieu wing's most effective unifying elements because they echo Pei's refined, understated decor...
Only two thespians save this horrible script. As Cardinal Richelieu, Tim Curry actually pulls off his lines sometimes. When he orders to death a poor man, guilty of stealing to feed his family, his reasoning of "One less mouth to feed" does send shivers down one's spine. And as Porthos, Oliver Platt is so infectuously jolly and impish in places that we cannot help but giggle at idiotic exchanges such...