An Exhibition about LOuVrE

Love for a partner, for family, for gods or even an unrequited love − these are just some of the faces of love that have defined people's everyday lives and stories for centuries. The National Art Center in Tokyo, in collaboration with the Louvre in Paris, is now exploring how European artists from the 16th to the 19th centuries depicted the complexities of love. Painting Love in the Louvre Collections includes 73 selected paintings that immortalize mythological, religious and everyday stories. The presentation will be on view in Tokyo from March 1 to June 12.

The Louvre is sending some celebrities on the road for the exhibition. These include the likes of Cupid and Psyche (1798) by François Gérard, The Slippers (c. 1655-1662) by Samuel Van Hoogstraten and The Shadows of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta appear to Dante and Virgil (1855) by Ary Scheffer. The latter can be seen below in a small preliminary study.