He Louvre Museum and the French government are studying how to improve the exposure conditions of the Gioconda of Leonardo da Vinci and eventually present it in a separate room, the president of the museum announced this Saturday. “As far as I’m concerned, it’s ‘yes’ and I think it is for a lot of people. “We are thinking about it,” he responded. Laurence Des Cars on public radio France Inter to the question of whether the Mona Lisa deserved “a separate room” in the gigantic museum, which in 2023 received nearly 9 million visitors.
“It is frustrating not to live up to the reception conditions. This is the case for the Mona Lisa, so we reflected together with the Ministry of Culture on this improvement that seems necessary to me,” he added. Every day “80% of Louvre visitors, that is, more than 20,000, see the Mona Lisa” and they photograph themselves in front of her with their phone, Des Cars said.
The Mona Lisaa world-famous painting, is displayed in the Hall of States, the largest in the museum, in front of the largest painting in the Louvre, The wedding at Cana, by Veronese, and next to paintings by great Venetian masters of the 16th century. The busiest museum in the world limits daily visitors to a maximum of 30,000, a figure that will be maintained during the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games, he said. Des Cars.
Source: AFP
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