Musée du Louvre in Paris Part (2):

The painting collection has more than 6,000 works from the 13th century to 1848 and is managed by 12 curators who oversee the collection's display. Nearly two-thirds are by French artists,
and more than 1,200 are Northern European. The Italian paintings compose most of the remnants of Francis I and Louis XIV's collections, others are unreturned artwork from the Napoleon era,
and some were bought.[52][53] The collection began with Francis, who acquired works from Italian masters such as Raphael and Michelangelo,[54] and brought Leonardo da Vinci to his court.[6][55] After the French Revolution, the Royal Collection formed the nucleus of the Louvre. When the d'Orsay train station was converted into the Musée d'Orsay in 1986, the collection was split, and pieces completed after the 1848 Revolution were moved to the new museum. French and Northern European works are in the Richelieu wing and Cour Carrée; Spanish and Italian paintings are on the first floor of the Denon wing.[53]Exemplifying the French School are the early Avignon Pieta of Enguerrand Quarton; Jean Fouquet's King Jean le Bon, the oldest independent portrait in Western painting to survive from the postclassical era;[56] Hyacinthe Rigaud's Louis XIV; Jacques-Louis David's The Coronation of Napoleon; and Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People. Northern European works include Johannes Vermeer's The Lacemaker and The Astronomer; Caspar David Friedrich's Tree of Crows; Rembrandt's The Supper at Emmaus, Bathsheba at Her Bath, and The Slaughtered Ox.
The Italian holdings are notable, particularly the Renaissance collection. The works include
Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini's Calvarys, which reflect realism and detail "meant to
depict the significant events of a greater spiritual world".[57] The High Renaissance
collection includes Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Virgin and Child with St. Anne, St. John
the Baptist, and Virgin of the Rocks. Caravaggio is represented by The Fortune Teller and
Death of the Virgin. From 16th century Venice, the Louvre displays Titian's Le Concert
Champetre, The Entombment and The Crowning with Thorns.