* The Louvre is the largest and richest museum in the world, and it is not easy to understand its masterpieces, halls and corridors, especially the first time. Our visit will begin with the historical part of the Louvre, we will see its ancient walls, the fortification tower of the 12th century and learn several medieval secrets and legends. Next, we will admire Greek sculpture, talk about its ideal proportions, ancient norms of beauty and morality, and marvel at the Venus de Milo and Nika of Samothrace. We will visit the magnificent Apollo Gallery, the forerunner of the Palace of Versailles, and marvel at its magnificent decor and famous treasures. Then we will look at the paintings of the Italian Renaissance, its beginning and dawn, admire the genius of Leonardo da Vinci, see the Gioconda and all other works of Leonardo kept in the Louvre, I will tell you some interesting facts from his biography, which you may not have heard of. We will also see works by Botticelli, Raphael, Titian, Michelangelo, Caravaggio and other Italian masters. Our next stage will be French neoclassical "ideal" painting, I will tell you about the French Academy of Arts, about its strict rules and regulations, we will look at large-format paintings put on the propaganda service of the authorities and talk about the competitions between artists for these commissions. And of course, we will admire the magnificent portraits and images that these same artists created for themselves and for their private clients. After that, we will take a short coffee break (a break of 30-40 minutes is not considered the time of the tour) and go to the opposite wing of the Louvre, where the department of Flemish, Dutch and French paintings is located. We will see with you the evolution of portraits, landscapes, still lifes, many works of genre painting – the lives of ordinary people and the surrounding reality, as well as the famous Medici Gallery – 24 biographical paintings from the Luxembourg Palace about the life of Queen Marie de' Medici, embodied by Peter Paul Rubens. Then we will visit the famous apartments of Napoleon III.