From Saturday 31 October, you can enjoy the exhibition “Images of the Louvre: six centuries of European painting, in the heart of Buenos Aires neighborhood of La Boca.

The museum exhibition from Paris arrived in Buenos Aires after having passed Havana, Santo Domingo and Montevideo, as a result of an agreement between the Ministry of Culture, the Tourism of Buenos Aires, the Louvre Museum from Paris, and with the collaboration of the French Embassy, Alliance Francaise and the Municipality of Montevideo.

The exhibition “Images of the Louvre: six centuries of European painting” occurs in the neighborhood of La Boca, on the waterfront of the Avenida Pedro de Mendoza, from Caminito shuttle to the old bridge. It consists of 122 life-size reproductions of paintings from the Louvre, photographed with high resolution and printed on quality material.

Closing is scheduled for 31 January 2010.

General information about the exhibition:
• A total of 122 reproductions of 104 artists, including Da Vinci, Rembrandt and Murillo.
• Different schools represented like French, Italian, Scandinavian, Spanish, German, English and Danish.
• The arrangement of the works follows a chronology from the thirteenth century to the nineteenth century.
• The pictures are reproduced at full scale with their frames.