Tourism in Paris due to a change of reign after every century. On March 3, 1989, I.M. Pei inaugurated the Glass Pyramid. This also serves as an official entrance to the main exhibition hall, which in turn leads to the temporary exhibition halls. The Musée is divided into 3 separate wings: Sully, Richelieu and Denon, which showcase 35,000 pieces of art, dating back to the Middle Ages. Some of the most renown pieces of art showcased at The Louvre are the Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa", Venus of Milo, Winged Victory of Samothrace, "Liberty Leading the People", and the "Dying Slave" by Michelangelo.
Paris in the 16th century and sculptor Jean Gouchon was also responsible for the Lescot wing of the Louvre, a masterpiece of combined French and Italian Renaissance art and architecture, on the southeast side of the Cour Carrée of the Louvre (1546-1553). Inside the Louvre, they made the staircase of Henry II (1546-1553) and the Salle des Cariatides (1550). In 1564, Delorme was commissioned by Queen Catherine de Medicis to build an even more ambitious project; a new royal residence, the Tuileries Palace, near the Louvre. Most of the churches built in Paris in the 16th century are in the traditional flamboyant gothic style, though