Very different innovators

A short introduction to this album....

Architect, I M Pei, discusses the design brief for his pyramid entrance to the Louvre....

How a British King's art collection became a French King's art collection....

How French sculptor, Puget, nearly lost his head with his representation of Louis XIV....

Pierre Rosenberg, Director of the Louvre, on the original idea that the museum must reflect art history and be open to everyone....

French artist, Hubert Robert's painting depicting a ruined Louvre....

Pierre Rosenberg, Director of the Louvre, discussing why the Louvre will never be finished....

Palladio's church of the Redentore in Venice and Sinan's Sokullu Mehmet Pasha mosque in Istanbul are compared....

Sinan's Sokullu Mehment Pasha mosque where all men would be equal before Allah....