The Louvre Museum is housed in the former Palais Royal. Its vast collection began with works collected by François I and Louis XIV. It was then enriched by several personalities until the Revolution, and again by Napoleon. More recently, in 1989, François Mitterrand ushered in the era of the Grand Louvre, with the museum now entirely devoted to culture and art. At the same time the glass pyramid was built by the architect Pei. The collection today is truly enormous: paintings, sculptures, objets d’art, etc., covering all periods from antiquity to the 19th century. Among the most famous works: Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa, the Venus de Milo, Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People, Raphael’s La Belle Jardinière, etc.