There are many speculations about where the name Louvre comes from. One is that it is from the Saxon language word leovar (also spelled lovar, lover, leowar, leower, leawer or lower), which can be translated as "castle" or "fortified camp". It then evolved into Louvre.
the name of the glass pyramid in louvre is called "The Glass Pyramid" seriously.no joke.
In the Louvre collection you will find all the big names. You name them - they are there!
It's the name of an important museum in Paris and a former royal palace.
The predecessor of the museum was a mediaeval fortress, then a royal palace, both called the louvre.
It is called the Louvre museum.
Tuileries Garden
The Louvre, in Paris.
Now there are several big national art museums in Paris. The oldest and largest and most famous is the Louvre. It houses art up till about 1800. The 19th century collection is in the Musée d'Orsay. 20th century art is in the National Museum of Modern Art, housed in the Centre Pompidou.
There are a number of paintings in the Louvre which bear the name "the Deluge" (or some derivative of that name), however you may be thinking of "The Deluge" by Anne-LouisGirodet de Roucy-Triosson (1806).
the louvre and LACMA
The Venus de Milo, or its formal name which is Aphrodite of Milos.
The Louvre is in Europe.