.COMments.Welcome to art education online! When you think of the greatest art museums in the world, which ones first come to mind? For art teachers, such a list is likely to include the behemoths of the Musee du Louvre Louvre (l  `vrə), foremost French museum of art, located in Paris. The building was a royal fortress and palace built by Philip II in the late 12th cent. in Paris and the National Gallery
in Washington, DC. These museums house scores of the masterworks of art
we know so well through art history classes and texts.
The Musee du Louvre, available online at http://www.louvre.fr/anglais/title.htm (English) is one of the earliest museums in Europe. This venerable institution's collection ranges from ancient to contemporary art in seven departments. Major works are detailed with brief accompanying texts. The design of the site is somewhat understated. Although it is easy to navigate, there is no search feature at this time. The best features of the site are the nine different virtual tours Virtual Tours The phrases panoramic tour and virtual tour are often used to describe a variety of video and photographic based media. The word panorama indicates an unbroken view, so essentially, a panorama in that respect could be either a series of photographs or panning video the visitor can take. Posters of such masterpieces as the Mona Lisa Mona Lisa La Gioconda, da Vinci’s enchanting portrait. [Ital. Art: Wallechinsky, 190] See : Beauty, Lasting Mona Lisa enigmatic smile beguiles and bewilders. [Ital. , the Winged Victory Winged Victory: see Nike. of Samothrace, and Starry star·ry adj. star·ri·er, star·ri·est 1. Marked or set with stars or starlike objects. 2. Shining or glittering like stars. 3. Shaped like a star. 4. Illuminated by stars; starlit. Night are available through the Museum Shop. The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, available On line at http://www.nga.gov/home.htm, has an understated home page that gives little evidence of its vast riches. Its collection of European and American paintings, sculpture, decorative arts decorative arts, term referring to a variety of applied visual arts, both two- and three-dimensional, including textiles, metalwork, ceramics, books, and woodwork, as well as to certain aspects of architecture (see ornament), public buildings, and private houses (see , and selected works on paper range from the Middle Ages to the present. Online tours include the collection, in-depth study, architecture, and virtual exhibition tours. More than 100,000 objects in the collection, usually accompanied by text, can be located by artist, title, subject, provenance, or accession number Accession number may mean:
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