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  • MUSEUMS: LIGHT AS A VEIL THE ISLAMIC ONE AT THE LOUVRE (Get ready to hurl)

    07/19/2008 4:36:33 PM PDT · by Graybeard58 · 14 replies · 334+ views
    ANSA ^ | July 17, 2008 | Unattributed
    (ANSAmed) - PARIS, JULY 17 - A "luminous and liberated" veil, in the spirit of Islam's poetics, will cover but not hide, thanks to a light transparent structure, the Visconti Court of the Louvre Museum in Paris, in the right wing, to host the new museum of Islamic arts, to be established in 2010. ¿It is a political museum¿, as explained to ANSA by Rudy Ricciotti, of Italian origins, one of the two architects, with Mario Bellini from Milan, who designed the project, selected among 52 applicants. "In the sense that it recognises all the peoples in a lay state,...