Now discover the other departments of the museum: Antiquities, Sculptures, Objets d'Art and Graphic Arts.
Admire the greatest treasures of the ancient civilizations of Egypt and the Orient: the Seated Scribe, the Winged Assyrian Bulls from Khorsabad; Greek, Etruscan, and Roman masterpieces: the Venus de Milo, the Sarcophagus of the Spouses, the ideal statue of Marcellus; beautiful sculptures of the European schools: The Captives by Michelangelo, the Horses of Marly, the Milo of Crotona; magnificent objets d'art; and over fifty new paintings, sketches, and engravings by Leonardo da Vinci, Rubens, David, Delacroix, and others.
Study the works in their minutest details and discover the secrets of these paintings, sculptures, and antiquities with the help of the animated sequences. Voyage through 4,000 years of art history. Meet the artists, sovereigns, and personalities: the architects and scholars who have made their mark on this history and the history of the palace.
New functions facilitate and enrich the navigation of your CD-Rom: an Album in which you can create your own collections, make notes, project slide shows, and print and export texts and images. A smart guide proposes avenues of exploration of the collections adapted to your needs and constantly updated.
For the first time you can extend you visit to the museum via the Internet to discover new works of art. Muse d'Orsay, Virtual Visit: The CD-Rom of "Muse d'Orsay, Virtual Visit", has been designed around two principal navigational approaches: the museum visit and it's collections.
In your virtual visit , you will explore an exceptional place: the Muse d'Orsay. For the first time QuickTime VR, a revolutionary new virtual reality technology, enables you to move from room to room and to chose at any point anlong your interactive excursion your favorite works of art: "Le djeuner sur l'herbe", "Ball at the Moulin de la Galette", "The Gates of Hell"...
The museum's magnificent collections illustrate the history of art from the middle of the 19th century up to the dawn of the 20th century. The great masterpieces of the period - paintings, sculptures, photographs and objets d'art - grouped by artistic movements, are here for you to study and admire. From Symbolism to Art Nouveau and passing by Impressionism and the Pont-Aven school, you will find the great masters of the era: Courbet, Monet, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Rodin, Klimt, Lalique, and many others.
The commentaries on art history, the graphic animations, the zoom function for the paintings, and the different points of view for the sculptures unveil for you the sercrets of these works of art. Animations illustrate the historical and cultural context in which these works were created: Zola the Art Critic, Baudelaire and his painters, the Caillebotte Affair...
