 The Petite Galerie is a permanent exhibition space in the heart of the Louvre museum, open to all, and particularly geared toward families, schoolchildren, and disadvantaged audiences. Designed to provide keys to understanding the museum, over ten months of each year, the Petite Galerie offers a multidisciplinary exhibition on a broad art historical theme. The short, simple experience presents original artworks, with adapted interpretation. Guided tours and workshops for families round out the initiative, alongside cultural programming in the auditorium. Experimental and ever-changing, the Petite Galerie project is gaining ground with each new edition. Advent of the Artist The “Advent of the Artist” exhibition in the Petite Galerie has been extended until July 5, 2021.  For its fifth season, the Louvre’s Petite Galerie—a space dedicated to art and cultural education—will be holding an exhibition titled ‘The Advent of the Artist’. Opening on September 25, 2019, this year’s edition will coincide with a cycle of Louvre exhibitions devoted to the Renaissance geniuses Leonardo da Vinci, Donatello, Michelangelo and Albrecht Altdorfer in 2019-2020.
It was during the Renaissance that artists asserted their independence and demanded recognition as creators in their own right. Yet the advent of the artist had been long awaited. This exhibition will take a close look at the transition from the typically anonymous craftsman of the classical period to the artist of the Renaissance, at times famous to the extent of becoming the hero of novels and legends. It is this long-standing connection between the visual arts and the written word that inspired this edition’s focus on literature. Spread across four rooms, the exhibition will feature some forty artworks from the Louvre’s eight curatorial departments alongside extracts from literature, with the aim of tracing the emergence and recognition of the artist from Antiquity to the 19th century. Founding Myths: From Hercules to Darth Vader  The Louvre’s Petite Galerie first exhibition tells how illustrators, sculptors, painters, puppeteers, filmmakers, and musicians around the world have drawn inspiration from myths, given them form, and brought them to life.
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