Paris' Louvre museum explores the ever-changing standards of beauty across art and history

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The Louvre Museum in Paris has partnered with L’Oréal Groupe to present "Of All Beauties!", an immersive exhibition exploring the concept of beauty across art and history.

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00:00It's a parkour that embraces the entirety of the museum's spaces, so a selection of

00:24works, 108 works, that allow us to embrace, to talk about the history of beauty.

00:31Why, when we appear in society, why when we want to appear in front of others, we seek

00:38to transform, or to improve, or to change?

00:42This is the first aspect.

00:44Then there is the aspect of the ideal of beauty, because we realize in history that civilizations

00:51have all adopted what we call the canons, the idealizations of beauty.

00:55We want to reach for something that is extraordinary, fabulous.

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