Eager to see the Louvre’s new exhibition of Safavid art? Best arrive early to beat the crowds, writes David Tresilian in Paris
The Louvre museum in Paris is presently hosting two exhibitions of Islamic art, the first a major show of the art of Iran under the Safavid dynasty evocatively entitled “song of the world”, le chant du monde, and the other a selection of pieces from the collection of His Highness the Aga Khan before it makes its way to Toronto for exhibition in the Aga Khan Museum, which is scheduled to open in 2011. Both exhibitions are very much worth seeing, the first spectacularly so, but both necessitate arriving early in the day. Even outside the summer season the Louvre still manages to attract enormous crowds.
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