"Paris, the fashion capital, has deep ties to fashion houses, with the Louvre at its heart," said Olivier Gabet, Louvre's Decorative Arts director.
Laurence des Cars called for a fundamental modernization of the Louvre, stating that "the status quo is not tenable."
The icons, on display from Wednesday, are from a group of 16 extremely fragile works from Kyiv's Bohdan andVarvara Khanenko Museum that were secretly evacuated to be safeguarded by the Paris museum
The stele was discovered in fragments in 1868 roughly 15 miles east of the Dead Sea and currently resides in the Louvre museum in Paris.
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