Jean-Luc Martinez intends to improve the Louvre’s main entrance under I.M. Pei’s pyramid, among many other changes.image source:content.time.com

Work begins this month on improving the Pyramid entrance

In choosing Jean-Luc Martinez to succeed Henri Loyrette as the head of the Musée du Louvre in April 2013, president François Hollande opted for a consensus choice as well as a break with tradition. Martinez could be considered the antithesis of his imperious predecessor, who reigned over the Louvre for 12 years and whose ambition led to a period of frenetic expansion in France and elsewhere. Loyrette decided not to seek a new term for the job when he understood that this period was about to end, and government subsidies would be cut by around 11%.

Martinez, who had the support of the museum’s staff, was born into a modest suburban family on the outskirts of Paris in 1964. He worked as an archaeologist on digs in Greece before a spell of teaching in Paris. He joined the Louvre as a curator of Greek sculptures collection in 1997, and became head of the Greek and Roman Antiquities department ten years later....Continue Reading

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