The works include four paintings that currently hang in the Louvre in Paris.
The original painting, which currently hangs at the Louvre in Paris, is obscured by several layers of old, cracked varnish.
So what if you've visited the Met in New York, the National Gallery in London or the Louvre in Paris?
One of the world's most visited museums, the Louvre in Paris, did not open on Wednesday because of a protest by staff over pickpockets.
The works, which include sculptures and bracelets, frescoes and funerary urns, hail from collections as esteemed as the Louvre in Paris, Kunsthistorisches in Vienna, and British Museum in London.
It features an image of the Greek goddess Europa, which comes from a vase in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
Last month Egyptian archaeologists travelled to the Louvre Museum in Paris to collect five ancient fresco fragments stolen from a tomb in the Valley of the Kings in the 1980s.
In Paris the Louvre offers an example of a great work that was.
"There have always been pickpockets at the Louvre and in tourist locations in Paris, but for the last year-and-a-half the gangs have become increasingly violent, " said museum supervisor Sophie Aguirre.
Like Leonardo da Vinci -- whose famous Mona Lisa is housed in the Louvre -- VINCI also has an installation in the reputed Paris art gallery.
One of the most popular museums in the world, the Louvre has a long history of collecting art from the Islamic world, from putting on the first exhibition in Paris dedicated to Islamic art in 1893 to creating a dedicated Islamic art department in 2003.
The French Ministry of Culture wants to relocate this laboratory, as well as the Louvre's storerooms, to a site about 50km (30 miles) outside Paris in a new facility to be built in Cergy-Pontoise.
The company, based in the Paris suburbs, was responsible for building the gallery's infamous entrance -- the Louvre pyramid -- in 1989.
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