In 1993, on the museum’s 200th anniversary, the rebuilt Richelieu wing, formerly occupied by France’s Ministry of Finance, was opened; for the first time, the entire Louvre was dedicated to museum purposes. The new wing, also designed by Pei, had more than 230,000 sq. feet of exhibition space, initially housing collections of European portray, ornamental Art Galery arts, and Islamic art. Three glass-roofed inside courtyards displayed French sculpture and ancient Assyrian artworks. The museum’s increasing assortment of Islamic art later moved into its own wing , for which Italian architects Mario Bellini and Rudy Ricciotti enclosed another interior courtyard beneath…