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Paris Finally Showcases Monet's Water Lilies

Claude Monet's celebrated water lilies will once again be lit up in a Paris museum where the canvasses will be returning to public view.

The Orangerie Museum has announced that it will be reopening after a six-year renovation.

Designers have paid tribute to impressionist artists' love of light by installing a giant skylight to shed as much light as possible onto the masterpieces.

"The most important part of our work was to give the light back to the water lilies," Olivier Brochet, one of the architects on the project told the Associated Press.

He went on to say that the paintings were so close to nature, weather and time that it was "a crime to block out the sunlight".

Even when the sun is not shining, a system of overhead spotlights will help to illuminate the canvasses.

Monet himself helped to draw up plans for the Orangerie, which was used to store equipment during the First World War, but he died before the exhibit opened in 1927.

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Updated: Fri, 05 May 2006 00:00:00

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