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Beyonc and Jay-Z's music video inspires guided tour at Louvre

The Louvre museum in Paris, featured in Beyonc and Jay-Z's latest music video, is now inviting visitors on a guided tour of the shoot locations.

90-minute 'visitor trail' highlights works of art featured in couple's latest video

Beyonc and Jay-Z's music video shot at the Louvre has inspired a guided tour by the museum. (Getty Images)

The Louvre, featured in Beyonc and Jay-Z's latest music video, isinviting visitors to tour the shoot locations.

The famed Paris museum now offers a 90-minute self-guided tourto see17 works of art depicted in the background of thecouple's video for the song Apes**tfrom their new joint album Everything Is Love.

The six-minute video has been viewed more than 60 million times on YouTube since it was released two weeks ago.

In it, the musicians can be seen posing with some of the institution's most iconic pieces, including the Venus de Milo statue and Leonardo daVinci's Mona Lisa.

The museumsaid in an email thatBeyoncand Jay-Zhave visited the Louvre fourtimes in the last tenyears and even before they filmed the video, the pair'srequest showed a "real attachment to the museum and its beloved artworks." Representatives did not comment specifically on the new tour.

Warning: music video contains explicit language

The "visitor trail"wraps with Portrait of a Black Woman, a painting from the year 1800 of an anonymous black model ina white headdress and attirebaring her breast.

TheLouvre's website, which provides details on each piece, describes the use of a "dark-skinned figure" for Portrait of a Black Woman as a "bold stance" and "an unusual, rarely taught exercise that was held in low regard."

The artwork is one of many images in the videoreflecting themes ofblackidentity and empowerment. The tour, which is available in its entirety four days a week when all rooms are open, focuses on the masterpieces themselves rather than trying to interpret BeyoncandJay-Z'suse of them.

The museum also does a tourfor the pieces used as the backdrop inwill.i.am's 2016 video forMona Lisa Smile.