When famed Chinese-American architect Ieoh Ming Pei, aka I. M. Pei, decided to go against the grain to add a modernist glass and steel pyramid to the Louvre’s Cour Napoléon, his unorthodox design of the museum’s main entrance was greeted with a volley of outcry; critics labelled the structure an affront to the Renaissance aesthetics that the Louvre represents. […]