For those of you that don’t know the Louvre is a huge building just stock full of old stuff. We went on 2 different days and could have spent a few more I suppose. There are many rooms like this with statue things from different times and cultures.
There were many rooms with paintings but we didn’t spend as much time in them as so many of them covered the 1000 years of religious painting which was all that was allowed at the time due to the wide spread freedom of expression allowed by the church during those times.
The room in that picture is as crowded as it got on our visits. The reason for so many people is because it is this room.
Note way up there hanging on the wall is a little picture. It’s the Mona Lisa by that guy Art Deco I think. My thoughts on seeing famous art in person are that it should be done.You see these pictures in books and somehow you create this mental image of it. With this picture my image was that it was much bigger. Heck, old Art probably had it hanging in his bathroom it’s so small. The opposite was the case with Washington Crossing the Delaware that you see over and over in grade school history books. That thing is in New York and is huge, bigger than a house. I had always pictured it about the size of this picture.
One of the other more famous items there is the statue below.
Venus de Milo (actually Aphrodite of Milos but no one calls her that) done by some Greek guy 130 to 100 BC stands bout 6′ 8″ tall. While it is nice I’m not sure I understand what makes it more famous that many of the other sculptures other than that during the 1800 France promoted it as such. By my taste the statue of David we saw in Florence is many times a better work of art.And I know art.
There were rooms with big art.
You will see in the gathering of photos right that big art is easy to pose with.
And you can pose with a lady doing something to a duck.
Of course there was always the requirement to pose outside.
Wednesday morning it was up and to the train station to catch a train to Avignon in the “south of France” to start our 4 day stay in the historical province Provence.