http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2014/08/le-musee-du-louvre-une-derniere-fois.html
http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2014/06/paris-scenes-vingt-trois-deux-jours-au.html
http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2013/09/louvre-lens-museum.html
http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2009/08/louvre-i.html
http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2013/09/louvre-lens-collection.html
http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2012/07/louvre-again-3-out-takes.html
http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2012/07/louvre-again-1.html
http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2009/08/louvre-2.html
http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2014/06/paris-scenes-vingt-trois-plus-out-takes.html
http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2014/06/paris-scenes-vingt-trois-out-takes-du.html
http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2014/06/paris-scenes-vingt-troi-paris-et-le.html
and our visit on June 1st, at nine hours, was not even our longest. And the above do not include many visits prior to retirement. We like the place. A lot. If you want to see pictures of our favorite items, pour yourself a tall one and have a go at the above. Sorry for the inevitable repetitions. I did not want to repeat any more here.
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| Looking down on a stray sculpture courtyard; at this point I was thinking that Sully, Denon, and Richelieu would be a cool name for a Parisian law firm |
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| 95% of visitors to the Louvre go to just three sites: Mr. Smoky's Special Lady Friend, Sam O'Thrace, and the gift shoppe; 4% are guards or custodians; the above is an attempted pano of a room that had (Vicki counted them) 17 Rembrandts; we had it all to ourselves for a full five minutes or more until one older guy showed up to briefly sketch the lone non-Rembrandt in the room; Sic Transit, Gloria |
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| Right foot of Jesus, from another Last Supper, I thought I'd throw in since Mr. Smoky's version had it cut out |
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| Detail of a Temptations of St. Anthony by Pieter Huys, who clearly had been studying Bosch |
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| Maybe the French don't really abhor a vacuum; filling this space is probably stuck in a committee somewhere |
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| Helpful model of the Louvre/Abu Dhabi, the only Louvre we have not yet visited |
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| I am still not reconciled to this |
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| La Defense from the Louvre; note Arc de Triomphe and its relation to La Defense |
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| Humiliation time: I know nothing about frames and consequently slight or ignore them; the Louvre has some 3,000 surplus frames and has undertaken several long-term studies of its massive frame collection (the first while the treasures were hidden away from the Germans in WWII); maybe I'll live long enough to do better; anyhow, this is part of a multi-room display and explanation of frames, many with the painting in context; I promise to do better |
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| Very historic; it wasn't always a museum |
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| Best angle |
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| Spare parts |
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| Your art work here |
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| The place was sold out for the day, but, by later afternoon, this was absolutely the smallest crowd I have ever seen looking at Mr. Smoky's Special Lady Friend |
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| Now that, thanks to the Pinoteca Ambrosiana, I know who Luini was, I am well able to appreciate the Louvre's several excellent Luinis |
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| There were more surprises and personal discoveries, always one of the pleasures of visiting a great museum, and especially the greatest |
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| Not an empty space |
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| Vicki wanted this picture because she wrote a paper in the 8th grade, which she still has, on the Venus de Milo, the subject of Heningway's famous novel, A Farewell to Arms |
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| View you'll only see here |
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| Us, there, again |
2 comments:
Love all the photos...especially Jesus' toes! I have always told Jason and Cara that they have funny feet...like Wes, their toes are all stair steps, while mine look like Jesus' toes with the second toe longer! All the toes on Greek and Roman statues look like mine, too. It is a running joke in our house.
Same here. You should share your view with Vicki, a stair-step advocate.
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