Louvre, 2: Seriously

 A few more serious pix, some favorites, from the Louvre...

David's Leonidas at Thermopylae; always wanted something 
like this for my office at SMU

Ingres' Deification of Homer

David Selfie

Obligatory winged favorite

Never miss a Martini (Simone), Bearing the Cross,
1335

Lorenzetti, Casting Out of the Rebellious Angels,
1440 (another personal favorite)

Beautiful Bernardino da Parenzo, Adoration of the Magi, 1475

Detail of the extraordinary 1475 landscape

Love the Luinis (Mr. Smokie's under-study)

Pretty much my favorite art history lesson in the Louvre, 
Titian's Pastoral Concert, 1509 (compare Manet...); now so
glassed and darkened and poorly placed you can barely make
it out

Veronese' hilarious (to me) Emmaus; the incident at Emmaus was
supposed (according to the Gospel of Luke) to consist just of Jesus,
his disciple Cleopas (Cleopas?!), and another, unnamed "disciple";
Veronese apparently got paid by the number of figures on the canvas 

Wanted to make sure they spelled his name right on the check

Love the Arcimboldos; this, one of the Four Seasons (two were
on loan to, oddly, the Pompidou), mid-1500s

In one of the nicer bits of the Louvre

Fit for a king

Ribera's Clubfooted Boy...a great turning point in
painting...someone who was not a king or a god
or a saint

Caravaggio's Death of the Virgin, 1605

Moving right on, now in Greek sculpture, Cycladean figures,
Bronze age

Over-size Pallas Athena

Now in the Salle des Caryatids, where Moliere

entertained Louis XIV

Another incredible place...