Six days exploring Paris and I am
already looking forward to the next visit.
Rodin Musée
Sainte-Chapelle
Musée d'Orsay
Madeleine Church
St. Sulpice Church
Américain Cathedral
Notre Dame
Napoleon's Tomb
The Cluny Musée
Centre Pompidou
Picasso Musée
Victor Hugo Musée
Place des Voges
Orangerie
First stop: the Louvre.
Housed in a U-shaped, 16th-century palace, the Louvre is home to Mona Lisa,
and hall after hall of great sculptures and paintings. The size of the palace makes me want to pitch a tent inside so I might have a chance to see everything.
It is reassuring to see the pyramid there waiting for me and about fifteen or twenty thousand other art lovers today.
Coming out of the Rivoli metro stop this is the sign telling me which way to go.
Designed for a museum that attracted 4.5 million visitors a year, the pyramid proved inadequate by the time the Louvre's attendance had doubled in 2014.
This is the exit stairway under the pyramid. Hmm, it looks empty. All the people are entering, not leaving!
Anne of Cleves-- 1540 before the royal marriage.
By Hans Holbein
Remember her? King Henry VIII's 2nd wife of a thousand days, and mother of Queen Elizabeth I.
Albrecht Durer, 1493, Nuremburg,
self-portrait. Perhaps meant for his girlfriend, he wrote on it, "I will do great things."
And the Raphael hanging in the Louvre, pretty, pretty.
Oath of the Horati by Louis David in Paris, 1785.
Canaletto's paintings of Venice were so liked that he is probably responsible for bring lots of tourists there.
Everyone trying to get a photo of Mona!
She has her own two guards.
One view out the window.
The Napoleon apartments: a weird dressing table.
Napoleon's bed: he has a little gate like Marie Antoinette's over at Versailles!
Author of "The Courtier" from Urbino, Italy and friend of the painter, Raphael, Baldesarre Castiglione looks smart, sweet and erudite in this portrait.
Oh oh, I remember now, don't show your teeth.
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