Also if you know the names of any of the these pieces of work please let me know so I can label them!
That's the line to get in to buy a ticket! At all of the museums and monuments there are two lines: one to buy a ticket and then one to get in. Lucky for us we bought a museum and monuments pass which got us past one line everywhere we went. That line goes through that building into a courtyard.
Then it wraps around the pyramid into a line that snakes around about 8 rows deep.
We were very happy to not be in that line.
Very happy
This cracked me up to see all of the people taking pictures like this in front of the pyramid.
Break for a beignet!
The flood of people at the Venus de Milo
This was neat! This was an example of how they used to make sculptures!
Finally got him mid sentence!
These sculptures were just incredible!
Tiny coins and figurines!
He's kissing the face :)
Neoclassical decorative entrance to the next room. The Louvre used to be a castle for the royals. This isn't a part of the museum, it is a part of the building.
The Three Graces! Neoclassicism at it's greatest!
This one was my favorite! It was so intriguing to see how comfortable that stone bed looked and how relaxed she looked on it.
Scott hates posing
It is so amazing how life like these sculptures looked. Someone sculpted a woman looking effortless.
This was a covered courtyard inside the Louvre. Napoleon III's apartments surround it. It is shrouded in statuary scenes!
We had already done so much walking and we had just started.
The royal apartments and Napoleon III's apartments were newly renovated when we visited the Louvre!
These chandeliers were insanely beautiful!
This room was massive and dripping in fancy decorations!
I want this chair!
This was a dining room. I couldn't possibly get the full effect of it.
So shiny!
This and the pearly tiara below were crown jewels given from Marie Antoinette's jewels posthumously to her niece Marie Louise, Napoleon Bonaparte's second wife.
The king's bed
Marie Antoinette's last will and testament.
It was written to her sister-in-law before she was beheaded by guillotine.
Last will and testament of Louis XVI. His great nephew, Louis XVIII had the last will and testaments stitched and memorialized to honor his late aunt and uncle.
A beautiful baby cradle
A crystal vanity.
The extravagance of these people was just unbelievable!
Napoleon!
This belonged to Napoleon.
Napoleon and Josephine.
Marie Antoinette's great niece, Marie Louise. She was traded as a bride to Napoleon so he would stay out of Austria.
Just a deliciously lavish lounging chair.
Napoleon's chair
These were huge hand stitched tapestries.
A crystal and gold chess set!
This was an old tapestry made to hang behind the king's throne.
It was meant to look like the angels were crowning the king!
Marie Antoinette's rooms!!!
Love this!
Drafting tools!
Marie Antoinette's watches
And her children!
More watches...
And her pill boxes!
Her desk.
This was the set of travel gear that traveled everywhere in a carriage with Marie Antoinette.
These have her symbol on them!
And a bust of her! One of the few that you will see of her.
These rooms were so beautiful!
Random ceiling art :)
Playful Scott
Window view
Winged Victory!
There was so much going on on these ceilings!
Aquarius for me!
February for me!
August for Scott!
Leo for Scott!
My favorite shot of Winged Victory
I love this painting because I already have a picture of it! It is one of the few paintings that I remember from my trip when I was 13.
Death of Cleopatra
This incredible, giant painting was in the same room as...
That tiny Mona Lisa and everyone was at the Mona Lisa.
Look at that crowd!
For this simple lady.
All those people!
Salome with the head of John the Baptist
Being silly
A painting of the Louvre in the Louvre. There are people painting paintings in a painting.
He was getting tired
The opera house!
Jesus! This section was closed off.
Edward VI
Napoleon
Symbol of the French Revolution
Death of Queen Elizabeth I. This painting was enormous!
King Leonidas
Napoleon crowning Josephine. This painting is HUGE!!!! It could take up a whole room!
There was so much detail in it.
Death of Brutus
So many people! As you can tell from Scott above we hated it!
Couldn't get enough of this one
Death of Romeo and Juliet.
The Death of Marat
The Three Graces
Painting before the fire in the Louvre...
and after!
This painting and the one below really resonated with both Scott and myself. So much so that we found an explanation to them. They are paintings of girls after they had lost their virginity. They are meant to express the disillusion and loss of innocence. They will probably sit in my memory forever.
Gabrielle d'Estrées et une de ses seours
Gabrielle d'Estrées and one of her sisters. This painting is highly replicated and popular, all for a mistress.
Marie de' Medici
This is in a bathroom that was weird. First of all it was a random panel in a door that was hard to find then I walk in and it looks like a person is standing outside. Nope just a statue.
Roman armor over 2000 years old!
Francis I
A real mummy!
This is the original ground level of Paris. The city is built up due to flooding.
Again, can't get enough!
We went to a bar in Paris where you are given a menu with pictures next to the drinks. You must draw the picture on a board to order your drink and then they serve it to you in a baby bottle while you play board games!
Goodnight everyone!
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