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Paris: Louvre Art Gallery

The Louvre has the largest collection of art in the world with over 30,000 pieces of art. We spent a day there but did not see it all. We of course saw the Mona Lisa which was mobbed with more and more people as the day went on. We thought the Egyptian art and the Napoleon Apartment were especially interesting but of course art is in the eye of the beholder.
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The exterior of the Louvre with its modern glass pyramid set against the classical French architecture.
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The exterior of the Louvre with its modern glass pyramid set against the classical French architecture.

  • The exterior of the Louvre with its modern glass pyramid set against the classical French architecture.
  • Thousands of people tour the Lourve daily.
  • Interior of the Louvre under the modern glass pyramid. The metal cylinder raises and lowers as a guard tower.
  • The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. He brought a few paintings with him from Italy when the King invited him to live in France. The Mona Lisa was one of those and thus it resides in France and not Italy.
  • A painting of a fictional lady (Lady Liberty) leading the French people in 1830 against royalist oppressors. One of the most famous French paintings - by Eugene Delacroix.
  • A painting of Napoleon in battle. One of thousands of paintings in the Louvre.
  • A painting within the Louvre.
  • One of Jim's favorite paintings at the Lourve.
  • A self portrait by Rembrandt.
  • A painting by Jim and Jan's favorite Dutch Master painter Vermeer.
  • Metal art within the Louvre.
  • Egyptian art within the Louvre. We found this area of the vast Louvre very fascinating with some of the oldest art in the world.
  • A burial crypt from Greece.
  • A painting of Emperor Napoleon.
  • In the Napoleon Apartment.
  • Napoleon's dinner table.
  • A ceiling within the Napoleon Apartment.
  • Ceiling artwork in Napoleon's Apartment.
  • Another painted celing within the Napoleon Apartment.
  • Napoleon's bed chamber.
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