On Friday, my second day in Paris, I got to the Louvre. The Louvre is the biggest, most famous art museum in the world. It houses countless masterpieces and artwork ranging from Mesopotamian art up to the 1900s. If you are an artist reading this or a museum lover, you probably already knew that. The place is massive; several blocks long, five floors high, with two long wings and a large center wing. To see every artwork at a reasonable pace would probably take 3-4 days from opening to closing, and with actually absorbing the art and/ or listening to an audio guide/ tour it would take much longer. And so, I got to only a portion of the exhibits.
After going for about 7 hours on Friday, and without any concrete plans on Saturday, I decided to visit the Louvre a second time to see some of the important/ interesting items I missed. I was there perhaps 3 hours or a little more the second day. Using my 3DS as a tour guide, I was able to quickly get to the spots I needed to that day. I'm very glad I went back and I feel blessed to have been able to visit such a place for so long.
If you love art and you visit Europe, do yourself a favor and visit the Louvre. There is something for everyone there. Bring a map and a snack. Anyways, here are the pictures I took with some commentary on the pieces I remember best. Let it be known that I took a lot of pictures because they were funny... that's a part of the experience I feel. For a chunk of the first day I went through the art looking for humor, and the second day I went through fully to learn and see things I'll never get another chance to see. What's a learning experience without a little fun?
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