{"id":5584,"date":"2022-08-07T20:59:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T02:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=5584"},"modified":"2022-08-07T20:59:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T02:59:42","slug":"european-vacation-day-6-more-louvre-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2022\/08\/european-vacation-day-6-more-louvre-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"European Vacation Day 6: More Louvre Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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22 July 22: Here are some of the many photos I took at the Louvre today. I think I was more in awe of the sheer size of the buildings and galleries and the stunning architecture than the art. Also, as is probably the case with many American visitors, I am having to process how OLD much of this is. I don’t mean the antiquities on exhibit…I mean the fact that the museum opened (as an art museum) in 1793.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

We let the boys go back to the apartment early. I was actually surprised they wanted to see as much as they did. They preferred the Greek and Egyptian relics to the paintings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We are staying 1 mile from the Louvre, so we walked there this morning. We crossed “Rue Jacob” on the way.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Be sure to look up! Seeing the designs on the gallery ceilings and walls is artwork in and of itself.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Grand Gallery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This is a more realistic view of how close we got to the Mona Lisa. Pardon the guy in the red shirt who’s probably capturing your attention more, ha ha.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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“The Wedding Feast of Cana”. The largest painting in the museum. The size of the side of one’s house!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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“Liberty Leading the People” by Eugene Delacroix. There must be over 100 of his pieces throughout the museum but this one is the most famous.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Venus de Milo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This was fascinating: the original foundation of the Louvre, which was originally a castle for Philip Augustus around the year 1200.

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The boys enjoyed seeing the hieroglyphics and runic writing. Tim loves the origins of language (he had Latin in elementary school in Navarre FL…I’m sure it stems from that).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Napoleon III’s apartment is preserved to see. Talk about “extra!”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The large dining room.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Napoleon’s throne.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This room houses France’s Crown Jewels. I was too busy gawking over the room itself. I barely paid any attention to the crowns and jewelry.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The rest of the photos are three of Monet’s cold weather pieces. I found it very interesting that no French artists painted cold weather until Monet did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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22 July 22: Here are some of the many photos I took at the Louvre today. I think I was more in awe of the sheer size of the buildings and galleries and the stunning architecture than the art. Also, as is probably the case with many American visitors, I am having to process how … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t