Tuesday 28 August 2012

The Louvre - part 1

This is the biggest museum in the world, and is in Paris.
It used to be a palace (it is actually, more than one and they are connected) and now has the most incredible and comprehensive art collection.
The palace itself is something amazing. Each room is decorated with the theme of the works of art exposed in it. 



From the Egypt collection, what impressed me the most, was the everyday art collection.





If we keep walking, we will go from the Egypt collection to the Greek collection.
The roofs and walls reflects this also.
I can´t stop thinking on how many wonderful unknown artists worked in those roofs and walls.







A detail of the floor




Please take a look on those paintings... yes paintings, these are no relieves, but bi dimensional paintings.



Take a look to this one... lost in a corner of the roof... a painting... and a great work to make it look like an sculpture, right?


In this roof, true sculptures







A Bernini small work of art. 



 This museum needs to be walked with an audio guide!


An unfinished Michelangelo sculpture, originally made for the Vatican. 



 A Canova sculpture detail.


Aphrodite, or the Milo Venus, as we know it.



Athens and the wonderful roof over the sculpture!



Lets continue in the next entry!

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