Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Paris, France, 14 Dec 2003: Musee Louvre
Les trois dames et plus


Musee du Louvre & IM Pei Pyramid
Musee du Louvre is the largest repository of antiquities and art in the world. Restoration of the august institution met with initial public outcry, but I M Pei's pyramids soon became the Louvre's favourite icons. The understated underground entrance atrium and brilliant light-filled courtyards in the Richelieu wing - Cour Marly and Cour Puget - are the architectural centrepieces from which collection-rich galleries radiate.
Cour Marly, Marly Horses

La Gioconda
Three pieces - da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo and the Winged Victory of Samothrace - are the Louvre's undisputed mistresses. Priceless. Enigmatic. Ethereal.
Venus de MiloWinged Victory of Samothrace

Musee Louvre, Sculpture Gallery
Greek statuary line the sculpture gallery. Renaissance sculptors recapture Grecian artistry. Michelango's Rebellious and Dying Slaves convey a life-like contrast in curtailed muscular tension and flaccid resignation. Poetry in marble.
Rebellious SlaveDying SlaveMichelangelo's Slaves

Goddess LionessesMummies
Antiquities from Egypt and the Near East, bounty from Napoleon's Egyptian expeditions, are a collection highlight. Hammurabi's Code is one of the first recorded wriiten laws, preserved in Sumerian cuneiform script on an imposing stela. Awesome.
Hammurabi's Code of Law

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