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| Just getting out of the subway... |
.. we meet the Louvre Palace |
It's just next to the Conseil d'Etat building |
In Paris. *all* buildings are impressive |
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| Taking care of our eyes... |
Architecture at the Louvre palace.. |
Again |
Before the Revolution, it was a royal palace |
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| Conseil d'Etat, just in front |
First look at a Paris street |
Look at both sides before crossing |
Main square |
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| The controversial Louvre pyramids |
One of the wings of the museum |
View of the whole square |
In Paris, everything is huge and wide.. |
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| .. except the girls from Paris |
A couple more |
Walking towards the entrance |
Sculpture near the entrance |
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| Underground reception hall |
Notice the amount of people |
One of the halls of the museum |
Engravings from the Parthenon, Athens |
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| Ancient Greek sculpture. |
The goddess Athenea. Ancient Greece. |
Typical sculpture room. |
The Venus of Milo. |
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| Now with my father. |
And now also my mother.. |
Etruscan coffin, "Husband and Wife" |
This is a temporary sculpture warehouse. For real. |
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| The real Emperor Commodus, from "Gladiator" |
The "Winged Victory of Samotrace". |
Another angle. |
The official picture. |
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| Hall with sculptures from Greece and Rome. |
An Egyptian pharaoh. |
Egyptian coffin. |
Egyptian estella, written in hyeroglyphs. |
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| Louis XV-style jar... made for Louis XV. |
View of the garden of French sculpture. |
Johannes Vermeer, "The Lacemaker". |
Johannes Vermeer, "The Astronomer". |
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| Garden of French Sculptures |
Again |
View from within that garden |
Once more.. |
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| Guardian bulls from a temple in ancient Mesopotamia |
"Hammurabi's Code"... an eye for an eye |
Visiting the museum with your partner.. |
Hall of Italian paintings.. |
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| Da Vinci, "Mona Lisa", take 1 |
Da Vinci, "Mona Lisa", take 2 |
Da Vinci, "Mona Lisa", take 3 |
All these people for such a small painting.. |
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| It's too much people, too much... |
Looks like she's not interested in Spanish paintings.. |
Trying to get close to the Mona Lisa |
She wants to see it too |
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| Admiring the Renaissance works. |
Once more. |
Back to the reception hall |
Outside of the museum |
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| People in the Louvre square |
Searching for the best route in the map |
Coming out of the museum |
Resting next to the pyramids |
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| More pedestrians |
Even more |
And the last one for the day. |
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