I'm deciding which works of art I must ensure I see when I visit the Louvre later this year.
2007-01-20 17:56:19 · 3 answers · asked by shell 2 in Travel ➔ France ➔ Paris
On a first trip to the Louvre, I'd try to see:
Slaves - Michelangelo
Pre-classical Greek Statuary
Frieze from the Parthenon
Venus de Milo
Borghese Gladiator
Winged Victory of Samothrace
Apollo Gallery (Napoleon's Crown)
Frescoes by Botticelli
Giotto, Fra Angelico, and Uccello paintings
St. Sebastian - Mantegna
Grand Gallery
Mona Lisa - da Vinci
Virgin Child and St. Anne - di Vinci
La Belle Jardiniere - Raphael
Pastoral Symphony - Titian
Marriage at Cana - Veronese
Coronation of Napoleon - David
La Grande Odelisque - Ingres
Raft of the Medusa - Gericault
Liberty Leading the People - Delacroix
Jean II le Bon painting
Avignon Pieta
Portrait of Francois I - Clouet
Diana the Huntress and Gabrielle d'Estree et une de ses Soeurs - Ecole de Fontainebleu
Shepards of Arcadia - Poussin
Port de Mer au Soleil Couchant - Lorrain
St. Joseph in Carpenter Shop - de la Tour
Peasant Family - le Nain
Chancellor Seguir - le Brun
Portrait of Louis XIV - Rigaud
Embarkation for Cythera and Gilles - Watteau
Forge of the Vulcan - Boucher
Women Bathing - Fragonard
Roman Ruins Paintings - Robert
Various Portraits - David and INgres
Portrait of Chopin - Delacroix
There, that ought to keep you busy for a couple of hours!
The other museum he is talking about is Musee D'Orsay - it picks up chronologically where the Louvre leaves off, 19 century and into the 20th. It has some very important works by
Ingres, Cabanel, Daumier, Courbet, Couture, Manet, Degas, Monet, Renoir, Whistler, Pisarro, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Redon, Rousseau, Gauguin, Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec
Charpentier, Rodin (my idol!), Claudel, et al.
That should take at least another couple of hours.
If you like Rodin like I do, his house and studio are just East of Invalides (Napoleon's Tomb) and well worth an afternoon of browsing. That's my pilgrimage sight.
Everyone's taste (and stamina) is different, so don't try to see it all, that would take the rest of your lifetime since there are over 300,000 works there, the largest museum in the world.
Also, if the royalty thing is your deal, like the Painting of Louis XIV, go see his house at Versaille, a short train ride west of Paris. The Louvre was his daddy's palace, but it wasn't nice enough for him, so he built his own. It is on my list of Seven Wonders of the World. Worth a visit.
Always consider getting a guide. Check the price and listen to their accent before agreeing to it. There are some amazing people guiding tours that can point out tidbits that only the most educated art historian would know to look for. Why not take advantage of their PhD if you don't have your own? At the least, rent an audio-guide. It's like an iPod with selectable descriptions of what you are looking at. A bargain since most works have no English description.
I hope this helps. Bon Vacance!
2007-01-20 20:40:31 · answer #1 · answered by adolfoknows 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Check on-line. When I went to Paris, I found out they they rotate a lot of art and sometimes close off certain sections.
For what to see... I heard you can check it on-line.
Also check out the other museum. Sorry, but I can't remember the name of it, but it has that pyramid design on the street level outside the museum. They had some wonderful paintings and sculptures, including some of the wars of Heaven and Hell and a BEAUTIFUL painting of Cupid and his human lover among many others. I found it to be more comfortable than the Louvre, too.
2007-01-21 03:01:53 · answer #2 · answered by A dad & a teacher 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Venus de Milo, the Mona Lisa, the Turkish Bath, the Pyramid. Have fun!!
2007-01-21 02:00:59 · answer #3 · answered by lisadumbgame 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋