homeWhenever I go to Paris, I make a stop at Le Musée du Louvre. I love it. It is so vast, it merits several little visits, easier to digest. I am a great fan of Renaissance and Antiquity.
The Louvre was built as a residential fortress by King Philip II in the 12th century. Throughout the ages, French kings lived in the Louvre, updated it, and added onto it. In 1546, Francis I renovated the Louvre into Renaissance style and acquired the Mona Lisa when he befriended Leonardo Da Vinci and offered him asylum and a place to live. During the French Revolution, the Louvre became a museum and then Napoleon lived in it during his reign.
Napoleon's Apartments in the Louvre
One of the world's biggest museums, it houses some of the world's greatest treasures: from Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquities, to Islamic art, to sculpture, to Painting. I go a little nuts on the paintings! Vermeer, Leonardo Da Vinci, Raphael, Delacroix, Michelangelo, Botticelli ....
Ah, makes me want to hop on the TGV ...!
Gros bisous de l'Art et a demain!
Love, Charley
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