I went inside the Louvre for the very first time since living in Paris. I’ve never been an art fanatic and I admit that I don’t care that much about dead painters – but well, my visit last Sunday had been kinda nice. My friend Teth, visited me for the weekend and I gave her a tour of Paris. And because of her, I finally visited the Louvre for free – no entrance fee every first Sunday of the month.
The famous Mona Lisa – all photos I took of this painting were bad – this is the best I got (yikes). There were too many people in the room and you can’t even stand face-to-face to truly analyze the painting.
Mona Lisa
The four seasons by Giussepe Arcimboldo (Milan year 1527 – 1593). I really love these 4 paintings – I read somewhere that these paintings are self-portraits and most critics think that his works were whimsical or that he was simply deranged. I say whimsical.
Top: Fall, Bottom: Spring
Left: Winter, Right: Fall
Summer
An oil painting of the Annunciation. I was not able to take the name of the painter but this is somewhere in the Italian painters section.
The Annunciation
A painting of David and Goliath fighting by Daniele de Volterra – a painter from Tuscany, Italy. These back to back paintings are displayed at the very center of the gallery (Italian painters section). It represents 2 different angles and the work was thus, considered as an illustration of the famous paragone (Italian for comparison) – in which one form of art is championed as superior to all others.
David and Goliath fight 1
David and Goliath fight 2
By Francesco de Rossi – The Doubting of Saint Thomas.
L'Incrédulité de saint Thomas
Pieta (Italian for Pity) by Giovanni Batista di Jacopo – shows a painting of the Virgin Mary cradling the body of Christ. Here, Christ and the Virgin are surrounded by other figures from the New Testament. The subject of the painting is called a Lamentation in English (Lamentation of Christ).
Pieta
Picasso painting in the Picasso Delacroix exhibit. I was googling to get the title of this painting but instead, found some intriguing news that says that the exhibit has upset some members of the Paris arts scene who have accused organizers of dumbing-down to attract the plebs. I guess Picasso is too low for the Louvre? I have no idea.
Picasso
A portrait of King Louis XIV
Louis XIV
This painting captured my attention. Dark art. Again, forgot to note down the painter and the title of the painting.
burning
We went to the Egyptian area as well, but I didn’t really take photos, except for this creepy mummy. Is it real or what? My morbid curiosity just makes me wanna strip the bandages from the body and see if it still has a face.
Yikes
