A few years ago I traveled to Paris with my father – who had no desire to spend any time in a museum – and wowed him so much with a visit to The Louvre that he asked to go back a second time. I am excited this week to travel to London to see a friend, and hopefully drag him along to some of his city’s great museums and attractions. As I think about the upcoming trip I remember the one with my father and our journeys through the world’s best art museum, The Louvre…
The Louvre through the glass pyramid
The crowd in the Louvre’s Denon Wing
Painting a painting in the Denon Wing
The insanely huge crowd around the Mona Lisa
The Wedding Feast at Cana
The Winged Victory of Samothrace
The Louvre’s decorated ceiling
The crowd around the Venus de Milo
The massive Capital of Apadana sculpture
Leaving the Louvre after having seen many of the highlights
The Eiffel Tower is visible from the Louvre
Walking into the Louvre’s sculpture garden
A huge spider in the sculpture garden
Walking past the Louvre’s pyramid at night
Inside the French Sculpture Gallery in the Richelieu Wing
The Tomb of Philippe Pot, governor of Burgundy under Louis XI, by Antoine Le Moiturier
Walking through the Apartments of Napoleon III
Beautiful stained glass in the Richelieu Wing
The Sisters
Every art museum needs a picture of a painting monkey, even the Louvre
An ancient Persian or Mesopotamian Mosaic
The pyramids in the basement of the Louvre best known from the Da Vinci Code
