The Louvre

Europe Part 2.2.1 - The Louvre, Paris, France #

The Louvre #

Panorama of the Louvre courtyard, visitors crossing the plaza around the glass pyramids Selfie of a bearded man wearing a blue backpack in the Louvre courtyard, glass pyramid and palace wings behind Panorama of the nearly empty Louvre courtyard with ornate lampposts and the glass pyramid at left The Luxor obelisk and a large Ferris wheel at Place de la Concorde against dramatic grey clouds Crowds and tour buses outside the courtyard facade of the Palais Royal in Paris on an overcast day The Mona Lisa in its gilded frame on a plain wall at the Louvre The Winged Victory of Samothrace atop its ship-prow pedestal at the Louvre, visitors gathered below Gilt-framed painting at the Louvre of a young woman with a faint halo floating in dark water

Visitors stand before a wall-sized painting of a cavalry battle scene in a red-walled Louvre gallery Bronze relief of a reclining stag with tall antlers mounted along a stone staircase in the Louvre Visitors wander a long columned sculpture hall at the Louvre lined with white marble statues Opulent dining room in the Louvre’s Napoleon III apartments, crystal chandeliers over a long set table White marble sculpture group of intertwined figures on a pedestal in a skylit Louvre gallery Tall cobalt-blue porcelain urn with ornate gilt handles and garlands beside a Louvre window

Ancient Egyptian stone stela carved with three standing deities and rows of hieroglyphs at the Louvre Visitors fill a vaulted Louvre gallery of classical marble statues lit by tall windows The inverted glass pyramid hanging above shoppers in the underground mall beneath the Louvre Ornate stone facade of the Louvre’s Cour Carree courtyard under blue sky with scattered clouds Traffic and a motorcyclist pass Place de la Concorde, with its obelisk and a Ferris wheel beyond