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The Louvre (The Louvre or the Louvre Museum is one of the world's largest museums and a historic monument in Paris. A central landmark of the city, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement. Nearly 350,000 objects from prehistory to the 21st century are exhibited over an area of 652,300 square feet. The Louvre is the world's most visited museum, receiving more than 9.26 million visitors in 2014.)

I.M. Pei's Pyramid, The Louvre (The Louvre Pyramid is a large glass and metal pyramid designed by Chinese American architect I.M. Pei, surrounded by three smaller pyramids, in the main courtyard (Cour Napoléon) of the Louvre Palace in Paris. The large pyramid serves as the main entrance to the Louvre Museum. Completed in 1989, it has become a landmark of the city of Paris.)

Georgia and Tom in the main courtyard (Cour Napoléon) of the Louvre.

Georgia and Tom in the main courtyard (Cour Napoléon) of the Louvre.

Georgia and Tom with the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel in the background

Georgia enjoying Paris

Central Courtyard, The Louvre.

Horsing around at the Louvre

Tom touching Pei's pyramid

Pei's Pyramid, The Louvre

The Richelieu Pavillion, The Louvre

Central Courtyard, The Louvre

Inside the Pei Pyramid

Spiral staircase in the Pei Pyramid, The Louvre's main Entrance

Venus de Milo, Greece, 130 BC (Aphrodite of Milos better known as the Venus de Milo, is an ancient Greek statue and one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture. Created sometime between 130 and 100 BC, it is believed to depict Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty (Venus to the Romans). It is a marble sculpture, slightly larger than life size at 203 cm (6 ft 8 in) high. The arms and original plinth were lost following its discovery. From an inscription that was on its plinth, it is thought to be the work of Alexandros of Antioch; earlier, it was mistakenly attributed to the master sculptor Praxiteles. It is currently on permanent display at the Louvre Museum in Paris. The statue is named after the Greek island of Milos, where it was discovered)

Georgia and her friend Venus

Venus de Milo, Greece, 130 BC

Venus de Milo disarms an admiring crowd

Winged Victory of Samothrace-Greek, circa 200 BC (The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called the Nike of Samothrace, is a 2nd-century BC marble sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike (Victory). Since 1884, it has been prominently displayed at the Louvre and is one of the most celebrated sculptures in the world. H.W. Janson described it as "the greatest masterpiece of Hellenistic sculpture.")

Tom in the Louvre

I.M. Pei's Pyramid and the Richelieu Wing, The Louvre

Ceiling detail-The Louvre

Ceiling detail-The Louvre

Selfie Sticks were ubiquitous in the Louvre

The Mona Lisa-much smaller than you'd imagine (The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world". The painting, thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, is in oil on a white Lombardy poplar panel, and is believed to have been painted between 1503 and 1506. Leonardo may have continued working on it as late as 1517. It was acquired by King Francis I of France and is now the property of the French Republic, on permanent display at the Louvre Museum in Paris since 1797.The subject's expression, which is frequently described as enigmatic, the monumentality of the composition, the subtle modeling of forms, and the atmospheric illusionism were novel qualities that have contributed to the continuing fascination.)

The largest painting in the Louvre's collection-The Wedding at Cana by Paolo Veronese (1563) (The Wedding at Cana is a massive oil painting by the late-Renaissance or Mannerist Italian painter Paolo Veronese. It is on display in the Musée du Louvre in Paris, where it is the largest painting in that museum's collection.The piece was commissioned in 1562 by the Benedictine Monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, Italy, and completed in fifteen months by the year 1563. It hung in the refectory of the monastery for 235 years, until it was plundered by Napoléon in 1797 and shipped to Paris. The painting was cut in half for the journey and stitched back together in Paris. It was not returned in the post-Napoléonic conciliation treaties which pursued some restitution of looted artworks. The painting was taken to Brest and stored in a box during the Franco-Prussian War and rolled up and moved around France in a truck during World War II.)

The Louvre's expansive interior

The Coronation of Napoleon by Jacques-Louis David (1807) (The Coronation of Napoleon is a painting completed in 1807 by Jacques-Louis David, the official painter of Napoleon. The painting has imposing dimensions, as it is almost 10 metres (33 ft) wide by a little over 6 metres (20 ft) tall. The crowning and the coronation took place at Notre-Dame de Paris.)

Detail-The Coronation of Napoleon

Detail-The Coronation of Napoleon

Grande Odalisque (1814) by Ingres (Grande Odalisque is an oil painting of 1814 by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres depicting an odalisque, or concubine. Ingres' contemporaries considered the work to signify Ingres' break from Neoclassicism, indicating a shift toward exotic Romanticism. Grande Odalisque attracted wide criticism when it was first shown. It has been especially noted for the elongated proportions and lack of anatomical realism. The work is displayed in the Louvre, Paris.)

Young Christian Martyr by Paul Delaroche

The Charging Chasseur (1812) by Theodore Gericault (The Charging Chasseur, or An Officer of the Imperial Horse Guards Charging is an oil painting on canvas of about 1812 by the French painter Théodore Géricault, portraying a mounted Napoleonic cavalry officer who is ready to attack. The painting represents French romanticism and has a motif similar to Jacques-Louis David's Napoleon Crossing the Alps, but non-classical characteristics of the picture include its dramatic diagonal arrangement and vigorous paint handling. In The Charging Chasseur, the horse appears to be rearing away from an unseen attacker. The painting was Géricault's first exhibited work. Géricault would continue to move away from classicism, as exemplified in his masterpiece The Raft of the Medusa (1818–19).)

Liberty Leading the People (1830) by Eugene Delacroix (Liberty Leading the People is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. A woman personifying the concept and the goddess of Liberty leads the people forward over the bodies of the fallen, holding the flag of the French Revolution – the tricolour flag, which remains France's national flag – in one hand and brandishing a bayonetted musket with the other. The figure of Liberty is also viewed as a symbol of France and the French Republic known as Marianne.)

Napoleon Crosses the Alps-1848 by Paul Delaroche

Exiting the Louvre

An Azerbaijani craftsman in Paris

An Azerbaijani merchant in Paris

An Azerbaijani beauty at an Azerbaijan exhibit near the Palais Royal

An Azerbaijani beauty in Paris

Conseil d'Etat in the Palais-Royal (In France, the Council of State (French: Conseil d'État ) is a body of the French national government that acts both as legal adviser of the executive branch and as the supreme court for administrative justice. Established in 1799 by Napoléon Bonaparte as a successor to the King's Council (Conseil du Roi), it is located in the Palais-Royal in Paris and is primarily made up of top-level legal officers. The Vice President of the Council of State is the highest-ranking civil servant in France.The Conseil d'État, which is also a Grand Corps of the French State (grand corps de l'État), mainly recruits among the top ranking students graduating from the École nationale d'administration.)

Palais Royal (The Palais-Royal, originally called the Palais-Cardinal, is a palace located in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. The screened entrance court faces the Place du Palais-Royal, opposite the Louvre. The larger inner courtyard, the Cour d'Honneur, has since 1986 contained Daniel Buren's site-specific art piece Les Deux Plateaux, known as Les Colonnes de Buren. In 1830 the Cour d'Honneur was enclosed to the north by what was probably the most famous of Paris's covered arcades, the Galerie d'Orléans. Demolished in the 1930s, its flanking rows of columns still stand between the Cour d'Honneur and the popular Palais-Royal Gardens.)

Palais Royal Gardens

Palais Royal Gardens

Palais Royal Gardens

Palais Royal Gardens

Palais Royal Gardens

Palais Royal Gardens

Georgia checks her guide book-Palais Royal Gardens

Palais Royal Gardens

Palais Royal Gardens

Palais Royal Gardens

Palais Royal Gardens

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