On 19th December, 2013, we visited the must visit place in Paris the Louvre Museum located on the right bank of the Seine river. This was my second visit having visited this museum earlier in 2006. Nothing compares the grandeur of the palace called the Louvre. This museum is housed in the 12th cen fortress of Philip Augustus that was again rebuilt by Francis I in 1546. Napoleon added to this collection and so did Louis XIV. The Louvre ceased to be a royal residence when Louis XIV moved his court to Versailles in 1682. A huge underground space has been created to link the three sections. The Louvre’s collection of French paintings from the 15th to the 19th century is unsurpassed in the world, and it also has many masterpieces by Italian Renaissance painters and Flemish and Dutch painters of the Baroque period. Oriental Antiquities, IslamicArt, Egyptian Antiquities, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Paintings, Sculptures, Art items, Prints, you name it and the museum has everything. I remember I was very frustrated last time when I visited this museum for everything was written in French and I could not understand a word. Now I found a large number of things written in English and it also had an audio system where we could get the history of the object and in a language we understand .
Monolisa in the Orignoal in the Louvre Museum
The famous Monolisa, thought to be of Lisa Gherardini, wife of the Florentine cloth merchant named Francesco del Giocondo, by Leonardo da Vinci is here and there is a huge crowd of visitors all wanting to see her in the original.One can see a huge collection of Michelangelo's sculptures, which gives to the actual marble an expression which is unsurpassed.
