A tour of the Louvre museum in Paris, France featuring some of the main and most popular art pieces to see.
The Louvre museum is the world’s largest and most-visited museum, a historic landmark in Paris, France. Once a palace for the kings of France, today is a spectacular museum that displays some of the finest works of art.
The Louvre is split into three wings : Denon, Sully and Richelieu. Since it’s huge, allow at least 3-4 hours to see the most popular art pieces.
Among the most amazing masterpieces are the ancient Venus de Milo sculpture; the monumental Victoire de Samothrace of the Hellenistic period; the immense Wedding Feast at Cana painting by Veronese (1563); Botticelli’s Young Lady with Venus and the Graces fresco; Liberty Leading the People (1831) by Eugène Delacroix, depicting the Parisian uprising of July 1830. And of course the Louvre houses the world’s most famous painting – the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci.
Even though there are some speculations who was the woman posing for Leonardo’s masterpiece, the most common version is that Mona Lisa was Lisa Gherardini (1479-1542), who lived in Florence in the early 16th century. She was the wife of Francesco Giocondo, a wealthy silk merchant. Her elegant elaborate outfit indicates her social status. She is sitting in a loggia – a roofed open gallery – in front of a mountainous landscape.
Leonardo da Vinci used a painting technique called sfumato: he applied multiple layers of pigments bound in oil to create subtle transitions from shadow to light, bringing his model’s gentle smile to life.
Leonardo aimed to depict Lisa as if she were naturally turning to welcome us. Her upper body is in three-quarter view, but her gently smiling face is frontal.
He never finished the Mona Lisa. The lower part of the landscape is evidently incomplete: the forms are barely sketched. Leonardo began this partially experimental painting in about 1503 and never finished it. He took it with him everywhere he went, until his final trip to France in 1516 at the invitation of King Francois I. The king bought the painting, which thus entered the French royal collection.
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Time stamps:
0:00 Entry
2:30 Winged Victory of Samothrace
3:12 Italy Paintings & Mona Lisa
6:40 The Galerie d’Apollon
8:50 France Paintings
11:15 Antiquity Roman
12:17 Greek Antiquity & Venus de Milo
15:11 Richelieu Wing & Cour Marly
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Brandenburg Concerto No4-1 BWV1049 – Classical Whimsical by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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