The Louvre

Tickets to the Louvre we ordered via the Internet on the official website. The cost is 17 EUR for an adult and 5 EUR for an audio guide, as a deposit for a passport, namely a passport. There are no audio guides in Russian.

It's better to take care in advance and download the audio guide to the phone.

At the entrance give a map with the location of all the halls of the museum and you can choose and visit first the most preferable for you.

Inside we passed without queue, the entrance from the shopping center Carrousel. You can get there directly from Palais-Royal / musée du Louvre metro station (this is the 1st and 7th metro lines). Follow the signs.

Louvre without embellishment can be called a miracle of the world. The age-old history of mankind, the immense artistic riches, belonging to the hands of great geniuses, contains in itself this castle - the residence of French kings.

Our acquaintance with the Louvre began with a collection of antiquities from the Middle East, Egypt, Rome and Greece.

Ancient Greek sculpture Venus of Milos. Initially, this statue was found by a Greek peasant. He wanted to sell it to a French sailor. Having replaced several owners while trying to export it from the country, the statue eventually ended up with the Ambassador of France in Istanbul, the Marquis de Rivière. It was the Marquis who presented Venus to King Louis XVIII who handed the statue to the Louvre, where it is still.

The Roman statues, which the Romans love so much, are mostly images of the gods: Mars, Dionysus, Eros with Cupid and his bow, the famous sleeping hermaphrodite.

And here are the sarcophagi of the ancient Egyptians. They usually depicted their owners, and they should have been depicted as closely as possible, so that, as they thought, the soul could recognize its owner and settle into it for the next life.

Besides this, all the valuable things that could have come in handy to the master in the afterlife were recorded on the sarcophagus, they were simply enumerated and recorded, because if you put them, then everything you need could not fit, and you thought of writing it down.

Here are the famous sphinxes.

Statue of the scribe, found in the burial places of the times of the Old Kingdom in Saqqara. Very clear outlines, emotions are well conveyed, a concentrated scribe, ready to record, an intelligent facial expression. The eyes are made of crystal.

And several floors of European painting, mainly Italian, French and Spanish artists.

"John the Baptist" by Leonardo da Vinci.

"Freedom, the leading people" Eugene Delacroix.

"Mona Lisa" by Leonardo Da Vinci.

Do not even set a goal to bypass the whole museum, and in two days you will not be able to do it. After six hours of enjoying the art, my legs hurt. This concludes our acquaintance with the Louvre.

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