Walk around Louvre and experience unique charm of Mona Lisa's enigmatic smile and three treasures of town hall up close.
2023-05-16
The Louvre, located in center of Paris, is largest palace in world and one of most famous and brilliant art treasures in world. This is a museum that a person should visit at least once in a lifetime.
The Louvre was first built in 1204 and underwent over 800 years of expansion before reaching its current size. After French Revolution of 1789, Louvre was transformed from a royal palace into a public museum and has been open to the public ever since.
The Louvre is a treasure trove of works of art from all over world. Its art collections are from all over world, ranging from ancient Egyptian, Greek, Etrurian and Roman art to Oriental art, totaling 400,000 items. The most famous of these collections are "Mona Lisa", "Venus de Milo" and "Goddess of Victory of Samothrace", which are known as three treasures of world.
The Louvre is really big, so big that you can only catch a glimpse of it in a day and take a quick look at it. It seems that people from all over world come to Louvre to see "Three Treasures" as their top priority, which is why many people go straight to "Three Treasures" City Hall when they enter Louvre.
The Louvre has three entrances, most important of which is area of the Glass Pyramid. This glass pyramid was designed by Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei during expansion of Louvre in 1989. At that time this building was located in France. It also caused a lot of controversy, and many people think that it is neither fish nor meat, but decades have passed, and this work, which is a perfect combination of modern temperament and ancient elements, has been integrated into Louvre.
At entrance to Louvre and at box office, there are a large number of Guidebooks in Chinese, English and French for tourists, as well as specially marked pages of Three Treasures of City. Hall on guide map, guides are easy to find.
The Mona Lisa is much smaller than you might imagine. This is work of Da Vinci from 1503 to 1506. Its height is 77 cm and width 53 cm. It is located in hall in middle of second floor, and outside is covered with glass. The beauty of famous painting "Mona Lisa" is that no matter what angle you look at her, she always looks at you with a smile. Seeing original Mona Lisa with your own eyes can leave you with a great sense of loss, but among five portraits of women that Leonardo da Vinci has handed down to this day, this is already largest.
The "Goddess of Samothrace Victory" was discovered in 1863 on island of Samothrace in northern Aegean Sea. The statue, about 2.75 meters high, is one of most important works of ancient Greek sculpture. Although head and arms are missing, form of goddess is still alive and dynamic. No matter what angle you look at her from, you can see and feel majestic appearance of “Goddess of Victory” spreading her wings. Who would have thought that statue was broken into more than 200 pieces when it was discovered. The Louvre, without any high-tech help at time, simply put together its current appearance, and wings of Goddess of Victory were repaired later. . . .
Venus, goddess of love, is a well-known piece of fine art. It is 203 cm high and was carved in 200 BC. e. It was discovered in 1820 next to an ancient tomb on island of Milos in Greece. it is also called Venus de Milo. Nass, a statue of exquisite carvings, with beautiful curves and a soft and calm expression. Its noble and elegant temperament enchants world. , perhaps more important is beauty of incompleteness