The louvre

Today we went to the Louvre, the biggest museum in France. It's more like a maze. We actually we got lost quite a few times.

Some things they included were:

 

1. The Islamic arts wing
2. The French sculpture gallery
3. The Mona Lisa
4. The hall of Italian paintings
5. Greek pottery
6. The Egyptian wing
7. Roman art
8. French frescos
9. Persian art
10. The hall of Christ
11. Ancient freezes
12. Old modding hall
13. Tile collection
14. Turkish poetry (what the whaaaaaaa)

As you can see without guidance it would probably have taken around 5 years to get all the way through the museum (with mum probably around 20, as she wants to read everything about everything) our solution was to go treasure crusading.

 

At 9 o'clock this morning we hit the road to the Louvre waiting for us at the gate was our cartographer: Daisy. She'd bought tickets for us ahead of time so we went straight in to the glass pyramid...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What most people don't resize is that the building around the Louvre is actually THE louvre, the glass pyramid is just the entry. Wow

 

Our guide explained to us all about the hunt for the sacred items, we would be splitting into 2 teams, then we would go hunting for several things you would never see otherwise, each thing would Bern worth a set amount of points, say the Mona Lisa: 10 points, the harder the things were to find the more points you got. Sometimes a bonus points can be found in the description of the artwork such as blah blah blah blah blah for 30 bonus points who came after emperor Corniglia.

After daisy had left we decided on 2 teams dad + me VS mum + drew, it was game on

I'll give you the treasure hunt summery

1. PHILIPPE POTS TOMB

Made: 1494

Use: coffin

 

Section/period: Gothic

Size: around 2 metres

 

 

2.MONUMENT OF THE SHRINE OF DUKE ANNE MORRAY

Made: 1571

Use: shrine

 

 

 

 

Section/period: Gothic

Size: around 1.5 metres

 

3. STATUE OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT

 

Made: 100 B.C

Use: NONE

 

 

 

 

 

Section/period: Romen

Size: around 30 centermetres

 

4. FREIZE AND TOMB DECOR OF DARIUS THE GREAT

 

 

Made: 510 B.C

Use: columns and decor

 

 

 

 

 

Section/period: The Persian empire

Size: lots of bits

 

5. PORTRAIT OF KING FRANCOIS THE I

 

Made: 15th century France

Use: portrait

 

 

 

 

Section/period: renascence

Size: around 0.5 metres

 

 

6. PALACE CERAMIC WALL TILES

 

Made: 13th-15th century B.C

Use: tiles

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section/period: Perasian empire

Size: would have covered a whole wall

 

 

7.AKEHNATON AND NEFERETITI

 

Made: 18th dynasty

Use: model

 

 

 

 

Section/period: Egyption art

Size: around 15 centimetres

 

 

8. THE CORONATION OF NAPOLEAN THE III BY DAVID

 

Made: 1804

Use: to decorate his castle

 

 

 

 

Section/period: Gorgian

Size: around 7 metres long

 

 

9.STATUE OF KING NECTANABO THE III PROTECTED BY A FALCON

 

Made: 134 B.C

Use: Protector in the afterlife

 

 

 

 

Section/period: 8th dynasty

Size: around 30 cm

 

10. BACTRIAN PRINCESS

 

Made: 3rd melenium B.C

Use: statuette

 

 

 

 

 

Unfortunately the statue had been hired out to another museum

 

 

 

Section/period: Bronze Age

Size: around 12 centimetres

 

 

11. LOUIS THE XIV ON HORSE BACK

 

Made: 1715

Use: statue

 

 

 

 

 

Section/period: 1715

Size: around 0.5 metres

 

12. CUPID REVIVING PSYCHE

 

Made: 1900

Use: tomb cover

 

 

 

 

 

Section/period: renaissance

Size: around 2.5 metres

This was my least favourite sculpture I saw today. My least favourite artwork is still to come.

 

13. GILDED CARTONNAGE OF THE LADY TASHERET-PE-ANKAH

 

Made: 332 B.C

Use: coffin/sarcophagus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section/period:Egyptian

Size: around 2.5 metres

 

 

 

My favourite piece of art was a half statue half fresco of a lady who was grieving someone's death, i love who the artist creates so much emotion in her face yet the statue is completely neutral, like he is really gone forever. Maybe the woman is his mother, or she could be his bride, who knows.

 

 

 

 

My least favorite painting or artwork was this one

 

 

 

 

And I mean seriously, who can blame me.

 

 

Me and dad were on fire, we had a great team I did the booklet reading and dad navigated, I felt like I was in the amazing race, it was so typically camera drew had to explain it to you.

 

 

 

 

Out of all the museams I've been to, the Louvre is in the top 3

1. The Accadimia, Florence - best bit, the gallery of music
2. The Louvre, Paris - best bit, cann't decide!!
3. The Acropolis museum, Greece - best bit,the video on the plunders of the acropolis ruins

Maybe I'll find a better museum soon!

Missing you all

Zoe

 

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