du Louvre Paris France By Christopher F lores This room called the Salon Denon named after the first director of the Louvre Museum under Napoleon I houses the extraordinarily intricate ID: 334735
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Musee du Louvre (Paris, France)
By Christopher
F
loresSlide2
This room, called the
Salon
Denon
(
named after the first director of the Louvre Museum under Napoleon I
), houses the extraordinarily intricate
ceiling painting by Charles-Louis
Mülle
, and several other beautiful works of art.Slide3
As we all know, this room is home to Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa portrait. This beautiful work of art has its own dedicated wall (right). The rest of the room is decorated with other
great
Italian works.
Opposite to Mona Lisa you can see The Wedding Feast at Cana
by Veronese (left) which depicts Jesus’s first miracle where he turned water into wine.Slide4
The Michelangelo Gallery is one of my personal favorites in the museum, the sculptures are absolutely amazing to see. Just knowing that they were once shapeless blocks of stone that were fashioned into works of art by one mans patients . Slide5
The Cour
Marly
and the
Cour
Puget are both large rooms containing many grand sculptures all being bathed in light by the enormous glass ceilings covering both rooms.
The glass roof was designed by Ieoh Ming Pei (the architect of the Pyramid at the entrance).Slide6
The grand entrance, and the last thing I will be touching upon, is an enormous glass pyramid designed by I
eoh
Ming
Pei (left). There are several glass pyramids located at the Louvre including an incredible upside down pyramid that reaches near the floor (right).
This pyramid can be recognized from the movie The da Vinci Code.Slide7
Fin