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Europe Trip 2010 - Day 12
January 04, 2011
The Musée du Louvre (French pronunciation: [myze dy luvʁ]), or officially Grand Louvre — in English, the Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre — is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement (district). Nearly 35,000 objects from prehistory to the 19th century are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square metres (652,300 square feet).
The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre) which began as a fortress built in the late 12th century under Philip II. Remnants of the fortress are still visible. The building was extended many times to form the present Louvre Palace. In 1682, Louis XIV chose the Palace of Versailles for his household, leaving the Louvre primarily as a place to display the royal collection, including, from 1692, a collection of antique sculpture.[4] In 1692, the building was occupied by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres and the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, which in 1699 held the first of a series of salons. The Académie remained at the Louvre for 100 years.[5] During the French Revolution, theNational Assembly decreed that the Louvre should be used as a museum, to display the nation's masterpieces.
The museum opened on 10 August 1793 with an exhibition of 537 paintings, the majority of the works being royal and confiscated church property. Because of structural problems with the building, the museum was closed in 1796 until 1801. The size of the collection increased under Napoleon and the museum was renamed the Musée Napoléon. After the defeat of Napoléon at Waterloo, many works seized by his armies were returned to their original owners. The collection was further increased during the reigns of Louis XVIII and Charles X, and during the Second French Empire the museum gained 20,000 pieces. Holdings have grown steadily through donations and gifts since the Third Republic, except during the two World Wars. As of 2008, the collection is divided among eight curatorial departments: Egyptian Antiquities; Near Eastern Antiquities; Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities; Islamic Art; Sculpture; Decorative Arts; Paintings; Prints and Drawings.
This extremely well preserved mummy is that of a man who lived during the Ptolemaic Period. According to the customs of the time, the body of the deceased was carefully wrapped in strips of linen; the design formed by these strips, notably around the face, was often extremely sophisticated. The mummy is covered with a cartonnage consisting of several elements: a mask covering the head, a wide collar over the chest, an apron across the legs, and finally, a casing over the feet.
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Rue de Rivoli, Paris
Novembre 2016
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The Palace
The first Louvre was a fortress built at the beginning of the 13th century by Philip II Augustus to defend the Seine below Paris against the Normans and English. It consisted of a thick cylindrical donjon (dungeon) surrounded by towered walls. This château, enlarged and embellished by Charles V in the 14th century, was sacrificed in the 16th century at the end of the reign of Francis I in order to make room for a new Renaissance structure of the same size. Only the west wing and part of the south wing of the projected palace, conceived by the architect Pierre Lescot and decorated with sculptures by Jean Goujon, were finished.
In 1564 Catherine de Médicis had her architect, Philibert Delorme, build a little château in a neighboring field to the west called the Tuileries. It was then decided to create a grandiose royal residence by joining the Louvre and the Palais des Tuileries by a series of buildings. The most important is the Grande Galerie built along the Seine in the reign of Henry IV.
This large limestone statue represents the Apis bull, one of the most
important sacred animals in Egypt. It was considered to be the earthly
form of the god Ptah, and its black and white coat bore distinctive markings. The solar aspect of the god is evoked on the statue by the disk between the animal's horns, with the uraeus cobra rearing up in the center of the sun. When the sculpture was discovered, it was entirely painted.
The reflecting pools at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, offer interesting perspectives of this amazing place!
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La Pyramide is a large glass and metal pyramid surrounded by 3 smaller pyramids in the main courtyard (Cour Napoleon) of the Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre). The large pyramid is the main entrance to the Louvre Museum.
Commissioned by the president of France Francois Mitterrand in 1984, it was designed by the architect I.M. Pei.
The illumination to the surrounding buildings was turned off after mid-night. This image has been processed to recreate the atmosphere and as close to how it looked that night.
The Louvre is an amazing, breathtaking, and, if you’re not careful, exhausting museum. I recommend hitting the highlights or periods that most interest you. Don't try to see everything because it's just not possible. The Louvre is a definite must-see while visiting Paris, unless you absolutely hate famous art and sculpture.
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Paris Exhibition Prints. I was there and this is how I do it.
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At the Louvre, one of my favorite places in Paris, you can get a picture perfect view of the Eiffel Tower. The fall leaves in November even make the view more fantastic!
CALCA DAVANTI ALLA GIOCONDA.
C’è chi va apposta al Louvre per ammirarla e invece, spintonato da centinaia di altri visitatori e ostacolato dai vetri protettivi che certo non aiutano chi desidera immortalarla, riesce a malapena a darle un’occhiatina. Parlo della Monna Lisa, il celeberrimo dipinto di Leonardo da Vinci realizzato a Firenze tra il 1503 e il 1506.
Eppure la Gioconda al Louvre più che esposta è nascosta, è un piccolo quadro che non si ha il diritto di guardare con calma e da vicino, il traffico dei visitatori, sottoposto al controllo delle guardie, è regolato con il senso unico.
Anche io alla fine sono venuto in questa sala per guardare questo quadro celeberrimo e ho finito col guardare quelli che guardano la Gioconda, mentre il quadro si dissolve sullo sfondo di troppi selfie e troppi souvenir.
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CROWD IN FRONT OF THE GIOCONDA.
There are those who go to the Louvre specifically to admire it and instead, jostled by hundreds of other visitors and hindered by the protective glass that certainly doesn't help those who want to immortalize it, barely manage to take a look at it. I'm talking about the Mona Lisa, the famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci made in Florence between 1503 and 1506.
And yet the Gioconda at the Louvre is hidden rather than exhibited, it is a small painting that you don't have the right to look at calmly and closely, the visitor traffic, subject to the control of the guards, is regulated with a one-way system.
I also ended up coming to this room to look at this very famous painting and I ended up looking at those who look at the Gioconda, while the painting dissolves into the background of too many selfies and too many souvenirs.
CANON EOS 600D con ob. SIGMA 10-20 f./4-5,6 EX DC HSM
People are always around this thing! If you've been there, then you know what I mean... getting a clean shot is almost impossible, unless you visit just after sunrise.
In this case, I don't photoshop out the people, but I minimize them... so the photo isn't really about the people, it's about the Louvre. But, with a wide angle lens, you have to get right up on the thing.
- Trey Ratcliff
From the blog post here at stuckincustoms.com
Cour Napoleon, musée du Louvre.
Paris, March 2016
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The Daru staircase with the Winged Victory of Samothrace in the Denon Wing of the Musée du Louvre.
Paris, March 2008
A rare occasion: the famous Daru Staircase completely empty! The making of this photo was possible because I made my way to this location immediately after the museum opened. A few minutes later, the stairs would be filled with tourists...
Photographed handheld with the Canon 1Ds Mark II camera and 24mm lens.
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I'm looking for my friend Tom who is lost at the Louvre
I hope you will find fast your beloved Mona Lisa ...
Wanted to process another India shot today however had a tad too much beer during our work xmas celebration a couple of hours ago. Feeling rather sleepy & tired to do much now so will just have to do with this shot which I had processed a while back :) Have a smashing day or evening ahead!
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Arc De Triomphe Du Carrousel, Paris, France
The Shot
3 exposure shots (+2..0..-2 EV) in RAW taken handheld
Camera :: Canon 5D Mark II
Lens :: Canon 24-105mm F/4L
Photomatix
- Tonemapped generated HDR using detail enhancer option
Photoshop
- Added 3 layer mask effect of 'curves' for selective contrast
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'level' to enhance dark areas
- Added 2 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (reds & yellows) to enhance pillars & desaturate architecture
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (cyans & blues) to tone up the sky
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'photo filter' (deep blue) to enhance the sky
- Used 'free transform' to straighten the architecture
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Passage Richelieu, Musée du Louvre.
Paris, March 2018
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Limestone statue of Ratawy, wife of the god Montu found in the Temple of Montu at Medamud near Luxor. Ptolemaic Period.
Musee du Louvre. E12923
La Marne
Antoine Coysevox (Lyon, 1640 - Paris, 1720)
"The Musée du Louvre, or officially Grand Louvre — in English, the Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre — is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement (district). Nearly 35,000 objects from prehistory to the 19th century are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square metres (652,300 square feet).
RIFLESSI D'AUTORE.
Il Musée du Louvre, il Museo del Louvre di Parigi, vanta il primato di essere il museo più visitato al mondo, con i suoi circa 9 milioni di visitatori all'anno, ed è definito da molti anche come il più bel museo del mondo. Quel che è certo è che si tratta di uno tra i più famosi musei del mondo, con un'area espositiva di circa 70.000 metri quadrati, e che si tratta certamente del più grande museo di Parigi, al terzo posto per grandezza al mondo.
CANON EOS 600D con ob. SIGMA 10-20 f./4-5,6 EX DC HSM
Guillaume I COUSTOU
Lyon, 1677 – Paris, 1746
Horse Restrained by a Groom, called Horse of Marly
1739–45
Greywacke statue of a Priest of Bastet, covered in magic formulae, Late. Period.
Musee du Louvre. E10777
The most remarquable thing of this picture is that there are no people around!
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E11519 Musee du Louvre
Painted limestone bust of a royal scribe, beautifully worked in the style of the period.
H. 45cm
The Louvre or Louvre Museum (French: Musée du Louvre, is one of the world's largest museums and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, France, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement (district). With more than 9.7 million visitors each year, the Louvre is the world's most visited museum.
The Louvre Pyramid, designed by Pritzker Prize winner Ieoh Ming Pei, is enchanting - a bit like Lisa, I guess, but she was still to be found...
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[Reposting one of my favorite textured shots, for contacts who haven't seen it yet.]
The Pavillon de Flore is the only remaining part of the former Tuileries Palace that used to extend all along the east border of the Jardin des Tuileries. It's now part of the Louvre, where studios for renovation of paintings and sculpture are housed. The actual historic Palais des Tuileries was destroyed by the Communards during the Paris Commune, in 1871. I took this picture from the Promenade du Bord de L'eau (waterfront promenade) on a cold winter evening at the last light of day. Paris was beginning to turn on its lights, as you can see in the picture. [History of the Palais des Tuileries and the Louvre below in my comments.]
TECHIE TEXTURE NOTES: This is one of those shots from my archives, taken with my Fuji Finepix on my first trip to Paris 5 years ago that just didn't speak to me the way the camera recorded it. Too blue (typical of the way Fuji Finepix S7000 records colors in my experience), too flat, no spark somehow, and didn't relay the atmosphere that was there. So I decided to try adding textures!!
Adding textures in a very delicate way has brought out the rich tones of the architecture. I used a rosy but very soft texture from LaBrume and a texture with warm yellow and ochre tones that had a golden glow in the center from Borealnz. 1. Made adjustments to each texture first, altering the rosy to more magenta in Color Balance, then by using the blending mode Multiply. 2. Lightened the Borealnz texture by using the blending mode Overlay. 3. Adjusted my own photo which was the background layer after adding the textures to it, with Curves to add depth, and additional Color Balancing after i saw how the photo interacted with the textured layers.
Thanks to both Borealnz and LaBrume for their textures!