The Louvre

After our nice French breakfast at the hotel we were ready for the big morning at the world's most famous art gallery.

We had 0930h admission tickets to the Louvre and as expected we were not particularly early. The world s largest museum is about has the equivalent to 8 miles of galleries and t would take 13 (24 hour) days to see every piece displayed. This previous palace became a museum after the French Revolution and 8.4 million people visited in 2024 (Olympics year). We followed the Rick Steves Louvre Tour audio guide and found it a useful way of navigating the evolution of prehistory to 1850’s art. Famous Greek originals such as the Venus de Milo evolving into Roman statues and then Middle Ages religious themes and finally the Renaissance. The Renaissance was a time of art, science and humanism. Three dimensional painting of the idealized beauty, Greek mythology, religious scenes, great battles and political events.Read more