Louvre

The Louve, has many thousands of works of art on display through out its 10 miles of corridors. The most famous and the one that we made bee line for was De Vinci's Mona Lisa. It seemed that half the people entering the museum this afternoon were also heading for the same gallery. There was no flash photography allowed in this particular exhibit, but it seems that the spirits and enthusiasm of the attendance was broken long ago as almost everyone (not me Officer) was doing just this without any interference.

We also stopped in and had a look at Venus de Milo in the Greek antiquities gallery. Venus is the God of Love ...... but she has no arms!!!......??? There was also this really big Sphinx thing which was really cool. One of the highlights of the wandering was a visit to The apartments of Napoleon III in the Richelieu wing and to see the remains of the medieval Louvre.

An area under ground where the original Palace was constructed before it made way for the present building. The building covered the area about the size of the main square in the present Louvre and once had the appearance of a Castle.




But of all these art works and sculptures and architectural marvels, the most impressive thing I saw today......... was the lift. Now that was a work of art. The now you see it, now you don't lift.

Here are some time laps pictures.....