tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661265089809229801.post654602557690707786..comments2023-08-12T10:17:04.506-05:00Comments on maybe a little faith would do me good: a stroll through the LouvreKimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655321325607087357noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661265089809229801.post-44853735924973266582007-12-20T15:24:00.000-06:002007-12-20T15:24:00.000-06:00You would love it, Lisa. There are so many fantas...You would love it, Lisa. There are so many fantastic things to see, and the food is just to die for.<br><br>There are tours of Paris now tailored just for fans of "The Da Vinci Code". I'm sure they are well attended by avid fans.<br><br>You should go, RC. It is a spectacular place to visit. The sense of history is overwhelming. I loved it. My memory is fairly good, but honestly, I chose pictures to jive with my memory. I have plenty of pictures where I would have said, "pretty statue" or "lovely painting" or "gorgeous vase". I want to go through and label my pictures before I totally forget if I took them at the Louvre or the Rodin or the D'Orsay.<br><br>I'd love to go to a museum in Russia. That would be so cool. I am a big Romanov dynasty aficionado.<br><br>My daughter was sixteen when we went. We did the Louvre, the D'Orsay, the Rodin, Versailles, the Opera Garnier, and a Dali exhibit. She never tired of it. But she is not your typical teenager. I'm glad your kids enjoyed it, Elizabeth. If I were as close as you are, I think I'd go to Paris every year.<br><br>Art fatigue? I can't imagine. I adore museums. We have some world class museums in Oklahoma, and I go at least once every year. Cafe fatigue? I can't imagine. Especially in Paris!<br><br>I love all of it, Ann. I would be so excited to go to the Van Gogh museum. The D'Orsay was gorgeous, too. I really loved looking at all of the impressionist works. That's one of my favorite periods. Do you go to do these kinds of things a lot now that you live over on that side of the pond?Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655321325607087357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661265089809229801.post-9649634956871426672007-12-20T15:20:00.000-06:002007-12-20T15:20:00.000-06:00I liked the architecture of the Louvre and the gra...I liked the architecture of the Louvre and the grandness of it all, but that's not really my style of art. I loved the Musee d'Orsay though. (but my most favourite museum ever was the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam)-Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08359625931588140579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661265089809229801.post-91140118368436896082007-12-20T15:08:00.000-06:002007-12-20T15:08:00.000-06:00I love galleries and museums but tend to get art f...I love galleries and museums but tend to get art fatigue in around 2 hours. After that I have to find a pavement cafe to sit in and drink red wine or hot chocolate. Strangely enough there are plenty of those in Paris, I remember. And even stranger - I never got cafe fatigue. That says something about me...Potty Mummyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04751869800592294891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661265089809229801.post-89744427037250166292007-12-20T15:06:00.000-06:002007-12-20T15:06:00.000-06:00Great pictures. I took my kids when they were tee...Great pictures. I took my kids when they were teenagers and we agreed that we would only do two hours so that we didnt get "looked out". I wasn't sure how they would take it as they were at the 14 to 15 year old stage where most things are boring but they loved it and the following day made me take them to the Musee D'Orsay as well.elizabethmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661265089809229801.post-45927071937380953242007-12-20T10:59:00.000-06:002007-12-20T10:59:00.000-06:00Wow. I so need to go to Paris. Those shots are ama...Wow. I so need to go to Paris. Those shots are amazing. And what a memory you have, to keep all of that straight. <br><br>The biggest museum I've ever been in was the Hermitage in (used to be) Leningrad, Soviet Union. It would have taken days and days to have even briefly eyeballed everything. But it was beyond breathtaking. They wouldn't allow pictures either, darn it.the rotten correspondenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02704525054720181936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661265089809229801.post-81741118929088905432007-12-20T10:06:00.000-06:002007-12-20T10:06:00.000-06:00Wow, just amazing. I hope I can go someday.(Seeing...Wow, just amazing. I hope I can go someday.<br>(Seeing the pyramid makes me think of the DaVinci Code. I wonder if there's been some crazy who believes it and has tried to get inside?)<br><br><br>Lisathefoodsnobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638714629252276034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661265089809229801.post-39313435996810772782007-12-19T20:11:00.000-06:002007-12-19T20:11:00.000-06:00You know, Willowtree, I didn't think it was th...You know, Willowtree, I didn't think it was that odd that we could take pictures. We'd already been to the d'Orsay and the Rodin and taken photos, and I had also taken a ton of photos at the British Museum. I guess I thought it was just a European thing.<br><br>Last summer or fall, there was a British Museum exhibit on Egypt touring that stopped at the OKC Museum of Art. I had pictures of some of the things there from London, but I couldn't take pictures of them in OKC. And I thought that was an American thing.Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655321325607087357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661265089809229801.post-7186498404238008582007-12-19T19:41:00.000-06:002007-12-19T19:41:00.000-06:00Well, Willowtree, there were pieces, like the Mona...Well, Willowtree, there were pieces, like the Mona Lisa, and certain temporary exhibits, that you were not allowed to take photos of with or without the flash. There is a Botticelli frescoe that literally brought tears to my eyes, it was so breathtaking. I wanted a picture of it but it wasn't allowed, so I bought a postcard.<br><br>It's funny what people feel they have to do when traveling. If I could have done only one thing in Paris, it would have been to go to the Louvre. I can't imagine not going inside, Laurie. I loved the d'orsay as well. Rodin was wonderful. It was raining that day, so we didn't get to enjoy the gardens as much as I would have liked, but I went out with my scarf over my head and stood in front of the Gates of Hell. It was magnificent.Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655321325607087357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661265089809229801.post-60792921946029349222007-12-19T19:06:00.000-06:002007-12-19T19:06:00.000-06:00it was interesting, they let us take pictures in t...it was interesting, they let us take pictures in the d'orsay, too. <br><br>we never went inside the louvre. we walked through the grounds, we posed for pictures by the pyramid, and we never went in. it was too fricking big!!! and we only had five days in paris.<br><br>so, like you, we'll just have to go back.<br><br>i love that psyche revived by a kiss sculpture, too.<br><br>(did you go to the rodin museum? that was my favorite.)lauriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18055442432266567561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661265089809229801.post-53080587272898393622007-12-19T17:52:00.000-06:002007-12-19T17:52:00.000-06:00Those are great photos, I'm surprised they let...Those are great photos, I'm surprised they let you take them, especially with the flash.willowtreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09173637121496772685noreply@blogger.com