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Information Notes of Travel to Paris the Louvre MuseumImposing Renaissance building, actually at year 2000 could be considered to all the effects the longest building in the whole Europe, with a general perimeter of around 5,000 kilometers. Prepared on three consecutive sides of a hypothetical square she can schematically be represented with a form to "U", the enormous space opened inclusive among his wings of around 100,000 square meters it doesn't belittle majesty. Innumerable the present works of art to its inside, have been calculated that they overcome the 65,000 unities. To give an idea of what it can mean to see all the present works to his inside and calculating a only minute for every work, we get as resulted over 45 nonstop days, if then we add a few minutes to eat and to sleep or we count very more simply the strength schedule of opening the result it overcomes the 90 days. In short it is permissible to have some doubt on the possibility to visit the whole Louvre Museum in a week of vacation. To visit the Louvre Museum is necessary to enter in the Pyramide of glass tall 21 meters, commissioned time ago by the president François Mitterand to the American architect of Chinese origin I.M. Pei. Through the staircases we can finally access the new atrium of the museum that is found underground to 17 meters and entirely covered by plates of marble color ochre. It seems that for his enormous passion for the art Egyptian Mitterand was nicknamed "the Sphinx". Another curious detail that concerns the Pyramid is the number of plates of glass used for its construction: 666, a number that for many it points out "the Beast", perhaps more known as Satan. Following you can access the connections that will bring you to the containing pages the information and the images of some more famous works of art. The museum is divided in 8 sections: Ancient east and Islam, Ancient Egypt, Art Greek-Roman, Gallery of paintings with 10 sections, sculptures and sketches. As in every museum there are some works of art that attract a great number of visitors, to the Louvre Museum the works more researched are the Monna Lisa of Leonardo da Vinci and the Venus of Milo. In front of these works you will always find a great number of tourists. Essential Parts to be visited: ancient Egypt, painters of the Italian Renaissance, the German painters, the Flemish painters and French of the XVIII century.
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Paris Louvre museum: La Gioconda (Monna Lisa) of Leonardo da Vinci Some go to the alone Louvre to see this painting, others they imagine that is of great dimensions, in reality it is relatively treated of a small work (wood table 55 x 80 centimeters) realized by Leonardo with a "vanished" style, however some that there is a relationship of visitors of 25/1 in comparison to for this picture is any other work.
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Paris Louvre museum: Sculpture Love and Psycho of Antonio Canova Anthony Canova, Italian sculptor, considered by many the greatest exponent of the Neo-classicism. It is devoted in prevalence to the representation of the female ideal beauty.
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Paris Louvre museum: Egyptian Sculpture God Horus Falcon Sculpture Egyptian of the divinity Horus with the head of hawk. Information on some museums in Paris: the museum of Orsay (impressionistic), the Centre Pompidou, the Gallery du Jeu de Paume and the Orangerie museum, both in the Tuileries Garden's and the museum Picasso (works of Pablo Picasso and other painters).
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Paris Louvre museum: Egyptian Sculptures the Sphinx Egyptian sculptures with the aspect of Sphinxes; they probably represent some kings or Egyptian Pharaohs. Other museums in Paris: museum of the Decorative Arts, museum of Montmartre (artists of Montmartre), museum national Gustave Moreau painter symbolist (1826-1898).
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Paris Louvre museum: Egyptian Sculpture the Sphinx Egyptian sculpture of a sphinx, superior part. Even if the particular ones of this sculpture are not a lot of parish priests, the splendid realization of the volume of the face shows in unequivocal way as the art of the sculpture had elaborated...
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Paris Louvre museum: Egyptian Sculpture in low relief Egyptian art: Egyptian sculpture, this splendid work is differentiated by a lot of others for the care of the particular ones in the realization of the decorations. For the impassioned ones of ancient art won't be difficult to find again the floral decoration...
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Paris Louvre museum: Italian Sculpture To the Museum of the Louvre you can find a lot of works of sculptors and Italian painters, from the Renaissance actually to our days Unfortunately to succeed in making some discreet photos inside the museums is not always easy, in some occasions we are had to intervene on the photos to get an acceptable result.
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Paris Louvre museum: Sculpture Venus of Milo If man "vitruviano" of Leonardo da Vinci (constituted by a naked man with laterally the tense arms and the remote legs, the all registered person in a circle perfects) is considered the symbol of the correct anatomical drawing and some manner he represents the culture and the harmony, nevertheless one can also consider it the man's symbol. The Venus of Milo can be considered the feminine symbol thus with the Botticelli's Venus.
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Paris Louvre museum: Roman Sculpture To visit the museum of the Louvre wants some good us wish, so much desire to walk and a couple of days. If you miss the time it suits to decide before thing mostly interests the painting, the sculpture or the Egypt.
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Learning to smile
Smile and Thinking
- Minds without irony the wind them away (the wind disperses brains without irony) (Fonte)
- You cannot choose the country where to born, You cannot choose the color of your skin, You cannot choose the relatives, but You can choose the friends. Living means to choose, to decide what to do, every day. (Fonte)
- The injustice weapon the future for other injustices. Anyone committing an injustice is also guilty of all the future injustices that by these will be generated.
- All wars feed on lies and kills all truth. (Fonte)
Quotes on peace
Who loves the war, he has not seen her in face. (Erasmus from Rotterdam)
The path for the peace is the peace. (M. K. Gandhi)
An eye for an eye, and the world becomes blind. (Mahatma Gandhi)
The truth and non-violence are as old as the mountains. (M. K. Gandhi)
There was never a good war, or a bad peace. (B. Franklin)
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. (Benjamin Franklin)
Tantra
- The ability to recognize the good and right, the desire to choose it and the ability to defend it.
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