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Old Fashioned
Ninja Turtles at the Louvre
Leonardo
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, known as Leonardo da Vinci
http://www.reidsfrance.com/places/general/topics/art-architecture/art/artists/da-vinci-leonardo/
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=leonardo+louvre
Donatello
Donato di Niccolo di Betto BARDI, known as Donatello
http://www.reidsfrance.com/places/general/topics/art-architecture/art/artists/donatello/
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=donnatello+louvre
Michelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known as Michelangelo
http://www.reidsfrance.com/places/general/topics/art-architecture/art/artists/michelangelo/
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=michelangelo+louvre
Raphael
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known as Raphael
http://www.reidsfrance.com/places/general/topics/art-architecture/art/artists/raphael/
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=raphael+louvre
Cour Lefuel (Louvre)
Courtyard within the walls of the Denon Wing
Open to the elements (without a roof) and visible from windows looking out to the (inner) courtyard
Contains an interesting “Horse Ramp”
(which led-up-to Emperor Napoleon’s Stables)
At the base of the ramp are four statues of mastiffs
Of the six (6) internal courtyards (enclosed on all four sides within the Louvre, this is the only courtyard which is not covered.
(Perhaps this is a potential area for expansion, to cover and increase the area of display)
Courtyards (Cour du Palais du Louvre)
Named after French Architect Hector Lefuel
Who is known for completion of the Palais du Louvre, including the reconstruction of the Pavillon de Flore after a disastrous fire
Victor Hugo
Take a Tour of Victor Hugo’s Paris https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/take-a-tour-of-victor-hugos-paris-171769919/#.XpDmwVEWeuI.twitter
Marquis de Sade
Either in the Bastille when it was stormed or released several days before
The manuscript for 120 Days in Sodom
Which Paris?
When we think of Paris, which Paris are we thinking about
Woody Allen’s movie (Midnight in Paris) explores this question when Owen Wilson travels back to the (turn of the century)salons of Gertrude Stein with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Picasso, Hemingway, etc.
An eventual travels further back in time to the Belle Époque (1871 to 1914)
During the Paris Revolution
Pre-Hauseman
Impressionist Painters
Jacques Louis David
Gericault
Napoleon
Soldiers saving France during the World Wars
Revolutionary Wars (1776)
Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin
France’s General Lafayette assisting American during the Revolution
The Louvre in the time of Kings
(mostly just a good time to be a king)
But a great collection of art for perpetuity
A nice place to visit, hundred’s years later
(after they removed the guillotine and solved some sanitation issues)
The Louvre before the Pyramid
Paris Skyline before the Eiffel Tower
(and other buildings associated with the World’s Fair
Before Sacre Couer
Notre Dame
Before the Catacombs
Before the Sewers
Why Build Notre Dame
Why Collect Art From All Over the World
Why Archiologists escavated Winged Victory
Why Restore Middle-Eastern Monuments which would have been destroyed by war
The Military Industrial Complex
Paris has Artistic Collection Complex
Paris for the Holidays 