So can you guess where you are now? That's right, in the Louvre!
Once a royal and imperial palace, now the Louvre is a museum, home to such beauties as Venus de Milo and....
YES! Mona Lisa! And YES, I did sing 'Mona Lisa' to her as Ellen and Lisa ran away from the embarrassment ;)
Here is one of the galleries of the Louvre where other da Vinci's works hang...
I can't remember what this was called! She was 'Le Belle something...' but this was my favorite of Leonardo's works! I found her to be more enchanting than Mona Lisa....sorry, that's the truth :)
So I asked Ellen: 'Have you ever been in a museum where the rooms were more beautiful than the paintings/historical items there?'
Seriously, the majority of time I was MORE impressed with the beauty/details of the Louvre's rooms than I was with the collections!!
Of course I don't remember who did this painting, but I like it a lot! It reminds me of that Escher drawing where all the hands are drawing each other....just shows ya - more than likely somebody did it before!
So Napoleon III had part of the Louvre as his own personal apartments (nice!). This was one of the salons....TRULY BEAUTIFUL! After the Chapel at Versailles, I would say these apartments were my most favorite rooms!
Dining room....
And at the end, Napoleon I's throne....
Au revoir Louvre! Merci!
