Opposite the wall of The Mona Lisa is Paolo Veronese's The Marriage at Cana. A Renaissance painting that spans the entire wall shows the crazy good life of the Venetian merchants in 1588 A.D.
This is the scene in the far left corner. To get all of the painting, twelve pictures wuld have to be taken.
Just the masses of humanity on a day in The Louvre.
At the top of a staircase stands this piece of history, The Winged Victory of Samothrace. Created in 190 BC, this marble sculpture celebrates the Greek Goddess Nike.
Just a view down one of the halls to get an idea of how vast the collection is in The Louvre and how beautiful The Louvre is.
Tyler in his favorite part of the museum, anything that has to do with Greek and Roman Mythology stuff. These are medallions of some Gods wrestling. He could tell me who, but I forgot.
Michelangelo's The Dying Slave - Captive created around 1513 A.D.
The brother, The Rebellious Slave by Michelangelo.
He has been named the greatest sculptor of all time. It is easy to understand why. His statues literally come out of the stone. It is breathtaking.
A sarchopage of some sort. Achilles fighting off someone. The Greeks always thought it was better to fight nude. Don't understand that. Too much skin exposed.
The story on a ceiling of the man who stole fire from the Gods to give to man. Of course, Tyler is the one who told me. There is about another ten minutes to this story; if you get a chance, you can ask him.

The Venus de Milo, known as Aphrodite. Thought to be sculpted by Alexandros of Antioch, The Venus de Milo is a marble sculpture that dates back to around 130 B.C.
Not as beautiful as the Venus de Milo, but important none the less. This sculpture was created by Praxiteles, an Athenian sculpture that invented the first female nude. Dating back to 360 B.C., this marble sculpture of Aphrodite was created for her temple in Knidos in Asia Minor.















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