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Paris Museum Free Days

First Sunday of the month is free admission to museums in Paris. You can save a lot of money this way but you have to contend with the crowds. Visit early or late in the afternoon.

"The Louvre Museum (French: Musée du Louvre), located in Paris, is a historic monument and a national museum of France. It is a central landmark, located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement (neighborhood). Nearly 35,000 objects from the 6th millennium BC to the 19th century AD are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square metres (652,300 square feet)." – Wikipedia

23 Dec 2008

Mona Lisa

Wondering why there's a big fuss about this. There are better Da Vinci paintings and Michelangelos in the Italian section of the Louvre (sans bullet-proof glass).

"Mona Lisa (also known as La Gioconda) is a 16th century portrait painted in oil on a poplar panel by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance. The work is owned by the French government and hangs in the Musée du Louvre in Paris, France with the title Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo.

The painting is a half-length portrait and depicts a woman whose expression is often described as enigmatic. The ambiguity of the sitter's expression, the monumentality of the half-figure composition, and the subtle modeling of forms and atmospheric illusionism were novel qualities that have contributed to the painting's continuing fascination. Few other works of art have been subject to as much scrutiny, study, mythologizing and parody." – Wikipedia

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Mona Lisa

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