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Trip to Paris - Musée du Louvre

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Musée du L’ouvre or thé Louvre Museum is the world’s largest art museum. The Louvre was originally built as a fortress in 1190, but later reconstructed to be a Royal Palace. During its time as a Royal Residence, every monarch expanded it. Today, it covers a total area of 652,300 square feet (60,600 square meters) In total, there are 35000 works to be discovered including the masterpieces - the Mona Lisa, The Raft of the Medusa, the Venus de Milo and the Winged Victory Of Samothrace. Mona Lisa - a MASTERPIECE by Leonardo da Vinci is the “the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, work of art in the world”. It is truly priceless as according to French heritage law - this painting cannot be bought or sold. Two priceless smiles - Of course the second one is Mona Lisa Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss - it is regarded as a MASTERPIECE of Neoclassical sculpture that represents Cupid in the height of L...

Uffizi gallery paintings

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The Uffizi gallery is a prominent art museum located in the historic Centre of Florence  (declared  World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1982 ), Italy. One of the most important Italian Museums, and the most visited. It is also one of the largest and best known in the world, and holds a collection of priceless works, particularly from the period of the Italian Renaissance. Adoration of the Magi by Leonardo da Vinci . The Virgin Mary and child are depicted in the foreground and form a triangle shape with the Magi kneeling in adoration. In the background on the left is the ruin of a pagan building, on which workmen can be seen, apparently repairing it. On the right are men on horseback fighting and a sketch of a rocky landscape. This is perhaps one of Leonardo da Vinci's strangest and most fertile compositions. By combining figures of pleading old men and armed horsemen, he transformed a banal biblical subject into a scene from human history. Doni Tondo by Michelan...