le louvre

so i'm way behind on this but a week ago sunday i went to the louvre for the first time with my amie alicia. i had always heard that you could spend weeks and weeks in the louvre because it is so big but when i first stepped into the plaza with the pyramids i was still overwhelmed by the immensity: wowowowowowowow!!! i just stood there wide-eyed unable to move for about a minute. then i proceeded to try to photograph everything in sight which simply resulted in a bunch of frantic, crooked photos with lost tourists in them.  by the time we got inside i had stopped freaking out enough to realize that the louvre is quite simply the most beautiful museum ever.  literally a palace of art (former home of french kings until louis xiv [see man on horse below] decided it was insufficient and built versailles...ok louis xiv!).  we only had about an hour and a  half before the museum closed so we decided to start with greek and roman art (and proceed chronologically in subsequent visits).  since the museum is free to students i'll probably be going on a weekly basis :)

what alicia and i kept saying was that studying a reproduction of a piece of art, especially a sculpture is so different from seeing it in real life but it makes it all the more exciting when you do see it in person because you finally understand what your professors were saying all along!