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Souvenirs
By Mr. Girard | July 24, 2008
I came across a neat slideshow at TIME.com with photos of one of the biggest museums in the world, one Team AZ will be seeing in 2009: “The Louvre: France’s Iconic Museum”. If you have some knowledge of art history, you’ll know that the Louvre houses one the world’s most famous paintings, La Giaconda, popularly known as the Mona Lisa. But there’s much more to see in the museum than Leonardo’s painting. Another famous piece is the Nike of Samothrace (right) which is a massive sculpture dating to the third century BC. The Louvre’s security detail will yell at you if you touch it.
Also have a look at a groovy photo set on Flickr by Michael Hughes called Souvenirs, for which he’s uniquely composed photographs of certain of the world’s landmarks. Among the sites he’s included are some of the places we’ll experience next year, such as Schloss Neuschwanstein and Mannekin Pis.
Categories: Art, Europe, History |