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Forest lawn Memorial Cemetary, adjacent to Griffith Park. Coutless celebrities are buried here. On the right is Mt. Sinai Memorial Cemetary. Beyond is the city of Burbank.
Forest Lawn Cemetary

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May 9, 2002

The Louvre Museum

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This Series The Louvre Museum

Utterly impossible to describe le Musée du Louvre in just a paragraph or two, but I'll try: The Louvre Museum is a maze of rooms housing a vast collection of artwork, sculpture and other artifacts. We spent a day there but one could spend a lifetime in quiet observation.

Up through the pyramids above the visitor’s center
Above the Visitor’s Center

The Louvre Palace itself is a fine work of all, even if it was stripped of all its treasured possessions.

One of the Large Rooms in the Louvre, Paris
Spacious Rooms
Building Facades of the Louvre, Paris, France
Louvre

No Mona Lisa?

I admit I took a picture of the Mona Lisa, but the painting on display is probably a replica. Besides, this website is not intended to reproduce works of art but to describe a day of exploration. This particular page seeks to capture the spacial composition of the halls of the Louvre Museum as well as particularly poignant objects d'art with historical significance.

8th century Assyrian human-headed winged bull in the Louvre, Paris
Assyrian Winged Bull
Liz and Kanoa in the Louvre
Louvre

We wandered most of the day, even passing through some of the deepest rooms where the foundation of the old fortress castle built by Philippe II in 1190 have been excavated. In other rooms we found several sphinxes and various Babylonian artifacts like the Code of Hammurabi and these classic Mesopotamian scupltures above. For anyone interested in the history of human art, the The Louvre Museum is a exquisite panoramic experience.

Tags  Walkabout, Museums

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A Hallway of the Louvre, Paris, France
Halls of the Louvre
Modern and traditional architectural contrasts at the Sully Pavillion, Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Sully Pavillion
Code of Hammurabi, Louvre, Paris, France
Code of Hammurabi
A Sphinx in one of the underground vaults of the Louvre, Paris, France
Sphinx, Louvre
Stairways of the Louvre
Flights of Stairs, Musée du Louvre

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