First day at the Louvre and Rachel is learning about positioning herself for access to photograph. Today we ventured through the Egyptian, Greek and Roman galleries - Joshua's choices. And we made a jib to the Mona Lisa since we were close by. I have to say she's in better digs than the last time I saw her...1985...the children were surprised that the actual painting is not very large. We'll return another day for French Flemish and Italian paintings...etc etc...in the meantime I'm pleased that my singular lifetime skill of collecting unrelated facts has come in handy. I can answer questions about egyptian gods, mummification, the book of the dead, animals in the Nile, Greek religious thought and on and on. I did not know, and please chime in if you can help, how they got that lovely blue finish on the porcelain hippos, exactly what Horus did, and why the dog on the ceiling was breathing fire. There are only so many answers you can make up.
I love the Josef Kosuth installation on the medieval level. I will post a picture later.
In other news the trend of pantyhose or stockings under shorts is more widespread than I had hoped. Are we seeing this elsewhere? Besides in horrid flashbacks? But I have to say if it's going to work in any city, it's Paris.
I forgot to note that Joshua was the one who had all the answers in the Greek and Roman sections - we walked by one huge vase and he stopped: "I know this one. It's the king on the pyre." And it was - Croesus on the Pyre." As it was Hour 5 and Room 47 in Ancient Civilizations I would have walked on by...
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