Louvre

This may be the longest blog ever.  But it's all beautiful painting/artifacts that I liked best from the Louvre.  The first few pictures are of the Salle des Caryatides, a room in the Louvre where the room itself was more interesting than the art in it, and amazing ceilings from various rooms all over the museum.  Then I put pictures of my favorite pieces.  Enjoy!

 Rude--Mercury Fastening His Sandals

Ramey--Napoleon I in Coronation Robes

Diana of Versailles

Venus de Milo

Winged Victory, or Nike of Samothrace

Grand Sphynx

Mummies of cats and a crocodile

Egyptian jewelry (don't mind the writing on the bottom of the picture, it was from someone else...)

Statue of Bes

Tomb of Akhethetep (this was super cool since we got to walk inside and actually see the whole thing!)

Messina--Christ at the Column

Da Vinci--St. John the Baptist

Raphael--La Belle Jardeniere

Raphael--St. Michael Vanquishing Satan

Raphael--St. George and the Dragon

Spada--Concert

Le Dominiquin--Landscape with the Flight to Egypt

Panini--Concert Given by the Cardinal de La Rochefoucauld at the Argentina Theatre in Rome, at the Marriage of Louis the Dauphin, to Mary-Josephe of Saxony

Gutierrez--Le Festin d'Ester

Sassoferrato--The Sleep of the Infant Jesus

Correggio--The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria with the child Jesus and Saint Sebastian

Veronese--Marriage at Cana

Da Vinci--Mona Lisa

Gericault--The Raft of Medusa

Delacroix--Liberty Leading the People

Delacroix--The Barque of Dante

Granet--Interior of the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi

David--Oath of the Horatii

David--Coronation of Napoleon

David--The Intervention of the Sabine Women

De Roussy-Trioson--Endymion

Bodinier--Marriage Contract in Italy

Guerin--Grave of Amyntas

Valenciennes--The Ancient City of Agrigento

Bidauld--View of the Island of Sora in the Kingdom of Naples

Dunouy--Imaginary Landscape Made after Studies in the Alps and in Italy

Vernet--View of Naples and Vesuvius

Le Lorrain--Architectural Fantasy

Gerard--Psyche et l'Amour

Canaletto--Bridge of Rialto

Renoir--La Lecture

Santerre--Suzanne au Bain