Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Get Small at the Louvre

Visit the Louvre in Paris and get small.
Like this.
Other visitors may also get small.
OK, a view from a height will often make people seem small, but Bill and I also found ourselves shrinking in the Louvre's French painting wing (Sully).
This room filled with paintings by Philippe de Champaigne (1602-1674) acted as a pre-compression chamber. These young women are visibly shrinking.
We enter the final chamber, a room filled with paintings by Charles Le Brun (1619-1690).
Either the ceiling has gotten a lot higher and the paintings a lot bigger or we have become physically  smaller.
I look at Bill. I look at the room.
We've gotten smaller.
It's fun to be small.
 A backward glance. One new very small person in the Le Brun room.
We decompressed in the next room. Jean Restout's The Pentecost, 1732, is a nice touch here.
Also appropriate for re-entry -- Restout's Orpheus in the Underworld Reclaiming Eurydice, 1763.
Further on some 18th century landscapes helped coax us back to human size.

2 comments:

  1. Very fun photo series! The Louvre can be overwhelming. It's important not to let one feel rushed. Those paintings are HUGE!
    LisaRR

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  2. Definitely of the big is better school, Lisa!

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