The Louvre, besides being one of the world’s largest museums, now divided into three major parts, and expanding. It’s well to remember it was once a huge palace for the royalty. There is little trace of it, but here is one hint. 
There was a zillion people there waiting to get in, but Yuliya has a special pass, so we were lucky, but once inside the major items to see were swamped, so we focused on two, before ascending to the seventh floor to see the Impressionists and other French painters.
This is of course the famous Venus de Milo, though it should be de Melos, which the island where she was found. I like to call this one, a Farewell to Arms. 
We didn’t bother with the smiling lady (you know the one I mean), but we did go to see the Winged Victory of Samothrace.
Escaping the selfie crowd, we went up to the 7th floor, and there was plenty to see, just on that one floor. Here is Jouvenet’s painting of Jesus with Mary and Martha.
I especially like this one of Peter offering his 3 denials of Christ. Why exactly he is depicted as an old man is a bit of a mystery.
There were not many Renoirs in this gallery, but here are two of them…. The first is labelled as follows…
The title of the one above is the Woman Assistant.
This one below is called Jesus Institutes the Eucharist…. by Nicolas Poussin
Not actually an accurate picture of the last supper, or it’s substance. Here’s Jesus on the cross with the 3 Marys, and a surprise guest who was not there, called Francois de Paule, painted by Nicolas Tournier
The painting by Vien is of a Hermit, playing the violin.
Some of the Biblical paintings were so large, you had to choose to either show the whole framed picture, or do a close up of the content, and I preferred the latter.. Here’s the Adoration of the Magi
Of a very different ilk is this painting focused on Seneca, the great Roman Stoic philosopher.
Charles le Brun painted this with the title the Tomb of Seneca.
By contrast, we have the painting of St. Francis in ecstasy—by Peintre Anonyme, an anonymous painter…
There is much more to see, and we will talk more about it in the next post.
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