Art!
Classical/Italian sculpture
This lady you should know...
The Winged Victory of Samothrace dates from about 220 BC
A fragment of a fresco.
I was also blown away by some of the gallery ceilings.
More sculpture
This is not a bathtub, apparently. It is a funerary basin.
The earliest example of graffitti I could find.
Here's a bunch of mosaics that we saw.
Stone tiles
Mosaic
A bear playing a banjo??
These Roman guys sure had weird handshakes (note: no, I didn't touch it).
Clawed feet.
Laura and a Roman guy.
A warrior.
A couple statues with views of another part of the museum behind.
Nicely framed shot from Laura here.
Cardinal Richilieu. Yes, that one. "I'll get you yet, Porthos!!"
Hermes and all his marks of office (no, I didn't touch it).
Damn Hydras.
Couple more mosaics...
Pretty incredible that this has survived so long.
You may have heard of this guy.
Some paintings
Assyrian Winged Bulls!!
They're big!
This shot seemed cleverer than it turned out to be.
A smaller arch in front of the Louvre.
The inner pyramid.
Whew!