Louvre

Virtual Reality Tour of the outside of the Louvre 




Check out these Virtual Tours:
The Louvre

The Musée D'Orsay 

The Le Pompidou

The Eiffel Tower page
The Musée Rodin

Pompidou Centre

Pompidou Centre (The National Museam of Modern Art of the Georges Pompidou Centre)

Virtual Tour with Google Maps

Be sure to use the arrows to move around and +/- to zoom in and out.'

Here is a street view of the Pompidou Centre. 

Here is another view of the Pompidou Centre. 

Check out these Virtual Tours:
The Louvre

The Musée D'Orsay 

The Le Pompidou

The Eiffel Tower page
The Musée Rodin

Musée Rodin

Check out these Virtual Tours:
The Louvre

The Musée D'Orsay 

The Le Pompidou

The Eiffel Tower page
The Musée Rodin

 "The Thinker" is one of Rodin's most famous works. Originally called "The Poet," this iconic piece is the embodiment of intellectual reasoning. What isn't usually known is that this piece was created for a larger, more intricate piece called "The Gates of Hell." 

"The Gates of Hell" captures the emotion and despair in Dante's "Inferno." For those of you who haven't read this classic, this is part of Dante's Divine Comedy and it depicts a man who goes into the depths of hell and then is later rescued. I could write an essay on this, but it still wouldn't do justice to this incredibly detailed masterpiece. 

If you continue in the outside tour of the museum in its lovely grounds, you are treated to beautifully detailed human forms that are posed in exaggerated-- and sometimes grotesque-- positions. Rodin skillfully captures both the movement and emotions of humans within the permanence of stone and metal.

 
And going inside the museum you will see more sculptures varying from clay, stone, and bronze. And yes, I realize now that I accidentally took a selfie in two of these images. 

His skill with marble and stone is undeniable when you see how translucent the stone is in the sun.

Like a lot of traditional sculptures, Rodin excelled at sculpting the human form.

He also loved to sculpt biblical, mythical, and angelic images.

Musée D'Orsay

For those of you who don't know, the "musée d'Orsay" was actually a railway station built near 1900. The building was converted into a museum for 19th century art in 1986. The artistry inside fit between the time periods of both the artwork periods of the Louvre and the Pompidou Centre.
This is where you will find breath-taking art work by Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Cézanne, Degas, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat and many others. 


Check out these Virtual Tours:
The Louvre

The Musée D'Orsay 

The Le Pompidou

The Eiffel Tower page
The Musée Rodin

My favorites:

Jean-Françios Millet (1814-1975)

Des Glaneuses ou Les Glaneues- 1857

Edgar Degas (1834-1917)

La Classe de danse- 1973-76

Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894)

Raboteurs de parquet

Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

Bal du Moulin de la Galette, Montmartre, 1876

Claude Monet (1840-1926)

Le Bassin aux nymphéas, harmonie verte, 1899