We arrived at the Louvre. The line was long for tickets but was fast. We went in and saw the inverted pyramid. Byron was pretty excited about that. He saw the DaVinci Code twice and read the book. The little ones liked the statues and we played games around the relics. We talked about how the museum people find these and then have to put them together like a puzzle. Luna and Liam enjoyed identifying what the relics were. They also loved the mummies and petrified body. I had the children look at the paintings and decide what they liked best. Luna’s assignment was to pick one and then research it later. After that we will return to the Lovre and view it again after she knows more about it. She really liked the darker paintings, dark colors and background. I anticipated her liking the pictures of the queens, princesses and women. She and Liam liked Jacque Louis David’s “ Les sabines arretant le combat entre les romans et les sabins.” It was an intense painting. It is a war between the Romans and Sabins. The women are stopping the war by being in front of the swords and arrows and protecting the babies. I thought it told the most clear story of al the paintings in that room. This is the one Luna wants to research. They also loved the paintings on the ceiling. I had them lay on the ground and really look at the artwork. They loved that and other people in the room did the same. I used to do that as a kid at the art museum.
Liam has been reading his Claude Monet books and is really wanting to go see his paintings. The impressionists are at the d’Orsay. I want to do more work around other impressionists before we go there. He absolutely adores Monet and talks about “his Claude Monet painting” he wants to see. He decided that this was his favorite artist. Tonight he said, “Mom, I wish Claude Monet were alive so we could meet him here in Paris.” Cute.
Luna's favorite painting
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