Sunday in Paris

Sunday in Paris are magic. Most stores are all closed so everything becomes much calmer and quieter.

Also the Louvre is free the first Sunday of the month so I went to check it out. For me the highlights were some of Napolean's ideas about being a king (or emperor), some blue furniture of Louis XVIII, an obelisk called the 'code de Hammerabi'.

Some interesting art included a painting of the tower of Babel, the son of a cardinal and a dog, two dutchesses (one pinching the other) and also Deschamps had a painting of a monkey painting a painting.

I did not see anymore Monets or Van Goghs but some sections were closed so they may have been there. I did see some art by Camille Corot which I appreciated (e.g. 1828 Le Vesuve, 1826 Le pont de Nami).

I saw alot of sculpture and thought to myself that it was too realistic and limited options for expression and abstraction but this was somewhat disproven when I got to the African exhibit at the end - some African carvings are very surprising looking.

I briefly checked out the Rodin Museum (the thinker is much more detailed than I thought) and went up to the Eiffel tower.

I decided today that I was going to take the overnight train to Rome.