Entre Les Murs

Pyramids of Glass and Stone

Supposing that the Louvre will only become more crowded as spring and summer advance, we decided we'd better go while the crowds were manageable. As we discovered at the Musée du Monde Arabe, Saturday afternoon isn't really the best time of the week to go to museums in Paris. And truly, I pity the poor tourists if we're right and crowds get a lot worse.


Assuming that we're going to be regularly hosting visitors who want to "do" Paris and thus spend some time at the Louvre, it seems likely we'll be back more than once. That means that we'll be trotting up to see the Mona Lisa and her friends from time to time, so this trip we spent mostly in the Egyptian section. Short of the museum in Cairo, there probably isn't a better collection for both quality of the pieces and temporal coverage of the pre-Christian period.

I have developed a habit of looking for images of dogs in works of art to send to my friend J, so some time was spent photographing Anubis (actually a jackal, but I think that counts) and other dogs we came across. And this lead to the mummified cats, which Janet observed look like sock puppets.

posted 15.4.06