Discover Parisian museums with an Art Historian
In Paris you can find some of the most famous museums of the world and visiting them with an Art historian is a great way to make the most of your time. No need to waste hours in huge crowded buildings not knowing where to go and what to see or struggling to understand which are the most important masterpieces and why. Just follow me in a private tour and learn art in a fun, interesting, new way.
The Musee du Louvre is the largest art museum worldwide. You can admire archeological findings from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, ancient Rome… paintings made by the most famous artists ever: Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Caravaggio, Raffaello, Rubens, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Ingres, David, Gericault, Delacroix… sculptures by Canova and Michelangelo… the building itself is a masterpieces that deserves the be discovered: the Apollo Gallery with the French crown jewels, Napoleon’s III apartment, Marly and Puget courtyards… a universe dedicated to art and culture you cannot miss.
The Musee d’Orsay is the most important collection dedicated to Impressionism and Post Impressionism in the world. The building is outstanding: a former train station where you can still feel the atmosphere of Paris in the Belle Epoque. The paintings are so famous that visiting the museum is like walking in an art book: Manet, Monet, Degas, Morisot, Pissarro, Sisley, Cezanne, Signac, Seurat, Van Gogh, Gauguin…
The Orangerie is a small museum nestled in the Tuileries garden, few steps away from the Louvre and the Musee d’Orsay. It is famous for Monet’s huge waterlilies and also for the great Early 20th Century Avant-Garde paintings collection: Cezanne, Picasso, Modigliani, Derain, Matisse, Rousseau Le Douanier, Soutine…
The Musee de Cluny is dedicated to Medieval and Gothic art. Housed in the ancient Roman bath of Lutetia (Roman name of Paris) the collection includes the world famous tapestries of the Lady with the unicorn and many other incredible masterpieces from the dark ages.
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