On the north bank of the Seine River, the castles of the French royal family are more tall and beautiful in the afterglow of the sunset. This world-famous art hall is covered with a layer of golden gauze in the afterglow. The entrance of the glass pyramid in front of the door refracts sunlight into a dazzling spot. This U-shaped European palace is built on the square of Paris Opera House. Magnificent palace-style buildings, facing the daily ups and downs, quietly tell the long history of France, flowing with the nobility and solemnity emitted by genes. What kind of feast will this world-class art hall give the world? Let's wait and see what kind of heavy French history this French museum has recorded.
The Louvre in France is located on the bank of the Seine, the third largest river in Paris. It was originally just Philip August's palace. In the next 500 years, the Louvre experienced the cover-up and decoration of royal aristocrats in many dynasties. In modern times, after the Napoleon family invaded and expanded Xinjiang, all kinds of precious works of art and treasures of gold and silver in the whole European continent were stored in the Louvre, becoming a veritable treasure house. This art treasure house contains more than 400,000 works of art, paintings and calligraphy, but only a few people can appreciate the entire collection of the Louvre. The Louvre is only open all day on Mondays and Wednesdays, and it is open in turn on other days. Only one third of the collection will be exhibited to the public. Other precious collections are protected in the most confidential place in the Louvre like the golden house and are rarely displayed to people. Even so, the various artworks exhibited in the Louvre are enough to amaze the world. Mona Lisa, Venus and Victory Goddess of Samotra are the pinnacles of painting art in the world, with unparalleled scenery. If all 400,000 pieces of the Louvre are exhibited, I am afraid it will shock the world and attract worldwide attention.
The construction of the Louvre is also a long and tortuous process. In the13rd century, the Louvre was not conspicuous as Philip's palace. However, with the arrogance and extravagance of the royal family, the simple Louvre can't satisfy their desire for luxury at all, so they built towering pagodas and various luxurious rooms in the Louvre for them to indulge in dark colors and luxury. Later, after Francis succeeded to the throne, he ordered the Louvre to be demolished and rebuilt on the original site, and also bought expensive paintings such as Mona Lisa for decoration. Later, the Louvre witnessed Louis XIV being guillotined in the French Revolution, and the French people declared the Louvre Museum to be owned by the state. The next six years were owned by the people. Until the arrival of the Napoleonic era, Napoleon I moved into the Louvre, built many magnificent rooms outside the palace, and piled up the peerless works of art and precious stones plundered from the European continent in the Louvre. At this time, the Louvre has been renamed the Napoleon Museum, showing his brilliant military achievements and the greedy and endless wealth genes of human beings. It was not until the continuous renovation and decoration of Charles Louis Napolé on Bonaparte that the Louvre was officially completed and began to become an art hall that has been on the altar for hundreds of years.
The artistic attainments of the Louvre lie not only in the large number of peerless collections, but also in the fact that the building itself is an excellent work of art. The French people live a romantic and free life, and their favorite architectural styles are also prosperous and rich. The European spire shows the majesty and inviolability of imperial power. There are column buildings between palaces with complex styles, with hollow colonnade doors at the base and tower eaves at the top. From the outside, the Louvre is like a graceful beauty stretching along the Seine, which makes people yearn for it. Different from the majestic structure of the Forbidden City, the Louvre, the royal palace, is more emotional and romantic, with a more complicated pattern, full of romance and freedom of western art. Hundreds of magnificent halls in the Louvre are divided into different exhibition halls, including Oriental Art Exhibition Hall, Ancient Roman Art Exhibition Hall, Painting Hall, Sculpture Hall, Treasure Hall, etc., which make people dazzled and admire the profoundness and long history of human civilization in the art treasure house. These exhibition halls are not only French works of art, but also rare treasures collected from all over the world for various historical reasons. The Louvre is not only a treasure house for the French people, but also an artistic feast for the people of the world.
I came to the Louvre. Because of the unlucky time, I was refused entry many times because it was closed. Finally entered the prestigious Louvre when it opened on Monday. When entering this huge museum, strict security measures must be taken to prevent tourists from damaging the museum and its collections. In front of the Louvre is a pyramid with FRP frame structure, which is the entrance of the Louvre. This famous building was designed by Chinese American designer Bay Jin Ming. The glass pyramid reflects the soft sunlight into a little spot, which is in harmony with the Louvre Palace on the Seine, shining like a charming picture. When you enter the Louvre, the first thing you see is the big gallery. It was built during the reign of Henry IV, who was obsessed with painting and architectural art, exhausted the French treasury to build a large gallery and invited the famous painter Rembrandt to create for the gallery. The arched ceiling of the big gallery is covered with exquisite and well-made paintings, which will inevitably be damaged by water vapor after repeated baking with special materials. At the junction of the top and the wall is a sculpture of Greek fairy tales. These white statues vividly reproduce the scenes in fairy tales, with exquisite shapes and exquisite workmanship, which can be described as masterpieces of sculpture art. Henry IV's extravagant works in the national treasury are naturally breathtaking. Being in it is like returning to the artistic feast of the Renaissance, which makes people linger in it for a long time and is deeply moved by the artistic atmosphere. The large gallery built by the state treasury is naturally too luxurious and exquisite to be copied forever. At that time, under the rule of France, the treasury was empty and the people were miserable. This is not only an artistic feast, but also a true portrayal of the French people under tyranny.
I walked out of the big gallery and went to the Louvre where the treasures of the town hall were stored, as well as the exhibition hall where the Mona Lisa was placed. This is Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece. The most amazing thing about this famous painting is that the Mona Lisa in the painting is smiling at you no matter which angle you look at it. This peerless treasure is illuminated by a warm, temperature-free lamp, and the outer layer is fully protected by a bulletproof glass cover. The temperature and humidity inside are constant, in order to delay the erosion of the painting by the environment. Each visitor can only stay for 30 seconds before painting, and then leave quickly. When it was my turn, I saw that every stroke was round and powerful. This masterpiece depicting people's psychological activities exudes breathtaking power and silent charm, which makes everyone who comes here to watch feel the dazzling light of art.
This trip to the Louvre made me feel a lot. After many wars and fascist invasions, this 600-year-old palace was transported away by people of insight, which protected the artistic treasures and later returned to China intact. Countless people who advocate art flock from all over the world to feel the influence of great art and the power of French culture in the past 600 years.