The Top Ten Treasures in the Louvre - An In-Depth Museum Tour

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In this video, Jessica the Museum Guide (that's me!) takes you on a guided museum tour of the Top Ten Treasures of the Louvre. Of course, choosing just ten is almost impossible, but this Louvre tour video is a great way to prepare for the Louvre if you’re short on time.
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0:00 An Introduction to the Tour
1:42 The Great Sphinx of Tanis
3:10 The Louvre's Mummy
6:17 Liberty Leading the People
9:55 The Code of Hammurabi
12:06 The Coronation of Napoleon
14:58 Michelangelo's Dying Slave and Rebellious Slave
17:11 The Raft of the Medusa
19:49 The Venus de Milo
22:20 The Winged Victory of Samothrace
25:26 The Mona Lisa
Tour Description:
Our Louvre Museum Tour starts with the Great Sphinx of Tanis, often called the Guardian of the Louvre. We then stay in the Egyptian Gallery to see Pacheri, the Louvre’s Mummy. After admiring Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People, we visit Ancient Babylon and examine the Code of Hammurabi.
Then it’s over to number six on our list, David’s The Coronation of Napoleon before admiring Michelangelo’s Dying Slave and Rebellious Slave. Number four is Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa, followed by an Ancient Greek double whammy with the Venus de Milo and the Winged Victory of Samothrace. Finally, of course, our number one entry is da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.
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[@TheMuseumGuide]

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[@chrisball3778]

If you do go to see the Mona Lisa and feel cheated by having to queue up for ages in a mob of people waving phones just for a few seconds in front of it, then at least you have the consolation prize of getting to see Veronese's The Wedding at Cana. It's on the other side of the room from Mona Lisa and is one of the most epic paintings on earth. It's almost unbelievably huge and absolutely crammed with fascinating details.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

It's SUCH a wonderful painting. Good call!

[@danieldale7320]

When we saw the Mona Lisa, Never turned around. What a shame.

[@thomasbell7033]

I'm sorry, but tourists who go to the Louvre just to jostle for a crappy photo of the Mona Lisa are beneath contempt. I can think of hundreds of paintings I'd rather see.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Things are famous for different reasons. I’ve stood in that queue many times.

[@yubantwo2086]

Nothing compares to seeing original artworks even if pictures provide details we might otherwise miss.

[@annettewillis2797]

Definitely interested in the Victorian mummy unwrapping parties! Many thanks Jessica. I really enjoy all your tours.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you for your continued support, Annette!

[@kimb777]

Louvre controversy? Yes please

[@bunnyb4685]

You expand things very clearly and it’s not boring!!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you so much for your continued support!

[@madaandriescu726]

I visited Louvre in 2020 during the pandemic times, I arrived early in the morning on a Thursday only to find a max of 10 people in line to the Mona Lisa. I had plenty of time to appreciate it all and I consider myself to be very lucky.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

That sounds like a wonderful experience! Thanks for watching.

[@pigoff123]

It has been years since I have been there. We went on school trips and I dragged my parents and later my husband there. It is a wonderful museum.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

It’s always a good time for another visit! Thanks for watching. ❤️

[@DjBolt11]

Went there last year. I didn’t mind the line to wait for the Mona Lisa, in fact in less than 10 mins I was already in front and spent nearly 8-10 mins just observing and gazing at it. With no issue at all. And as an artist it was just as magical as you would think

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I love to hear this! A lot of people diss the Mona Lisa, but the reasons for wanting to see it are complex and varied. Thank you for watching!

[@alexandermorshteyn4395]

I love your channel , specifically the history of each subject you tells us, also you gives enough time for the viewer to see the art subject which is very important! Thank you & good luck for your channel!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you Alexander!

[@bunnyb4685]

I have been trying to find art history channel for years on KZbin, but some reason I couldn’t find one. This is absolutely fantastic!

[@vilstef6988]

Don't look for channels per se, look for works by name to get videos on artworks. This Wii also get you channels indirectly.

[@Leebearify]

Me too !!!

[@josephbrownjr.2046]

You can make any thing you like ! These are totally awesome. I can't stop watching them !!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thanks so much!

[@michaelhutchinson1713]

I love your museum tours. I am Californian, but I have been to the Love and the British Museum....twenty years ago. I still remember my visits.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I'm glad you enjoy them! Thanks for watching.

[@johnsain]

Now you need to visit the MET in NYC!

[@belle9355]

I visited the Louvre at both age 13 and again at age 23 and The Winged Victory is a sculpture that has always stuck with me. Thank you for these wonderful videos, I'm obsessed with your channel 😊

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you so much, Belle!

[@bunnyb4685]

I enjoy seeing the real pieces of art work and relics!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

More to come!

[@Leebearify]

@@TheMuseumGuide I can see that I am very late to your party, for that I am sorry but I am now a subscriber and will follow you all around. I hope you will also go to the British Museum.

[@raafirahman3582]

Thank you for this wonderful presentation ❤️❤️❤️

[@TheMuseumGuide]

You’re very welcome! Thank you for watching.

[@karenjensen6217]

Excellent tour and narration...Thank you! Would definitely enjoy more

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you for watching! I have about 15 videos on my channel right now, and a new one coming next week.

[@rtjahyadi7868]

Woww i’ve been looking for a video guide of the lorve for my upcoming trip, this is the best guide, interesting and not boring at all

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you so much! Enjoy your trip.

[@bunnyb4685]

This video has so much good information!!

[@vickilindberg6336]

Nike! No doubt. It moves. It lives. Loved your presentation. Thank you.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Yes it does! Thank you so much for watching.

[@helenamizera3807]

Yes to the mummy unwrapping parties. And any other ways mummies were used.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Absolutely! I love the topic.

[@indigocheetah4172]

Thank you, Jessica. I really enjoyed your tour.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

You're very welcome!

[@Leebearify]

All of the different suggestions you gave for in-depth histories etc. sound absolutely wonderful. I do hope that you have more out here on YT for me to find!! I am going hunting for them now, please do more !! I am a new subscriber !

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I do! You mentioned British Museum in your other comment, and I actually have 2 videos already posted, and a third on the way. :)

[@esthersantiago7152]

Love these videos. You have great information. Please do one on the pieces that were taken from Egypt and other places and also on the dark secrets of these museums. thansk great work!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Great idea! I am just making a video about strange things in the V&A - it should be posted in a few weeks!

[@esthersantiago7152]

@@TheMuseumGuide LOve the V&A particularly the jewelry. I wonder how many interesting things are to be said about the jewelry which is something very personasl and usually with sentimental value. Looking forward to your videos!

[@paristoptips]

What a great video! Compared to the ones I made on Le Louvre, what's great here is that you go so much into deep knowledge about the masterpieces you present. I've been dozens of time to this amazing museum, made 3 videos there, but still, you managed to make me learn a lot of things in this video!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Awwww, thank you! There is also a part 2 I just released last week. :)

[@AnnAnn-mh7yn]

Outstanding video!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you very much!

[@remsan03]

Just ten? You could do Top One Hundred Treasures, and I will still be here for it.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you so much!

[@KFunMuseum]

Thanks for sharing.

[@leonorarobins3426]

Awesome tour!!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you!

[@huangjin800]

Excellent show. Great moderator.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you very much!

[@LauraAnneMarieP]

I’m shocked that you don’t have WAY more subscribers!!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you! I just got started a month ago, so hopefully it will happen. :) spread the word!

[@Leebearify]

Me too!! I am spreading the word !!!!

[@stefipuff9077]

Wonderful tour! The Nike of Samothrace is a favourite of mine and it’s stunning in person!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

So beautiful indeed. Thanks for watching!

[@alfredmartin2891]

Thanks. I enjoy your art museum videos.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

You’re very welcome!

[@ArtWithUsFamily]

Thank you for sharing this wonderful video! 👏👍🎬

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@shelleybergen1232]

The first time we were in le Louvre was in 1987 and at that time the Mona Lisa was encased in a bulletproof glass and hermetically sealed cabinet all on her own. There was no line-ups or crowds whatsoever when we were there when the museum opened on that day. We saw her again in 2017 and it was just as your video showed but before they implemented the cue line. She is remarkable to see but we prefer our visit to her in 1987.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

That sounds like a wonderful experience!

[@wellydude1]

Great video! You have a new subscriber. It’s important to note that Théodore Géricault’s “Raft of the Medusa” is one of the first paintings to portray an African/Black person as the hero. Théodore Géricault’s views on slavery were well known and his painting projected his abolitionist views. By the way, he’s buried Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. I just visited his tomb today. Definitely worth a visit.

[@Leebearify]

wow, very interesting, all things I did not know unfortunately!! But I do NOW !! LOL thanks so much for sharing your knowledge.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you so much for this perspective! I had no idea.

[@cortrichards8179]

Wow. I would so love to see those 'Lamassu' from Mesopotamia, at The Louvre in person, and now I have, via you. So happy that you showed them while taking us along on your tour of The Louvre. I have always been fascinated by ancient History and Mesopotamia is one of the most fascinating of all. Also, The Code of Hammurabi is a very interesting object and tells us much about the values and morals of the ancient people of Mesopotamia. History is extremely exciting to me and it seems, to you too. Keep on keeping on, Jessica, and thank you for taking us all along on your tour of The Louvre. Can't wait to see more.

[@art-tour]

What is interesting in this code of laws, one of the oldest law texts ever found and one of the best documented, is the fact that Moses was inspired by it (not to say that he plagiarized). 😮 The famous phrase "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" belongs to Hammurabi, and not to Moses, as was believed. However, there is an important difference between the same phrase in Hammurabi's code, and the one in Moses' code. In Hammurabi's code there are differences according to social rank. 😢 For the same mistake, a person from a lower social class, was punished more severely than a person of high rank. Moses, on the other hand, is much more democratic.👌 The meaning that the same phrase has in the code of Moses is "just an eye for an eye..." 👏 Moses, the most important Jewish prophet traditionally credited with writing the Torah, lived in 13th century BCE, about 450 years after Hammurabi. In almost half a millennium, humanity has evolved a bit... 😉 "just an eye for an eye", and no more 😁. Kidding or not, it's a colossal difference in thinking. It is not the only statue, many others were created and spread all over the kingdom.

[@cortrichards8179]

@@art-tour That is quite interesting, Ramona. It seems that a lot of the information found in the Christian bible, can be traced back to the Mesopotamian civilization, and I do find that quite intriguing. I have to wonder if those who wrote the Christian bible, DID actually plagiarize most of it from this earlier civilization after all? It would make logical sense, I suppose. Hmmmm.......definitely something I will want to look at closer, and decide for myself. Thanks for the reply and all the best to you and yours!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you for watching! I’ll be heading back to the Louvre very soon.

[@IvorPresents]

Visited Paris in 1969. Had to see the Mona Lisa. first impression, It's small. This was the Louvre before the glass pyramids. Awesome museum.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

It’s so small! Thanks for watching.

[@lmp8932]

I'd bypass the Mona Lisa there are too many famous paintings in the Louvre that I would rather see including 'The Raft'. We studied that in Art History when I was at school. I would love to see the Nike of Samothrace in person too :)

[@TheMuseumGuide]

It's definitely one of my favourites!

[@bealreadyhappy]

Thank you for an excellent presentation, mainly because it was all about the passion you have for the art and not about you! I see so much of the presenters in similar vids, seeing very little of what they are presenting! Please continue making vids of your passion and not about you! 😊

[@TheMuseumGuide]

That’s the plan! Thanks for watching.

[@GrilledTofu]

This was awesome! Thank you

[@TheMuseumGuide]

You’re very welcome!

[@avagrego3195]

Thank you for this list. I went in Oct andwas able to walk right up to the Mona Lisa.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Oh wow!

[@joann4717]

WOW!!!!! An amazing job!!! Wish you were available as my personal tour guide, I'm heading to Lourve in a few weeks. Just enough detail not to bore us, but enough information to keep us extremely interested.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank so much JoAnn! I am available to guide the British Museum, National Gallery, and V&A here in London if you make it across the Channel. :)

[@joann4717]

@@TheMuseumGuide London was on my original travel plans, but decided to do one country at a time, leaving tomorrow for France. I'm going to check to see if you toured other museums in France....again loved this video!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

@@joann4717 I did! Check out my Musée d'Orsay videos - I put them into one playlist here: kzbin.info/aero/PLLaE___1Zw9Yy4oplF-AKXOVErbco2pth

[@colsonlv]

You get a thumbs up just for the Gummy De Milo reference. Made me chuckle.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Ha! I forgot I even did that. Such a sweet, sweet can.

[@colsonlv]

@@TheMuseumGuide ....drool noise... LOL

[@stucook8622]

Vincent Van Gogh and Sandro Botticelli are my favorites. Thanks for the interesting video 🌻

[@TheMuseumGuide]

My pleasure!

[@MissSkittlestar]

Always wanted to visit especially the statue of hermaphordite

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Yes, it is absolutely beautiful in person

[@kenichinishikawa7007]

Thanks for showing the tomb of Julius II. I would like to see it at San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome next time.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

You're welcome!

[@charsellehooper6128]

When I came across The Dying Slave I burst into tears…Stendahl Syndrome in action. Never have I been so moved by a piece of art.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I almost cried too!

[@tj12travelers]

This is cool

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you for watching!

[@peacedove1182]

I would love to see the most controversial items in the Louvre. 🌸

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I'll work on it the next time I am in Paris. :)

[@user-kh5hn2jk3g]

The Tomb of Phillippe Pot , my fave.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I love it, too!

[@lindavandewall]

Thank you so much for these insights - we love them! You mentioned your friend Margaret who runs tours at Pere Lachaise. Can you please tell me how to find her to book a tour in February? 😊

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Hello! Sorry, I was unclear - she has a video about Pere Lachaise, but does not guide there. For a good guided tour of the Cemetery, have a look here! www.getyourguide.co.uk/paris-l16/tour-of-pere-lachaise-the-legendary-paris-cemetery-t46802/?partner_id=41VTBEO

[@lindavandewall]

@@TheMuseumGuide Thank you lovely MuseumGuide!

[@kenichinishikawa7007]

I visited Louvre many times and I saw all of them which means I also thought these are important. However, I miss many objects. I hope you will do so next 20 or more.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I would love to! Which should I include?

[@beckymatthews3496]

Thank you and yes I would like to know more about the items with the controversy. Great tour.

[@dannyharmon6529]

I agree 👍 💯

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you! I will get started on a British Museum Controversy tour soon, and Louvre in the coming months!

[@verawarren2893]

Yes, I'd like to hear about mummy unwrapping parties? Did they find treasures in the wrappings??

[@TheMuseumGuide]

No, they were just fascinated by the mummified corpses! I’m going to make a video just on strange mummy facts. :)

[@kathrynrosemaclennan]

I WOULD like a video on controversial objects!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I've started the research and done the filming! Hopefully next month. :)

[@kenichinishikawa7007]

I was very lucky to see Mona Lisa just front of my face in 1989 or so. It is very different from now.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Yes, the queues are now very long!

[@danieldale7320]

I would love a short episode on Mommy unwrappings as an artist I've used mummy Brown ( synthetic of course). This is the first I've ever heard of the olfactory aspect. Must have been their version of the perfume sample in Cosmo.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Absolutely! People are so horrified when I tell them that mummies smell good.

[@jackdarbyshire5888]

Now that would be a great video 👍

[@beeperlove]

I’d love to see a controversies of the louvre video

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Ask and you shall receive! Keep an eye out in the future.

[@mariaiacob7259]

Archimboldo quartet, Leonardo other paintings, all the room of Venuses

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I’m definitely going to be doing more Louvre videos! Thank you.

[@oldguy323]

Visiting in October 2023...I won't miss it

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thanks for watching!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

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[@vilstef6988]

Jessica, I so love what you're doing, I'm even abandoning the puns I'd like to leave in the comments.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

That means a lot! ;) Thank you!

[@lore9446]

I would love a video of the most controversial elements at the Louvre!!!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Brilliant! I will hopefully be back in Paris soon.

[@bunnyb4685]

Keep make more videos!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I’m on it! :) Musee D’Orsay up next, but it’s a long one so it will take me another week or so. :)

[@sunshinepatsoph4219]

I have Italian made replica of Nike victory angel of Samotracia. Nothing like it. ❤🎉

[@TheMuseumGuide]

It's such a beautiful piece of art.

[@alliebear3369]

I saw something in one of your other videos about soup attacks on paintings I believe. Are all of the paintings protected by something just in case something were to happen like that? Or just paintings they think would be more likely to be attacked.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

The usually have glass in the frame. :)

[@maryellencook9528]

I personally liked the collection of Celtic statues that were in an annex of the Louvre during the Summer 1973.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I would have loved to see that. I adore the Louvre!

[@jackdarbyshire5888]

I really loved the Mummy, it's the first time or heard of this particular one and its actually beautiful, they make movies with these types of mummies not the old crumbly decayed kind with cloth hanging all over 🤔

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Some of the mummies in the British Museum are absolutely stunning - I will make a video just on them!

[@jackdarbyshire5888]

@@TheMuseumGuide that would be great 👍love your videos ❤

[@gregturley35]

Do some of the smithsonian museums in washington!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I’d love to! We’ll go to the east coast of America in a few years. :)

[@CathyS_Bx]

No accounting for taste but huge, busy paintings like The Coronation of Napoleon are anathema to me. It's the Nike of Samothrace that bowls me over.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I agree, but I do love The Raft of the Medusa.

[@dannyharmon6529]

Great tour 👌 By the way you didn't mention Mary Magdalene's coffin under the class pyramid. Just joking 🙃. Seriously I enjoy the video 📹 and look forward to watching the others 😀.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Of course, how could I forget? ;) Thanks for your support - many more to come!

[@jpkatz1435]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thanks for watching!

[@bolillopuki8936]

Can you do a tour of the egypt part of the museum? I have tried to find one but there is none

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I’ll add it to my list! Thank you for watching.

[@danieldale7320]

When we went to see the Mona Lisa, there were so many people it was a bum rush. In and out none of us turned around to see

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Such a shame - but now you just have to go back.

[@lauraguida8482]

What about Cupid's Kiss by Antonio Canova?

[@TheMuseumGuide]

It’s absolutely beautiful. :)

[@kocurik679]

Múzeum Louvre som navštívil tento rok 2024. Je to hanebné múzeum plné ukradnutých artefaktov z celého sveta. Tvoje video je veľmi povrchné. Ako si mohla zabudnúť na najcennejší ukradnutý kus ? Na Denderský zverokruh /Zvieratník-Zodiac of Dendera/ ???

[@starquant]

With recent events of scumbags gluing themselves to works of art or throwing things at them.. lets hope the museum has taken steps to preserve these works.

[@indigocheetah4172]

That thought occurred to me, also. They will need to search everyone. I cannot understand why they desecrate the paintings. I hope that they are jailed and fined.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Oh no! My unpopular opinion - people have always attacked art to make a political statement, and I can't say I disagree. (don't hate me!) But don't worry - these paintings are protected under glass.

[@starquant]

@@TheMuseumGuide How can you celebrate art on one hand and throw it under the bus on another ?. BOOO !.

[@jessicaoneill1981]

@@starquant I often find the social issues more important than the material art. And it makes a great story, as with the Rokeby Venus! But regardless, we don’t need to worry- these recent ones are all behind glass.

[@starquant]

@@jessicaoneill1981 The fact that people are trying to destroy art in order to grandstand is appalling and if they think it's going to gain support for their cause, then obviously it's not going to work. It's like those idiots who block peak hour traffic to make a point but don't bother to tell anyone, they actually drove there themselves in the first place. Sorry, destroying art and peoples lives is not a very good way to make a point. There's a reason WHY these self entitled idiots are being ignored in the first place.

[@art-tour]

👏👏👏👌

[@yubantwo2086]

I would love to see all of your suggestions for future deep dive clips, please!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Great! Thanks for watching.

[@yubantwo2086]

@@TheMuseumGuide I just subscribed today and already watched this one, The British Museum one and am about to watch a third. I studied art history as my minor, had a long career as an opera singer which allowed me to visit museums all over Europe. I lived in Cleveland, Boston, NYC & Berlin. Never the less, it's impossible to see & experience even a third of a collection no matter how many revisits one makes. I've been to the British Museum many times and first learned about the Iffay Heads only recently (although the Benin Bronzes and Nefertiti etc are well known thefts. Side note: one year ago today, in 104° degree heat, I braved that heatwave burning my feet through sturdy shoes & although I took the bus most of the way (which I would have normally walked), walked from the bus over in the shade ducking into stores to cool off en route to the BM, only to arrive to mass Bedlam everywhere. At the entrance, I was told they had shut down the museum bc of the heat. Massive amounts of tourists & tour busses were stranded... I flew out the next day so missed that visit. For years, the Germans justified their thefts *because* , they bragged, they had not been caught!?! So any deep dive you have to offer, I'll be here for watching it! Thanking you in advance!

[@robertmusacchio3088]

A must see in the Louvre are an Egyptian pair of beautiful 18th Dynasty lips in an exquisite pinkish stone

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Interesting! I’ll have to seek them out.

[@michellebowers8652]

If you go, make sure you have a good map. We made the mistake of thinking we could walk to the end of one enormous wing and then take the stairs down to the next level. Nope. It was a dead end, and we had to hike back through a quarter mile of exhibits we had already seen. Never did find the famous Napoleon on horseback painting either.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Agree! I was there all day today, and even though I know it well, I still got lost. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@deborahwhitney9427]

I would like a video on the contraverses of the louve seei g as you only hear negative things about the British Museum.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I’d love to research the subject!

[@dennishopkins8046]

I agree with most of your items, however I think you missed some major exhibits like the Sumerian tablets and statues, and the Ain Ghazal statue. One of the oldest known to ever be found.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Absolutely - they're contenders for a future list. Ten are very hard to narrow down!

[@seh3428]

Where is the link to the tour of Pete Lachaise?

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I don’t actually think it’s complete yet! I will ask her. :)

[@otakubancho6655]

I've actually seen Nike featured in a few different anime,like Rah-Xephon and Evangelion,and maybe a few others that I don't recall.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

A very famous character!

[@TealCheetah]

"Mummies actually smell good" You can't just say that and walk away!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

🤣🤣🤣 they do! They smell of oud, myrrh, frankincense- dark perfumed oils.

[@josepcivil8090]

The character seen in the famous portrait at the Louvre is not that of Lisa del Giocondo or Mona Lisa, but that of Isabelle d'Aragon and Sforza, the daughter of the King of Naples Alphonse II d'Aragon. Isabelle married her cousin Gian Galeazzo Sforza, the heir to the Duchy of Milan, to consolidate the ties between the Kingdom of Naples and the Duchy of Milan. So, it is the portrait of a princess and not a commoner. Leonardo da Vinci was at that time in the service of Ludovico Sforza, the uncle of Gian Galeazzo who exercised regency at the court of Milan. Isabelle's young husband disappeared prematurely at the age of 25 without being able to exercise power, allegedly assassinated on the orders of his uncle. German historian Maike Vogt-Luerssen tells us that after her widowhood, Isabelle and Leonardo formed a secret couple and had 5 children. Therefore, it was his beloved's portrait that Leonardo da Vinci painted, which explains why he took it to Amboise in France and kept it until the end of his life, like keeping a family photo nowadays. There was thus an emotional connection with Isabelle that did not exist with Lisa del Giocondo, whose portrait was only a commission. The research I myself have done on the landscape indicates that it is based on an authentic location, which would confirm Maike Vogt-Luerssen's theory, as it undoubtedly pays homage to Isabelle d'Aragon's family origins. It seems obvious to me that the identity of the character in this portrait has been confused between an actually received commission, that of the silk merchant's wife, and the portrait of Leonardo's partner, which is the one seen today at the Louvre. All of this is probably now well known to the so-called specialists of Leonardo da Vinci, who do not want to acknowledge the inconsistencies of the official version because they have spent their entire lives defending a version they now know to be outdated. As Mark Twain said, "It is easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." www.kleio.org/de/geschichte/renaissance/monalisa/ml_fakten/ www.equinoxmagazine.fr/2021/11/28/la-joconde-serait-catalane/On

[@TheMuseumGuide]

A very interesting alternative theory! I don’t ascribe to it, but interesting nonetheless. Thanks!

[@josepcivil8090]

@@TheMuseumGuide Thank you for your response, but before deciding whether to agree with the theory I am presenting to you, it would be necessary to take the time to calmly and in detail observe the arguments provided by the historian Maike Vogt-Luerssen regarding the true identity of the character as well as my reasoning concerning the landscape.

[@paulmcwilliams8641]

Egyptians ignored the brain during mummification, because they thought the organ was unimportant. Senient thought was performed in the heart, their proof being that when you had a shocking event you felt weird feelings in your chest. The logic was carried on by the Greeks and thence to the Romans. That is why we still associate feelings to the heart today. "She died of a broken heart." "I didn't have the heart to do it." etc etc etc.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

So fascinating! Thanks for your comments.

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

There is actually a recently recognised condition called 'Broken Heart Syndrome' where some people under extreme stress or grief experience symptoms similar to heart problems prior to an attack. I had it myself when my partner died. I did not know it was a recognised medical thing at the time and only found out when I was googling trying to find out whether I needed a doc or not. So the ancients may have known more than we did, even if their reasoning was a little skewiff. As for the brain; I was led to believe they extracted it through the nose with a kind of straw! I always wondered about How you would do that, so this makes more sense.

[@paulmcwilliams8641]

@@hogwashmcturnip8930 It was a number of hooked kind of scoops that pulled the brain matter out of the nose.

[@xaqaniqasmov8350]

MÖHTƏŞƏM MUZEYDİ. İMSAN ƏMƏYİNİ TƏCƏSSÜM EDİR

[@lore9446]

To be honest, when I went, I was not interested in la Monalisa, I preferred to see the Egyptian collection which is awesome!!! When I asked where it was, people from the museum advised me to go and see her, it was early morning, and my answer was: ahhhh…. Not really into her…. They were amazed by my answer!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

She's not for everyone. :)

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

Me neither. I think it is the most overrated, over hyped art work there is. Just my opinion of course, but if I ever made it to the Louvre, I would avoid her and look at all the other stuff.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

@@hogwashmcturnip8930 I love her history and backstory. Fame is complicated beast!

[@1marcelo]

@@hogwashmcturnip8930 Not overrated at all. To paint the Mona Lisa, Da Vinci used a technique called sfumato that blurs all the details in her face. That's why her smile is elusive. Da Vinci realized that our brain completes the information gaps when we see the blurred smile. It is a cognitive faculty that was discovered by scientists centuries later. To appreciate the Mona Lisa, you also need to understand the symbolism. She represents the human figure as a microcosm, or, conversely, the cosmos as a human figure, which was a new idea of the Renaissance, instead of a dual universe including a supernatural realm. This is why her hair looks like the waves in the river, the fold in her dress look like the hills in the landscape, etc, etc. The Mona Lisa is a unique masterpiece and no other painting compares to her, even if you don't like her.

[@lilpenny1982]

My Top 5 favorite artist of all time are: #1 Michelangelo #2 Claude Monet #3 Marc Chagall #4 Raphael #5 Vincent Van Gogh

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Then you’ll love visiting the National Gallery! No Chagall, though.

[@lilpenny1982]

@@TheMuseumGuide You should visit Marc Chagall's gallery in Nice 🖼 It's so beautiful to see 👀 I felt like I was in heaven

[@allanahbanana3976]

Do I want to see a video about mummy unwrapping parties..? Do you even have to ask? Of course I do

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Yes!

[@deepakraag]

Very nice. Just 2 observations: you should say hieroglyphs and not hieroglyphics. The word for prisoners in Italian is "prigionieri". Check out the Etruscans in Villa Giulia in Rome.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you! You’re right about hieroglyphs- it’s a childhood habit!

[@jesjes5255]

wedding at Canna in the same room as Mona Lisa

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Yes! I need to make a second Louvre video. ❤️

[@deborahduthie4519]

Giving Mummy’s away...they made a paint colour called Mummy Brown, slightly translucent and shunned when Artists found they were actually real mummified bodies they were painting with.

[@garycarpenter6433]

How come they didn't replace them

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Not sure which object you're referring to. :)

[@1marcelo]

I would have replaced the Coronation with the Lacemaker by Vermeer. It is not just another Vermeer, it is the best, even in the poor state of preservation it is in. The composition is simple and powerful with all the lines converging at the center of the lace knitting work, including the gaze of the lacemaker. She is totally focused in her work, apparently. But if you follow the thread she is knitting, obviously symbolizing the thread of her thoughts, the thread goes over the book she is reading that is probably the bible, which is what a chaste young lady should read. But then the thread goes further and reaches a pillow and at that point, the white thread is mixed with a red thread and this mixture obviously symbolizes sex and it looks like fireworks. It is so subtle and so beautiful.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I want to be a bigger Vermeer fan than I am! But I might include this in a future video.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thanks for watching!

[@johnsain]

8:57 ....Isn't that the painter?

[@TheMuseumGuide]

While this model’s identity has been debated, the old myth that it’s a self-portrait has been debunked by experts. Thanks for watching!

[@bobl4419]

Your video is very good but two works of art that you should include are the swing by fragonard and the portrait of Louis XIV by hyacinth regaud. Both of these are more famous than the Sphinx and the slaves by Michelangelo

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you! I’ll definitely have to do a part 2.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I was just looking at your suggestions again because I am making a follow up to this video, andThe Swing by Fragonard is actually in the Wallace Collection in London. :)

[@epluribusunum1460]

Constructive correction, the painter’s name is pronounced “Dah-veed”, not like the English name David.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you! When I’m speaking English, I tend to default to the English pronunciation on this one. :) it’s how I was taught by a Louvre curator.