Paris: Louvre Museum Skip-The-Line Tour – Paris, France

EXPERIENCE:

Explore the vast galleries of the Louvre Museum, and admire timeless works of art from Ancient Egypt and Greece, to the early 19th century. Your guide will lead you around the rich collection of paintings, statues, and more to see some of the building’s many highlights.

The tour concentrates on the 3 different periods of the Renaissance, Neoclassicism, and Romanticism. View the breathtaking statue of the “Nike of Samothrace,” a 2nd-century BC marble sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike (Victory). Marvel at Botticelli’s fresco of “Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to a Young Woman.”

Renaissance highlights include Mantegna’s “Saint Sebastian,” while Leonardo Da Vinci is represented by paintings such as the “Mona Lisa.” Admire the vast painting by Veronese of the “Marriage at Cana,” the largest in the Louvre, and learn about the Romanticism of Gericault’s “Raft of Medusa.”

You will also see Delacorix’s “Liberty Leading the People,” commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, the sinuous nude of Ingres’ “Une Odalisque,” and Jacques-Louis David’s “Crowning of Napoleon,” and “The Oath of The Horatii.”

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS:

Explore the Renaissance and Neoclassical treasures of the Louvre
Admire frescoes by Botticelli
Learn more about the early Renaissance and transition from the Medieval to Humanism
See of Mantegna’s early Florentine art
Marvel at Bellini’s Venetian paintings
Gaze at Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa
Look at Gericault’s Raft of Medusa, a dark highlight of Romanticism

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