May 13th 2011: The Louvre

Because my regular camera ran out of batteries, I took the pictures in the latter half of the day with my cell phone camera. This explains the varying quality of the images.

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	Another painting of paintings by the same artist, Giovanni Paolo Pannini. Again of Rome. This shot is also high-resolution.		John Martin's striking Le Pandemonium: hell-fires lapping against an important-looking building.
	A panoramic video of a room almost entirely of Gaurdis.	Hey, it's Saint Peter's! I was just there six months ago. :) This painting captures better its scale than any of the interior shots I took. I noticed only as I was captioning this that it was painted by the same man who painted those paintings of galleries I photographed earlier.
The roof of Salon Denon, one of the many roofs from the palace complex.	A man clubbing a small animal. Technically, it's probably Hercules and a small hydra.
En Route to Lunch
Passerelle des Arts bridge, as seen from the Louvre. We walked across this bridge on the way back from lunch, not to lunch.	Same bridge, different composition.	The Pont Neuf bridge, again as seen from the Louvre.	The Pont Royal bridge.
The Seine seems like a nice place to walk along or to sit at the edge of.	A sample street in this part of town.
Lunch at Le Petit San Benoit
We ate lunch outside at Le Petit Saint Benoit. If the waitress wasn't in the way you'd be able to see Di Yin at our table.	We ordered the day's special without knowing what it was. (We didn't know the French words.) It turned out to be liver. Look how large that liver is! It was tender, in fact the most tender Di Yin's ever had. The potatoes (afar) were good, tasting of an explosion of sea salt. The green beans (covered by the liver) were also good, sauteed as they were in butter.	Cassoulet de poisson (fish casserole). The insides were made of fish paste / fish mousse, but didn't taste very fishy. It was inoffensive.
Back to the Louvre
Musee (museum) Eugene Delacroix has pretty garden in back.	Many buildings with shutters on Rue des Beaux Arts.	The south side of the Louvre's facade has some trump de l'oeil along with an attractive trump de l'oeil ad. For once I approve of an ad on a museum. In person from a distance it even looks 3-d. Also, quite a long (cargo?) ship.	The north side of the Passerelle des Arts bridge as a long sightseeing ship passes beneath it.
The Passerelle des Arts bridge.	Lovers' locks on the Passerelle des Arts bridge.	The Institut de France, just south of the Passerelle des Arts.	The Seine as it splits around Ile de la Cite. Both bridges are known as Port Neuf. Also notice the canal-like boats moored on the south side of the river.
A closer look at the southern branch of the Seine and the buildings on Ile de la Cite. It's also easier in this picture to make out the people sitting under the trees on the western end of the island.
Louvre: Outside (continued)
A 180 degree panoramic video of Cour Carree, one of the Louvre's courtyards / squares. It shows again what the outside of the Louvre looks like.	One building's facade. (The east-facing building.)	A close-up of some of the statues overlooking Cour Carree.	The fountains and I.M. Pei's pyramid in the center of the Louvre. Excellent.