
YSS has been nice enough to give us (well, "give" us) student passes to the Louvre, and I decided to take mine for a spin yesterday. The place is HUGE but I made it through the majority of the first floor in all three wings. It'll have to be more than a week before I go back again -- famous art overload!
Here are several interesting details I saw. You've seen all the famous stuff already anyway. Please excuse the folks who occasionally wandered into my photos.


"OMG MY STATUE IS REAL"

You have no idea how many people were squashing me.




Why yes, this
is the original Code of Hammurabi. I walked into a room and there it was!