Showing posts with label UCM Paris Museum Tour 2009. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UCM Paris Museum Tour 2009. Show all posts

Saturday, May 30, 2009

30 Mai, 2009

A walking tour of architectural features in the Beaubourg area this morning, then the Pompidou, National Museum of Modern Art.  Photos:  (1) what was at one time the King's church, St. Germain Auxrois, (2)"The Colonnade,"  Louis the XIV's idea of a facelift for the side of the Louvre facing Paris (at least at that time in the 17th century), (3) St. Eustache, a French Classical facelift on what is essentially a Gothic layout, the organist was practicing while we were inside WOW!, (4) Time out for a picture on the 70 ton "Ecoute" sculpture, (5) The flamboyant ceiling of St. Eustache, (6) the Pompidou Centre.

Tomorrow we go to Versailles.