this past thursday was one of the longest days of the trip.
We began by going to the Orangerie, which is a museum in the Tuileries gardens. Its is a big impressionist museum which houses eight of Monet's waterlily paintings. Its set up in two big oval rooms, which join to look like a figure 8 or an infinity sign to symbolize that his waterlilies go on forever. Before entering the room, there is an antechamber in which he expects(ed) visitors to let go of all their current problems, so that they may enter the exhibit with a calm, and clear mind.
The exhibit is beautiful and you have to visit paris to know what i am exactly talking about, and so that you may experience it for yourself. its absolutely incredible. and i am not a huge fan of impressionism and i was blown away. however, if you cannot make the trip to paris, there is a different water lilies exhibition at the MoMA and if you get a chance to go, you should. I know I want to go sometime.
after this, i went to a place called Angelina's and had the best hot chocolate EVER. it was like liquid chocolate and pure amazingness. it was expensive, and I will never pay that much for a hot cocoa again but that was just too good.
then we met everyone at the arc du triomphe, discussed its importance and architecture, and then went to our tour of the opera house. which was. incredible. its a building with very ornate, baroque style, over the top extravagance to a point where it was overwhelming. So much adornment. I can't even explain it and I think that the pictures need to do their own talking.
Ro <3
We began by going to the Orangerie, which is a museum in the Tuileries gardens. Its is a big impressionist museum which houses eight of Monet's waterlily paintings. Its set up in two big oval rooms, which join to look like a figure 8 or an infinity sign to symbolize that his waterlilies go on forever. Before entering the room, there is an antechamber in which he expects(ed) visitors to let go of all their current problems, so that they may enter the exhibit with a calm, and clear mind.
The exhibit is beautiful and you have to visit paris to know what i am exactly talking about, and so that you may experience it for yourself. its absolutely incredible. and i am not a huge fan of impressionism and i was blown away. however, if you cannot make the trip to paris, there is a different water lilies exhibition at the MoMA and if you get a chance to go, you should. I know I want to go sometime.
after this, i went to a place called Angelina's and had the best hot chocolate EVER. it was like liquid chocolate and pure amazingness. it was expensive, and I will never pay that much for a hot cocoa again but that was just too good.
then we met everyone at the arc du triomphe, discussed its importance and architecture, and then went to our tour of the opera house. which was. incredible. its a building with very ornate, baroque style, over the top extravagance to a point where it was overwhelming. So much adornment. I can't even explain it and I think that the pictures need to do their own talking.
Ro <3
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| Filming of smurfs 2! |
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| rodin sculpture outside orangerie |
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| me with one of my fav renoir paintings |
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| HOT COCOA WITH FRESH CREAM |
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| so intricate |
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| SO MUCH GUILDING |
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| beautiful staircase |
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| balconies were used to show off girls of marriageable age to society members |
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| so much crowd |
How on earth could people live in such opulence and luxury? And I love how you see knockoff opera houses (for example, the one in Philadelphia tries a bit too hard), but this is the absolute real deal.
ReplyDeletehahah right? napoleon III built all of this for himself and he sat in the left most box...and would look at the boxes on the right because he commissioned them all to have more nude women than anywhere else in the theatre. so that he would have some stationary eye candy. and real deal to the max. so much wealth.
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