Arrival	Change	Nights	Departure	Cost	Status
	France Paris	Tuesday 4-Sep-2018	---	2	Thursday 6-Sep-2018	---
Museum  Louvre Wednesday 5-Sep-2018 (10:00 AM) [4 Hrs]     Date: Wednesday 5-Sep-2018 Time: 10:00 AM Duration: 4 Hrs Phone: Res/Confirm #: Cost: --- Pre-Trip Activity Notes / Checklist Museum Pass 2-Days / 48 Euros / Person Purchase on-line   Post-Trip Activity Notes Really paid to have the Museum Pass as we avoided having to wait in line for entry.   Photos (7) Musee du Louvre The Mona Lisa Leonardo da Vinci painted this small portrait of a Florentine noblewoman, known as La Gioconda, on about 1504. It was soon regarded as the prototype of the Renaissance portrait. The sitter's engaging smile has prompted endless commentary ever since. Psyche Revived by the Kiss of Love This marble sculpture is by Antonio Canova (1757-1822). Winged Victory of Somothrace From Greece, late 3rd-early 2nd century BC. Michelangelo's Dying Slave Michelangelo sculpted this work between 1513 and 1520 as part of a group of statues for th ebase of the tomb of Pope Julius II in Rome. Venus de Milo Found in 1820 on the island of Milo in Greece, this ideal of feminine beauty was made in the Hellenistic Age at the end of the 2nd century BC. Raft of the Medusa The Raft of the Medusa is an oil painting of 1818–1819 by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault (1791–1824). Completed when the artist was 27, the work has become an icon of French Romanticism. It is an over-life-size painting that depicts a moment from the aftermath of the wreck of the French naval frigate Méduse, which ran aground off the coast of today's Mauritania on 2 July 1816. On 5 July 1816, at least 147 people were set adrift on a hurriedly constructed raft; all but 15 died in the 13 days before their rescue, and those who survived endured starvation and dehydration and practiced cannibalism. The event became an international scandal, in part because its cause was widely attributed to the incompetence of the French captain. Note the men pointing to the sail of a ship on the horizon.