{"id":8775,"date":"2017-08-06T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T06:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=8775"},"modified":"2017-08-06T16:56:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T06:56:23","slug":"a-final-parisian-art-gallery-post-cant-end-the-series-without-some-works-from-the-louvre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=8775","title":{"rendered":"A final Parisian art gallery post &#8211; can&#8217;t end the series without some works from the Louvre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A brief expos\u00e9 of some of the lesser known works in the Louvre art gallery.<\/p>\n<p>These were all shot with the <a title=\"my wiki page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/doku.php?id=photo:olympusomdem1ii\" target=\"_blank\">Olympus OM-D E-M1 II Micro Four Thirds camera<\/a> with the <a title=\"my wiki page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/doku.php?id=photo:olympusmzd40-150Pro\" target=\"_blank\">Olympus mZD 40-150mm f\/2.8 pro lens<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A touch of my own styling to some of the beautiful marble sculptures:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Louvre\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/Louvre\/GA120088-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Louvre\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/Louvre\/GA120088-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pierre Paul Rubens <em>Portrait d&#8217;Helene Fourment<\/em> 1636:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Louvre\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/Louvre\/GA120111-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Louvre\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/Louvre\/GA120111-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pierre Paul Rubens <em>Cl\u00e9lie passant le Tibre (Cloelia crossing the Tiber)<\/em> 1635:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Louvre\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/Louvre\/GA120113-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Louvre\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/Louvre\/GA120113-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Antoon van Dyck <em>Les Amours de Renaud et de l&#8217;enchanteresse Armide (The loves of Rinaldo and the enchantress Armida)<\/em> 1641:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Louvre\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/Louvre\/GA120115-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Louvre\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/Louvre\/GA120115-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jacob Jordaens <em>Le roi boit (The king drinks)<\/em> 1638-40:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Louvre\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/Louvre\/GA120121-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Louvre\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/Louvre\/GA120121-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My take on the Restoration of <em>Melpomene Muse de la tragedie<\/em> in marble 1st century AD Rome: <\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Louvre\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/Louvre\/GA120222-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Louvre\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/Louvre\/GA120222-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leonardo Da Vinci&#8217;s <em>Saint Jean-Baptiste<\/em> 1513-16 &#8211; sometimes reflections are impossible to get rid of, and I didn&#8217;t bring a polarising filter to help &#8211; my bad:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Louvre\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/Louvre\/GA121361-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Louvre\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/Louvre\/GA121361-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alessandro Filipepi dit Botticelli <em>Un jeune homme presente par Venus<\/em> 1483-85:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Louvre\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/Louvre\/GA121369-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Louvre\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/Louvre\/GA121369-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alessandro Filipepi dit Botticelli <em>Venus et Le Trois Graces offrant des presents a une jeune fille (Venus and The Three Graces)<\/em> 1483-85:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Louvre\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/Louvre\/GA121371-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Louvre\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/Louvre\/GA121371-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My take on the <em>Winged goddess of Victory of Samothrace<\/em> 3rd-1st century BC Greece:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Louvre\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/Louvre\/GA121376-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Louvre\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/Louvre\/GA121376-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson <em>Pygmalion et Galatee<\/em> 1824:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Louvre\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/Louvre\/GA121377-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Louvre\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/Louvre\/GA121377-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson <em>Atala au tombeau<\/em> 1808:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Louvre\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/Louvre\/GA121379-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Louvre\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/Louvre\/GA121379-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Louise David <em>Les Sabines<\/em> 1799:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Louvre\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/Louvre\/GA121394-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Louvre\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/Louvre\/GA121394-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Louise David <em>Les Amours de Paris et d&#8217;Helene<\/em> 1788:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Louvre\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/Louvre\/GA121396-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Louvre\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/Louvre\/GA121396-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pierre Peyron <em>La mort d&#8217;Alceste<\/em> 1785:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Louvre\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/Louvre\/GA121398-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Louvre\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/Louvre\/GA121398-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anselm Kiefer <em>Athanor<\/em> 2007:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Louvre\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/Louvre\/GA121423-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Louvre\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/Louvre\/GA121423-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it is that we can&#8217;t appreciate life without seeing death, and perhaps we all too often take for granted the wonderful aspects of culture that history has betrothed upon us even though their permanence is not guaranteed in our violent world. Live in the presence and appreciate what we have, protect our past and look to a future enhanced by us being here &#8211; not a future of despair and destruction as has been the case so often in our past. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief expos\u00e9 of some of the lesser known works in the Louvre art gallery. These were all shot with the Olympus OM-D E-M1 II Micro Four Thirds camera with the Olympus mZD 40-150mm f\/2.8 pro lens. A touch of my own styling to some of the beautiful marble sculptures: Pierre Paul Rubens Portrait d&#8217;Helene [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[502,474,483,131,475,468],"class_list":["post-8775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-art","tag-france","tag-louvre","tag-paintings","tag-paris","tag-sculpture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}