Your LivTours Deluxe Private Paris Art Tour covers some of the world’s most important in two of Paris’ most important museums – Louvre Museum and Musee d’Orsay. This is one of the most comprehensive itineraries for any art lover.
Your LivTours’ Private Paris Museums Tour will begin at the Louvre which holds a collection of over 35,000 works on display, Paris’ Louvre is the largest, most influential, and most visited art museum in the world. Although it’s impossible to do the Louvre justice in just one day, LivTours’ Louvre Tour will grant you intimate access to all of the highlights. From marvelous Greek sculptures like Venus de Milo to dramatic Delacroix paintings, your guide will take you to all of the Louvre’s most inspiring masterpieces. One of the highlights of this Louvre Tour is the ability to spend a few moments directly in front of the world’s most famous portrait – Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.
Your LivTours’ Louvre Museum Tour will take you to all of the most iconic paintings and sculptures housed in two of this massive museum’s three wings. To help you make the most out of your visit, your guide will highlight the most influential works from a wide range of periods including Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt, the Renaissance, Neoclassicism and Romanticism. In addition to learning about the different artists and artworks, you will also hear how this 12th-century fortress and palace eventually became France’s greatest museum.
In the Ancient Egypt collections, take a close look at the sleek granite Great Sphinx of Tanis. Discovered in an Egyptian temple in the 1800s, this sphinx is considered to be the biggest and best-preserved in any Western museum.
Once you are through visiting the Egypt collections, it’s time to explore two of Ancient Greece’s globally recognizable sculptures – the armless Venus de Milo and the headless Winged Victory of Samothrace. Although both of the goddesses are missing a few parts, they are universally considered some of the best surviving original Hellenistic sculptures. Just a short walk from Venus de Milo you will get a chance to see some impressive Italian sculptures including Michelangelo’s powerful Rebellious Slave & Dying Slave as well as Canova’s passionate Cupid & Psyche.
Before beholding Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, you will take a tour of some of the Louvre’s other eye-catching canvasses. This portion of the tour will include stops by Paolo Veronese’s Wedding Feast of Cana, Jacques-Louis David’s Coronation of Napoleon, and icons of French Romanticism like Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People and Théodore Géricault’s Raft of Medusa.
Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa
Of all the thousands of paintings housed in the Louvre, Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa remains the most popular and enigmatic work. Supposedly the portrait of a 16th-century Italian noblewoman, this painting has bewitched billions over the years and inspired countless songs, films, and novels. Since the Mona Lisa only measures only 30 x 21 inches, it’s worth getting a lookup close to truly see the details which have rendered this a masterpiece. Your LivTour guide will shed light on how this painting became one of the most well-known works of art in the world, one worth experiencing first hand.
After a pleasant stroll through Tuileries Garden, you’ll arrive at the final stop of your tour, the incredible Musee d’Orsay museum. Quieter than the Louvre, once entering with your guide, you’ll have the space and time to not only enjoy the unique architecture of the building, but soak up some of the very best art housed inside it’s walls. Your guide will help you understand the hype behind impressionism, spend time sharing the background behind Van Gogh’s Starry Night, Bal du Moulin de al Galette by Renoir, Edouard Manets’ Olympia, and witness the birth of modern art.
With so many artistic highlights seen, it will likely be difficult to name a single favorite after this Deluxe Private Paris Art Tour.
