Underrated Louvre - Getting Off the Beaten Track at the World's Greatest Museum
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- Опубліковано 8 бер 2024
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In this video, Jessica the Museum Guide (that’s me!) takes you on a guided tour of underrated objects and paintings in the Louvre. While nothing in the Louvre is truly underrated (it’s in the world’s most famous museum, after all!) these are worthy things that often get left out of ‘top ten’ itineraries.
So, I’ve designed an in-depth museum tour that covers 13 fascinating paintings and objects that might not be on your radar. I delve into the history and symbolism of these hidden (and not-so-hidden) gems, giving you a Louvre tour that you can use to plan your trip (or just enjoy from your sofa).
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VIDEO SUMMARY
0:00 - Introduction to the Tour
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Congratulations ! 😊
No mistakes in your vidéo. ( Often one hears some myths and nonsense on youtube but your recital is flawless and perfect !)
Thank you very much.❤
I'll never be able to see it in person. Anything you show is very much appreciated. Thank you 🌻
You’re so welcome.
Yesss. I've been waiting on a good "underrated" Louvre tour that's not just "the other famous art pieces". Jessica always delivers.
Appreciate your videos, because many of these tours, I would not be able to afford to get to irl. So it's a great way to see looked over works
I’m so happy to hear that!
I'm so glad you did the foundations! I saw them shortly after they were opened to the public and its still my favorite part of the Louvre! My friends would kid me about "the basement at the Louvre." I would love to see Pere Lachaise. I really liked seeing the different "non-famous" person above ground tombs. They're so beautiful!. I'm always delighted to see anything you post, so whatever you pick next will be perfect!
Thank you so much! ❤️
I would love a video on the weirdest things in the Louve!
It’s my next next Louvre video! (After the famous paintings).
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Don't forget the little statue of Pazuzu (which still scares me) known from ' The Exorcist ' ! 😅
@@bastiennietveld7128 amazing! I didn’t know that was there. 👹👹👹
I’m always interested in the obscure and little celebrated beauties that dwell around hidden corners in the great galleries. Saint John the Baptist is a glorious piece…and I have always thought there is a seductive aspect to his expression. You always spoil us, and I love it. I can never choose favourites when you expose us to so many masterpieces that cover so many eras and periods of history. There is a touch of the Divine that threads through them all.
I will not have the chance to visit the Louvre again in this life, so your taking me is a treat for which I offer my deepest thanks. The Cupid and Psyche has long been magnetic to me, I could gaze at it for days without resting my eyes. To see the Old Gods and Goddesses portrayed throughout so many times by so many hands, many long forgotten, reminds us that the Divine endlessly inspires us. Thank you again for this.🖤🇨🇦
You’re so welcome!
Seen about half as I walked away from tour group to see other displays. Thank you for this tour.
You’re very welcome!
The statue of Eros and psyche was my favourite thing in the whole museum. I don't know why I loved it so much.
I bought a bookmark of the statue from the museum gift shop and it was my go to bookmark for about 15 years until it vanished! It might just be a bookmark but I was so upset to lose it!
I just want to take a moment to thank you for this channel, Jessica. I used your recommendations to maximize my time at The National Gallery, The V&A, and The British Museum last August. This video has given me even more ideas for my trip to Paris next spring.
I’m so happy to hear that!!!
Woohoo! Finally able to watch this :) I saw it come up a few days ago, but I've been sick and wanted to wait until I was well enough to actually appreciate it.
Hope you enjoyed it!
I love all your videos!!! ❤❤❤
Thank you! I love making them. ❤️
Yes to Pere Lachaise & Temple Church tours! I loved looking round Napoleon’s apartments at the Louvre, featuring the most oversized chandelier I’ve ever seen 😂 x
They’ve been closed for restoration for a few years, until May 2024! 😢
Yes, to all of your "let me know if you want to see more of"! This was fascinating tour of the Louvre and as close to it as I'd be interested in getting, even if I was fortunate enough to travel the world. Tear in the eye and tip of the hat to Shane MacGowan and The Pogues for introducing me many years ago to The Wreck of the Medusa. Neat to see the cassette cover photo in its' original form! Thanks, Jessica.
I didn’t realise the Pogues used this! Thanks for sharing.
"The Wake of the Medusa", from "Rum, Sodomy and the Lash". Their telling of historical events through song is glorious!@@TheMuseumGuide
Well done Jessica! Comprehensive and a very interesting selection from the vast Louvre collection. I would be very happy for you to do a series on some of the cemeteries in Paris. Not just Pere Lachaise but also Montmartre and Montparnasse. I'm sure you would have an interesting perspective that people would really enjoy! Thanks as always.
Great suggestion! Thank you for watching.
Brilliant!
Thank you!
Yes! I love cemetaries!
I’m working on it now. :)
London's Most Unusual Graveyards - A Guided Cemetery Tour
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@@TheMuseumGuide I can’t wait!
As I live in Australia, I doubt I will ever get to the Louvre in person, so thank you - and another visit about the more secret/odd/weird exhibits would be good 😀 When I did Art History in around 1971 the statue was known as the 'Nike of Samothrace', it has always been one of my favourites. I suppose nowadays people would think that name an ancient shoe! (We did know that it was 'winged victory' I think, it was a long time ago! ). I am surprised at the amount of ancient artifacts, the British museums aren't the only ones. Th is was one of your best!👏👏👏
Thank you so much! I still call her the Nike. ;)
What a fantastic tour. I dream of spending a couple of weeks there.
It’s majestic. ❤️
Excellent video, thank you, we'll definitely go watch some of the works you recommended next time we're in the Louvre.
Please do! ❤️
Wonderful, as always, thank you
You’re very welcome!
Really enjoy your vids 👍
Glad you like them!
Thank you, highly interesting and inspiring.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Obsessed with your videos
Thank you!
Great video, as usual.
Thank you!
hehe I recently finished reading Delacroix's journals and he had a few things to say about Ingres' technique too ;)
I’m living for this rivalry! 🤣
Following what you said about Ingres' Odalisque and Manet's Olympia, there was a great exhition at Orsay in 2015 called "Splendour and Misery. Pictures of Prostitution, 1850-1910". it seems that a lot of the great masters in the 1çth and beginning of the 20th centuries have painted prostitutes: Manet, Van Gogh, Degas and, of course, Toulouse-Lautrec. But to me, the masterpiece of all these "specific" paintings has to be "Rolla", by Henri Gervex, that you'de be able to see at the Musée des Beaux Arts in Bordeaux.
I have to go with the traditional interpretation of Gabrielle D'Estrees and her sister. Someone had to pay for that painting, and I don't think either Henri or Gabrielle would have wanted her to be portrayed as an incestuous lesbian. It's worth noting that Henri put on the ring during the coronation in order to show that he was symbolically wedded to the kingdom, so for Gabrielle to be shown holding it implies the possibility of a new marriage for the king.
Henri absolutely adored Gabrielle, and wanted to marry her against the wishes of most of his advisors. He seems to have genuinely admired and respected her, seeking her advice on political issues, asking her to manage many of his financial affairs for him, and allowing her to accompany him on some of his military campaigns (not that he was ever monogamous). He got his marriage to Marguerite of Valois annulled by the Pope and turned down a number of political marriages in order to try to marry her, prior to her sudden death.
None of that precludes the idea that Henri might have also wanted a spicy painting of his favourite mistress and commissioned the work with a dual purpose. Or that Gabrielle might have wanted to celebrate her pregnancy, but thought making it a salacious bath scene might have helped keep Henri interested in her while she went through pregnancy. Or even that the artist one of them hired might have started getting pervy ideas while he made the painting. But to me the overall purpose of the work must have been a romantic tribute that looks weird to modern eyes, rather than just 16th century pornography.
Absolutely awesome choices, as always. Loads of stuff I never saw when I've visited the Louvre before. And when you talk about the works that I have seen, I learn a tonne of new things about them. I love The Wedding at Cana, but didn't know it was basically the 16th century equivalent of the Sgt. Pepper's album cover! Made me really want to go back there.
I tend to agree about Gabrielle d’Estrees!
@@TheMuseumGuide The French Wars of Religion is one of the most under-appreciated historical periods ever- wars, assassinations, conspiracies, duels and romance... it was the real-life Game of Thrones.
An alternative history where Gabrielle d'Estrees got to be Queen, and hers and Henri's kids inherited the Bourbon crown is oddly fascinating.
This is incredible! Thank you so much. I'm a yes on the Temple Church please!
You’re very welcome! Temple Church is on the shortlist.
Love this kind of video! Any plans to ever visit the museums in Brussels, and make a video about them? The fine arts museum has ao. the Death of Marat by David, and there quite a few weird and interesting objects in the Arts and History Museum.
Oooh, I’d love to! I’m heading to Dunkirk, Ghent, and Amsterdam this summer. But hopefully Brussels soon.
Please do the Templar knights !
The ancient Persian empire is truly magical and fascinating and Its older than greek empire .I cant believe that the middle east part was so quite and underrated at the louvre
Me neither!
Another great video, some great choices in here - the anatomical impossibility of Ingres' Odalisque doesn't detract from the picture's overall appeal but it does make me giggle when I see it :) Incidentally, there's liaison between 'x' or 's' and a vowel, so 'beaux arts' is pronounced 'bohzar' and 'des arts' is 'dayzar' :)
I’m so rusty with my French- thank you! I thought I was pronouncing “des arts” like that. 🤦🏻♀️
Show us the weirdest things in the Louvre!
You got it! But I promise Philippe Pot will be on that list, too. 🤣
Also yes, take us on the cemetary tour. holy crap, the design and sculpture of graves is so AMAZING.
@@TheMuseumGuide That's all for the better! I had never seen that before and it was amazingly creepy!
Louvre is good
Most of Leonardo's drawings are owned by the English Royal Family. They have dozens of his works. If you cannot make it to the Louvre, then definitely visit Florence in Italy, you will not be disappointed.
The royal collection actually has more than 500 Leonardo drawings!
Hollywood graveyard did a wonderful video on Père Lachaise hitting the highlights and that's great but there have to be some weirder graves and stories to tell.
There are some WILD ones! Did they do the man with the… impressive member?
also all the videos on all the topics. i wish we got more videos from you, i like learning all the things.
@@TheMuseumGuide He did a lot of the glitterati performers, writers, and composers, and a number of the very early stars of stage and screen.
Please do video of Pere de la Chaise.
I’m starting to work on it now!
@@TheMuseumGuide Very much looking forward to it.
What's the weirdest stuff in the Louvre?
Philippe Pot has got to be one of them, but I have more up my sleeve…
47:36 am I seeing right? There in the middle is painted the last supper.
It’s a similar scene!
Pierre la Chaise!!!!
You got it! I’ll head back to Paris soon. ❤️
Did these artists use real models or not....Why is the statue Winged Victory is headless...did it rot away or was it broken 💔 off
Heads tend to get knocked off easily because the neck is a narrow point!
Yes, they used real models.
In 1980, I was 11 , I visited the Louvre before it was modernized. God what a mess !!!
I remember the Egyptian exhibition. Filled with ugly (and sometimes disgusting) mummies and looking more like a pawnshop than à museum !
Oh my god, I can’t imagine!
You are pronouncing Evreux as "Ev-ro" and it should be "Ev-hruh"
Goddamnit, I really tried to make sure I was on the ball with this one! I was assuming it was like eau (water) but of course the x would change that. Sigh.
@@TheMuseumGuide Your graciousness compels me to be instantly forgiving and supportive :D Bless you, Great video,
lol!@@TheMuseumGuide
UA-cam probably wouldn't allow it, but the hermaphrodite is another curiosity.
I’m not willing to moderate that comment section. 🫣
I thoroughly enjoyed this video! Im sure there are many more underrated obects you could tell us about...🩷
More to come!