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quick summaries:

1. notre dame is really huge. i mean REALLY HUGE. you could fit three grey whales inside that thing. and throw in a couple of giant squid, to boot.
2. saint chapelle, while being much smaller (maybe one whale, if you curled it up), has gorgeous stained glass windows.
3. went back to louvre for another half day today, hitting the german, flemish, and dutch paintings, as well as spending a lot of time in my favorite room, the gallery de medici. while we both had the audioguides this time, we still had some trouble piecing together exactly how things fit together and why or what some of the stuff in the rooms was important. we ended up quickly looking at the mesopotamian artifacts, including the winged beared bulls.

as it turns out, in the gift shop, which we had been responsibly avoiding, there’s a louvre guide to german, flemish, and dutch paintings. why didn’t they tell us this before we went up there? it could have been so simple…

Posted at March 7, 2005 3:36 PM