As one of the world's top museums, the Floating Museum has a collection of tens of millions of items and is famous far and wide. Like the Forbidden City in China, the Louvre was once the palace of the royal family, the center of royal power, and the origin of urban development. I have always been curious about how the curators select a small part of the exhibits to help visitors appreciate the artistic charm of the Louvre and the diversity and richness of the collection. In addition to the prologue, this exhibition selects 126 exhibits and is mainly divided into five exhibition areas: "Palace and Royal Collection", "Louvre and the Enlightenment", "Napoleonic Museum", "From the Palace of Power to the Museum of All Nations", " "The Louvre Today" aims to describe how a world-class museum was established, hoping to explore the French's romantic pursuit of art and the charm of different civilizations in the world.
?Royal Collection. French monarchs of all ages like to express their artistic taste through collecting art works. These large collections of paintings, drawings, handicrafts and ancient relics form the most exquisite part of the Louvre Museum's collection. Among them, the collection of Louis XIV, the Sun King, is particularly spectacular.
In the picture above, Athena, the goddess of wisdom, and Ares, the god of war, fight for the guardianship of Athens. This painting is an outstanding masterpiece by the painter Jacques-Louis David during the French Revolution and plays an important role in art history. His creations mostly seek inspiration and meaning from ancient Greek and Roman legends, combining classical art forms with real life to show the atmosphere of the Revolution.
European civilization originated from ancient Greece. With the rise and fall of Greece, the sculptures and fragments of Greek temples were plundered everywhere. The conquerors conquered Greece, but were conquered by the beauty of Greece. The shadow of Greece can be seen everywhere in Western art works. Among the three treasures of the Louvre, two come from Greece - the goddess of victory and Venus. The Greeks believed that if you were close to perfection in something, you were a god. Greek gods are like heroes on earth, lying drunk on the knees of beautiful women and waking up to take over the world. Humans, like gods, can become the measure of all things. The depiction of gods’ lives comes from the magnification of human lives, which can be seen from various sculptures.
The early Greek civilization was a branch of the Cretan civilization, which was also a branch of the ancient Egyptian culture. One of the highlights of this exhibition comes from the Egyptian Pavilion of the Louvre. The core of ancient Egypt's royal power was the Pharaohs. The Pharaohs were all incarnations of the god Horus in the human world. They enjoyed the glory of the world exclusively, pursued immortality and eternity, and built grand pyramids, temples, and mausoleums. The Egyptians believed that death was not cessation, but the beginning of rebirth. A light heart goes to heaven, and the document recording these rules and trials is the Book of the Dead.
If the pyramid is a symbol of the power of the Egyptian Pharaohs, then the bronze tripod was an important weapon of the country during the Shang and Xia Dynasties in China. In the exhibition hall separated by a wall, there is a bronze tripod that witnesses the change of Chinese dynasties. These two ancient civilizations stand relatively silently and complement each other. Thinking of this, there was an electric current rushing from the spine to the top of the head, a feeling of excitement to the point of trembling.
Thinking of the blending of civilizations, the oracle bone inscriptions in the exhibition hall opposite to the south seem to clearly appear in front of you through the layers of walls... Different civilizations, as early as the beginning, have shown the form and function of their writing There is an obvious difference. In ancient China, characters were believed to be created by heaven, and oracle bone inscriptions were used for sacrificial rituals. The characters engraved on precious tortoise shells were for the purpose of communicating between heaven and earth, and had profound and mysterious meanings. The earliest cuneiform writing in the West was inscribed on clay tablets. Most of the contents were accounting, transaction contracts, etc., which were entirely practical functions. Marine civilization and continental civilization create different artistic aesthetics from fundamentally different ways of thinking. The West emphasizes logic, interpretation, and realism, and likes to experience intuitive feelings through specific images, creating statues with different images. The background and perspective of the paintings are very precise, the intersection of light and shadow, and the colors are rich. In China, emphasis is placed on perception, induction, and the unity of nature and man. Both painting and calligraphy emphasize realm and blank space, using shapes to describe emotions, blending scenes with each other, transcending the outside of the image, and capturing the surroundings.
I have always known that Westerners have an almost greedy desire to possess and collect precious cultural relics and art from various civilizations around the world. When I see the stone statues, painted figurines, pottery bowls, etc. from the ancient tombs of ancient Egypt, Greece and Persia, God statues, masonry, etc. appear in the exhibition hall as if to show off, and we have a deeper understanding of this. Judging from the massive collection of the Louvre, this is just a drop in the bucket. There are still many artifacts, calligraphy and painting treasures from my country that have been lost overseas. They are tucked away in the golden room of the Louvre, but they will not be "borrowed" and sent back to the exhibition. The reason is that everyone Everyone knows it. What I'm thinking about is that the French Revolution also suffered heavy sacrifices and countless casualties. The continuous social unrest and successive internal and external wars caused a serious economic recession and the urban facilities were dilapidated. However, it did not seem to affect too many antiques and treasures in the Louvre. ? During the French Revolution, the Palace of Versailles, which was the royal palace at that time, was plundered by the people many times, while the Louvre as a museum was protected by the government and the government, and nearly a thousand collections were transferred and kept in an orderly manner, including those of the Japanese and French troops. Trophies captured in previous wars. This is indeed worthy of admiration and reflection. We still have a long way to go on this road~~ "I Repair Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City" and other series allow us to appreciate and learn while feeling a lot of sincerity and positive energy. We can look forward to more Here~