cool, if exhausting
Today can be summed up as follows: food, museum, food, museum, food. With a lot of walking on each side of all of those. Paris is wearing me out. So much to see and do, combined with getting homework done and figuring out the Métro and determining what I'm going to cook when and how. I think I need another weekend after this weekend. However, as I may be able to make the walking tour of Montmartre tomorrow, there goes the plan to give my legs a break for a day.
As to the two museums, one was the Musée Picasso, the other the Musée National du Moyen Age (National Museum of the Middle Ages). It is not really difficult to guess which museum I, the classics major, liked better. Also, I am jealous of the French simply for getting to have a national museum of the Middle Ages. We in the USA had to appropriate the Cloisters.
Here, have some pictures of cool medieval art:
(That one's from a series called "Heads of the Kings of Judah.")
One of a series of stained glass windows.
They also had what I am given to understand are a famous set of tapestries, "Dame à la licorne" (Lady with the unicorn). I am generally not as interested in tapestries as I am in other medieval art - I don't like the filling of the background with floral patterns and I tend to find them difficult to decode - but these were really spectacular.
Also, Elizabeth had me over for dinner tonight and cooked some delicious fish. Limited cook that I am, I am trying to figure out how to return the favor.
As to the two museums, one was the Musée Picasso, the other the Musée National du Moyen Age (National Museum of the Middle Ages). It is not really difficult to guess which museum I, the classics major, liked better. Also, I am jealous of the French simply for getting to have a national museum of the Middle Ages. We in the USA had to appropriate the Cloisters.
Here, have some pictures of cool medieval art:
(That one's from a series called "Heads of the Kings of Judah.")
One of a series of stained glass windows.
They also had what I am given to understand are a famous set of tapestries, "Dame à la licorne" (Lady with the unicorn). I am generally not as interested in tapestries as I am in other medieval art - I don't like the filling of the background with floral patterns and I tend to find them difficult to decode - but these were really spectacular.
Also, Elizabeth had me over for dinner tonight and cooked some delicious fish. Limited cook that I am, I am trying to figure out how to return the favor.