day12 Petit Palais
Today got to 3 deg C while we were out... and it rained! (if only we could channel all this water to Australia...)
We went to the Petit Palais, with lots of works of art from antiquity to modern. Lots of medieval and renaissance stuff i have not seen before...
hmmm...
16th C watch
1520-40 and 16thC rosaries , France
venetian glass, 16thC... there you go OOnagh
gobs and gobs of majolica... and I got to see the backs of most of them! wahoo
16thC pendant of a pelican... for Aislinn
some later stuff... LouisV-VI ... they had gorgeous carved walls and furniture...
yummy
Of course, it was a palace and the architecture itself was gorgeous. I always look up and down when I got to these places. The locals probably see it all the time, but we don't have much of this at home. Many of the floors were mosaics..
Outside more pics...
nearby is Pont Alexandre III
Yes, it was cold ad wet... how cold... definately brass monkey weather!
We went to the Petit Palais, with lots of works of art from antiquity to modern. Lots of medieval and renaissance stuff i have not seen before...
hmmm...
16th C watch
1520-40 and 16thC rosaries , France
venetian glass, 16thC... there you go OOnagh
gobs and gobs of majolica... and I got to see the backs of most of them! wahoo
16thC pendant of a pelican... for Aislinn
some later stuff... LouisV-VI ... they had gorgeous carved walls and furniture...
yummy
Of course, it was a palace and the architecture itself was gorgeous. I always look up and down when I got to these places. The locals probably see it all the time, but we don't have much of this at home. Many of the floors were mosaics..
Outside more pics...
nearby is Pont Alexandre III
Yes, it was cold ad wet... how cold... definately brass monkey weather!