Wedding at Cana

The other day I made my way into the Louvre. Matt and I and a couple of new friends from Tech, Emily and Jessica walked around. It was one of those rainy cold days in Paris which really made it great to be inside staring at something someone else made so long ago. I think I'd like to be a sculptor. Just looking at some of the old works are Really cool to me. I mean what if they sneezed and totally ruined their inital concept.... how many times had that happened?? I mean you look at Aphrodite or something that was made about 300 years before Christ... seriously.

Just one of the amazing sculptures...typical man wrestling with the "serpant"

Would look good at Mema's house

We walked around and saw tons of neat things, like the crown jewels, a rooster which I thought would look great in Mema's house, small little relics and jewlery, one of which looked like the first play toy ever... you know the little bouncing balls that look like they've been fused together and when you throw it on the ground it bounces in all kinds of directions... yea it looked like that just made out of steel. There was a three person chair that looked like it was made for the purpose of the massage circle. I mean you can sit in it, but never see a person's face that's sitting with you... awkward.

The Massage chair

There was a sweet painting that was actually two paintings placed back to back. As you walked around it you could see both the front and back view, like it was actually happening in front of you. Such a cool idea/ concept/ loved it. It's actually a picture showing two guys wrestling for their lives. I just thought it was neat, and well displayed.



Oh and then there was little Mona. She was a lot smaller then what I expected, you could tell it was her spot in the Louvre because the crowds naturally emassed around her. We had fun taking pictures with her and what not, but the crowning painting for me in that particular room was the Wedding at Cana... a 16th century painting that is massive. It completely covers the wall opposite the blank wall with only Mona Lisa on display.

Holding Mona, she's tiny.

As you walk up to it you start discovering little things that our going on. What's happening in the painting is it's the wedding which Jesus was invited to and he turned the water into wine. Basically the first miracle. There is all sorts of things going on and it's at such a grand scale that it takes a while for things to sink in so you can finally notice all that's going all. For instance, theirs hunting dogs, people partying, someone serving up food, bringing in a huge cow or some type of meat, the bride and groom being served by a great looking man, and some other stuff that you can see hear at the video.