The Louvre is the monster museum. It is gigantic, it challenges you to try to see it all, it presents some of the best of the best, but it keeps coming at you like an old school video game. You really have to fight crowds, noise, fatigue, pricey coffee, and Stendhal syndrome or cultural overload. Some of it is for bragging rights- I saw the Mona Lisa, some of it is for inspiration-I saw Corot's Italian oil sketches, some if it is for scholarship-I saw the Seated Scribe. You end up happy to get outside to go for a walk, if you can still walk....to escape the monster.
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