A picture at the Louvre

Nope, it's not a photo of the Mona Lisa taken by holding a iPhone up above the crowd.  Sorry.  There are several those taken every minute, but sadly we're not posting one here.  Instead, here is a picture of us in front of an advertising banner.  30,000 works of art on display, and we take just one photo of  advertising.  Why?  Because it's kind of humorous, and because it's for Carte Louvre Famille.  And we have one of those.  A year's family pass to the Louvre, which is a 10 minute walk away.  How cool is that?

Thanks to Mrs. Agopian doing a wonderful art history program with Silke last year, Silke recognized a number of works today.  She was pretty much jumping up and down to see them in real life.  (So was Jerome, but he was just trying to get a view over the heads of the crowd.)

If you really want a photograph of the Mona Lisa, you can find really excellent ones on the Louvre site: http://www.louvre.fr/oeuvre-notices/portrait-de-lisa-gherardini-epouse-de-francesco-del-giocondo .

By the way, at the end of the school year, one of the exams that Silke will have is an art history exam.  There is no separate art history course, instead the material is spread across several subjects, French, History, Art and Music classes.  The exam is oral.  She needs over the course of the year to prepare an art history notebook, which she will hand to the examiner, who look through it and then ask her questions about the material that she has prepared, and Silke has to be prepared to answer and to speak intelligently about art history.