The Louvre Museum in Paris, France: Opened in 1793, it is a palace that provides an overview of European art history.
The treasure of the museum: Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa Smile"
This world-famous art palace was built at the end of the 12th century. It was used for defense purposes at the time. Later, after a series of expansions and renovations, it gradually became a magnificent palace. From the 16th century, Francois I began to collect various works of art on a large scale. Later generations of emperors continued this tradition and enriched the Louvre. Collection. Today, the museum's collection of art has reached 400,000 pieces, including sculptures, paintings, arts and crafts, and 7 categories such as ancient Oriental, ancient Egypt, and ancient Greece and Rome. In 1981, the French government conducted a major renovation of this exquisite building. After a large-scale renovation, the Louvre has since become a professional museum. It is worth mentioning that there is a transparent pyramid building at the main entrance of the Louvre. Its designer is the famous Chinese-American architect Pei Ming.
The Louvre has now become one of the three major museums in the world. Its art collection is rich in variety and of high quality, which can be regarded as world-class. Among them, the most important three treasures of the palace are well-known to the world: "M. "Venus of Los Angeles", Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" and "Victory of Samothrace".
Venus: is a Greek work from the late 2nd century BC, written by Praxite and based on Parian marble.
Mona Lisa: The famous Italian painter Leonardo da Vinci created it around 1504. The Mona Lisa in the painting has become an aesthetic and philosophical symbolic image, and has long been the object of imitation by Dadaist and Surrealist painters.
The British Museum in London, England, opened in 1759, is the first museum in the world open to the public, with collections and displays covering the four major civilizations.
The treasure of the museum: "Yani's Book of the Dead", 1300 BC = 1200 BC.
The British Museum, also known as the British Museum, is located in Great Russell Square north of New Oxford Street. It is the oldest and most magnificent comprehensive museum in the world. It houses many cultural relics and book treasures from around the world. The richness and variety of collections are rarely seen in museums around the world.
The British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Louvre in Paris are among the three largest museums in the world. The British Museum was founded in 1753 and opened to the public in 1759. There are eight thick and tall Roman columns on both sides of the museum's main entrance. The top of each column is a triangular top with a huge relief carved on it. The whole building is majestic and spectacular. The existing building was built in the mid-19th century. It has more than 100 showrooms covering an area of ??60,000 to 70,000 square meters and contains more than 4 million exhibits.
The British Museum includes the Egyptian Museum, the Greek
Roman Museum, the West Asian Museum, the European Medieval Museum and the Oriental Art Museum. The Egyptian Museum of Antiquities is one of the largest exhibition halls in the museum. It displays large stone sculptures of humans and animals, temple buildings, numerous mummies, inscriptions and murals, engraved stone vessels and gold jewelry. Its exhibits It can be traced back to more than 5,000 years ago and has a collection of more than 70,000 pieces, including ancient Egyptian art that British naval commander Nelson seized from French King Napoleon in the 19th century.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, United States: Opened in 1880, it is known as the largest museum in the Western Hemisphere, with a collection of more than 3 million pieces, setting a model for the successful operation of modern art museums.
The treasure of the museum: Degas' "Dance Classroom"
The entire building of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is a building, covering an area of ??8 hectares, which is 1/9 of the Palace Museum in Beijing. , but the exhibition area is very large, no less than 24 hectares, which is twice the size of the Palace Museum. There are more than 200 galleries alone, housing 365,000 pieces of various cultural relics and works of art.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is backed by New York’s Central Park, offering a quiet and elegant environment amidst the bustle. However, the American creativity is not reflected in the architecture. The high steps and large columns are as rigid and monotonous as any standard museum. However, the exhibition content is rich and colorful, reflecting the American style of abundant funds and grandeur. The entire 2460-year-old Egyptian tomb is moved into a giant glass dome in the specially built hall of the museum. It is breathtaking and can be called the treasure of the museum. The Costume Museum is also the largest in the world, collecting 1.5 pieces of national costumes from five continents over four centuries.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is also known as the "New York City Museum" and "Metropolitan Museum of Art". It is the largest museum in the United States. It was first built in 1872 and expanded many times. The main body is a Gothic building, and its scale is comparable to that of the Louvre Museum and the British Museum. The whole museum occupies three floors and has 234 showrooms. It has collected various cultural relics dating back nearly 5,000 years, mainly including Egyptian art, Greek and Roman art, Eastern art, Western European art, Islamic art, American art and other departments. It also has a juvenile art museum.
The Russian Hermitage Museum opened in 1863 and is located in St. Petersburg. It was originally the private museum of Empress Catherine II.
The treasure of the museum: "Seated Voltaire"
The Hermitage, also known as the National Hermitage Museum, is one of the four major museums in the world, together with the Louvre Museum in Paris. It is as famous as the Floating Museum, the British Museum in London, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The museum was originally the private museum of Empress Catherine II. In 1764, Catherine II purchased 250 paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens and others from Berlin and stored them in the Hermitage (French, meaning "Hermit Palace") of the Hermitage. Hence the name.
The Winter Palace was first built between 1754 and 1762. It was destroyed by fire in 1837 and rebuilt between 1838 and 1839. It was damaged again during World War II and was carefully restored after the war.
There are two rows of colonnades surrounding the Winter Palace, which is majestic. More than 100 statues and large vases stand on the roof. The palace is 230 meters long, 160 meters wide and 22 meters high. It is a closed rectangle and covers an area of ??90,000 square meters, with a construction area of ??more than 46,000 square meters. The palace has three floors, 1050 rooms, 1886 doors and 117 stairs. The four sides of the Winter Palace have their own characteristics, but the interior design and decoration style are strictly unified. The palace is a quadrangular building with an inner courtyard, three directions facing the Palace Square, the Naval Command, and the Neva River respectively, and the fourth side connects to the Little Hermitage Palace. On the side facing the Winter Palace Square, with a slightly protruding center, there are three arched iron doors, and there are statues of the Atlas giants at the entrance.
When you step into the vestibule of the Winter Palace, you will see two rows of white marble columns guarding the corridor. The golden staircase at the end of the corridor is the famous "Jordan Staircase". This is quite a grand staircase. It rises from the ground floor, separates to the left and right, and meets again on the second floor. The steps, railings, handrails and square columns are all carved from white marble, with smooth and crisp lines, and every detail is polished extremely smooth. The windows, columns and lamps are decorated with golden floral decorations, which are astonishingly exquisite. Looking up, the gold-rimmed top is a huge religious-themed oil painting, surrounded by many human sculptures in different postures, showing a typical Baroque style. To this day, this huge staircase still makes everyone who enters the palace sigh.