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So today I was at the Louvre for Romantisme...we looked at a bunch of stuff by David (he's one of the "grands figures" of the 18th century, and a neoclassical painter) which was sort of redundant because he's talked about in almost every art history class I've taken.
Maybe you'll recognize....















(Oath of the Horatii)

...or maybe not.

We also looked at a bunch of Rembrandt's and Rubens'...both baroque painters who along with David are important precursors to the Romantic movement.

After class I went off on my own to find this painting:


















(Le Deluge-Anne-Louis Troison Girodet)


After much frustration and really anticlimactically stumbling upon the Mona Lisa, I broke down and asked some guards where I could find it. (I have to give a presentation on it in March so I need to know where it is...) After a lot of sweating up and down stairs I asked someone else, who in turn got on the phone to ask its location. Turns out it USED to be in the Denon wing, where I was looking, but its in storage. All that for nothing. And damn was I hungry.