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Originally Posted by WishfulThinker66
I saw the Mona Lisa (not actually its real name) at the Louvre in Paris. It is but a postage stamp in comparison to the size I was expecting. A very small painting. There were hundreds crammed into the room to see her. She was every bit as magnificent as I had hoped she would be. I had a terrible time in Paris actually but this experience really stands out.
I went to a Rembrandt museum in Amsterdam and that was memorable too.
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So many paintings are much smaller IRL than I would have expected them to be. In many cases (Vincent, for example) the artist didn't have money for larger canvases. Sad.
I'm sorry to hear that you had a terrible time in Paris. Paris definitely takes getting used to. It's not like reading about the city in a book, or seeing it in a movie.