Paris is one of the European capitals with a greater artistic heritage. The numerous museums that are in the city contain a great number of works of art all the styles and pictorial currents, very recognized by the general public.
It is really difficult to be able to make a list of the best paintings from Parisian showrooms. However, either because of their history or because of their painters, there are some who have become international references and fame. We want to make a list of all those paintings that you will be able to see if you travel to Paris and that you have to see, yes or yes, in person.
La Gioconda
The room in which the painting is exhibited is always packed with visitors who want to take a picture with the oil. Its fame is the result of its great beauty and the mysteries that the face of one of da Vinci’s best-known characters keeps.
The Weddings Of Cana
Paolo Veronese’s painting has been in the Louvre Museum since Napoleon took it to Paris in 1797. It is one of the most important works of art Venetian painting and represents the Wedding at Cana, a story that recounts the Gospel of John of the New Testament.
The Oath Of Horacios
It is considered the benchmark of neoclassical painting and is the work of the painter Jacques-Louis David. It is exhibited in one of the galleries of the Louvre Museum and is a classic in Art History books. It represents the oath of three Roman Horatii and symbolizes the power of duty over personal life.
Most of the most famous paintings found in the French capital are exhibited in the Louvre and Orsay museums. However, Paris offers a wide range of museums and galleries that you can not miss if you’re a lover of painting, sculpture and culture in general.
Freedom Leading The People
Eugène Delacroix’s painting is kept in the Louvre Museum and represents a scene from the bourgeois revolution of 1830 that took place in Paris. On the canvas, you can see a woman with the French flag and her chest in the air, which is an allegory of Freedom, which has already become a universal icon. The Coldplay music group, without going any further, used this painting as the cover of their album “viva la Vida”.
The Crowning Of Napoleon
It is one of the best-known works of art by Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon’s official painter, which is on display in the Louvre Museum. It is characterized by its large dimensions and its neoclassical style. The painting illustrates the moment in which Napoleon crowns himself as Emperor, in a ceremony that takes place in the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris in 1804.
The Card Players
This is the last frame of a series of five, which made Paul Cézanne between 1890 and 1895, in which two men playing cards are represented. This latest version is in the Musée d’Orsay and belongs to the mature period of the Post-Impressionist artist.
The Dance Class
The dance class is exhibited in the galleries of the Musée d’Orsay and is one of the best-known works of art by Edgar Degas. The impressionist painter often went to the Opera, where he liked to sneak into dance classes. This painting illustrates an everyday moment in one of the pauses in the dancers’ rehearsal.
I Leave You Uner Sur L’herbe
Édouard Manet’s painting was painted in 1863 and is on display at the Musée d’Orsay. It is characterized by the juxtaposition of dark and illuminated spaces, and by its theme that claims individual freedom. It was a very controversial painting in its time because it presented a completely naked woman eating with two clothed men.
Dance In The Moulin De La Galette
The painting by Pierre Auguste Renoir is one of the most important works in the Impressionist style on display at the Musée d’Orsay. A classic in Artbooks, it shows a Sunday dance at the Moulin de la Galette, a place located in Montmartre where Parisian artists, writers and workers met.
Don’t let art books tell you about it and come see these incredible works of art live. Get on the Renfe-SNCF in Cooperation high-speed trains and get to the Louvre Museum in less than fifteen minutes from Gare de Lyon!
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