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Statues at the Louvre

By Emma-Jane Browne

June 25^th, 2014

I’ve always had a strange fondness for statues. I find it fascinating how still and yet so expressive they can be. Every second you can almost expect to see them become alive. As a child I was convinced that they would move as soon as we looked away. I would turn away and jump back around again hoping to catch a glimpse of them in movement…

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What I love the most when visiting the Louvre’s sculpture collections is looking at the details. I have seen these statues dozens of times, and yet every time I will find some intricate new detail…

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I like the Louvre most earliest in the morning, before the rooms fill up with the muffled chatter of hundreds of visitors. It’s then I can truly appreciate the emotions breaking free from marble, stone and clay. I can hear the laughter, the tears and the sorrow arise from each one of these timeless faces.