Thursday, June 11, 2015

Day 10 / The Orangerie Museum

It was refreshing to visit The Musée de l'Orangerie, an art gallery of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings, after the Louvre visit yesterday. The Orangerie Museum is located in the Tuileries Gardens next to the Place de la Concorde.
It was full of Monet's Water Lilies!




...and many other famous art, also. Here are some Amedo Modigliani pieces.

 ...and Cézanne pieces,

 
 ...and Picasso pieces,
...and Renoir, 



...and so many other famous artists and renowned pieces! It is most famous for 8 murals of water lilies by Claude Monet, known as the Nymphéas. These paintings were arranged on the ground floor of the Orangerie in 1927. These paintings, displayed in two oval rooms all along the walls, are under direct diffused light as was originally intended by Monet. When I walked into these rooms, I felt a peaceful feeling emanating from all of the relaxing blue and green colors within the paintings.