Greek and Egyptian Sculptures at the Louvre

Meghan writes...

We went to Paris by train on November 5^th. We were going there to see the Louvre museum. There were a lot of people there. There was a big pyramid that was made of 673 panes of glass and you have to go inside it to get into the Louvre. There was lots of security there, kind of like an airport. The Louvre building looks very old.

First we went to see the Mona Lisa. We went into the Denon wing and followed the signs that said “Italian Paintings”. There were lots of people gathered there to see the famous painting. I waited until there was a gap in the people and then snuck through to get a picture of it. It is a nice painting.

I am going to compare two types of statues, one is Greek and one is Egyptian.

This is the Greek one:

The Greeks are expressive sculptors. They also like sculpting the gods. This statue is made of marble and the lady in the sculpting is Artemis, the Greek goddess of the hunt. Artemis is also the daughter of Zeus. The statue was discovered in Italy. It was restored twice, once in 1602 by Barthëlemy Prieur and once in 1808 by Lange.

This is the Egyptian sculpture:

This Egyptian sculpture is made of sandstone. It is a statue of king Seti II. With another statue kept in the museum in Turin, it provided guidance entry to a repository in the courtyard of the Temple of Amon at Karnak. The Egyptians put a lot of writing on their statues. I think the Greeks put more detail on their statues than the Egyptians.