seeing the ceiling
One of the amazing sights in the Louvre were the ceilings. Ornate with gold leaf (although my guess is it was fake gold leaf), frescoes, pictures, carvings and plaster figures. Often the walls were subdued so as not to overshadow the paintings and other artwork in the viewing halls. The ceilings on the other hand never stopped and to my eyes never repeated themselves. Normally your eye would gravitate to the artwork on the walls. Only when you stopped for a break, sitting on one of the few benches that you could cast your eye above. The ceilings were worth the price of admission by themselves. Too 2 days to get the crick out of my neck.
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