The Louvre: The Largest Art Museum in the World
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Please Simon, please do a biographics on Lawrence of Arabia Edit: ohhh and the colt m1911 .45acp automatic pistol, it'd be a perfect side project
I lived in Chesapeake Virginia, during most of my life. Very familiar with the Intercoastal Waterway. Believe George Washington surveyed it.🤔
You're very smart and mature I really wish I could be like you.
You should do a mega project video on England's ice aircraft carrier plans during ww2
I have no idea how you can make sense of any of this history, or even make time for it. Most of the history I know involve Americans, especially the wars and battles that happened on American soil. Edit: Great job making videos like these & on your other KZhead channels... How do you even manage them?
The evacuation of the Louvre was a MegaProject in itself and worth a video. As a museum registrar I am consistently awed that they packed everything up and hid it for five years and didn’t lose a single work. An amazing feat of logistics and record keeping.
Great idea. I want to know about the entire hidden from the Nazis collections. But the Mona Lisa's war time story would be a great video.
I visited the Louvre in July 1980, spending the entire day there. Nowhere near enough time to even run through it. Was able to see and photograph the lovely Mona Lisa so there's that. Although it was very busy, it was nowhere near the crowds that visit now. While I only had 3 short days to visit Paris, I fell in love with her. Maybe someday I can see her again.
I have been to the louvre with my parents years ago, and yes, I have seen The Mona Lisa, and yes, it's pretty small, I still wished that movie and TV productions wouldn't portray the painting enormously larger than it is. No air condishioning in sections since that could damage the artworks, still impressive though. Take care, and all the best.
I agree with you and me and my sister saw the museum many years ago of which I hardly remember and of course saw the rather small painting of Mona Lisa. We were quite surprised how small it was standing alone in a big room! I remember that was hanging for many years in toilet in one of King Francis I but perhaps it is Fairey tale...
I still think the intercoastal waterway along the Eastern seaboard of USA would be a cool one
No. Ancient Rome's Cloaca Maxima would be more interesting than small craft transiting New Jersey.
@@christobalcolon6601 you know Simon makes multiple videos, right? It isn't either-or, both ideas can be done. Also, it's a bit more than "small craft transiting New Jersey" lol.
@@Stormynormy42 I'm exagerating, lol
Yes!
Yes!
I've been to the Louvre! It's an awesome museum. Spent 7 hours walking around, man we're my feet hurting the next day.
I drove by the Louvre, saw the line and kept going. Paris is nice but I prefer Prague, it’s my all time favorite city in Europe. When I lived in Germany we were less than 30 minutes from the Czech border and we would visit often. Please do a video on Lidice. It’s a haunting story.
I use this channel to vicariously see and experience the things that I know I will never be able to.
so much beauty one cant help but weep
Megaproject suggestion: The Hermitage in Russia (plus special mention to the cats)
I think they've made a Geographics on it.
Visiting the Louvre was both breathtaking and overwhelming for me. We spend an entire day there and discovered so many things, yet only scratched the surface. I highly recommend a visit.
What a beautiful comment, so insight- and helpful....
Thank you Simon. I think if I can ever retire I would like to live in Paris for a year. I would visit the Louvre 5 days a week, and I would drink lots of wine. That would be nice.
Inside the museums infinity goes up on trial. Voices echo "This is what salvation must be like after a while" But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues you can tell by the way she smiles
But it's like I'm in a painting that's hanging in the Louvre; My throat starts to tickle and my nose itches, but I know that I can't move.
Thanks for the Standard measurements!
Metric IS standard around the world except the US, Myanmar and Liberia.
@@simonrancourt7834 thanks again and I love the shows.
@@simonrancourt7834 Even Myanmar is going Metric. No idea about those other cave-man states; the US and Liberia, though the US is actually officially metric, though that hasn't reliably translated to properly consistent use of SI metric units.
I wanna go back now. Been there twice and not nearly enough
Maybe you can do a video on the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.
Great video as always. A small addition. This museum is placed in the absolute center of paris, where 1 m^2 is around 14 000E for an apartment. That would be at least 1 billion E just to buy that much surface in paris. Add to that, the fact that those buildings have so much history that they would sell for way more...
I have been fortunate enough to travel to Paris twice (1987 and 2017) and visited The Louvre both times. It is an amazing and facilitating place. This brought back many wonderful memories of my times there. Next time I am in Paris I would definitely go again!!
I went to Paris in 1974, it was August and not crowded at all. It was amazing over 3 days . A museum trek through Europe is a must for any art history student ✨
I've been to Paris on a sort of culture holiday and I can confirm: You can spend days there! We had two days set aside to go to the Louvre, and we still haven't seen all the stuff we knew we wanted to look at. And that's excluding a lot of boring stuff like coin collections :-P
I was there in September 2008 and I was blown away. I am not really an art person. This gave me a new appreciation. Plus there was much more than just paintings in the place. If I were to ever go back to Paris, I would certainly go again. By the way, the photo of the crowd in front of the Mona Lisa is spot on, even 13 years ago.
Heading off to Paris in a few days. As I got older my curiosity and interests got out of hand. I take great pleasure in learning every little detail, from the technical details to the romantic stories and all in between. I'm quite sure I could spend easily spend an hour on just one of the paintings. Needless to say I'm hit by an enormous amount of anxiety lol. There is so much to see, so much to learn, so much to enjoy and relish. What an incredible feat of humanity.
Never realized it was that large. Thanks For your time!
Can we get a Smithsonian campus video?
Simon's expression when he's trying to work out if he's already covered the Pentagon "Did we cover this already? ...... I've made so many videos I lose track" Says the man with about a million KZhead channels
Simon: Go back to Paris. Go to the Louvre. It’s amazing. I bought Mona Lisa socks 🧦 in the gift shop
How is she gonna wear them? She doesn't have legs.
Badum tiss!
I've played Civ 4-6 in exess of some 3000 hours and it's like you've producing a video encyclopedia that has just that content. And it is real nice to get the depth for reading is not for everyone. Great topics all around your channels lately, great stuff!
I love all the drawings you guys threw in there. It makes it so much better.
..and that "lower" level is a HUGE bus park!!
just visited it one year ago, it's such an incredible museum
Next Megaprojects: Simon's beard!
Not just that but the whole stories and facts of beards like how like many other integral hobbies shaped humanity exclusively to men like you and me
10/10 would watch
Simon's work ethic
It’s getting there
Pretty sure that's a beard Blaze ad.
Going there and taking my time is on the bucket list
I was lucky to finally be able to visit the museum in November 2017 and even more lucky to visit Notre-Dame before the fire 🔥 I found the below ground ruins to be really interesting
Amazing video. I didn't realize how much history is behind it. Thanks
Glad to see ya do a video on the Louvre that mostly focuses on the actual palace...so many focus on the art (which isn't my interest)...would liked to have seen just a little more slowly showing each of the wings as they were added on (and maybe a why did the King add it) but overall another great video! :)
You're not interested in the art? You have the soul of a washerwoman.
They say that good artists borrow but great artists steal ...anyways, that's how I got banned from the Louvre Still waiting for Megaprojects: Our Labor Camp System
also time to flex your Ryugyong Hotel
Lol😄
Size for size, I think that the Hermitage in St Petersburg would give the Louvre a run for its money. Rumours has it that it would take 5 years to view every object in the Hermitage.
You are partially right : Hermitage is one of the five huge museums in the World and its collection is staggering. But in terms of exhibition area, the Louvre is larger (if I remember, Hermitage is n°2). Another thing to keep in mind is that number of artifacts (though interesting) is not the absolute metric concerning museums : a lot of tiny artifacts quickly make a huge collection. For instance, a coin collection (numismatic museum) can easily have hundreds of thousands items (coins), each one rather interesting and of certain museologic value.
Le Louvre. The word, the monument, the history, the heritage. Love to the world it cries out.
The looting of the world...
That's old school non-knowledge. Try figuring out how many loots gives one Storage Wars episode first!
For you all who wonder how much time it would take to see it properly, a month every day the entirety of the exhibits are 9 miles 14 KM long that is 5 hours steady walking without looking or stopping
The Louvre is massive and pretty much ruins any other museum you visit afterwards. I remember going to a museum (The Getty in LA) and thinking that it felt really small, like a closet, and then realize the last museum I had visited before it was the Louvre.
It's been cited as one of the greatest art museums on earth for a good reason
@Ghost Ghost Isn't that pretty much most museums? Especially the older they are. A lot of exhibits are often donated or sold to them too.
I visit many small local museums in the USA. Often these are in towns so small that their original one-room schoolhouse both is the museum, and contains the entire collection. All of them have at least one interesting story to tell, or one interesting artifact. The Louvre would just be overwhelming, I think, though I do appreciate it's role.
You do mean Gallic (erstwhile French), not Gaelic as in Scots background - correct?
As an englishman, I suppose he dislikes both equally.
Been there twice! It’s amazing
My wife and I had the privilege of being there last summer and it was amazing! She literally had to drag me out of the Near East halls. It’s worth every 17 euros no doubt.
Another great informative and entertaining video Simon & team. 👌you’re getting good at all these 🤣😂👌👏
@6:15 Don't worry, I'm French Canadian and even as a French speaker, we often get blamed for our pronnounciation as it is not like the French's in France ;)
PLEASE do one on the Palace at Versailles.
Do the Niagara Hydro Electric Plant. Supplies majority of power to Eastern seaboard
No
Capacity is about 2700 megawatts. That's barely enough to power the homes of New York City
One of the places I would like to visit!
"The visitor numbers in 2020 were way less." British understatement of the century.
Mega Project suggestions: Benban Solar Park, Aswan High Dam, Bar Lev Line and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
I lived in Barcelona for two years and never went inside Sagrada Familia. Just couldn't be bothered to queue 🤷 Hope that makes you feel better, Simon.
I've been to France twice, and twice failed to get into the Louvre. This video was great, I got to learn a little something of the history behind the museum, and I didn't have to stand in line for most of a day and potentially promise a future child for the chance to buy a ticket.
For many museums in Paris, you can buy a ticket online and get fast track so you don't have to spend hours in line.
I went to there.... 15.5 miles walked! And had to go to the "Disregard women, Aquire Currcy" painting.
Please do a video on the Ufzi, it’s a gorgeous museum.
I thought it was a machine gun. Oh, wait.....
HEY SIMON! How about a future video on Astana's Presidential Park in Kazakhstan? It looks fascinating and I've heard it's opulence clashes with the surrounding population. I'd love to know more about it!
How about a video about that awesome beared🔥🔥
This felt like a very educational episode of Business Blaze:) Thanks, fact boi:)
yep, definitely need a few days to see it all. i only been once and i speed walked thru 1 wing, which i dont think i even saw the whole of, then i was like screw this, im tired.
Why didn't the family visit the Louvre? *They didn't have the Monet to get Degas to make the Van Gogh* I have a Lego set of this...the set really undermines how big the place actually is
This in funny in a second way: They are all not on displayed in the Louvre, but you can find in the Musée d'Orsay. An old train station. Maybe they have enough Monet to take the train :-P
I loved the Louvre! If you tried to see everything, it would take weeks!
This place is on my bucket list
Simon, do a video on the Grand Coulee Dam!
Been to the Louvre twice.. saw the crowd around the Mona Lisa both times and decided I’d rather see a whole other gallery in the time it would take to push to the enclosed “box”.
You know you may have an addiction when you're watching a year old biographics (Cyrus the great) while waiting for Simon's bombardment of my notification feed! Keep up the awesome work Simon and Co. 🍻
can we please get a video on the apollo missions take your pick of any of them would just love to know everything that went into making them happen
Also the Louvre opened 2 news museum, one in the north of France and another in Abu Dabi.
I was 14 in 1981 when my dad took me and my sister to Paris, we flew coach while his multi millionaire friend and his daughter took the Concord. When we got to Paris we could not get in contact with them and did the typical things at the time, before the internet and cell phones, like leaving messages by phone to their hotel's front desk. We finally decided to go out without them and went to the Louvre and low and behold, in a city of 8.6 million my father get's a tap on the shoulder while standing in front of the Mona Lisa.
Why is no one talking g about how he pronounces the “R” in Louvre
I was thinking the same... cringe
Thank you! I can't concentrate on what he's saying because my ears keep picking up each time he mispronounces The Louvre. I hate being so nit-picky, but I can't help it. My ears won't unhear it, LOL! I love Simon though, no matter if he mispronounces things or not. Also, here in the U.S., the word "homely" means ugly... but I've noticed through many videos that Simon uses it as we would use the word "homey", meaning comfortable & home-like. I wonder if all Brits do this, or is it just a Simonism?
@@darlenehoward2340 homely doesn't mean ugly over here, at worst it's plain or average but mostly it's the same as home like
@@darlenehoward2340 He butchered every single french word, "Louvre" was far from the worst.
Because nobody cares really. The facts are the main reason to watch the videos. I didn't come for elocution lessons.
Now that you covered the Roman Empire not long ago, maybe covering Carthage to ?
Looks like Sam is joining Danny in the basement. The preview video is Confucius lol
Ive been to the louvre and it was the most amazing place ive ever been
1:55 - Chapter 1 - The louvre today 2:50 - Chapter 2 - The louvre castle 4:00 - Chapter 3 - The renaissance 5:35 - Chapter 4 - The grand design 7:40 - Mid roll ads 8:55 - Chapter 5 - Revolution 10:05 - Chapter 6 - Napoleon 11:10 - Chapter 7 - The paris commune 13:40 - Chapter 8 - Modern times 14:45 - Chapter 9 - Today at the louvre
Please do a video on the Soviet IS-7 tank. Its cold war, big, and an interesting looking tank.
Can u plz do a video on the British aircraft carriers Simon?
Interesting video, one small mistake I spoted... at 9:01 the painting shown "La Liberté guidant le peuple" from Eugène Delacroix does not represent the French Revolution of 1789 but the French Revolution of 1830. Annoying all those French Revolutions! Keep-up with the videos, I love the channel!
Love your vids ♥️
The Lockheed Martain P-3 Orion might make a side project at least considering a lot of photos from the USSR are from that Naval work Horse.
Spent thousands of hours on them in the 80s. An amazing plane that can take beating too. The worst weather I've seen was through the windshield of P3s
Commenting and liking so maybe they’ll see. I love that jet for its role as well.
Okay, the Louvre is great! But my favourite museum in Paris is the Pompidou Centre! It’s lively and beautiful and inviting, and they have a huge range of art. When I visited there was everything from Kandinsky and Picasso, to modern feminist art, art exploring the meaning of life and comfort. It was glorious!
Does Paris have more than just a few museum's? I'm an Australian so one museum per city is pretty standard. I can't wait to see Paris and the rest of Europe one day.
Terry Maximum Effort: Thus endeth Western Civilization. Brisbane Mike: Yes, it has lots.
@@brisbaneinsider7139 My favorite museums in Paris: 1. Arts et metiers: f.e. with the original Meter, Kilo and Liter in display (First place: Yes I'm a nerd, but I love it ;) 2. Louvre 3. Musee d'orsay: f.e with the paintings of Monet et Manet 4. Musee du bourget: Lots of plane and space stuff f.e. Concorde 5. Musee carnavalet: History of Paris -> its free entry 6. Centre George Pompidou: Modern Art 7. Musee des invalides: Military stuff and the toomb of Napoleon 8. Jardin des plantes: Gallery of Mineralogy and Geology (lots of stones) & Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (Dinosaurs and creepy orgiginal organs displays) 9. Musee des Plans-Reliefs: This is realy geeky, I love it Paris has somthing over 150 museums and we havent talked about the monuments and sightseeings...
@@c.p.2662 you should visit musée de Cluny, if you're into medieval art : the six "lady and unicorn" tapestries are exposed here as well as some original statues from Notre Dame (the heads of the Kings of Judaea statues).
You should do the USS Monitor and USS Constitution.
Simon, do Bagger 293 bucket wheel excavator! It is the largest land vehicle built (think cruise ship on land size!) I know that it is not self powered, but even still it is an amazing peice of machinery!
Anyone else get the impression Simon isn’t a fan of the French? And I don’t mean just the language…. 🤔
He is British, though he now lives in Prague, so par for the course
Even Simon gave up on Britain
Couldn't blame him if he wasn't.
tbh the french dont do that much to be likeable...
It's hard to ignore. Makes the video even more entertaining. The Brits and French love to hate each other, usually in a joking way though.
Louvré your videos Simoné 🥐 Hon hon hon 🥐
Because mispronunciation is kind of his thing, I honestly don’t know if he’s saying “Louvre” incorrectly, or I’ve be saying it wrong my whole life.
It's him. But it ain't nothing on what he does to "Tuileries."
I think hes showing his ass to the french
Great video
The Louvre is huge, the Mona Lisa is tiny. Much smaller than you expected
Trying to look at Mona Lisa is a noob move when you can just go to Italy and look at italian renaissance art
@@777jones agreed! Our chaperones when we went suggested against taking the time to see her “unless we really really REALLY wanted to”
I found it lacking myself much better works that are much less well known!
*Chris Farley Impression* "Big museum, little painting!" maybe it was better in my head lmao.
WHAT IS THIS?? A PAINTING FOR ANTS?
Potala Palace in Tibet, The Atlantic Wall, Brazilia Brazil, Disney World, or some other events such as dividing the Ottoman Empire, rebuilding eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviets, the reunification of Germany, Stalin's copy of the B-29.
I was there labor day weekend of 1986. Ground breaking was taking place then. Took pictures of Mona and the Hall of Mirrors but accidently over exposed the roll of film.... Sigh...
Napoleon III was captured by the Prussians and held captive for several months in 1870-1871, but he lived out the remainder of his life in exile in England, dying in 1873. I wish this channel would ensure it got its facts correct. Napoleon III's fate was easily checked via a simple Wikipedia search.
Suggestion: potala palace or osaka castle
Suggestion: make a video about Portugal!🇵🇹🇵🇹
I was going to play "Can you top this?" and brag that I saw the Mona Lisa at the New York World's Fair in 1963, but luckily I checked first and found that, while it was in NY, it was at the Metropolitan and not the World's Fair. I didn't see it in NY at all. I did see it at the Louvre though, in 1972. The Pieta was at the fair, however. Can I get some points for having seen that?
I dont know if you have done that already but could you do a Video if it qualifies for Megaprojects about Schloss Schönbrunn (Schönbrunn Castle)?
It should qualify. I was there years ago and it was amazing.
Highlight every art category in a separate Megaprojects video. That way you can cover Greek/Roman/Etruscan, then Islamic, etc.
Philadelphia’s City Hall, a super interesting building itself, was inspired by the Louvre.
I FEEL LIKE MORE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE LOUVRE!!!!
We went there some years ago and yes got our picture in front of Mona And we stayed just across the road so it was a short walk We looked at the paintings and then rocks and more rocks and it got boring Then on the third day I looked up to the ceilings and OMG 😳 we then spent 2 more days looking at all the ceiling art work The building is absolutely incredible but a lot of the stuff in it 🤷♂️ I did like all the mummies and there cases 👍👍
I have been to the Louvre twice. The first time was in 1997, and I beheld a temple to human creativity. The 12th Century turret had been excavated, and that was where they had the most ancient relics, the 6,000 year old Egyptian antiquities. That was awesome. The second time I went to the Louvre, they had completely screwed over the whole place. The temple to human creativity had become a pinche shopping mall. The area next to the excavated 12th Century tower with its Egyptian antiquities had become a BAD imitation of MONA (The Museum of Neon Art) that began in Downtown Los Angeles. The Egyptian antiquities, I never found those. Not sure I’d ever return to the Louvre, it was too painful to see what they have turned it into…
Good video 👍
Lots of errors-the chateaus at 3:07 is actually the chateau of Saumur-it can be seen in "The Three Precious Hours of the Duc De Berry".
I spent 10 hours there as a kid. I was incredibly upset at my family for telling me we just *HAD* to go now.