Posted on 09/19/2012 3:26:47 PM PDT by EveningStar
PARIS When I. M. Peis glass pyramid opened at the Louvre more than 20 years ago, many argued that this 70-foot-tall structure had destroyed the classical beauty of one of the worlds great museums. But today, as crowds wait on long lines outside the pyramid, which serves as the Louvres main entrance, what once seemed audacious has become as accepted a part of the citys visual landscape as the Eiffel Tower or the Arc de Triomphe.
Now the museum is again risking the publics wrath as it introduces the most radical architectural intervention since the pyramid in 1989. Designed to house new galleries for Islamic art, it consists of ground- and lower-ground-level interior spaces topped by a golden, undulating roof that seems to float within the neo-Classical Visconti Courtyard in the middle of the Louvres south wing, right below the museums most popular galleries, where the Mona Lisa and Veroneses Wedding Feast of Cana are hung.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
There is certain to be something on display that will infuriate the muslim Yoots who will proceed to burn the museum to the ground.
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GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach | |
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Thanks EveningStar. And kids will get a hands-on demonstration on building suicide vests. |
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