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The Musee D’Orsay lived up to its reputation as one of the great art institutions in the world — beautifully designed, architecturally magnificent, fantastic collection, meticulously curated and viewer-friendly — starting with the plaza out front and the statuary depicting the earth’s continents as female deities.
Inside you’ve got all the French greats: Cezanne, Renoir, Rodin.
Jean Delville’s phenomenal School of Plato, which looks like Jesus conducting a Body Electric workshop at a radical faerie gathering:
The most succinct description I’ve encountered of art nouveau:
And numerous discoveries, like this large and startling portrait of Sarah Bernhardt by Georges Clairin:
François Garas’s Temple of Thought (dedicated to Beethoven):
Osman Hamdy Bey’s Old Man at the Tomb of the Infants:
Ernest Barrias’s The Alligator Hunters (aka The Nubians):
I’m so literal-minded that I took this poster to mean, besides “no eating” and “no flash photos” and “no smoking,” to mean “don’t point”:
Andy gently pointed out that it probably means “Don’t touch.”
another eye opens 
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