Expulsion from the Garden: The Louvre's Cour Marly

Expulsion from the Garden: The Louvre's Cour Marly

The Cour Marly in the Musée du Louvre is grand. Filled with natural light and a forest of ficus trees, the courtyard houses an army of grand marble statuary. These stone figures display movement despite their insistent stillness, with rearing horses, racing gods and goddesses, harmonious allegories of rivers and [...]

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Dancing with statues at the Louvre

Dancing with statues at the Louvre

It was Friday night and the Louvre felt like it belonged to me. I wandered through dim galleries until I came upon one of my favorite spaces in the Louvre: the Cour Marly, the enormous glass-roofed gallery filled with outdoor statuary from the park of the Château de Marly. People [ ... ]

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