Louvre is a huge museum. You can really spend your whole day there and you won’t be done. After a while you see so many magical pieces that you generate some kind of resistance in a way that you are not easily impressed. It is a bit of an overwhelming experience. If you visit the museum without any prior-research or knowledge and just randomly walk, you might miss some of the highlights you were not even aware of. So I would definitely recommend a little bit of a research before visiting it. The first time I visited Louvre was in 2005 and I remember being disappointed by Mona Lisa as I expected it to be larger.
August 2005 with my mum 
Venus and Cupid, 1. AD 
Venus de Milo photo taken in 2014 vs 
Venus de Milo photo taken in 2005 
Venus and the Three Graces Offering Gifts to a Young Lady, / Young Lady with Venus and the Graces – Sandro BOTTICELLI, 1485
Scène du massacre de la Saint-Barthélémy – Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard, 1836 
Andromeda chained to the rock by the Nereids – Theodore Chasseriau, 1840
Liberty Leading the People – Eugène Delacroix, 1830 
Liberty Leading the People – Eugène Delacroix, 1830 
Hercules on the Pyre – Guido Reni, 1617
The Cheat with Ace of Diamonds – Georges de La Tour, 1635 
L’amour et Psyché – François-Edouard Picot, 1819 
Eva Prima Pandora, Jean Cousin the Elder, 1550
Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters, 1594 
Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters, 1594 
The Turkish Bath – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1859
