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Chapter 665: Louvre

With many thoughts in his mind, Wang Yi stayed in front of the bronze statue of Joan for two minutes, and then walked to the Louvre.

The square outside the Louvre is full of people and tourists from all over the world come here to visit.Wang Yi is very interested in this world's top four museums and the most famous art palace in the world.

Anyone who likes antique art or tourists who travel to Paris cannot miss this art palace. Wang Yi naturally wants to see this world-famous Wanbao Palace.

Just as Wang Yi was about to cross the square and enter the Louvre, Li Yan's voice suddenly came from the earphones: "Sir, look at your front left, there are three guys approaching us here, sneaky. , Obviously unkind!"

Wang Yi looked sideways and saw that not far from the square, three middle-aged people who looked like refugees from the Middle East secretly looked at them. After seeing Wang Yi's gaze, the three of them pretended to look away. .

There is no doubt that these three guys are most likely thieves. Judging from their appearance, nine out of ten are refugees, either from North Africa or from the Middle East.Over the past few years, millions of refugees have entered Europe through various channels due to wars, droughts, diseases, natural disasters and other reasons.

The European white left strongly requested the government to accept these refugees, but these people did not expect that the number of refugees would be so large, and the arrival of the refugees caused very serious security problems, and at the same time reduced their quality of life, waiting for them to regret It's already a little late.

"Change time and place, I might have the mind to play with these guys who don’t have long eyes. Forget it now, I’m not in the mood to take care of these little thieves, you will warn them in the past, let them go away and be safe. Those guys may have guns." Wang Yi glanced coldly at the three gangsters who were pretending to approach here.

"Okay sir, we will handle it carefully. The three gangsters won't disturb your play." Then there was a bodyguard disguised as a tourist and walked straight to the three gangsters.

Relying on the strength of the bodyguards far beyond ordinary people, how could the three little thieves be opponents? Before they could react, they were subdued. In the end, they could only leave quickly, with an expression that seemed as if someone behind them was pointing a gun at them. of.

After buying the tickets, Wang Yi, like all the tourists who came to visit the Louvre, chose a team to stand, and began to enter the Louvre slowly with the team!

At the main entrance of the glass pyramid, Wang Yi and the others went through a security check. After making sure that they were not carrying any weapons, they passed the security checkpoint and started walking down a spiral staircase.

About ten minutes later, after completing the ticket checking procedure on the basement level of the glass pyramid, Wang Yi walked to the Denon Pavilion on the first floor with a few people, and officially started the art tour of the Louvre.

There are so many artworks on display in the Louvre, as many as more than 400,000 pieces. It is basically an impossible task to appreciate all of these artworks, except for living in Paris in extraordinary years.

Wang Yi is in Europe and has a limited time in Paris. It is even more impossible to appreciate all the artworks displayed in this museum.You can only choose the most important and representative artworks from them, and enjoy them.

History has long given the answer to the urinary nature of the so-called civilized people in Europe.The black slave trade during the great voyage and the colonial system all over the world were all made by those civilized people.

The Louvre, the largest art palace in the world, is filled with blood and tears from many countries.

The original source of the Louvre's collection was based on the royal family's collection, which was gradually accumulated through purchases, archaeological excavations, and acceptance of donations.The history of the source of the Louvre collection is from the pioneer of the royal collection, King François I of the Valois dynasty. There are more than 150 items in the collection during the reign of François I.

The most prominent one was Louis XIV. He was in power for more than 70 years and his collection reached more than 2,300.The royal family's collection is mainly European art works such as oil paintings, sculptures, and handicrafts.The exhibition focuses on the collection of oil paintings, handicrafts and sketch prints of Louis XIV.

During the Louis XIV period, there were two other events that had a huge impact on the Louvre’s transformation from a palace to a museum. One was the establishment of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture; the other was the European Enlightenment.

This museum also acquired a large number of artworks with the rise of Gaul. It was originally the proud emperor Napoleon of Gaul, who plundered tens of thousands of artworks from European countries through war.

Since then, the government of Gaul has sent a large number of archaeological teams to the Middle East, Near East, Egypt, Greece and other countries and regions.

These archaeological teams are archeological in name, but they actually do the digging of graves in other countries and the theft of various art and cultural relics.And advertised that he was to study history and protect these cultural relics and artworks.

This kind of behavior completely changed their robbery behavior into a better way. No one asked you to come.

It is like the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, where a large number of Egyptian pharaohs are buried. After these so-called archaeological teams and explorers arrived here, they forcibly excavated these tombs and then transported all the gold and silver treasures inside.

Even in order to cover up their crimes, the tomb was completely destroyed.The famous cemetery of Tutankhamun was stolen by a group of so-called explorers, and the gold and silver treasures inside were scattered all over the place.

Because of the loss of cultural relics, UNESCO promulgated the Convention on Methods to Prohibit and Prevent the Import and Export of Cultural Property and Illegal Transfer of Ownership a few years ago, requiring them to return the cultural relics.

At this time, the nature of the robbers in these countries was fully exposed.Facing the request of the United Nations, museums in 18 countries including the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Gaul, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York jointly published the "Global Museum Value" and refused to return cultural relics to China and others. country.

For example, the Louvre in front of us, this museum has more than 400,000 items, three-quarters of which were looted through various means.

These museums also specially prepared a special lecture called "Collection History" to explain the historical origin of some collections.In the face of previous art historian Proctor’s doubts about colonial plunder, the museum shamelessly stated: “Not everything that Europeans brought back was robbed.”

Not everything is snatched. That's right, but how many of them did you buy through your normal channels?