As some of you may know, I am spending my fall semester on a study abroad to Paris. As a geography major, I can easily make excuses for this semester's academic importance, but the truth is that I just really wanted to go to Paris. I have been taking French classes for nearly seven years, and have been interested in the language, culture, and history for even longer. My major reason for coming to Paris, besides growing more confident in my language skills, is to surround myself in art of every form. Perhaps unfortunately, for me that begins with the Ancient Greeks. For class (it is a study abroad, after all) I have been instructed to write a series of blog posts on the actual art we have found around Paris. Last week we visited le Petit Palais, a free art museum just off the Champs-Élysées. Despite its name, le Petit Palais est très grand, and we had nowhere near enough time to see it all, instead focusing on areas key to the course. In addition to Byzantine icons and Northern Renaissance landscapes and still lifes, that meant Ancient Greek and Roman pottery.
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