Thanks to the a complimentary access from my office (they sponsor and support), I could just talk in straight from the VIP access. This is the main entrance to the Louvre and have ever running long queue. The pyramid outline would form a beacon in the middle of the square, allowing sufficient space for entrance and other activities without masking the palace behind it. In a bid to craft a distinctive structure and yet avoid taking away from the Louvre fortress, Pei settled for a glass pyramid. The architect coined the idea to construct a subterranean entrance to the museum in the central Napoleon courtyard with access to the three different arms. Pei, a Chinese-American architect, was contracted to restructure the design and merge all wings with a common access point. A relocation of the Ministry of Finance from the Richelieu wing was made to enable the Louvre Museum to occupy the entire U-shaped building. The objective was also to solve the much confusing layout of the entrances and exits which had remained a maze to many. The contemporary pyramid architecture forms a baroque contrast with the old museum’s outline. In 1981, French president Francois Mitterrand proposed a much needed expansion and modernisation of the museum in what was dubbed the Grand Louvre Project. I present to you the magnificient Louvre.Ĭombined together to create a great experience, The Louvre Pyramid, along with the museum, is the heart of Paris. The story unfolds with the opening scenes at the location of the crime which is inside the Louvre, hence we will start out journey from understanding the the locale.
#THE CHALICE AND THE BLADE SUMMARY MATRILLINEAL MOVIE#
It was this curiosity to see the locales in the movie and especially the inverted pyramid that brought me to the Louvre. Mary Magdalene is buried beneath the small pyramid which is directly below the inverted pyramid in Louvre. The Catholic Church covered up this fact, according to the novel, while a secret society called The Priory of Sion works to keep Jesus’ descendents safe. In the final scene, Robert Langdon decipher the last message that Holy Grail i.e. The conspiracy in the book is that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had children, leaving living descendents behind. Dan Brown in his thriller “The Da Vinci Code” has Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) a cryptographer and a symbolist, set off on a trail to unravel a mystery about the secret of the Holy Grail. The blade and chalice watch o’er her gatesĪ murder inside the Louvre and clues in Da Vinci paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years - which could shake the foundations of Christianity. “The Holy Grail ‘neath ancient Rosslyn waits
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