{"id":28720,"date":"2016-09-16T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=28720"},"modified":"2016-08-02T15:34:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T20:34:28","slug":"cruising-through-the-louvre-by-david-prudhomme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/cruising-through-the-louvre-by-david-prudhomme\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruising Through the Louvre<\/I> by David Prudhomme"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cruisingthroughthelouvre\"<\/a>Are you someone who enjoys art?\u00a0Or maybe\u00a0you are\u00a0one of those who feels like you don’t know much about art, but would be interested to learn more if your interest was piqued in just the right way. Consider yourself piqued.<\/p>\n

I think\u00a0you may enjoy taking a vicarious walk through one of the world’s most famous museums. Notwithstanding the hour of the day (past museum hours? no problem!) or the number of miles between you right now and the Louvre in Paris, you can do just that by reading the book Cruising Through the Louvre<\/a> by David Prudhomme.<\/p>\n

The book is a vehicle that, while telling a brief but entertaining story about\u00a0human behavior in relation to\u00a0art in graphic novel form,\u00a0highlights just some of the\u00a070,000 works of art in the Louvre. You can even\u00a0catch your glimpse of them without having to pay admission (library cards are free, after all!) or navigate through any of the 8.8 million annual visitors. Although, if you like people-watching that may be the best part of all. Fortunately, Prudhomme recognizes that and manages to create characters arguably as interesting as the works of art they visit.<\/p>\n

Sound like a good deal? Then I implore you to check this book out! When you read it please tell me what you think of the ending. It has a strange twist that I think lends itself to multiple interpretations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you someone who enjoys art?\u00a0Or maybe\u00a0you are\u00a0one of those who feels like you don’t know much about art, but would be interested to learn more if your interest was piqued in just the right way. Consider yourself piqued. I think\u00a0you may enjoy taking a vicarious walk through one of[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,1,8],"tags":[885,3205,3727,230,725,787,90,912,3728],"class_list":["post-28720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-art","tag-comic","tag-famous","tag-france","tag-french","tag-graphic-novel","tag-museums","tag-paintings","tag-visitors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-7te","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28720"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28909,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28720\/revisions\/28909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}