Louvre Pyramid – Paris

Architectural masterpiece admired each year by millions of visitors and by Parisians in love with their city, both a glass and metal monster, but also a masterly light piece, it is the Grand Louvre signature. How not to be touched by such a work? Especially by twilight, after the rain gave the parisian sky and ground this unique light …

The Louvre Pyramid combines technical mastery and aesthetic. But not only. It rises majestically into the sky while its little sister, the inverted pyramid, points to the depth and reminds us that just a few meters beneath, the foundations of the old medieval Louvre are asleep. According to me, the verticality of the work symbolizes perfectly the historical character of the place: the vertical as the spatial representation of passing time, the cities testifying to their past by revealing their different strata.

What I like in the pyramid of the Louvre is the fruitful confrontation between classical and contemporary, but even more the modern reinterpretation of aboriginal architectural models in a work so ingrained in its century, the twentieth of our era. Through it, the Egyptian architects meet the Flemish painters, the Victory of Samothrace, Ingres and Gericault …

Picture & text by AF