Musee du Louvre comes to High

The High Museum has endeavored to outdo itself late this summer. At a reception, it proudly announced an unprecedented three-year relationship with one of mankind’s greatest collections of artistic expression to be found on display anywhere: the Louvre. The Parisian museum, so magnanimous in its art arsenal that it can boast thousands of artistic artifacts from all over the world, maneuvers to please an American populace by the greatest transfer of work from the museum to our country ever.

The loan will contain hundreds of works (many of which await their American debut) spanning the Louvre’s three main eras and encompassing each of the High Museum’s eight main departments.

Documents from the purported 200,000 drawings hiding in the cabinets of the Louvre will be set on display during their American expedition.

Olivier Goulet, a representative from Paris’ aesthetic stronghold, laid claim to the wonders of the High’s new cavernous partner. He declared after 12 years of employment at the Louvre that he is still subject to disorientation in the eight mile galleries of the titanic collection. He also mentioned that the facility, with 40,000 works within its walls, held a great responsibility for international culture.

The Louvre, he claimed, had been used extensively to train artists throughout its history.

The High, however, had been employed as a utility to educate the masses on the wonders of artistic appreciation. It’s a treat, without contest, that this museum, described by Goulet as an old lady with a penchant of shying away from travel, is making its way, in some capacity, to Atlanta.

Thanks to these harmonious ideologies and generous sponsorships from patrons Coca Cola, UPS, AXA Art Insurance and the Turner Broadcasting Station, a rare glimpse of man’s most celebrated creations will be available to the public, only a few miles away on Peachtree.

To convey the prodigious ramifications of this maneuver, an entire building of the museum’s complex will be cleared for this loan’s exhibits.

David Brenneman, a curator of the High, described the Louvre as “the biggest, richest candy store in the world,” a fitting description for the house of Tutankhamen’s sarcophagus, Babylonian writings, and the most renowned painting on Earth.

As Tech students, it’s excusable to mistake priceless relics from the pages of history such as those to be involved in the three-year exhibition but don’t confuse yourself, Atlanta is no destination for these national treasures.

A documentarian present at the announcement said that one very famous artist in the catalogue of pieces is awaiting shipment to Atlanta: Raphael Santi, Michaelangelo’s rival.

Poussin’s historic 15th century masterwork, Et in Arcadia Ego, is scheduled for an Atlanta viewing as well. The exhibit will also include works from Velasquez and Rembrandt.

Over the ground broken between the Louvre and the High is the sense that this is, at its heart, the fruition of the cultural compendia of Atlanta and Paris.

The Parisian emissary, Goulet, declared that all told, the reality of the relationship struck him one Saturday morning. It was the sight of Michael Shapiro running in the direction of the best smelling cheese in the hopes of importing it back to Atlanta.