Louvre Galleries, part 3

This is the third part of Louvre Galleries. The parts of this level consist of: in the open air, Margot Carviers' office and the room with paintings to the archaeological dig.

## In the open air, known references

### 10B.01 - Bucranium

Outside the LouvreBucranium
These motifs comes from antiquity, and it is called a Bucranium. During the renaissance it was used at buildings. Found a bucranium that looks like it, it came from the Ara Pacis building from 13 BC. But I didn’t found it on the exterior in the Louvre.

Fun fact: there is also a bucranium in Tomb Raider 1: **The Cistern**

### 10B.02 - Composed relief

Outside the Louvrefrontispiece of the ParthenonAthenean lady Hegisto, funerary stele
It is a mashup:

* First one is unclear
* But the central figure is similar to the **frontispiece of the Parthenon** (the so-called metopes), nowadays at British Museum. The image is mirrored, tho. It might be one of the Centaure fights instead of the Panathenian ride walk.
* And the last figure is the **Athenian lady Hegisto**, from the funerary stele that has her name. She appears chosing her jewels from a case a female slave brings her.

### 10B.03 - Mythologic figure

In gameOriginal
It is part of the exterior of the Louvre building. The north facade of the Louvre contains statues in niches. This is one of them.

### 10B.04 - Mythologic figure

In gameSouth facade of Grande Galerie orientale
I think it is a mashup of several figures.

* The giant head is a reference to the south facade of Grande Galerie.
* The angelic figures came from somewhere else.

## In the open air, unknown references

### 10B.05 - relief

Unknown maybe the exterior of the Louvre building.

### 10B.06 - object

Some kind of object that requires you to log in. Reused in the Kurtis levels.

## Margot Carviers' office, known references

Lara got to Margot Carviers' room, her objective. We skip the two rooms, the security room and the xray room.

### 10B.07 - Love and life

In gameOriginal
* Creator: George Frederic Watts (1817-1904)
* Made in: 1884-1885
* Name: Love and life
* Current location: Tate Britain formally known as Tate Gallery, London, UK.
* Original: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Love\_and\_Life.jpg

Information from Tate Britain:

> *Of all the ‘symbolical’ paintings Watts donated to Tate, he said that ‘probably Love and Life best portrays [my] message to the age.’ Love is represented by the woman on the left, and Life by the winged figure. He described the painting as ‘frail and feeble human existence aided to ascend ... by Love with its wide wings of sympathy, charity, tenderness and human affection’. Watts further explained that the two figures are ‘unclothed for they are only symbols’. In 1893, Watts gave versions of the painting to the national collections in France and the United States.*
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This is a reference to the Nephilim and having relationship with human kind.

### 10B.08 - Mountains

In gameIn game
This is an **Easter Egg**, read more here.

### 10B.09 - Map

A map of Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. It is a small hint of a location of "Game II". See the easter egg page.

### 10B.10 - Art Nouveau lamp

In game
This art nouveau lamp reminds me of the Tiffany lamp. Check out the other ones:

* Margot Carvier's Apartment
* St. Aicard's Graveyard

### 10B.11 - Castle Kriegler

This is an **Easter Egg**, read more here.

### 10B.12 - Carpet

In gameOriginal
The designers looked after each detail. On the floor lies a nice **Persian carpet**. There are a lot of carpets with a block system in the middle.

### 10B.12 - Painting

In gameSome what original
* Creator: Flanders, Brussels, Atelier de tissage
* Made in: around 1640-1660
* Name: Verdure avec un étang au milieu des arbres
* Current location: Louvre Museum
* Original: https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010101468

This is a tapestry. Also called the **Abusson verdure**. A vedure is a forest themed tapestry used in 17th century. Some of the vendure came from Flanders, but these one came from Abusson. I try to search it but there are so many images that looks like these.

### 10B.13 - Cd of Mozart

In gameOriginal cover
Cd from Mozart (I think).

## Margot Carviers' office, unknown references

### 10B.15 - Stamps

Some stamps. Might think these came from Prague, or Turkey or Germany or France. Those who know: let me know.

## Room with paintings and staircase to the archaeological dig, known references

### 10B.16 - Painting

In gameOriginal
* Creator: Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797)
* Made in: ??
* Name: A cottage on fire at night
* Current location: Unknown
* Original: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A\_cottage\_on\_fire\_at\_night\_.jpg

Don't know if it is a coincidence, but the artist came from from Derby. And Core Design was based in Derby.

### 10B.17 - The Nicomachean Ethics

In gameOriginal
* Writer: Aristotle (384-322 BC)
* Translated by: Leonardo Aretino Bruni.
* Cover by: Gabriel Altadell
* Title: Nicomachean Ethics
* Made in: 1458-1459
* Came from: https://www.schoyencollection.com/scribes-collection/colophons/aristotle-ethics-ms-111

More information:

> *The Nicomachean Ethics had an important influence on the European Middle Ages, and was one of the core works of medieval philosophy. As such, it was of great significance in the development of all modern philosophy as well as European law and theology. Aristotle became known as "the Philosopher" (for example, this is how he is referred to in the works of Thomas Aquinas). In the Middle Ages, a synthesis between Aristotelian ethics and Christian theology became widespread, as introduced by Albertus Magnus. The most important version of this synthesis was that of Thomas Aquinas. Other more "Averroist" Aristotelians such as Marsilius of Padua were also influential.*
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### 10B.18 - Pancaratnagita

In gameoriginal
Image of an 18th century manuscript of the **Bhagavad-gita**.

* Writer: Unknown
* Title: Pancaratnagita, the Bhagavadgita with accompanying texts
* Made in: ca. 1800 in Kashmir
* Came from: https://www.schoyencollection.com/23-religions/living-religions/23-16-hinduism/ithasas/pancaratnagita-ms-2099

Information:

> *The Bhagavadgita or Gita is part of the epic Mahabharata. It forms the chapters 23-40 of book 6 of the Mahabharata called the Bhisma Parva. The work is dated to the second half of the first millennium BCE.*
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### 10B.19 - Old Norwegian Girdle Calendar

In gameIn gameOriginal
* Writer: unknown
* Title: CALENDAR WITH GOLDEN NUMBERS, FEASTDAYS, OCCUPATIONS OF THE MONTHS AND HOURS OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS, TABLE WITH GOOD AND EVIL DAYS
* Made in: 1636
* Came from: https://www.schoyencollection.com/calendars-almanacs/folding-calendars/norwegian-girdle-calendar-ms-2913

It represent the months January (Ianuari), February (Februari), March (Martius), April (Aprilis), May (Majus) and June (Junius).

### 10B.20 - Stone with inscriptions

In gameOriginal
* Made in: 721-705 BCE.
* Name: Dénomination : orthostate
* Current location: Louvre Museum
* Original: https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010122698
* Current location: The Louvre Museum

The picture represents Sargon II, ruler of Assyria. It came from the palace at Durr-Sharrukin.

### 10B.21 - Juvenal Satires and The murder of Brunhila

In gameJuvenal SatiresThe murder of Brunhilda
It contains two books.

Book 1:

* Original writer: Decimus Junius Juvenalis
* Title: Satires of Juvenal
* Made in: 1453
* Came from: https://www.schoyencollection.com/literature-collection/classical-roman-literature-collection/juvenal-satires-ms-2047

> *The author makes constant allusion to history and myth as a source of object lessons or exemplars of particular vices and virtues. Coupled with his dense and elliptical Latin, these tangential references indicate that the intended reader of the Satires was highly educated. The Satires are concerned with perceived threats to the social continuity of the Roman citizens: social-climbing foreigners, unfaithfulness, and other more extreme excesses of their own class. The intended audience of the Satires constituted a subset of the Roman elite, primarily adult males of a more conservative social stance.*
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Book 2:

* Writer: Maître François
* Title: BOCCACCIO: DES CAS NOBLES HOMMES ET FEMMES
* Made in: 1475
* Came from: https://www.schoyencollection.com/literature-collection/medieval-renaissance-literature-collection/boccaccio-ms-268

### 10B.22 - Lombardus: the great gloss

In gameOriginal
* Writer: Unknown
* Title: LOMBARDUS: THE GREAT GLOSS
* Made in: 1200, France
* Came from: https://www.schoyencollection.com/bindings-bookboxes/precious-metal-painted/lombardus-great-gloss-ms-258

> *MS in Latin on vellum, Paris, France, ca. 1200, 204 ff. (complete), 28x20 cm, 2 columns, (19x12 cm), 55 lines in regular early Gothic book script of high grade and very good quality, by at least 3 scribes, marginal glosses within elegant triangular designs in an exquisite Gothic book script, authorities in narrow columns in outer margins in red, 1-line initials in blue or red sometimes with flourishes, 3-line Psalm initials in biblical text in dark blue or red with penwork, 18 4-to 16-line illuminated and 2 historiated initials in very elaborate and delicate designs of intertwined spiral stems with the heads of dragons and lions, lush leaves and clambering animals in colours, tracery and burnished gold, related to the finest MSS of the workshop of Ptolemy's Almagest (B.N. ms. lat. 16200), copied from an exemplar at St. Victor in Paris.*
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### 10B.23 - Lucius Annaeus Seneca Epistolae

In gameOriginal
* Writer: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
* Title: LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA: EPISTOLAE INCLUDING THE SPURIOUS CORRESPONDENCE WITH ST. PAUL
* Made in: 1440, Italy
* Came from: https://www.schoyencollection.com/literature-collection/classical-roman-literature-collection/seneca-epistolae-ms-2106

### 10B.24 - Coptic portrait from Egypt

In gameOriginal
Mummy portrait of a woman, Antinopolis. Around 200-249 Roman Empire in Egypt. Now in the Louvre Museum: https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010008804

### 10B.25 - Mathematical figure

* Writer: Unknown.
* Title: QU'RAN (CHINA)
* Made in: Late 16th to early 17th Century
* Came from: https://www.schoyencollection.com/23-religions/living-religions/23-13-islam/quran-koran-collection/china-quran-ms-4475

### 10B.26 - Cadmus fighting a dragon

OriginalCadmus
* Title: Krater
* Made in: 360-350 BCE, ancient Greece
* Came from: https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010274344
* Current location: The Louvre Museum

It is called a Calyx vessel. It depicts Cadmus and his fight with the dragon.

### 10B.27 - Birdcatcher cup

OriginalBirdcatcher cup
* Title: coupe de l'oiseleur
* Made in: 550 BCE.
* Came from: https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010269930
* Current location: The Louvre Museum

## Trivia

### 10B.29 - Hidden rooms and guard

Large room 1Large room 2Security guardSecurity guard seen from Lara's perspective
Some of the rooms in the outside of the Louvre has textures and you can run in these rooms. Some of the rooms have guards in it. I think it was build to make it difficult for the player to progress. The guards would spot Lara and more guards would appear.

### 10B.30 - Screen

One feature - that was scrapped - was that Lara can look on the internet and search more about some topic. But internet in 2000s was another experience than nowdays.

This is the website of Vasiley. Notice the Lux Veritatis logo in the "V". I don't know about the three pictures on the background, it could be antique. Because Matthias Vasiley was an art dealer (I think). The note with the password (who does that anyway) looks like it was written by a pirate GRG RGR RGHRH HRRHERRH etc.

### 10B.31 - Shooting the cabinets

Lara can shoot at the glasses with shows us antiquity’s. That effect is a function which is inside the GMX files called FERGYSMASHGLASS\_SMASH. This is a reference to Fergus Duggan a developer. You can view it yourself with a tool called unGMX v.1.0 by Nakamichi680. Screenshots of the .chr and .cal files and some gibberish of the FERGYSMASHCLASS.CHR file. I cannot explain it, it is just there and someday we can build our own levels.

## Notes and references

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George\_Frederic\_Watts
2. ↑ https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/watts-love-and-life-n01641
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph\_Wright\_of\_Derby
4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle
5. ↑ https://research.frick.org/spanish/detail/1681
6. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicomachean\_Ethics
7. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad\_Gita
8. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juvenal
9. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satires\_(Juvenal)