The 12 Best Butts of the Louvre

Art means so many things to so many people, but let me tell you: sometimes you’ve just got to have a little bit of fun with it… If you’d rather read more art critiques and reports from other museums around the world, view my art archives here.

One might think that finding good butts among the Louvre’s masterpieces is easy, but it’s actually surprisingly hard. First, you have to discard all the early religious art where butts just lack the luster of later art periods. Second, most painters paint portraits, and that puts the butt squarely in the back—impossible to see. And third, many of them are covered due to censorship of the era or because people are portrayed sitting, or against pillars, or many other reasons.

It’s easy to get lost in the Louvre—the world’s largest art museum. While most visitors make a beeline for the highlights and spend a maximum of two hours in the museum, you could spend days wandering through the collections.

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