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Of course, even though Picasso was Spanish, he left Spain while he was still a young and struggling artist, and settled in Paris, France.
当然，虽然毕加索是西班牙人，但他在仍是一名年轻为艺术奋斗的艺术家时离开了西班牙，定居到了法国巴黎。
So after visiting Spain, we went to Paris.
所以参观完西班牙后，我们去了巴黎。
During our four days in Paris we spent one whole day at the Louvre Museum,
在巴黎的四天当中，我们花了一整天参观卢浮宫，
where we saw the Mono Lisa, painted by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.
在哪儿我们看到了意大利画家列奥纳多·达·芬奇所画的《蒙娜丽莎》。
He created this work between 1503 and 1506.
他在1503到1506年间创作了这幅画。
I was really impressed by this picture of a lady with a mysterious smile.
我被画中带着神秘微笑的女子打动了。
By popular consensus, this is the most valuable painting in the world--it is impossible to caculate what price it would fetch if it ever came on the market.
这幅画被普遍认为是世界上最有价值的画作——如果它不进入市场，我们无法估量他的价值。
Besides being a painter, da Vinci was also an architect, scientist and engineer.
达·芬奇不仅是一名画家，他还是一位建筑师、一名科学家和一名工程师。
He designed many new inventions, including a primitive form of a helicopter and a tank.
他设计了很多新的发明，包括直升机和坦克的原型。
Besides the works of da Vinci, the Louvre Museum has more than 6,000 other European paintings, ranging from the 13th century to the 19th century.
除了达·芬奇的作品，卢浮宫里还藏有其他欧洲画家从13世纪到19世纪创作的六千余件作品。
It doesn't have any modern paintings in it, however.
但是，卢浮宫里没有现代油画。
Modern paintings are all kept at the Musee d'Orsay.
现代油画都保存在—奥塞美术馆里。
We went there on our second day in Paris because my aunt was eager to see the works of Claude Monet.
在巴黎的第二天我们去了那里，因为我姑姑想看看克劳德·莫奈的作品。
Monet was a French painter who lived between 1840 and 1926.
莫奈（1840－1926）是一名法国画家。
His paintings were typical of a style called Impressionism.
他的画作是印象派的代表。
With Impressionism, the painter abandons the idea of representing things exactly as they look in a photograph, but seeks to show movement and the feelings of the moment, through the use of colours, light and shadows.
印象派画家摒弃了画作必须准确表达事物的认知，而是通过颜色、光线和阴影的使用来追求当下的变化和感觉。
Monet loved to paint outdoors, and almost never used a studio.
莫奈喜欢在户外画画，从不使用工作室。
Though when he was younger he painted a wide variety of subjects, when he was older he most often painted the water lilies floating on the surface of the pond in his garden.
虽然在他年轻时他所画的事物很多样，但他年长时他经常画漂浮在他花园湖面上的睡莲。
