Clemena is witty and delightful and shared interesting insights, but we would have preferred more attention on art work (rather than overall observations about art of the time, for example). When we did the walk through the Louvre with Carolyn Rossiter, she focussed on six representative pieces, including the Louvre building itself. This was a fantastic framework for her to share a huge amount of information with us.

I was expecting a museum tour with the highlights of the collection visited and explained. Instead, Clemena gave us a tour based on the emergence of individualism in portraiture. While this was of some interest, and Clemena was clearly an expert on it, we wanted to understand and appreciate the collection - not just one topic. Partway thru the tour on of the other guests requested a top ten tour and it never happened in a organized fashion. But perhaps we did see the highlights.

Our docent was very engaging and knowledgeable. I was a little disappointed, though, because I was expecting the tour to be as described, and I know that the tour will be shaped by the "intellectual proclivities of the guide" but she started out by telling us that the focus would be on portraits (which was not the stated purpose) and spent 30 minutes in the Egypt collection (which isn't even mentioned in the description). I really expected a focus on the 16th and 17th century paintings, as described. I left the group to try to do that on my own and rejoined at the end. I'm not criticizing the docent, who was wonderful, but the tour was not as described, although in fairness, I wasn't there for much of it, but relied on what she said she was going to do.

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