Rick Steves Tours will include at least seven museums with knowledgeable guides. In just one week, I will soak up enough art to inspire me for another year.
Paintings are my main interest, and paintings are not birthed in a vacuum. Paris has long been an incubator of the arts. The stained glass in Notre Dame and San Chappel are hundreds of years old. The tapestry at the Cluny Museum, the countless treasures of the Louvre, including the gem studded sword of Alexander the Great, the flying buttress of Notre Dame --all have layers of history.
And that's only the visual arts. Paris has inspired amazing literary, musical and performance art as well.