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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.
當然，雖然畢加索是西班牙人，但他在仍是一名年輕為藝術奮斗的藝術家時離開了西班牙，定居到了法國巴黎。
So after visiting Spain, we went to Paris.
所以參觀完西班牙后，我們去了巴黎。
During our four days in Paris we spent one whole day at the Louvre Museum,
在巴黎的四天當中，我們花了一整天參觀盧浮宮，
where we saw the Mono Lisa, painted by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.
在哪兒我們看到了意大利畫家列奧納多·達·芬奇所畫的《蒙娜麗莎》。
He created this work between 1503 and 1506.
他在1503到1506年間創作了這幅畫。
I was really impressed by this picture of a lady with a mysterious smile.
我被畫中帶著神秘微笑的女子打動了。
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.
這幅畫被普遍認為是世界上最有價值的畫作——如果它不進入市場，我們無法估量他的價值。
Besides being a painter, da Vinci was also an architect, scientist and engineer.
達·芬奇不僅是一名畫家，他還是一位建筑師、一名科學家和一名工程師。
He designed many new inventions, including a primitive form of a helicopter and a tank.
他設計了很多新的發明，包括直升機和坦克的原型。
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.
除了達·芬奇的作品，盧浮宮里還藏有其他歐洲畫家從13世紀到19世紀創作的六千余件作品。
It doesn't have any modern paintings in it, however.
但是，盧浮宮里沒有現代油畫。
Modern paintings are all kept at the Musee d'Orsay.
現代油畫都保存在—奧塞美術館里。
We went there on our second day in Paris because my aunt was eager to see the works of Claude Monet.
在巴黎的第二天我們去了那里，因為我姑姑想看看克勞德·莫奈的作品。
Monet was a French painter who lived between 1840 and 1926.
莫奈（1840－1926）是一名法國畫家。
His paintings were typical of a style called Impressionism.
他的畫作是印象派的代表。
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.
印象派畫家摒棄了畫作必須準確表達事物的認知，而是通過顏色、光線和陰影的使用來追求當下的變化和感覺。
Monet loved to paint outdoors, and almost never used a studio.
莫奈喜歡在戶外畫畫，從不使用工作室。
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.
雖然在他年輕時他所畫的事物很多樣，但他年長時他經常畫漂浮在他花園湖面上的睡蓮。
