Medici Gallery in the Louvre Museum

Let's forget about politically correctness for a second! My DNA is a mix of Corsican and 🇮🇹Italian blood so I know a thing or two about of Mediterranean mothers!

Marie de Médicis (that's the French spelling), mother of Louis XIII was no exception to that rule! To describe her as overpowering would be an understatement! As the mother of a young future king, she enjoyed her power and did all she could to extend the duration of what should have been a temporary position as Regent.

The Medicis Gallery of the Louvre Museum displays a series of paintings that originally decorated her Luxembourg Palace. Rubens illustrated twenty four episodes of the Queen's life including the complicated mother and son relationship throughout its different stages!

On the 2nd painting, you see young Louis with his parents ; on the 3rd, Louis steers the boat, the mother is supposedly letting him take over as King (not exactly what happened) ; on the 4th, the mother is escaping at night after she's been banned by her son (of course, none of the "disagreements" are actually portrayed) ; on the 5th, mother and son finally reconcile and live in harmony on the 6th...