Stone, concrete, paved courtyards, almost ancient columns, a sumptuous chapel surviving from the convent of the Petits-Augustins, a cloister, a gigantic palace with a magical glass roof, ordinary functional buildings surrounding an elegant 18th century palace, statues, frescoes, billboards. graffiti, corners, such is the vast School of Fine Arts, stretched along the edges of the Seinein front of the Louvre.