book contains copies of old master paintings from the Louvre Museum Paris

Favorite Old Master Paintings From the Louvre Museum Paris

LACLOTTE, Michel

Abbeville Press

With superb full–color reproductions of nearly 400 of the museum's most renowned masterpieces, this glorious Tiny Folios™ volume provides a grand tour in miniature of the Louvre's unparalleled collection, and highlights the extraordinary range of artistic traditions that have gradually found their place in the world's most famous museum. Two hundred years ago, the doors of the Louvre opened to the public for the very first time. The palace of the French kings had been transformed into a museum that today stretches over an enormous architectural ensemble right in the heart of Paris. The royal collections first assembled by Francis I in the sixteenth century were later transferred to the Louvre palace, and this prestigious core was further enriched with artistic treasures during the Revolutionary period. The collections have been growing ever since, and are today divided into seven departments. Oriental Antiquities, Egyptian Antiquities, and Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities illustrate the art and culture of the ancient Near East and Middle East and the Mediterranean countries. The other four so–called "modern" departments—painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and drawing—span Western art from the height of the Middle Ages to the mid–nineteenth century.

Treasures of the Louvre (Tiny Folio, 9)

Arts & Photography

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

The autobiography of Michel Laclotte reflects upon his life at the forefront of French cultural life as the chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Musée du Louvre, as well as heading the team that created the Musée d'Orsay.

A Key to the Louvre: Memoirs of a Curator

Reference

Art historian, curator, and museum director Michel Laclotte has been at the forefront of French cultural life over the past half century. This informal autobiography sheds light on his brilliant career with warmth and directness. Highlights include twenty years as chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Musée du Louvre, heading the team that created the Musée d'Orsay, and taking the reins of the Louvre to lead the effort that culminated in the museum's transformation into the “Grand Louvre,” one of the world's preeminent cultural attractions. Raising the curtain on fifty years of Western art scholarship, intrigue, and achievement, Laclotte introduces an extraordinary cast of characters who set France's cultural direction in the postwar period from Charles de Gaulle and André Malraux in the 1950s to François Mitterand in the 1980s and 1990s. His story overlaps with virtually every major scholarly figure in French art history of the last half-century, as well as Laclotte's mentors and colleagues throughout and beyond Europe, from Roberto Longhi and Anthony Blunt to Sir John Pope-Hennessy and Millard Meiss. An incomparable testament to a period of seismic change in the museum world, this volume will be essential reading for art world afficianados and all students of art and modern culture.

Biographies & Memoirs

Book by JEAN-PIERRE CUZIN, MICHEL LACLOTTE

The Louvre, French and other European paintings

History & Criticism

P. Wilson

One hundred of the Louvre's greatest masterpieces are reproduced with accompanying commentaries by the museum's chief curator of painting

Favorite Old Master Paintings from the Louvre Museum Paris

Cuzin, Jean-Pierre

Musée Du Louvre

Abbeville Pr

This large-format edition of Abbeville's popular Tiny Folio, highlights masterpieces as chosen by the director of the world's most famous museum. Two hundred years ago, the doors of the Louvre opened to the public for the very first time. The palace of the French kings had been transformed into a museum that today stretches over an enormous architectural ensemble right in the heart of Paris. The royal collections first assembled by Francis I in the sixteenth century were later transferred to the Louvre palace, and this prestigious core was further enriched with artistic treasures during the Revolutionary period. The collections have been growing ever since, and are today divided into seven departments. Oriental Antiquities, Egyptian Antiquities, and Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities illustrate the art and culture of the ancient Near and Middle East and the Mediterranean countries. The other four so-called "modern" departments—painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and drawing—span Western art from the height of the Middle Ages to the mid-nineteenth century. With superb reproductions of nearly 400 of the museum's most renowned masterpieces, this glorious volume provides a grand tour of the Louvre's unparalleled collection, and highlights the extraordinary range of artistic traditions that have gradually found their place in this museum.

Treasures of the Louvre

Text: English, French (translation)

The Louvre: European Paintings

Painting

Scala Books

The Louvre: European Paintings (Scala Museum)

Scala Publishers, Ltd.

The collection of the French royal family

Musee du Louvre Peintures

Flammarion

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Favorite Old Master Paintings From the Louvre Museum Paris

Treasures of the Louvre (Tiny Folio, 9)

A Key to the Louvre: Memoirs of a Curator

A Key to the Louvre: Memoirs of a Curator

The Louvre, French and other European paintings

Favorite Old Master Paintings from the Louvre Museum Paris

Treasures of the Louvre

The Louvre: European Paintings

The Louvre: European Paintings (Scala Museum)

Musee du Louvre Peintures