Inventing the Louvre Art, Politics, and the Origins of the Modern Museum in Eighteenth-Century Paris

Name: Inventing the Louvre Art, Politics, and the Origins of the Modern Museum in Eighteenth-Century Paris
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ISBN: 9780520221765

ISBN-10: 0520221761

ISBN-13: 9780520221765

Edition: 1999

Authors: Andrew McClellan

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Founded in the final years of the Enlightenment, the Louvre--with the greatest collection of Old Master paintings and antique sculpture assembled under one roof--became the model for all state art museums subsequently established. Andrew McClellan chronicles the formation of this great museum from its origins in the French royal picture collections to its apotheosis during the Revolution and Napoleonic Empire. More than a narrative history, McClellan's account explores the ideological underpinnings, pedagogic aims, and aesthetic criteria of the Louvre. Drawing on new archival materials, McClellan also illuminates the art world of eighteenth-century Paris.

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/26/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.93" wide x 8.94" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Luxembourg Gallery, 1750-79



D'Angiviller's Louvre Project



The Revolutionary Louvre



The Musee Central des Arts



Alexandre Lenoir and the Museum of French Monuments


Conclusion



Arrangement of Paintings in the Luxembourg Gallery, 1750



D'Angiviller's Grands Hommes of France, by Salon



Partial Reconstruction of the Hanging Scheme at the Musee Central des Arts in 1797-8


Abbreviations Used in Notes


Notes


Bibliography


Photographic Credits


Index