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

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


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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.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction I The Luxembourg Gallery, I750-79 2 D' Angiviller's Louvre Project 3 The Revolutionary Louvre 4 The Musee Central des Arts 5 Alexandre Lenoir and the Museum of French Monuments Conclusion Appendix I Arrangement of Paintings in the Luxembourg Gallery, I750 Appendix II D' Angiviller's Grands Hommes of France, by Salon Appendix III Partial Reconstruction of the Hanging Scheme at the Musee Central des Arts in I797-8 Abbreviations Used in Notes Notes Bibliography Photographic Credits Index

About the Author :
Andrew McClellan is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Art and Art History at Tufts University.

Review :
"A masterly account. . . . A notably intelligent book which on its own terms contributes as much to our understanding of cultural life in the French Revolutionary period as did, for an earlier period, Thomas Crow's "Painters and Public Life in 18th-Century Paris."--Giles Waterfield, "Burlington Magazine


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  • ISBN-13: 9780520221765
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 302
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 499 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0520221761
  • Publisher Date: 26 Oct 1999
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 302
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Art, Politics, and the Origins of the Modern Museum in Eighteenth-Century Paris
  • Width: 152 mm


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