Inventing the Louvre : art, politics, and the origins of the modern museum in eighteenth-century Paris
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Inventing the Louvre : art, politics, and the origins of the modern museum in eighteenth-century Paris
University of California Press, 1999, c1994
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Originally published: Cambridge, England ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994
Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-277) and index
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Description
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
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