The Louvre : paintings
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The Louvre : paintings
Editions Scala, c2000
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Louis XVI planned the transformation of the Louvre from a royal palace to public museum. But it was the revolution which gave the true stimulus and the Grande Gallerie was finally opened by Napoleon in 1793. With the opening of the Richelieu wing in the former Ministry of Finance, French painting is now superbly displayed in chronological order from its origins to the mid-nineteenth century, while the great masterpieces of Italian, Flemish, Dutch and German paintings are shown as never before. Michel Laclotte, former curator of the Museums, and Jean-Pierre Cuzin, Head Curator of the Department of Paintings, describe the origins and development of the different schools in a highly readable and informative text.
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Chronology French Painting Jean-Pierre Cuzin Introduction The primitive and the sixteenth century The seventeenth century The end of Louis XI's reign and the Regency The mid-eighteenth century The neo-classical period The nineteenth century European Painting Michel Laclotte Introduction The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in Italy The sixteenth century in Italy The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Flanders and Holland The seventeenth century in Flanders The seventeenth century in Holland Spain The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Italy The Germanic and Scandinavian countries Great Britain
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