The Louvre

by Laclotte, Michel; Cuzin, Jean-Pierre; Reunion Des Musees Nationaux (France)

• ISBN13: 9782866562366
• ISBN10: 2866562364
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Scala Books

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Chronology	4	(7)
French Painting	11	(138)
Jean-Pierre Cuzin
Introduction	12	(5)
The primitive and the sixteenth century	17	(18)
The seventeenth century	35	(28)
The end of Louis XIV's reign and the Regency	63	(12)
The mid-eighteenth century	75	(24)
The neo-classical period	99	(18)
The nineteenth century	117	(32)
European Painting	149	(136)
Michel Laclotte
Introduction	150	(5)
The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in Italy	155	(20)
The sixteenth century in Italy	175	(18)
The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Flanders and Holland	193	(14)
The seventeenth century in Flanders	207	(10)
The seventeenth century in Holland	217	(18)
Spain	235	(12)
The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Italy	247	(20)
The Germanic and Scandinavian countries	267	(10)
Great Britain	277	(8)
Index	285