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

Informationen zum Autor Andrew McClellan is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Art and Art History at Tufts University. Klappentext A narrative history of the founding of the Louvre that also explores the ideological underpinnings! pedagogical aims! and aesthetic criteria of this! the first great national art museum. Zusammenfassung Founded in the final years of the Enlightenment, the Louvre became the model for all state art museums subsequently established. This text chronicles the formation of the museum from its origins in the French royal picture collections to its apotheosis during the Revolution and Napoleonic Empire. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Mcclellan, McClellan Andrew
• Assisted by: Andrew Mcclellan (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.10.1999
• EAN: 9780520221765
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22176-5
• No. of pages: 302
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History: specific events & topics, European History, Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides, HISTORY / Europe / General, TRAVEL / Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, ART / Museum Studies, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, History: specific events and topics, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Travel guides: museums, historic sites, galleries etc