Inventing the Louvre

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

Andrew McClellan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

302 Seiten

1999
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-22176-5 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.10.1999
Zusatzinfo	84 b-w photographs
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Reisen ► Reiseführer
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-520-22176-1 / 0520221761
ISBN-13	978-0-520-22176-5 / 9780520221765
Zustand	Neuware