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Book Synopsis
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.

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

Inventing the Louvre

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 26 October 1999
      ISBN-13 9780520221765
      978-0520221765
      ISBN-10 0520221761
      Also in:
      Orality / Oral transmission History: specific events and topics Travel guides: museums, historic sites

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      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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