Description
Book SynopsisFounded 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 ContentsList 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
