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Inventing the Louvre: Art, Politics, and the Origins of the Modern Museum in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Inventing the Louvre Art Politics and the Origins of the Modern Museum in EighteenthCentury Paris
Author: Andrew McClellan
Founded in the final years of the Enlightenment, the Louvrewith the greatest collection of Old Master paintings and antique sculpture assembled under one roofbecame 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 collecti...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520221765
ISBN-10: 0520221761
Publication Date: 10/26/1999
Pages: 289
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Paperback
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