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Museum Masterpieces: The Louvre (Lecture Transcript and Course Guidebook) (The Great Courses)
Museum Masterpieces The Louvre - Lecture Transcript and Course Guidebook - The Great Courses Author:Richard Brettell [From back cover] This course focuses on the most famous of the Louvre's seven curatorial departments, the Department of Paintings, which is responsible for European paintings from the Middle Ages and the mid-19th century. These works of art form an encyclopedic summary of the achievements of painters that can be called the single most important... more » such collection in the world. Each lecture considers a small number of major paintings, which form a canon of European paintings from the 15th through the 10th centuries, and can serve to prepare new viewers for a visit to the Louvre or as a "study aid" for those who have already toured the collection.
Lecture 1: Palace to Museum - The Story of the Louvre.
Lecture 2: Leonardo and the Origins of the Collection.
Lecture 4: Italiam Renaissance and Baroque Paiting.
Lecture 5: Rubens and Flemish Painting: Early German.
Lecture 6: Remrandt, Vermeer, and Dutch Painting.
Lecture 7: De La Tour, Le Nain, and 17th Century Painting.
Lecture 8: Claude and Poussin - French Painters in Rome.
Lecture 9: Watteau and Chardin.
Lecture 10: Boucher, Freagonard, and the Rococo in France.
Lecture 11: Jacques-Louis David and His School.
Lecture 12: Delacroix and Ingres - The Great Dialectic.« less