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Inventing the Louvre: Art, Politics, and the Origins of the Modern Museum in Eighteenth-Century Paris Paperback - 1999

by McClellan, Andrew

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  • Title Inventing the Louvre: Art, Politics, and the Origins of the Modern Museum in Eighteenth-Century Paris
  • Author McClellan, Andrew
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 302
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley, California
  • Date 1999-10-26
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ING9780520221765
  • ISBN 9780520221765 / 0520221761
  • Weight 1.07 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.97 x 6.03 x 0.69 in (22.78 x 15.32 x 1.75 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
    • Cultural Region: French
  • Library of Congress subjects Musee du Louvre, Art and state - France - History - 18th
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99014254
  • Dewey Decimal Code 708.436

From the publisher

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.

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Citations

  • New York Review of Books, 11/19/2009, Page 30

About the author

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

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