The Louvre : all the paintings

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The Louvre : all the paintings

ISBN:

9781579128869

Publication Information:

New York : Black Dog & Leventhal : Distributed by Workman Pub., c2011.

Physical Description:

xvi, 766 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm. + 1 DVD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

General Note:

Includes indexes.

Contents:

Preface / by Henri Loyrette -- Introduction / by Vincent Pomarède -- Painting galleries of the Louvre -- The Italian school -- The northern schools -- The French school -- The Spanish school.

Corporate Subject:

Musée du Louvre -- Catalogs.

Subject Term:

Painting, European -- Catalogs.

Painting -- France -- Paris -- Catalogs.

Added Author:

Pomarède, Vincent.

Added Corporate Author:

Musée du Louvre.

Summary:

Comprehensive collection catalog of the paintings collection of the Louvre. Each entry includes artist's name, painting name, date, size, material, location in the museum, and the Louvre inventory number. The DVD-ROM includes all paintings in the book and is browsable by artist, collection, or location. The advanced search feature allows searching by title, date, material, location, and more.

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Immerse yourself in the wonder and dazzling display of 3,000 paintings in the permanent collection of the Louvre with this stunning slipcased edition of the New York Times bestselling book The Louvre: All the Paintings .

The Louvre is the most famous museum in the world. With 8.5 million visitors every year, the Louvre houses and displays many of the most celebrated and important paintings of all time. Every painting on exhibit in the permanent collection, a total of 3,022 works in all, is included in this groundbreaking book.

Divided and organized into the four main painting collections of the museum--the Italian School, the Northern School, the Spanish School, and the French School--the book includes works by well-known masters like Giotto, Fra Angelico, Ghirlandaio, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian, Veronese, Caravaggio, Van Eyck, Breughel, Memling, Holbein, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Vermeer, David, Delacroix, La Tour, Fragonard, Gericault, Ingres, Poussin, El Greco, Goya, Velasquez and many more. Four hundred of the most important paintings including the Mona Lisa and Liberty Leading the People , is given a deeper dive with commentary by art historians Anja Grebe and Vincent Pomarede.

Learn more about each artist and painting, and tour the realms of sensational masterpieces of the Louvre without ever having to leave the comfort of your home.

Author Notes

Anja Grebe teaches art history at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. She has taken part in numerous international research projects and exhibitions and has published extensively on medieval and modern art history. Grebe is also the author of The Vatican: All the Paintings . She lives in Erlangen, Germany.

Erich Lessing was an Austrian photographer who documented the culture and fine arts of Europe and the Near East for more than fifty years. He created the Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archive, which is an extensive image library featuring over 40,000 high resolution images from over 500 museums and private collections throughout the world. His work has been featured globally and produced around sixty books. In 2013 he donated 60,000 images to the archives of the Austrian National Library. Lessing died in August 2018.

Vincent Pomarede is a heritage curator and was the director of the Department of Paintings of the Louvre Museum from 2003 to 2014. Currently, he is the deputy general director of the museum.

Reviews (2)

Choice Review

This complete catalogue of all the paintings in the Louvre gives an impressive look into what is arguably one of the most important collections in the world. Together with the esteemed photographer Lessing, Pomarede, the general curator/director of the Louvre's Paintings Department, and art historian Grebe present every painting in the permanent collection as well as those on temporary display--3,022 works in total. Each piece is accompanied by a beautiful color reproduction and a listing of name, date, size, material, location in the museum, and the Louvre inventory number. The catalogue as a whole is arranged into four schools--Italian, Northern, French, and Spanish, within which paintings are organized chronologically.In today's digital age, some may question the purpose of such a print catalogue. Indeed, the Louvre has compiled its own freely accessible online database, the Louvre Atlas Database of Exhibits (CH, Feb'10, 47-2917), which includes all exhibited works in the collection. However, this print catalogue gives readers of all levels and all educational backgrounds a more informative and intimate view of the Louvre's formidable painting collection, including works in storage. At the beginning of each school section, an introductory essay by Pomarede gives fascinating insights into the history and development of each collection. Additionally, over 400 paintings are discussed with art historical nuance and depth, highlighting not only any allegorical content of a painting, but also its place within the artist's own oeuvre, its provenance, its technical genius, and its relevant sociohistorical framework. Supplementing this catalogue is a DVD-ROM that includes thumbnails of each painting, with a selected few that can be enlarged. The pieces are searchable (basic and advanced search), or browsable by collection, artist, or room. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. S. M. Quimby State University of New York at Cortland

Library Journal Review

A massive effort by Lessing (contributor, Magnum Photos), Pomarede (general curator & director, painting, Louvre), and Grebe (art history, Erlangen-Nuremberg Univ., Germany), among others, has produced this official record of the more than 3000 paintings in the Louvre. Divided into the four major collections of the museum-Italian, Northern, Spanish, and French schools-then organized chronologically according to painters' birth dates, the catalog highlights 400 works of greatest significance and popularity. All the entries include excellent color photographs, the title of work and its date, the artist's name and dates, medium, size, catalog number, and the painting's location in the Louvre (at least, at the time of printing). Nothing can replace a trip to the Louvre itself, but this is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to learn more about individual paintings and the collection as a whole. The scholarly essays, illustrations, and works of art themselves speak to the reader of a world of beauty and intellectual delight. VERDICT This volume belongs on all shelves. A major contribution to the literature of catalogs of great museum collections.-Paula Frosch, Metropolitan Museum of Art Lib., New York (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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