Inventing the Louvre: Art, Politics, and the Origins of the Modern Museum in Eighteenth-Century Paris / Edition 1

by Andrew McClellan

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520221765
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	10/26/1999
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	302
Sales rank:	370,495
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

List 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