This tiny-format work covers one of the world's finest art collections - the Louvre in Paris. It gives a history of the museum itself and takes the reader on a guided tour of its seven departments - paintings, drawings, sculpture, decorative arts and Egyptian, Greco-Roman and...
With superb full-color reproductions of nearly 400 of the museum's most renowned masterpieces, this glorious Tiny Folios(TM) volume provides a grand tour in miniature of the Louvre's unparalleled collection, and highlights the extraordinary range of artistic traditions that...
Two hundred years ago, the doors of the Louvre opened to the public for the very first time. The palace of the French kings had been transformed into a museum that today stretches over an enormous architectural ensemble right in the heart of Paris. The royal collections first...
With superb reproductions of over 400 of the museum's most renowned masterpieces, this glorious volume provides a grand tour of the Louvre's unparalleled collection. Featuring priceless treasures from all seven departments-Oriental Antiquities, Egyptian Antiquities, Greek, Etruscan,...