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

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1999
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Founded in the final years of the Enlightenment, the Louvre became the model for all state art museums subsequently established. This text chronicles the formation of the museum from its origins in the French royal picture collections to its apotheosis during the Revolution and Napoleonic Empire.

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Founded in the final years of the Enlightenment, the Louvre became the model for all state art museums subsequently established. This text chronicles the formation of the museum from its origins in the French royal picture collections to its apotheosis during the Revolution and Napoleonic Empire.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 302
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 27 Oct 1999
ISBN 10: 0520221761
ISBN 13: 9780520221765