Bartz, Gabriele 1961-

Arte y arquitectura : Museo del Louvre. / txt Museo de Louvre Gabriele Bartz, Eberhard König ; [traducción del alemán : David Rosenbaum]. - 626 p. ill. (chiefly ill.), col. maps ; 17 cm. book - Arte y arquitectura . - Arte y arquitectura (Könemann) .

Index

Includes bibliographical references (p. 617)

Contents:
Plans of museum 8 --
From wolf enclosure to the greatest museum in the world 16 --
The colonnade of the Louvre and the Battle between Baroque and Classicism 22 --
The glass pyramid of the modern pharaoh 28 --
From wolf’s walk to Louis 34 --
Napoleon’s Art Thefts 48 --
The Louvre in a Nutshell 52 --
Antiquities 54 --
Oriental Antiquities (plans pp. 60/61) 56 --
Law, script, and picture: The Hammurabi Codex 68 --
The Ancient Orient - Gradle of Civilization 78 --
Islamic art (plans pp. 94/95) 92 --
Islamic Ceramics 100 --
Egyptian antiquities I (plans pp. 106/109) 104 --
With Napoleon in Egypt 116 --
Nefertiti and Ikhnaton 128 --
Egyptian antiquities II 138 --
Greek, Etruscan, and Roman antiquities (plans, pp. 146-149) 142 --
The fragments of archeology 152 --
On viewing the headless body – Rilke’s sonnet “The Archaic Torso of Apollo” 158 --
On classical nudity in the museum 164 --
Living antiquities – or how a fisherman turned into a philosopher 170 --
The queen’s summer residence as an archeological museum 174 --
From dancing and the court to the institute de France and Diana – the room of the caryatids 184 --
Sculptures 190 --
European sculpture since the middle ages (plans pp. 194/195) 192 --
From glass eyes to papier-mâché marble – the materials of sculpture 206 --
French sculpture (plans pp. 218-220) 216 --
Iconoclasm prior to the revolution 228 --
The cult of the dead and the beginnings of portraiture 236 --
The gardens of Marly 244 --
París – a synthesis of artistic forms 254 --
Paintings 258 --
Italian painting (plans pp. 272-274) 260 --
On the origins of the concepts of the “gallery” and the “salon” 264 --
Painter’s space – from gold ground to interiors and landscape 284 --
Should works of art be returned to their place of origin? The theft of the “Mona Lisa 1911” 302 --
“Mona Lisa” visits Jackie Kennedy 306 --
The Louvre during the second world war 318 --
In the light of Venice 334 --
Spanish painting (plan pp. 334/345) 340 --
From Spanish civil war veteran to De Gaulle’s culture minister – André Malraux 350 --
French painting (plans pp. 362-365) 358 --
The parliament in Paris 370 --
A mysterious thief in the Louvre 388 --
The academy of fine arts and standards in art 396--
Diderot and Greuze 406 ---
Monet’s Motif in the Louvre 432 --
English painting 442 --
Old Dutch and old German painting (plans pp. 452-453) 450 --
On the value of character portraits – the Urbino “Studiolo” 458 --
Hieronymus Bosch’s “ship of fools” – drawing and painting of the early Netherlandish artists 464 --
Flemish and Dutch Baroque painting (plan pp. 484/485) 480 --
The storming of the Louvre 494 --
On the value of pictures 514 --
Decorative arts (plans pp. 542-544) 520 --
A Neoplatonist Philosopher as Christian Martyr and the Abbey of St. Denis 526 --
Revolutions and crown jewels 556 --
Appendix 558 --
A short explanation of techniques 560 --
Glossary 568 --
Time chart 572 --
Artists’ biographies 598 --
Bibliography 617 --
Index of works 618 --
Picture and map references 626 --





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