Art Museo del Louvre Bartz, Gabriele 1961- creator König, Eberhard. text bibliography gw 2005 monographic spa

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626 p. ill. (chiefly ill.), col. maps ; 17 cm. 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 -- Gabriele Bartz, Eberhard König ; [traducción del alemán : David Rosenbaum]. Index Includes bibliographical references (p. 617) Musée du Louvre. Architecture France Paris Guidebooks Art museums France Paris Art France Paris Guidebooks N2030 B3718 2005 9780841671591 pucpr 032311 20260312120432.0 eng