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The Louvre: All The Paintings

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The Louvre: All The Paintings offers an immersive journey through the permanent collection of the world’s most famous museum, the Louvre. This comprehensive volume showcases all 3,022 paintings held in the museum, carefully organised into the Italian, Northern, Spanish, and French schools. Featuring masterpieces by renowned artists such as Leonardo, Raphael, Rembrandt, Goya, and many others, the book presents deeper commentary on 400 key works, including iconic pieces like the Mona Lisa and Liberty Leading the People. It enables art lovers to explore these sensational masterpieces from the comfort of home.
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This book is ideal for art lovers, students of art history, museum enthusiasts, and anyone seeking a comprehensive visual and scholarly guide to the Louvre’s paintings.

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A historic publishing event! For the first time ever, all 3,022 paintings from the world's most popular museum are collected into a striking, slipcased book and DVD-ROM set.

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Immerse yourself in the wonder and dazzling display of 3,000 paintings in the permanent collection of the Louvre with this stunning slipcased edition of the New York Times bestselling book The Louvre: All the Paintings.

The Louvre is the most famous museum in the world. With 8.5 million visitors every year, the Louvre houses and displays many of the most celebrated and important paintings of all time. Every painting on exhibit in the permanent collection, a total of 3,022 works in all, is included in this groundbreaking book.

Divided and organised into the four main painting collections of the museum—the Italian School, the Northern School, the Spanish School, and the French School—the book includes works by well-known masters like Giotto, Fra Angelico, Ghirlandaio, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian, Veronese, Caravaggio, Van Eyck, Breughel, Memling, Holbein, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Vermeer, David, Delacroix, La Tour, Fragonard, Gericault, Ingres, Poussin, El Greco, Goya, Velasquez and many more. Four hundred of the most important paintings, including the Mona Lisa and Liberty Leading the People, are given a deeper dive with commentary by art historians Anja Grebe and Vincent Pomarède.

Learn more about each artist and painting, and tour the realms of sensational masterpieces of the Louvre without ever having to leave the comfort of your home.

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The Louvre: All The Paintings is praised for bringing the entire museum collection to your bookshelf, making it a major contribution to art literature. Reviews highlight its stunning content, high-quality reproductions, and thoughtful descriptions. It is recommended as a choice gift for art enthusiasts and provides a fascinating overview of European masters. Sources include NJ Star-Ledger, Bookpage, Library Journal, and USA Today.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781579128869

Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 November 2011

Country: United States

Imprint: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc

Contributors:

  • Photographs by Erich Lessing
  • Introduction by Ross King
  • Contributions by Anja Grebe
  • Foreword by Henri Loyrette

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 64.0mm

Width: 279.0mm

Height: 280.0mm

Weight: 4386g

Pages: 784

About the Author

Anja Grebe teaches art history at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. She has taken part in numerous international research projects and exhibitions and has published extensively on medieval and modern art history. Grebe is also the author of The Vatican: All the Paintings. She lives in Erlangen, Germany.

Erich Lessing was an Austrian photographer who documented the culture and fine arts of Europe and the Near East for more than fifty years. He created the Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archive, which is an extensive image library featuring over 40,000 high resolution images from over 500 museums and private collections throughout the world. His work has been featured globally and produced around sixty books. In 2013 he donated 60,000 images to the archives of the Austrian National Library. Lessing died in August 2018.

Vincent Pomarede is a heritage curator and was the director of the Department of Paintings of the Louvre Museum from 2003 to 2014. Currently, he is the deputy general director of the museum.

Henri Loyrette is the former chairman of Admical, a French organization dedicated to corporate philanthropy, and the former director of the Louvre Museum. He is also an author with a total of nineteen books on various subject, including Degas, Gustave Eiffel, and Marcel Proust.

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