Museum Masterpieces: The Louvre

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Timeline: Louvre History 1774................................................. Comte D’Angiviller (1730–1809) is made the Royal Director of Buildings. His goal is to create a royal museum at the Louvre for the public. 1774–1792....................................... Reign of Louis XVI. July 14, 1789 ................................... Storming of the Bastille. August 10, 1792 .............................. Collapse of the monarchy. 1793................................................. The Louvre opens as the Central Museum of the Arts, a national museum, on the � rst-year anniversary of the fall of the monarchy. 1802................................................. Vivant Denon is appointed director of the museum. 1803................................................. The Louvre is the Musée Napoleon. Napoleon’s treasures are displayed. 1815................................................. The downfall of Napoleon results in the return of most art. 1830................................................. July Revolution. 1848................................................. Baron Haussmann demolishes the districts surrounding the Louvre. Architect Visconti plans the new Louvre. (1852–1870 Second Empire.) 1852................................................. Le� uel and Visconti work on new designs for the Louvre. 1870................................................. Napoleon III’s Louvre is � nished. End of the Second Empire. 90
1871................................................. On May 23, the Tuileries and the Palais-Royal are burned down. Paris Commune. 1939................................................. Museum Director Henri Verne hides the works of art in Chambord, transporting them to various chateaux. 1981................................................. The “Grand Louvre” is planned by President Mitterand. 1989................................................. Architect I. M. Pei’s Pyramide opens. 1998................................................. The “Grand Louvre” is completed. 91
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Richard Brettell, Ph.D. Margaret Mc
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INTRODUCTION Table of Contents Prof
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Scope: Museum Masterpieces: The Lou
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Palace to Museum—The Story of the
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modern archeology. The Louvre was t
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on the second (and, in most cases,
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Unknown Artist (Etruscan): Sarcopha
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Leonardo and the Origins of the Col
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Featured Masterpiece: La Joconde (T
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In addition to Leonardo, Francis I
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Italian Renaissance and Baroque Pai
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in the monastery in which he spent
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The subject of the painting, called
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Caravaggio in the Louvre The most o
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Suggested Reading Bazin, Louvre Mas
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king. Both paintings stress the phy
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The boy in the painting stands prou
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Suggested Reading Brown, The Golden
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Featured Masterpiece: The Apotheosi
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eplaced egg tempera as the dominant
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———: Hélène Fourment, c. 16
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Page 47 and 48: works in his lifetime) and because
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Page 53 and 54: The Cheat derives both its horizont
Page 55 and 56: Italian Traditions in French Painti
Page 57 and 58: Charles Le Brun: Chancellor Seguier
Page 59 and 60: The Plague of Ashdod is among the g
Page 61 and 62: Perhaps the most balanced and perfe
Page 63 and 64: Works Discussed Nicolas Poussin: Th
Page 65 and 66: Watteau and Chardin Lecture 9 Follo
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Page 71 and 72: Boucher, Fragonard, and the Rococo
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Page 77 and 78: Anthony van Dyck: Venus Asking Vulc
Page 79 and 80: display of sexism, in which men and
Page 81 and 82: The play is about Lucius Junius Bru
Page 83 and 84: Pierre Paul Prud’hon: Justice and
Page 85 and 86: contributes to a collective view of
Page 87 and 88: women, presumably in a harem, serve
Page 89 and 90: Works Discussed Eugène Delacroix:
Page 91 and 92: Visiting the Louvre 1. The Italian
Page 93 and 94: Looking at the Mona Lisa 1. Study t
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Page 99 and 100: 1528-1588..........................
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Page 103 and 104: Fresco: The art of painting on wet
Page 105 and 106: Biographical Notes Boucher, Franço
Page 107 and 108: Hals, Frans (Antwerp, c1581-Haarlem
Page 109 and 110: Weyden, Roger van der (Tournai, c13
Page 111 and 112: Brown, Jonathan. The Golden Age of
Page 113 and 114: McClellan, Andrew. Inventing the Lo
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