Musée du Louvre

Jaques Derrida

Twentieth-century French philosopher Jacques Derrida critiques famous and lesser-known works of art, discussing the history and philosophy of art, along with the ways that vision, blindness, and self-representation relate to drawing.

The Self-portrait and Other Ruins

Memoirs of the Blind

Pierre Quoniam

The Louvre

First-time visitors to the Louvre can hardly fail to be overwhelmed: how to choose among so many treasures? This guide, like the visitor, is necessarily selective. Its aim is not to show everything, but to cover everything. Through a choice of some 600 masterpieces from antiquity to the mid-nineteenth century, the reader is given as comprehensive as possible an idea of all the departments. Accompanying the commentaries on the Louvre's foremost masterpieces, presentations of the various periods and collections situate each in its artistic context and throw light on the personalities of its most famous artists. Visitors can consult this book as a prelude to their visit and return to it afterwards to learn more about their discoveries. --From publisher description.

A Guide to the Louvre

Art Treasures of the Louvre

The Masterpieces in Paintings, from XVth to XXth Century

The Louvre Museum, General Guide

National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Museo nazionale del Bargello (Florence, Italy)

Sculptor of Renaissance Florence

Desiderio Da Settignano

Adrien de Longpérier

Première partie

Notice des bronzes antiques exposés dans les galeries du Musée National du Louvre (ancien fonds et Musée Napoléon III).

Pascal Torres Guardiola

Collection Edmond de Rothschild

The Edmond de Rothschild Collection at the Musée Du Louvre

Adrien Goetz

Claudette Joannis

Selection from the Louve of over fifty precious jewelry pieces, pictured in paintings and photographs.

Jewels in the Louvre

General Guide

The Louvre Museum

Elizabeth Kennedy

Olivier Meslay

American Artists & the Louvre

The Apollo Gallery in the Louvre

A Visit to the Present Collections in the Louvre Museum, Paris

A Companion to the Louvre

Jean-Pierre Cuzin

One hundred of the Louvre's greatest masterpieces are reproduced with accompanying commentaries by the museum's chief curator of painting. -- adapted from jacket.

Favorite Old Master Paintings from the Louvre Museum, Paris

Musée du Louvre. Département des objets d'art

Furniture Collections in the Louvre: Chairs and consoles (menuiserie) 17th and 18th centuries

Alexandra Bonfante-Warren

The Musée du Louvre - that is the museum that inhabits the Louvre Palace - is the world's largest museum, and also one of the world's most exciting places. Its buildings offer a journey through time, while its galleries display works - from over eight centuries - that arouse the full range of human responses, from admiration and wonder to curiousity, lust, even anger and betrayal. The Louvre, complete with photos and historical drawings of the architectural development of the fortress turned-palace-turned-museum and 300 magnificent coloplates of works in the collection, delivers an engaging and informed account of the history that helped form this spectacular collection. Indeed it is the history of the French nation itself, a story of kings and castles, excess and poverty, empires and revolutions, love and war that gave birth to the Louvre, and the subsequent embracing of modernization coupled with a legitimate respect for the past that is the Grand Louvre today. Dubbed the "museum of the people" in 1848, the Louvre today houses arguably the most comprehensive collection of art and antiquities in the world. Alexandra Bonfante-Warren has chosen some of the most beautiful, awe-inspiring, and thought-provoking examples from each of the museum's seven departments: Egyptian Antiquities, Oriental Antiquities, Greek and Roman Antiquities, Decorative Arts, Sculpture, Paintings, and Drawings. Here are tomb paintings and sarcophagi from the Valley of the Kings, towering mythic sculptures from lost civilizations, devotional altarpieces and architectural embellishments expressing the religious fervor of the Middle Ages, and masterpieces by Giotto, Raphael, Leonardo, Rembrandt, Rubens, Delacroix, David, Vermeer, Ingres, Bosch and scores of others. Turn the pages of this book and tour the halls and galleries of an ancient palace, steeped equally in history and human emotion, where hang some of the greatest artworks ever created. The Louvre is a testament to the enduring power of great art, great minds, and great vision. -- from dust jacket.

Musée du Louvre

Books

Your next favorite book is out there