The Louvre

All The Paintings

Anja Grebe, Erich Lessing, Vincent Pomarède , Ross King

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Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
20 November 2011

Art & Architecture; Art styles not defined by date; Painting & paintings; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections

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 organized 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, is given a deeper dive with commentary by art historians Anja Grebe and Vincent Pomarede.

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.

By: Vincent Pomarède
Photographs by: Erich Lessing
Foreword by: Henri Loyrette
Introduction by: Ross King
Contributions by: Anja Grebe
Imprint: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: annotated edition
Dimensions: Height: 280mm, Width: 279mm, Spine: 64mm
Weight: 4.492kg
ISBN: 9781579128869
ISBN 10: 1579128866
Pages: 784
Publication Date: 20 November 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Vincent Pomarede is the Chief Curator of the Painting Collection at the Louvre Museum. Erich Lessing has been documenting the culture and fine arts of Europe and the Near East for more than fifty years. He is arguably today's leading independent photographer of the arts of the Western world. 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, including a thorough coverage of such institutions as: the Louvre and Musee d'Orsay in Paris, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the Uffizi in Florence, the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan, the Prado in Madrid, and many more. Having worked as a photographer all over the world for more than six decades, he has published more than 40 books with his art photography. Anja Grebe teaches Art History at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg/Germany. She is taking part in numerous international research projects and exhibitions and has published extensively on medieval and modern Art History. Her most recent publications include a history of book illumination and a biography of Albrecht Durer.

Reviews for The Louvre: All The Paintings

The images are rich and sharp, the descriptions thoughtful and clear... Altogether, this is a fascinating overview for anyone looking to learn more about the grand old European masters. --USA Today This volume belongs on bookshelves. A major contribution to the literature of catalogs of great museum collections. --Bookpage With its stunning content and high-quality reproduction (and its accompanying DVD, providing a virtual tour of the galleries), The Louvre: All the Paintings is a choice gift for art lovers. --Library Journal Bring the entire museum collection to your bookshelf. --NJ Star-Ledger Can't get to Paris? Walk through the Louvre's epic collection with your fingertips.