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Bring the entire museum collection to your bookshelf.―NJ Star-LedgerWith 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 JournalThis volume belongs on bookshelves. A major contribution to the literature of catalogs of great museum collections.―BookpageThe 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 TodayCan't get to Paris? Walk through the Louvre's epic collection with your fingertips.
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About the Author
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. Grebe is the author of The Louvre: All the Paintings and The Vatican: All the Paintings. She lives in Erlangen, Germany.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 in 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 the Musée 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. He lives in Vienna and travels regularly to Paris and other art capitals of the world.Henri Loyrette has been the President and Director of the Musée du Louvre since April 2001. Prior to his appointment at the Louvre, Loyrette served as Director of the Musée d'Orsay from 1994 to 2001, and Curator at the Musée d'Orsay from 1978 to 1999. With a master's degree in history, Loyrette was a scholar at the French Academy in Rome from 1975 to 1977. A member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts since 1997, Loyrette is also a trustee of the Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français and Cité de la Musique.
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Product details
Hardcover: 784 pages
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal (November 15, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1579128866
ISBN-13: 978-1579128869
Product Dimensions:
11 x 2.5 x 11 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.5 out of 5 stars
234 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#31,829 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Photos are so small, dvd photos are small and its slow to navigate. I get that there are just too many paintings to thoroughly cover all the works but the photos are so small! I would consider it more of a book of thumbnails. I had hoped that the dvd would give me access to better quality, larger photos than the website but it does not. If you're a fan of art, check out the Museo del Prado's excellent online collection.
I bought the book and DVD because my husband and I hadn't been able to visit the Louvre in our recent short trip to Paris. Even though I already had two large art books on the Louvre, I thought that this would be a great way to see the paintings that I had missed. The book itself is excellent; it is the DVD that I have major problems with. The disk claims to be a DVD which means that it should hold a little over 4 GB of data. This theoretical DVD only holds 228 MB of data including the software program which doesn't work very well for viewing the images; a CD holds almost 700 MB of data. The images on the DVD total 194 MB, and half of those 6,753 items are extremely small thumbnails. The largest image is 2,194 KB. I expected to get a DVD with relatively high quality images of the paintings and was extremely disappointed with what I received. Whoever put this DVD and software program together should be ashamed of themselves.
A collection of great art works, unfortunately many are reproduced here in very small versions, and even the accompanying CD has the same small pictures. Maybe it's just me, but I couldn't figure out how to enlarge them on my screen. I bought this for my artist significant other, just sits on the shelf in her studio.
A huge book with thousands of paintings. You definitely get your bang for the buck. The quality of the printings is mediocre, good enough for flipping through but not enough for closer study. For a general reader like myself, the descriptions attached to the paintings are informative but somewhat on the cut-and-dry side. I wish they were "juicier" although that is purely personal preference. Very happy I've purchased the book.
What can we say about the Louvre; it contains some of the greatest works of art in human history. Having had the great fortune of viewing quite a number of these paintings firsthand in the Louvre, I was extremely pleased to see that ALL the paintings in this grand treasure-trove were finally released. The main reason being, that I had seen works there that never seemed to appear in other art books, and memories alone cannot restore the original in detail in the mind’s eye, hence it cannot satiate one’s various reasons for being drawn to a particular work, be it for its aesthetic charm, psychological impact, creativity, color scheme, composition, etc. One such work was “The Young Martyr,†by Paul Delaroche.However, that example brings to light the main drawback of this ambitious volume. The image is sadly minuscule, as are the majority of artworks reproduced. I cannot fault the publisher too harshly, however, for these reasons. First, the huge number of works that the Louvre contains cannot be presented in one volume any other way. Second, if they did make this a multi-volume edition, it would have been too expensive for many people. Third, making this single volume gives people who never had, or will have, the chance to visit the Louvre a complete representation of their art treasures, all at a very reasonable price. Fourth, many art books aimed at the broad public have extremely poor color reproductions, some being an absolute insult to the artist and the art world. And while this edition does not boast the highest quality available, it nevertheless is “good,†especially considering the amount of works presented in this massive volume.Being an artist/author myself, I find the ability to open this book in the comfort of a favorite chair or sofa a great relief, sparing my eyes from the glare of a computer screen. This, again, brings to light another issue; namely that of the accompanying DVD. The images are likewise minuscule, and not worth the effort or strain.Nevertheless, the robust catalog that this edition boasts affords the professional or layman the ability to study lesser known artists and their works, thus broadening one’s knowledge and clarifying one’s vision about the exchange of ideas, from artist to artist, or from one school to another, and acquiring a better understanding of the chronological timeline of how tastes, influences and priorities change.As such, despite its flaws, for the price, it is a great addition to my library, and a book that anyone can pick up to gain pleasure from, or be inspired by one of the small images within to research an artist further elsewhere. But the wealth of artistic genius within this hefty tome is worth the sacrifices, as such, it is highly recommended for art lovers or art students interested in art history.
This is a magnificent and beautiful collection of perhaps the most important art museum in the world. It is a superb accomplishment to gather the whole entire collection of the Louvre. Alas, I can't give it five stars since I soon found out that most of the works are shown in small pictures. Lots of little pictures! I don't regret I bought it but I feel I must really tell you how I feel. Ultimately I am happy is in my library.
Some people have complained about the size of the paintings but there are plenty of large photos, all in color and the smaller ones are still big enough to see clearly. This is, after all, the entire collection of the Louvre, which is a massive undertaking and I think they did a good job.
This book is a monster in size and weight, but well worth the price if this sort of thing is your bag. I visited the Louvre a month before purchase, and will be much better informed about particular paintings the next time I go. The photography is well done, and the descriptions are informative.
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