Publisher's Synopsis
The essential artistic guide to discover and learn the essentials of the greatest works, artists and styles in the Louvre Museum.Discover the immense art collection of the Louvre Museum, from Oriental, Egyptian, Greco-Roman and medieval antiquities to the great works of the Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism and Romanticism. Painting, sculpture and decorative arts from all periods and civilizations. Works by great French masters such as Poussin and David, Flemish painters such as Rubens and Van Dyck, Dutch artists such as Rembrandt, Italian masters such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian and Tintoretto, and Spanish artists such as El Greco, Zurbarán, Velázquez and Goya. An essential book to delve into the structure of the Louvre palace and its dependencies, learning in detail about 120 essential masterpieces among the more than 400,000 pieces contained in the most important museum in the world.
