The Louvre : an architectural history / by Geneviève Brise ; photographs by Kelichi Tahara.

Main entry:

Bresc-Bautier, Geneviève.

Title & Author:

The Louvre : an architectural history / by Geneviève Brise ; photographs by Kelichi Tahara.

Publication:

Description:

224 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 37 cm

Notes:
Preface / Pierre Rosenberg -- Medieval Fortress -- Renaissance Palace -- Bourbons' Grand Design -- Museum: From Idea to Creation -- Showcase of the State: Museum and Palace -- 'New Louvre' -- Triumph of the Museum -- Towards the 'Grand Louvre'.
Translated from the French.

Summary:

The recent vast expansion, transformation and reorganization of the Louvre, and the building of I.M. Pei's controversial glass pyramid in its midst, has drawn attention to the architecture of this extraordinary building - a building which for eight hundred years has been at the center of French history and culture, and to which France's greatest architects, sculptors and painters have given their most inspired work. Beneath the ground, but now easily accessible to visitors, are substantial remains of the medieval castle. It is time, for a new assessment of the Louvre's architectural history. Genevieve Bresc, provides an authoritative guide to every period, including the army of artists and craftsmen who enriched its interiors. Two hundred seductive color plates by the leading architectural photographer Keiichi Tahara reveal the Louvre in all its glory as it has never been seen before.

ISBN:

086565963X (hard cover)
9780865659636 (hard cover)

Subject:

Louvre (Paris, France) Pictorial works.
Musée du Louvre Pictorial works.
Louvre (Paris, France) Ouvrages illustrés.
Louvre (Paris, France)
Musée du Louvre
Paris 1. Arrondissement
LOUVRE (PARIS, FRANCIA)
Buildings
Architektur
Bildband
Paris (France) Buildings, structures, etc. Pictorial works.
France Paris

Form/genre:

Views (visual works)
illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Tahara, Keiichi, 1951-2017.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 120864
Call No.: ID N2030.B7; ID:95-B2161
Status: Available

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