The Great Museums of the World.
The most authoritative scholars, the spectacular iconography.

All the most important paintings of the Louvre are here introduced and superbly reproduced. The works of the greatest French masters are well represented by the paintings by Poussin, Fragonard, David, Géricault, Delacroix, Ingres, and Corot, to name but a few. Obviously, the Mona Lisa is also included along with a large selection of other Leonardo paintings. There are many Italian masterpieces – from the golden
panels by Giotto up to the altarpieces by Fra Angelico, from the frescoes by Botticelli up to the paintings by Veronese, Titian, Tintoretto, and their successors –, and many refined exemples of different painting schools – Flemish, Dutch, German, English, and Spanish. Unmatched for its breadth and scope and unique for the quality of its wonderful colour reproductions, more than 800 images, this volume is the most complete on the Louvre’s collection of paintings.

Technical features

• Size cm 24 x 29,5

• Pages 688

• Images 825

• Italian Language

• Binding in canvas with hot gold impressions

• Book Jacket in 5 colors

• Slipcase in canvas with colored inserts

Author

The 115 essays signed by Sir Lawrence Gowing are priceless erudition treasures and reserve many novelties even on paintings rarely displayed to the public. The author was an esteemed scholar of the Center for Advanced Studies in Visual Arts at the National Gallery in Washington.

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I Dipinti del Louvre