Vincent Pomarède

Musée du Louvre (Paris).

Xavier Dectot

Jean-Luc Martinez

Louvre-Lens

The opening of the Louvre-Lens has been an exceptional opportunity to rethink the centuries-old relationship between the collections in the Louvre Museum and its visitors. This publication presents the outstanding instances in this innovative project, made possible by the creation, over a former pithead, of a new architectural complex by the Japanese firm SANAA and its internationally renowned architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. At the heart of this museum is the "Galerie du Temps", whose design was entrusted to Studio Adrien Gardère. It presents 230 exhibits from all the departments in the Louvre in a single space. Displayed in chronological order, these works have previously always been seen in separate exhibition spaces, being issued from different civilisations, schools or techniques. The "Galerie du Temps" offers a comparative and transversal view of the history of the arts, spanning the period from the invention of writing in Mesopotamia in the 4th millennium BC to the Industrial Revolution in the mid-19th century. On this journey through different civilisations, the gallery allows visitors to compare universally recognised masterpieces, such as Gudea, Prince of Lagash, the statue of The Majordomo Keki, the Discophoros, the Angel's Head mosaic from the basilica in Torcello, the Portrait of Doña Isabel de Requesens, Vice Queen of Naples, formerly known as the Portrait of Jeanne d'Aragon, by Raphael, the Bather by Falconet, the Allegory of France before the Return of General Napoleon Bonaparte from Egypt by Jean-Pierre Franque. This guide to the Louvre-Lens discusses and reproduces in their entirety the works exhibited in the "Galerie du Temps", allowing us to prolong and deepen our visual encounter with art and history.

The Guide : [exhibition, Lens, Louvre-Lens Museum, Grande Galerie, 2017]

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Gérard de Wallens

Discusses the life and art of the French landscape painter

Extraordinary Landscapes

Corot

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

National Gallery of Canada

Gary Tinterow

Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France)

Michael Pantazzi

Published to accompany a major exhibition of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's paintings held in Paris and Ottawa during 1996, and forthcoming to New York. From nearly 3,000 paintings by this poetic 19th-century artist, the curators chose 163 works, which are reproduced here along with full art-historical discussions of each. Three major essays chronicle Corot's life and the development of his art; additional essays elucidate the subject of forgeries and describe the collecting of his works. Much original new scholarship is included along with a review of the scholarly literature, a concordance, and a chronology. 9.5x12.5"Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Julian Barnes

Isolde Pludermacher

Dominique de Font-Réaulx

Courbet e la natura. Ediz. illustrata

Vincent Pomarède

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