03599cam a2200385 4500 527929624 TxAuBib 20211107120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780802148797 0802148794 B07YXBKWV5 Amazon e9b93e4b-97ab-47f2-b3a8-5ff3ec405ffa OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5044741 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Gardner, James. The Louvre [Libby] : The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum. Grove Atlantic, 2020. Venus de Milo. Mona Lisa. Renaissance Masters. French museums. Winged Victory. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 11MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Art. History. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><b>The fascinating and little-known story of the Louvre, from its inception as a humble fortress to its transformation into the palatial residence of the kings of France and then into the world's greatest art museum</b></p> <p>Some ten million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre each year to enjoy its incomparable art collection. Yet few of them are aware of the remarkable history of that place and of the buildings themselves—a fascinating story that historian James Gardner elegantly chronicles in the first full-length history of the Louvre in English.</p>More than 7,000 years ago, men and women camped on a spot called <i>le Louvre</i> for reasons unknown; a clay quarry and a vineyard supported a society there in the first centuries AD. A thousand years later, King Philippe Auguste of France constructed a fortress there in 1191, just outside the walls of a city far smaller than the Paris we know today. Intended to protect the capital against English soldiers stationed in Normandy, the fortress became a royal residence under Charles V two centuries later, and then the monarchy's principal residence under the great Renaissance king François I in 1546. It remained so until 1682, when Louis XIV moved his entire court to Versailles. Thereafter the fortunes of the Louvre languished until the tumultuous days of the French Revolution when, during the Reign of Terror in 1793, it first opened its doors to display the nation's treasures. Ever since—through the Napoleonic era, the Commune, two World Wars, to the present—the Louvre has been a witness to French history, and expanded to become home to a legendary collection, including such masterpieces as the Mona Lisa and Venus de Milo, whose often-complicated and mysterious origins form a spectacular narrative that rivals the building's grand stature.<i>Includes a 16-page full-color insert, featuring images illustrating the history of the Louvre, a full-color endpaper map detailing the Louvre's evolution from fortress to museum, and black-and-white images throughout the narrative.</i>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e9b93e4b-97ab-47f2-b3a8-5ff3ec405ffa&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e9b93e4b-97ab-47f2-b3a8-5ff3ec405ffa&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e9b93e4b-97ab-47f2-b3a8-5ff3ec405ffa&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)