| Titre : | louvre: the collections |
| Auteurs : | Pierre Rosenberg, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | Paris : Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1993 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-2-7118-3009-1 |
| Format : | 477 p. / ill. en coul |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | 708.4 (Collections privées, galeries et musées des arts décoratifs et des beaux-arts en France) |
| Mots-clés: | Musée du Louvre |
| Résumé : |
The grandest of all the Grands Travaux, the gigantic new building projects of Paris, will be inaugurated on Thursday with the dedication of a vastly expanded version of the most famous art museum in the world, the Louvre.
At noon, Francois Mitterrand, whose dream this has been since he became President of France in 1981, is to cut a ribbon signaling the opening of the Grand Louvre. At long last, on the 200th anniversary of the Louvre Museum, all of this vast palace will be devoted to museum purposes. Underground Mall What will be inaugurated on Thursday is essentially an entire new wing for the museum, along with a fancy underground shopping mall and garage. The Richelieu wing will house the museum's imposing northern European and French paintings collections, decorative arts and the salons of Napoleon III, French sculpture and oriental antiquities, including a rich collection of Islamic art previously spread about Paris or hidden away in storage. In conjunction with the underground entrance hall unveiled in 1989, the Richelieu wing will for the first time permit the Louvre's unrivaled collections to be organized in a systematic manner, logical both for the casual visitor and the serious student. But the Grand Louvre renovation, which will continue for at least three more years, is far larger than even the approximately $500 million structures being inaugurated this week. The entire venture, which has a projected cost of $1.3 billion, was once pilloried by the right as Socialist megalomania. Now this boldly conceived, elegantly realized revitalization of the heart of Paris is proudly described by Jacques Toubon, the new Gaullist Minister of Culture, as "an incontestable success" and "a historic and cultural space without comparison in the world." |
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| Localisation | Code-barres | Cote | Support | Section | Disponibilité |
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| AF Bengale | 902639 | 708.4 LOU | Livre | Doc. adulte | Libre accès Disponible |
