This series of lectures introduces the greatest of universal museums. Its aim is not comprehensive. The focus is narrowe
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Table of contents :
Content: Disc 1. Palace to museum : the story of the Louvre
Leonardo and the origins of the collection
Italian Renaissance and Baroque painting
Spanish school of painting
Rubens and Flemish painting, early German
Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Dutch painting. Disc 2. De la Tour, Le Nain, and 17th Century painting
Claude and Poussin : French painters in Rome
Watteau and Chardin
Boucher, Fragonard, and the Rococo in France
Jacques-Louis David and his school
Delacroix and Ingres: the great dialectic.