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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Gardner, James, 1960- author.     Subjects     Musée du Louvre -- History.     Louvre (Paris, France) -- History.     Paris (France) -- Buildings, structures, etc.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Gardner, James, 1960- author.       by title:      The Louvre : the man...         MARC Display

The Louvre : the many lives of the world's most famous museum / James Gardner. by Gardner, James, 1960- author. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2020. Subjects Musée du Louvre -- History.   Louvre (Paris, France) -- History.   Paris (France) -- Buildings, structures, etc. ISBN:  9780802148773 (hardcover) : 0802148778 (hardcover) : Description:  xxi, 394 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm Edition:  First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. Contents:  The origins of the Louvre -- The Louvre in the Renaissance -- The Louvre of the Early Bourbons -- The Louvre and the Sun King -- The Louvre abandoned -- The Louvre and Napoleon -- The Louvre and the restoration -- The nouveau Louvre of Napoleon III -- The Louvre of modern times -- The creation of the contemporary Louvre. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Some nine 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. More than 7,000 years ago, men and women camped on a spot called le Louvre 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 palace 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 enliven a colorful narrative that rivals the building's grand stature"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hana P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 700.94436 Ga Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Art, Music & Recreation 700.94436 Ga Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 700.94436 Gardner Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 700.94436 Ga Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 700.94436 Ga Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waipahu Public Library Adult Nonfiction 700.94436 Ga Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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