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Paintings in the Louvre by Lawrence Gowing ( Book )
4 editions published between 1987 and 1988 in English and French and held by 1,614 libraries worldwide

Memoirs of the blind : the self-portrait and other ruins by Jacques Derrida ( Book )
12 editions published between 1990 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 645 libraries worldwide
In this exploration of sight, representation and art, Derrida examines issues of vision, blindness, self-representation, and their relation to drawing. The author also offers detailed readings of an extraordinary collection of images, selected from the prints and drawings department of the Louvre, that depict blindness - fictional, historical, and biblical.

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese : rivals in Renaissance Venice ( Book )
5 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 554 libraries worldwide
"For nearly four decades in the sixteenth century, the careers of Renaissance Venice's three greatest painters - Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese - overlapped, encouraging mutual influences and bitter rivalries that changed the course of art history. Venice was then among Europe's richest cities, and its plentiful commissions fostered an exceptionally fertile and innovative climate. In this environment, the three artists - brilliant, ambitious, and fiercely competitive - vied with each other for primacy, deploying the new combination of oil on canvas, with its unique expressive possibilities, and such new approaches as a personal and identifiable signature touch. They also pioneered the use of easel painting, a newly portable format that allowed for unprecedented fame in their lifetimes. With more than 160 stunning examples by the three masters and their contemporaries, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese elucidates the technical and aesthetic innovations that helped define the "Venetian style"--Characterized by loose technique. rich coloring, and often sensual subject matter - as well as the social, political, and economic context in which it flourished. Essays range from examinations of new approaches to studies of such crucial institutions as state commissions and the private patronage system. Most of all, by concentrating on the lives and careers of Venice's three greatest painters, the volume presents a vibrant human portrait - one brimming with intense competition, one-upmanship, humor, and passion."--Jacket.

Treasures of the Louvre ( Book )
2 editions published in 1966 in English and held by 541 libraries worldwide
A chronological arrangement of the graphic and sculptural treasures of the Louvre present a pictorial record of man's artistic development and the parallel rise and decay of great civilizations. Primarily photographs with some text.

France in the golden age : seventeenth-century French paintings in American collections by Pierre Rosenberg ( Book )
4 editions published in 1982 in French and English and held by 511 libraries worldwide

Favorite old master paintings from the Louvre Museum, Paris by Musée du Louvre ( Book )
4 editions published in 1979 in English and held by 496 libraries worldwide

Enamels of Limoges : 1100-1350 ( Book )
4 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 468 libraries worldwide
Limoges enamels, the richest surviving corpus of medieval metalwork, were renowned throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. Yet today they are little known outside academic circles. The present volume, published in conjuction with the exhibition Enamels of Limoges, 1100-1350, brings to deserved public attention nearly two hundred of the most important and representative examples from the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musee du Louvre, the great church.

The royal city of Susa : ancient Near Eastern treasures in the Louvre by Musée du Louvre ( Book )
10 editions published between 1992 and 1993 in English and held by 441 libraries worldwide

Augustin Pajou : royal sculptor, 1730-1809 by James David Draper ( Book )
3 editions published between 1997 and 1998 in English and held by 363 libraries worldwide

The Louvre by Pierre Quoniam ( Book )
25 editions published between 1977 and 1997 in 4 languages and held by 340 libraries worldwide