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Paperback The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum Book

ISBN: 0802148786

ISBN13: 9780802148780

The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum

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In this first full-length history of the Louvre in English, historian James Gardner elegantly traces the evolution of the now legendary museum and the extraordinary objects it displays, from its origin as the site of a clay quarry and a vineyard in the first centuries AD, to a fortress in the Middle Ages, to a royal residence that housed the monarchs of France. In the bloody days of the French Revolution, the building was first opened to the public,...

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