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The Louvre: All the Paintings [Hardcover]

Vincent Pomarède , Erich Lessing , Loyrette Henri , Anja Grebe
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November 15, 2011
An historic publishing event! Endorsed by the Louvre and for the first time ever, every painting from the world's most popular museum is available in one stunning book. All 3,022 paintings on display in the permanent painting collection of the Louvre are presented in full color in this striking, slipcased book.

Comes with an enclosed, supportive DVD-ROM.

The Louvre is the world's most visited art museum, with 8.5 million visitors annually, and houses the most celebrated and important paintings of all time. For the first time ever, The Louvre: All the Paintings collects all 3,022 paintings currently on display in the permanent collection in one beautifully curated volume.Organized and divided into the four main painting collections of the museum— the Italian School, the Northern School, the Spanish School, and the French School— the paintings are then presented chronologically by the artist's date of birth.Four hundred of the most iconic and significant paintings are illuminated with 300-word discussions by art historians Anja Grebe and Vincent Pomarède on the key attributes of the work, what to look for when viewing the painting, the artist's inspirations and techniques, biographical information on the artist, the artist's impact on the history of art, and more.

All 3,022 paintings are fully annotated with the name of the painting and artist, the date of the work, the birth and death dates of the artist, the medium that was used, the size of the painting, the Louvre catalog number, and the room in the Louvre in which the painting is found.

The DVD-ROM is easily browsable by artist, date, school, art historical genre, or location in the Louvre. This last feature allows readers to tour the Louvre and its contents room by room, as if they were actually walking through the building.

DVD-ROM System Requirements: DVD-ROM runs on a PC (Windows 2000/XP or later) and MAC (OSX 10.4.8 or later) running the following browser software Internet Explorer 7 or 8; Firefox 3.6 and above; or Safari 5.0 and above.

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Editorial Reviews

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Bring the entire museum collection to your bookshelf.

(Vogue )

With its stunning content and high-quality reproduction (and its accompanying DVD, providing a virtual tour of the galleries), The Louvre: All the Paintings is a choice gift for art lovers.

(NJ Star-Ledger )

This volume belongs on bookshelves. A major contribution to the literature of catalogs of great museum collections.

(Library Journal )

The images are rich and sharp, the descriptions thoughtful and clear... Altogether, this is a fascinating overview for anyone looking to learn more about the grand old European masters.

(Bookpage )

Can't get to Paris? Walk through the Louvre's epic collection with your fingertips.

(USA Today )

About the Author

Anja Grebe teaches Art History at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg/Germany. She is taking part in numerous international research projects and exhibitions and has published extensively on medieval and modern art history. Her most recent publications include a history of book illumination and a biography of Albrecht Dürer. She lives in Erlangen, Germany.


Erich Lessing has been documenting the culture and fine arts of Europe and the Near East for more than fifty years. He is arguably today's leading independent photographer of the arts in the Western World. He created the Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archive which is an extensive image library featuring over 40,000 high resolution images from over 500 museums and private collections throughout the world, including a thorough coverage of such institutions as: The Louvre and the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the Uffizi in Florence, the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan, the Prado in Madrid, and many more. Having worked as a photographer all over the world for more than six decades, he has published more than 40 books with his art photography. He lives in Vienna and travels regularly to Paris and other art capitals of the world.


Henri Loyrette has been the President and Director of the Musée du Louvre since April 2001. Prior to his appointment at the Louvre, Loyrette served as Director of the Musée d'Orsay from 1994 to 2001, and Curator at the Musée d'Orsay from 1978 to 1999. With a master's degree in history, Loyrette was a scholar at the French Academy in Rome from 1975 to 1977. A member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts since 1997, Loyrette is also a trustee of the Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français and Cité de la Musique.

Vincent Pomarède has been the General Curator and Director of the Painting Department at the Louvre since 2003. He was previously the Director of the Musée des Beaux-arts de Lyon and the deputy to the director of conservation at the Inspectorate General of Listed and Controlled Museums. He is also the author of numerous books, including most recently Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People (2004), 1001 Paintings of the Louvre (2005), and Corot: Memory of Mortefontaine (2010).

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 784 pages
  • Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers (November 15, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1579128866
  • ISBN-13: 978-1579128869
  • Product Dimensions: 11 x 2.5 x 11.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (87 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,070 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

More then just a coffee table book. Tricia  |  22 reviewers made a similar statement
It's a large book and very thick, full of tremendous paintings of many artists. David B  |  16 reviewers made a similar statement
As stated at the beginning of this review, the book is much, much, more than a picture book. Colorado Metallurgist  |  5 reviewers made a similar statement
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276 of 287 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars The Louvre: All the Paintings - Book and DVD October 20, 2011
By Melody
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I bought the book and DVD because my husband and I hadn't been able to visit the Louvre in our recent short trip to Paris. Even though I already had two large art books on the Louvre, I thought that this would be a great way to see the paintings that I had missed. The book itself is excellent; it is the DVD that I have major problems with. The disk claims to be a DVD which means that it should hold a little over 4 GB of data. This theoretical DVD only holds 228 MB of data including the software program which doesn't work very well for viewing the images; a CD holds almost 700 MB of data. The images on the DVD total 194 MB, and half of those 6,753 items are extremely small thumbnails. The largest image is 2,194 KB. I expected to get a DVD with relatively high quality images of the paintings and was extremely disappointed with what I received. Whoever put this DVD and software program together should be ashamed of themselves.
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86 of 96 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing presentation of a highly anticipated book November 22, 2011
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This book depicting all of the Louvre's paintings was highly anticipated. Here in one imposing volume are some of the most glorious works of art ever created. But my enthusiasm is tempered by several unfortunate failures of execution. The book is sturdy and solid and it comes with a very attractive slipcase. It is, however, quite heavy (15-18 pounds) and slightly unwieldy so that manipulating it can be difficult. The majority of the book's photos are fairly small making details hard to see without using a loup or magnifying glass. One gets the impression that a project of this magnitude requires multiple volumes that are both manageable and contain larger visualizations for easier study.

Because of the relatively diminutive nature of the bulk of the book's illustrations, a DVD with larger pictures would at least offer some compensation. Unfortunately the DVD contains mostly tiny thumbnail-sized photos, many of which failed to open on my Vista laptop. The DVD does not appear to be completely functional (XML code instead of English in a central panel that appears on every page, a red X through thumbnails when attempting to access additional information). Also, the browser-based program will not work with Google's Chrome browser. I had to devise a work around to get the DVD to open properly when I switched to Internet Explorer because the balky program insisted on continuing to open in Chrome. All in all I found this extremely worthy project somewhat compromised by these shortcomings. The book's several hundred featured illustrations (which are larger) offer a tantalizing glimpse of how it might have been improved. They, at least, provide the Louvre's brilliant works of art with the impact they deserve. I wish there had been more of them.
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66 of 73 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Ignore the "DVD" and go for the book November 22, 2011
Format:Hardcover
Book review:

This is a somewhat odd book attempting to catch every painting in the Louvre's permanent collection. I can picture it for folks who missed paintings on their last visit, or as a completist's book. On the other hand the collection is, by definition, uneven and many of the works are frankly uninteresting to many or most readers. Still, the image quality on the paper is quite good, many of the images are small (divide the 3000+ paintings out over 780ish pages), but I think you get a good experience for the money. At the discounted price on amazon, this is a beautiful coffee table book. Not quite as elegant as Taschen volumes, but reasonably substantial. 4 stars

DVD review:

Just ridiculous! This is something you could imagine being foisted on people who had a CD-ROM drive back in 1996. Custom software, tiny images, and just a 1/20th of the disk used. Although this could have been a great item, high quality digital images of all of the paintings seems like a 2011 natural, that isn't what's here. I'd just ignore the disk, or try it to laugh at the stupidity of it. 0 stars

If you buy for the paper book, you'll be happy. The DVD is completely worthless except perhaps as an example of how poorly new media can be employed.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars Thought pictures would be larger
All the narrative was nice but I bought the book for the pictures which I thought most of them too small .
Published 11 days ago by P. A. Majors
4.0 out of 5 stars beautiful book
lovely, but of course not the same as being there. a wondeful addition to my collection and the price is good
Published 24 days ago by Gloria Bullock
1.0 out of 5 stars VERY DISAPPOINTING, not what I thought I bought
I watched the video at the top and imagined that the book and the DVD-ROM included would be similar. I was wrong. Read more
Published 1 month ago by G. Donald Cribbs
5.0 out of 5 stars stunning collection
Bottom line- this is a GORGEOUS book. Gorgeous. If you haven't been to the Louvre, this is a wonderful way to "get" there, and become familiar with the vast amount of art that its... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Chel Micheline
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful!
Photos are excellent quality. The summaries are well thought out. More then just a coffee table book. This is one you'll go back to time and time again.
Published 3 months ago by Tricia
5.0 out of 5 stars Love this book
Just came back from Paris loved the art at the louvre ordered this book and its well worth the money. Very fast service got here in 3 days. Thank you!
Published 3 months ago by Zarabanda001
5.0 out of 5 stars Wife loved it
Got this for my wife and she has spent hours going through the images. Just a beautiful book. Well worth the money. Delivery was quick and had no problems.
Published 3 months ago by Bob Walker
4.0 out of 5 stars Can get it for less $$ at B&N
I've been watching the price drop, and finally purchased it at Barnes & Noble for $24.98 yesterday. Great book, although some of the prints are rather small. Read more
Published 3 months ago by David Weitz
5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous
Our daughter wanted a coffee table art book so I chose this one from one of my favorite museums in the world. It didn't disappoint.
Published 3 months ago by aida gurwicz
5.0 out of 5 stars The lourve: all the paintings
haven't looked at book was packaged and was given as a gift but it looked beautiful in cover box when arrived
Published 3 months ago by mary seltenright
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