Favorite Old Master Paintings From the Louvre Museum, Paris
Abbeville Press | 1979 | ISBN: 0896590658 | English | 168 pages | PDF | 15 MB

Among the great museums of the world, surely none compares to the Louvre in Paris. The range of its vast holdings and the quality of so many of its individual masterpieces have made it synonymous with great painting. Founded by King Francis I in the early sixteenth century, the Louvre's collections originated at a time when artists like Leonardo da Vinci could be summoned to the royal court to paint such masterpieces as the Mona Lisa for the pleasure of the king. Through the successive reigns of the French monarchs, artists of the Renaissance, the Baroque, and the neoclassical schools contributed their masterpieces to the royal collections: Raphael, Titian, Veronese, Rubens, Rembrandt, and Poussin