Цитаты из книги Treasures of the Louvre

AVIGNON PETIT PALAIS Anyone interested in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries cannot afford to miss the Petit Palais at Avignon. While most of the Italian grouping came from the Campana collection, the Cluny and the Louvre had also contributed other paintings of different provenance, including a major triptych by…

THE HERMITAGE For old painting, the Hermitage is comparable to the Louvre in its formation, with Catherine the Great’s collection that contains masterworks by Giorgione, Titian, Lorrain, Rubens, Poussin, Rembrandt, and so on—sadly skimmed off by the Soviet sales of the 1930s. But despite some beautiful Flemish works,…

In the Louvre “each department is really a “house”, with its own long-standing traditions. These departments formed gradually since the opening of the museum in 1793. First there was the Paintings Department and the Department of Antiquities, which grew out of the royal collections, then the Ancient Egyptian Department…