You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
This text offers concise information and thorough descriptions of the museum and its works. It includes detailed descriptions of significant works, essays on history and culture, background information and ground plans.
French art of the 19th and early 20th is presented on three spacious floors, including the world's important Impressionist masterpieces. This volume guides the reader through the collection's wide variety of paintings, sculptures, furniture, drawings, and
Brunelleschi's buildings are designs are few in number; but they have significance which cannot be overlooked. He based his buildings on the late medieval Florentine tradition: simple, clearly structured, evenly lit spaces, which he aimed to give a more perfect shape through their strict geometrically proportioned forms, and which he simultaneously transformed through the very personal language of his all"antica motifs.
None
Le musée d'Orsay est avec le Louvre le plus important des musées parisiens. Sur trois vastes étages y est présenté l'art français du XIXe siècle et du début du XXe siècle, notamment des chefs-d'oeuvre mondialement connus de l'impressionnisme. Cet ouvrage emmène à la découverte de diverses collections de peintures, sculptures, meubles, dessins et photographies. Des informations détaillées, de nombreuses illustrations, des analyses des oeuvres et des plans clairs du lieu font de ce guide un compagnon précieux lors de la visite du musée d'Orsay qui a acquis une célébrité mondiale.