Adventures in the Louvre (eBook)

How to Fall in Love with the World's Greatest Museum

Elaine Sciolino (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
384 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-1-324-02141-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Shortlisted for the 2025 French Heritage Society AwardOne of the Economist's Best Books of the YearAn American Booksellers Associations Indie Travel Literature BestsellerA former New York Times Paris bureau chief explores the Louvre, offering an intimate journey of discovery and revelation.The Louvre is the most famous museum in the world, attracting millions of visitors every year with its masterpieces. In Adventures in the Louvre, Elaine Sciolino immerses herself in this magical space and helps us fall in love with what was once a forbidding fortress.Exploring galleries, basements, rooftops, and gardens, Sciolino demystifies the Louvre, introducing us to her favorite artworks, both legendary and overlooked, and to the people who are the museums lifeblood: the curators, the artisans producing frames and engravings, the builders overseeing restorations, the firefighters protecting the aging structure.Blending investigative journalism, travelogue, history, and memoir, Sciolino walks her readers through the museums front gates and immerses them in its irresistible, engrossing world of beauty and culture. Adventures in the Louvre reveals the secrets of this grand monument of Paris and basks in its timeless, seductive power.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.4.2025
• Zusatzinfo: 53 black-and-white photographs
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Schlagworte: Abu Dhabi • ART • art restoration • Europe • France • Francophile • im pei • I.M. Pei • insiders look • Lens • Mona Lisa • Museum Curators • Museum Studies • Paris • the louvre
• ISBN-10: 1-324-02141-1 / 1324021411
• ISBN-13: 978-1-324-02141-4 / 9781324021414