Art Treasures of The Louvre: Including a Short History of Painting in Europe from Cimabue to Toulouse- Lautrec - Rene Huyghe (USA Dell Publishing Co, 1962)
The text chronicles the growth of the Louvre, from it's thirteenth-century origins as a fortress to it's present day pre-eminence in the world of art. In addition to Huyghe's text, each painting has a separate commentary. With a section of b&w photographs of objects of art, 100 full color plates of paintings in the museum's collection spanning six hundred years of art by dozens of the finest artists who have ever lived
Keywords: Arts (3Gdafs; General; A Laurel Edition