ARTH 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Place Du Carrousel, Rue De Rivoli, Louis Le Vau
30 Jan 2017
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Feb 8th will be handed exam questions, will not be posted on courselink. There will be a question on the louvre (have three sections to bring in 1) video 2) lecture: reading) We are looking at it because it is a type of a museum art museum. Good example of movement away from specialized/personal/royal patronage collections to notion that collections and institutions belong to the people: representations of the people. Up to the establishment of the louvre, the collections were very inaccessible to the people. 1793 grand gallery opened, decree by revolutionary government. French revolution in relation to the arts: irritated by the amount of gothic/medieval statues and buildings across france anti-catholic sentiment. Wanted to move away from the regime and the catholic sentiment. Napoleons acquisition of art during his campaign across europe and north africa museum became known as napoleon museum . 1815 at congress of vienna, other countries asked france to return material to original owners.
