Recent scholarship on art museums has shown a laudable determination to replace
parochialism and the anecdotal, characteristic of so much previous work in the field, with a …

Along with its continued proliferation as an institution, and surely not coincidental to it, the art
museum has become one of the most broadly resonant metaphors of our culture. A music …

As a site where the products of nature, of science, and of the arts were preserved and
exhibited, the museum was a central institution of the nineteenth century. In France, in …

Fig. 1. Plan of the Musee des monuments fransais in the Convent of the Peiits Augusiins,
from JB R6ville and Lavallte, Vues pzttoresques et petpectives des salles du Muske des …

Founded in the final years of the Enlightenment, the Louvre—with the greatest collection of
Old Master paintings and antique sculpture assembled under one roof—became the model …

The article comments on the public museum of arts in Paris, France, during 1750-1800. The
process of establishing museum began with Luxembourg gallery a the mid-century …

French art museums are born, against the european tradition of the so-called" enlightened
despotism", in a revolutionary moment: they obey to democratic and republican inspirations …

General histories of both the emergence of modern Europe and of the development of the
world's museums, especially and not surprisingly those written from a French viewpoint …

This chapter examines three proposals for the reconfiguration of the national museums in
London dating from the 1850s and considers some of the issues they raise in relation to the …

As the unquestioned exemplarity and educative value which the classi cal text provided to
the fortunate few spread during the eighteenth centu ry to a larger class of readers, the …