With more than 500 illustrations and numerous gallery floor plans, The Pocket Louvre is a mini museum between two covers, offering visitors all they need to make the most of their visit to the world’s largest art museum. Encyclopedic in its scope and exhausting in its magnitude, the Louvre has vast collections ranging from the 6th century B.C. to the mid-19th century. It holds over 30,000 works of art. The Pocket Louvre contains an illustrated history of the Louvre and its architecture and an illustrated catalog of 500 masterpieces, all in color, with brief commentaries. (c) 2000; 1st edition