Musée du Louvre

Introduction

This unit will help you to understand how major art collections are brought together over long periods of time and why particular pieces gain notoriety.

This material is from our archive and is an adapted extract from Art and its histories (A216) which is no longer taught by The Open University. If you want to study formally with us, you may wish to explore other courses we offer in this subject area [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] .