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...unusual link between popular music and great art, wrote: "You're the top, you're the Louvre Museum." While France is considerably less than she was 24 years ago, the Louvre is still the top. Last January, over lunch in Manhattan with visiting Louvre Chief Curator Germain Bazin, TIME editors began laying the groundwork for a comprehensive report on the Louvre and its great collection, to be keyed to a two-volume study of the museum being published this year. Photographer Eric Schaal was sent from Switzerland to take color photos of the Louvre masterworks, found himself...
Providing a handy anthology of the Louvre's highlights and recording the epic history behind its vast collection have long been pet projects of Art Scholar Germain Bazin, 50, chief curator of the Louvre. In his profusely illustrated The Louvre (323 pp.; Abrams; $7.50), published last week in the U.S., Curator Bazin covers 341 key paintings from the 13th to the 19th century. Next September the record will be brought up to date with the publication of his book on the impressionists. Together the volumes will be a clear case for Bazin's claim that the Louvre "contains...
Louverie or Lower? Bazin makes the dramatic history of how the roof came into being almost as interesting as the works housed beneath it. The original Louvre may go back to the 5th century. Etymologists speculate that the name may come from louverie (a meeting place of wolf hunters), or from a leper colony, or from a Saxon fortress (lower). Still to be seen in the present foundations are remains of the mighty fortress that King Philip Augustus erected on the site about 1190. But the Louvre of today owes its origins to France's great Renaissance prince...
Women and cannibals eat Ihe same food -men. That, at any rate, is the acidulous theme of French Novelist Herve Bazin's A Tribe of Women. The four women who dwell at La Fouve, a windswept, French provincial Manderley, are sisters to the witches in Macbeth. They bubble and bubble, toil and make trouble...
...Author Bazin, 47, writes sparely or sensuously as the mood of his novel demands. His insights into feminine psychology are acute, and a book that might have succumbed to formula patness moves with a mythic interior logic. Rarely, indeed, has a mere man so well defined the dynamics of the female life drive, in which man is at once a biological necessity and an emotional luxury...