Publications

Exhibition Catalogue

By Giovanni Agosti and Dominique Thiébaut

Outside Italy, the most important collection of paintings by Mantegna is in the Musée du Louvre. Joined by exceptional loans from both French and foreign collections, a major retrospective exhibition of this eminent Renaissance figure has been organized, for the first time in France. The exhibition aims at tracing, through works of varying techniques, the principal stages of this artist's career; it will evoke the different influences which marked this artist and the precocious diffusion of his art.

Exhibition Album

By Arturo Galansino

Authentic summary of the exhibition, this amply illustrated work is an ideal tool for informing oneself rapidly and efficiently about the exhibition and keeping a visual and complete souvenir of your visit.

Co-published by: Hazan / musée du Louvre Editions
Catalogue: 24.5 x 28.5 cm, bound, 480 pages, 380 illustrations in color, € 42
Album: 48 pages, 40 illustrations, € 8
Diffusion: Hachette
Publication, September, 2008
Both these publications have received the precious support of ARJOWIGGINS

Récit de Mantegna

by Giovanni Agosti, French translation by Esther Moench

To explain Mantegna in 198 pages by restoring not only Proust's regard but the Paduan intellectual milieu of the years 1430-1460 might seem a purely academic exercise. But to compare Squarcione to "Mangiofuoco", from The Adventures of Pinocchio, to intertwine the visual shocks of this Quattrocento with cinema images, to compare the cherubs of the frescoes to "little Tarzans on garlands of lianas swinging through the stories": this is how our image of Art History can be refreshed, above all when it is backed by erudition based on a wide and rich culture and great freedom of the eye. A pleasure for all.

Co-published by Hazan / musée du Louvre Editions
Format: 14 x 21 cm, 152 pages, 16 illustrations in color, € 19
Diffusion: Hachette
Publication, September, 2008

“Solo” Series

Vierge et l’Enfant : deux reliefs en terre cuite

By Marc Bormand

Among the creators of the first Renaissance in Florence, Donatello (1386-1466) occupies, without contest, the paramount position. These two reliefs, both of terracotta, are treated with different materials illustrating the painter's interest in new ideas and techniques. A point of convergence of traditional medieval Christianity and the new awareness of man and of all that was engendered by the Renaissance, these sculptures magnificently illustrate the passage between the two worlds.

Co-published by Somogy / musée du Louvre Editions
Format: 14 x 21 cm, 56 pages, 30 illustrations in color, € 9.50
Diffusion: UD
Publication, September, 2008