Mobilier du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance : la collection du musée du Louvre
- Submitting institution
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University of St Andrews
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 252026460
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Editions du Louvre
- ISBN
- 9782757214534
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This extensively illustrated book is 447 pages long and c.140,000 words, with 90% single-authored by the attributed individual. Resulting from ten years of study, it is the first comprehensive and systematically researched catalogue raisonné dedicated to medieval and Renaissance furniture ever published. The analysis of each object includes provenance research, innovative scientific and conservation examinations (partnered with the Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France) and new methodological insights into style and authenticity.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- From the start to the end, the attributed individual was the leader of the research project dedicated to the medieval and Renaissance furniture of the Louvre. The attributed individual launched the project to publish the catalogue raisonné of this collection, started the research, convinced the Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France to support the research in providing access to their laboratories and collaborations with their scientists, and gained funding from the Louvre to support this interdisciplinary research and to publish the book. The attributed individual designed the structure of the book and selected the illustrations (around 500). The attributed individual authored 90% of the book (one essay and a large number of the entries). As stated, research was undertaken by an interdisciplinary team (conservators, radiologists, dendrochronologists, C14 specialists, scientists specialised in painting and gilding analysis): the other essay was co-written to relate the main outcomes of the scientific analysis. Several entries were written by the assistant curator who worked with the attributed individual on the project, and some pieces of furniture on deposit in another museum were discussed by a curator from this museum. The attributed individual revised and edited all parts of the book.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- The book is written in French. As a catalogue raisonné, the main part of the book consists of entries for each piece of medieval and Renaissance furniture belonging to the Louvre (120 items), even pieces lost today. Two essays at the beginning of the book focus on the history of the Louvre’s collection of medieval and Renaissance furniture, and on the outcomes of the scientific investigations into the collection. Besides the pictures of furniture, a large number of illustrations such as X-Rays or tree ring dating charts give worldwide access to images usually not easily available.
