Q&A with with James Gardner, author of ‘The Louvre’
Nov 10, 2020
2 minutes
Art critic James Gardner’s “The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World’s Most Famous Museum” is an indispensable guide to understanding how an obscure fortress became the Western world’s most striking tribute to the power of art. Mr. Gardner spoke about the Louvre’s past, present, and future with Monitor correspondent Randy Dotinga.
Q: What’s behind the museum’s name?
That part of Paris sounds like , a she-wolf, but there’s no basis for that. It’s nice that the Louvre has not revealed its most fundamental secret to us.
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