One of the world's finest art collections is presented here in tiny format. The full-colour images have been carefully chosen by the Director of the Louvre to highlight the very best of this outstanding collection and the photographs have been specially commissioned for this Abbeville edition. The first volume in this series - which will include the Prado, the Uffizi, the Tate Gallery and others - presents treasures from the Musee du Louvre, Paris' finest palace of art. Michel LaClotte offers a brief history of the museum and its phenomenal array of artworks, and gives the reader a guided tour through the museum's seven departments - paintings, drawings, sculpture, decorative arts, Egyptian, Greco-Roman, and Oriental.