{"product_id":"louvre-abu-dhabi","title":"Louvre Abu Dhabi","description":"This album of the Louvre Abu Dhabi collection of works allows readers to fully enjoy  what the museum offers its visitors: an encounter with the universal across epochs,  cultures and civilisations. The discovery - or rediscovery - of the works exhibited in the  Louvre Abu Dhabi is a unique experience: on one hand because they are seen in a new  light, that of Abu Dhabi filtered through the dome designed by Jean Nouvel, and on  the other because their dialogue with works with which they are not usually presented  increases their polysemy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This album provides a key to understanding the characteristics common to all  humanity and the elements that constitute and form our distinct identity filtered  through the prism of time, culture and history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The collection of the Louvre Abu Dhabi is universal in its scope: from prehistory to  the latest contemporary commissions. Artists Giuseppe Penone and Jenny Holzer have  created new works in direct response to the museum's unique architecture and spirit.  The very first purchase was made in 2009: a seminal painting by abstract pioneer Piet  Mondrian. Since then, the collection has expanded to over 600 pieces. The diversity  of masterpieces is astonishing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Highlights include an incredibly rare Bactrian princess from the 3rd millennium BCE;  a 3000-year-old Middle-Eastern gold bracelet; and a magnificent monumental bronze  lion from Andalusia from the 11-12th century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Alongside these are works by some of the great European masters of the 19th and 20th  centuries: Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee and René Magritte. A series of nine  canvases by Cy Twombly produced in Italy just three years before the artist's death  in 2011 is also on show. Together, such works, and many more, represent the human  desire for artistic expression in its entirety.","brand":"Editions Skira Paris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42664214233124,"sku":"9782370740748","price":61.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/9734\/0196\/files\/9782370740748.jpg?v=1777352439","url":"https:\/\/thamesandhudson.com.au\/products\/louvre-abu-dhabi","provider":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}