With more than eight million visitors a year, the Louvre is the museum with the most visits in the world. Its extensive collection of paintings reflects the history of European art from the 13th to the early 19th century. With over 400 plates, detail images, and descriptions, this volume provides an overview of the Louvre's collection of paintings.

In the Louvre you can find European masterpieces among the varied magnificent collections. This virtual tour through the museum shows these masterpieces alongside lesser known treasures. Whether they are grand historic works, touching votive paintings, extravagant still lifes or intimate portraits--they all have a story to tell about our world in historic times.