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The Art Museum is the finest art collection ever assembled between two covers. This revolutionary and unprecedented virtual art museum in a book, features 1,000 oversized pages of over 2,500 works of art. It is the most comprehensive and visually spectacular history of world art ever published. Ten years in the making, this unique book was created with a global team of 100 specialists in art history, who have collected together important works as they might be displayed in the ideal museum for the art lover. Unrestricted by the constraints of physical space, this volume contains an unprecedented wealth of masterworks spanning three millennia and culled from 650 museums, galleries and private collections from 60 countries to tell the history of world art. It is organized by innovative color-coded, galleries, rooms, corridors and special exhibitions, which display the paintings, sculptures, frescos, photographs, tapestries, friezes, installations, performances, videos, woodblock prints, folding screens, ceramics and manuscripts that tell the history of world art. This is the only museum to house Leonardo's Mona Lisa, a collection of Rembrandt's finest self portraits, Velázquez's Las Meninas and Picasso's Guernica, as well as ceramics from China, Hokusai's woodblock prints, gold artefacts from Peru, and works by Jackson Pollock in one place. With intelligent in-depth text throughout, explanatory lels for each artwork, a comprehensive glossary and detailed location maps, The Art Museum, is accessible for everyone from casual art fans to experts in the field. Publikace: THE ART MUSEUM - PHAIDON EDITORS. VYCHÁZÍ V ZÁŘÍ 2011 • This imaginary museum created and curated by Phaidon houses the finest art collection ever assembled • Unrestricted by the constraints of physical space its rooms display around 3,000 paintings, sculptures, frescos, photographs, tapestries, friezes, installations, performances, videos, woodblock prints, folding screens, ceramics and manuscripts that tell the history of world art • This is the only museum to house Leonardo’s Mona Lisa, a collection of Rembrandt’s finest self portraits, Velázquez’s Las Meninas and Picasso’s Guernica as well as ceramics from China, Hokusai’s woodblock prints, gold artefacts from Peru, paintings from the caves at Lascaux and works by Cy Twombly and Brice Marden • With colour-coded galleries, wall texts in each room that clearly explain the movement, culture or theme contained within, and explanatory labels for each work, The Art Museum is spacious, easy to get around, educational, inspiring and an exceptional visual feast • Open 24 hours a day and 365 days a year, this is the world’s first truly accessible art museum Publikace: THE ART MUSEUM - PHAIDON EDITORS. This imaginary museum created and curated by Phaidon houses the finest art collection ever assembled 'This is indeed a monumental museum without walls' Daily Telegraph ‘impressive … should be in public libraries and schools as well as on coff