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A visionary painter
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In 1779, the Count of Angiviller, Director of the Buildings under King Louis XVI, appointed a committee to organise the royal collections. A proposal was made to install them in the ‘Grande Galerie' du Louvre, which already housed the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. The project was put on hold by the Revolution, but soon came back with the opening of the Central Museum of Arts in 1793. The painter Hubert Robert realised a painting of the gallery as he conceived it. His proposal for glass domes was not accepted, but the walls were repainted and columns were placed against the walls. His vision of the ‘Grande Galerie’ foreshadowed what would be done in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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