Napoleon's Art Loots that the Louvre DOESN'T Want You to Know
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For Further Reading 📚
Cynthia Salzman, Plunder: Napoleon’s Theft of Veronese’s Feast (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2021)
Cecil Gould, Trophy of Conquest: The Musée Napoléon and the Creation of the Louvre (Faber and Faber, 1965)
Christopher M. S. Johns, Antonio Canova and the Politics of Patronage in Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe, chapter 7 (University of California Press, 1998)
Andrew McClellan, “Musée du Louvre, Paris: Palace of the People, Art for All,” in The First Modern Museums of Art: The birth of an Institution 18th- and Early-19th-Century Europe, edited by Carole Paul (The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2012)
Andrew McClellan, Inventing the Louvre: Art, Politics, and the Origins of the Modern Museum in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Cambridge University Press, 1994)
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0:00 Introduction
0:45 Royal Art Collection at the Louvre
2:01 Louvre during the French Revolution
5:15 Looting of Rubens's Antwerp Altarpiece
6:23 Napoleon's spoliation
7:51 Disastrous extraction of Veronese's Mural
10:18 Paris as the New Rome
11:37 Partial restitution of Napoleonic spoils
12:25 Conclusion
Пікірлер: 35
Amazing, underated and high quality.
Great video! It's sad to see that so few people care or know about this.
@ArtStoryLab
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
Well done. I've become a new fan, instantly. You're work is high quality and very informative.
Thank you for your great information on the spoils of war. Indeed, Napoleon Bonaparte was a master at it. The Louvre is today the repository of his actions.🏦
just found this great video doing research for my project and i must say you did an amazing job!!
Great video, very informative !!
Bravo! Keep up the great videos!
Great video well told very informative thanks again
Fascinating; thank you. You have found many paintings, prints, etc of the process of spoliation, confiscation, itself, that are beautiful and interesting in themselves - a very scholarly work.
great video!!!
Awesome video!
It's easy for me to sit here judging the French for stealing other countries artworks, but then I remember I'm British... then quietly dismount my high horse (which was probably stolen from another country 200 years ago).
@robertgiles9124
2 жыл бұрын
Yup; just love all that Egyptian and Greek and Indian art...in the British museum.
@iuelius
Жыл бұрын
French and British must give back the art stolen from other countries
@infonut
3 ай бұрын
@@iuelius ... why? So their criminal element can steal it and sell it again? Don't be daft.
@IrishTexan09
2 ай бұрын
@@iuelius Look at what is in the Vatican in Italy. Or the artwork stolen from Jewish people that is in Vienna museums.
What an informative and concise video
Do you know anything about the actual Egyptian pyramid stolen after the French evasion of Egypt?
Vive l'empereur ! Vive la france !
The italian art collection is made of artifacts stolen by Napoleon in, guess where...Italy.
@TheLatinoExplorer
11 ай бұрын
Well he was King of Italy, so everything in that country was his right to take. To bad bro
@calogerohuygens4430
11 ай бұрын
@@TheLatinoExplorer please tell me you are joking, because with that logic English government is authorized to retain stolen artifacts taken away from India because English monarchy ruled India until 1948.
@JesusBeTheAnswerToEverything
8 ай бұрын
Apparently who ever “stole it Fair and square” gets to keep it. 🤔
@calogerohuygens4430
8 ай бұрын
@@JesusBeTheAnswerToEverything where is honesty when someone is stealing?
@NoName-hg6cc
7 күн бұрын
@@JesusBeTheAnswerToEverythingThen why were Germans forced to give what they took in 1940 back?😂
I say thank you to Napoleon then.
@iuelius
Жыл бұрын
An Italian (Napoleone) who stolen lot of art in Italy
@smal750
7 ай бұрын
@@iuelius why are you moaning then 😂 even italians see their country is weak and decide to go to france 😂
My dear madam, If these works of art were left in Europe, they would have vanished!