Research Catalog

Title

Napoleon's legacy : the rise of national museums in Europe 1794-1830 / Herausgeber, Ellinoor Bergvelt [and others].

Publication

Berlin : G+H Verlag, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Bergvelt, Ellinoor.

Description

223 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.

Summary

The French Revolution and the subsequent Napoleonic Wars had a major impact on European museums. Between 1794 and 1813 enormous quantities of artworks, natural specimens, scientific objects, books and manuscripts from collections in the conquered areas in Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Austria and Spain were transported to Paris by the French armies. During a relatively short period of 15 years the general public had the opportunity to admire an overview of what, for the first time in history, might be labelled "European heritage", exhibited in the Louvre and the Musée d'histoire naturelle. These outstanding French museums made a great impression on the visitors and (museum) officials from abroad but at the same time evoked criticism and strengthened the need for the countries which had been robbed of their artistic and scientific treasures to create their own national museums.

Series Statement

Berliner Schriften zur Museumsforschung ; Bd. 27

Uniform Title

Berliner Schriften zur Museumsforschung ; Bd. 27.

Subject

• Musée Napoléon > History
• Musée Napoléon
• 1800-1899
• Museums > Europe > History > 19th century
• Art thefts > Europe > History > 19th century
• Art thefts
• Museums
• Kunstmuseum
• Europe
• Europa

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

I Plunder, loot or booty 1794-1813 -- The age of confusion / Robert W. Scheller -- The looting of art: the museum as a place of legitimization / Bénédicte Savoy -- The Dutch method of developing a national art museum: how crucial were the French confiscations of 1795? / Debora J. Meijers -- Natural history spoils in the Low Countries in 1794/95: the looting of the fossil Mosasaurus from Maastricht and the removal of the cabinet and menagerie of Stadholder William V / Florence F. J. M. Pieters -- Art works from the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza transported to Paris during the Napoleonic time and their restitution / Giuseppe Bertini -- II The Musée Napoléon as a universal museum for a (inter)national public -- For and against the Universal Museum in and after the age of Napoleon / Andrew McClellan -- Visiting the conservation studio: putting words to conservation / Frans Grijzenhout -- The Galérie des Antiques of the Musée Napoléon: a new perception of ancient sculpture? / Daniela Gallo -- III Restitution and after -- A national tragedy during the French Restoration: the return of the works of art to their countries (1815) / Annie Jourdan -- "The destruction of the museum has become an historical monument": the restitution of art works as seen by Louvre officials (1814-1815) / Monica Preti-Hamard -- Denon's Louvre and Schinkel's Altes Museum: war trophy museum versus monument to peace / Elsa van Wezel -- The museum and the city: Schinkel's and Klenze's contribution to the autonomy of civic culture / Adrian von Buttlar

ISBN

• 9783940939111
• 3940939110

LCCN

2011430351

OCLC

• ocn492093222
• 492093222
• SCSB-1539067

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library