Venezia: 1799, Presso Antonio Curti Q. Giacomo A S. Polo Con Privilegio.
Physical Description
xxxii p.; 264 mm. (16mo.)
Responsibility Note
The list is printed above the name, 'Venezia ... L'Imperial Regio Governo Generale'.
References
A.C. Quatremere de Quincy, Lettres à Miranda sur le déplacement des monuments de l'art de l'Italie (1989); F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the antique (1982), ch. XIV, 'The last dispersals', p.108-116, 130-1; C. Gould, Trophy of conquest: the Musée Napoléon and the creation of the Louvre (1965); F. Boyer, Le monde des arts en Italie et la France de la Révolution et de l'Empire (1970); D.M. Quynn, 'The Art confiscations of the Napoleonic wars', in American Historical Review, 50 (1945), p.437-60; M.L. Blumer, 'La Commission pour la recherche des objets de science et arts en Italie (1796-1797)', in Révolution française (1934), p.62-88, 124-50, 222-59; C. Saunier, Les Conquêtes artistiques de la Révolution et de l'Empire (1902); Lettres sur le préjudice qu'occasionneraient aux arts et à la science le déplacement des monuments de l'art de l'Italie [by Quatremère de Quincy] (1796).
Attempts to protect antiquities in Rome and elsewhere in Italy are described in R.T. Ridley, 'To protect the monuments: the papal Antiquarian (1534-1870)', in Xenia antiqua, I (1992), p.117-54; A. Emiliani, Leggi, Bandi e Provvedimenti per la Tutela dei Beni artistici e culturali negli antichi Stati Italiani 1571-1860 (1978).
Summary Note
The text is set out in columns, listing concisely the names of the collections and their locations (these include Bologna, Cento, Cremona, Ferrara, Foligno, Livorno, Loreto, Mantova, Massa, Milano, Modena, Monza, Parma, Pavia, Piacenza, Perugia, Pesaro & Fano, Roma, Treviso, Venezia, Verona), the titles or descriptions of the works and the materials of which they are made.
The document is one of the records of Napoleon's policy of expropriating from Italy such antiquities and works of art as he considered prestigious enough to be displayed in Paris as the capital city of his empire. Among the strongest opponents of this policy was the French scholar Quatremère de Quincy.
Copy Note
There are marginal annotations in ink on pages xv and xvi (that is, in the section relating to pictures in Venice).
Binding Note
19th-century half calf, mottled brown papered boards; rebacked in 20th century, spine lettered 'Catalogo Di Pittura &c. Transport. In Francia'.
Works of art - Masterpiece - Paintings - Sculpture - Antiquities - Books - Italy
Collections - Italy - 18th century
French - Cultural property - Ownership - Pillage - Booty (international law) - Art thefts - Italy - History - 18th century
Catalogues - Italy - 18th century