Letters to Miranda and Canova on the abduction of antiquities from Rome and Athens
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Letters to Miranda and Canova on the abduction of antiquities from Rome and Athens
Antoine Quatremère de Quincy ; introduction by Dominique Poulot ; translation by Chris Miller and David Gilks
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Getty Research Institute, c2012
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Lettres sur le projet d'enlever les monumens de l'Italie
Lettres écrites de Londres à Rome, et adressées à M. Canova, sur les marbres d'Elgin ou les sculptures du temple de Minerve à Athènes
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English translation of two different French titles: Lettres sur le projet d'enlever les monumens de l'Italie, originally published as a pamphlet in 1796, and Lettres écrites de Londres à Rome, et adressées à M. Canova, sur les marbres d'Elgin ou les sculptures du temple de Minerve à Athènes, originally published as a section of the 1836 book Lettres sur l'enlèvement des ouvrages de l'art antique à Athènes et à Rome
Includes bibliographical references and index
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This is the first English translation of French art critic Quatermere de Quincy's controversial series of letters about the removal of antiquities from Rome and Athens. In the 1790s and early 1800s, the art world experienced two big events: First came the military confiscation of masterpieces from Italy and northern Europe in order to build a universal museum in Paris' Louvre. Then famous marble sculptures were prised from the Parthenon and sent to London. These events provoked reactions ranging from enthusiastic applause to enraged condemnation. The French art critic, architectural theoretician, and political conservative Quatremere de Quincy was at the centre of the European debates. In his pamphlet "Letters to Miranda", he condemns the revolutionary hubris of putting "Rome in Paris" and urges the return of the works. In the "Letters to Canova", however, Quatremere celebrates the British Museum for making the Parthenon sculptures accessible. Quatremere's writing was highly controversial in its time. This book offers the first English translation of the two series of letters, as well as a new critical introduction.
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Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities , Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities , Distributed by the University of Chicago Press