Letters to Miranda and Canova on the Abduction of Antiquities From Rome and Athens

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Antoine Quatremere de Quincy Dominique Poulot

Letters to Miranda and Canova on the Abduction of Antiquities From Rome and Athens

Antoine Quatremere de Quincy, Dominique Poulot, Chris Miller , David Gilks

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Getty Research Institute,U.S.
05 June 2012

Forgery, falsification & theft of artworks; History of art: ancient & classical art

Series: Getty Publications -

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’s 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 Quatremère de Quincy was at the center 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, Quatremère celebrates the British Museum for making the Parthenon sculpture accessible. Quatremère’s writing was highly controversial and vigorously discussed in its time. This book offers the first English translation of the two series of letters, as well as a new critical introduction.

By: Antoine Quatremere de Quincy
Introduction by: Dominique Poulot
Translated by: Chris Miller, David Gilks, David Gilks
Imprint: Getty Research Institute,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 26mm, Width: 18mm, Spine: 1mm
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9781606060995
ISBN 10: 1606060996
Series: Getty Publications -
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 05 June 2012
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Antoine Quatremère de Quincy (1755-1849) was a French archaeologist, architectural theoretician, arts administrator, and influential writer. Dominique Poulot is professor of the history of art at the Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne. Chris Miller is a translator specializing in the fine arts. David Gilks is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London.

Reviews for Letters to Miranda and Canova on the Abduction of Antiquities From Rome and Athens

Thorough notes and indexing make these historically significant essays accessible to a new generation of Anglophone readers. Quatremere's examinations of shifting definitions of cosmopolitanism and nationalism and their impact on the concept of cultural heritage, universal or particular, remain relevant today. --American Journal of Archaeology This is the first English translation of Quatremere's response to the military confiscation of masterpieces from Italy and Northern Europe by the French, and Britain's appropriation of the Parthenon marbles. --Apollo