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Artdaily - The First Art Newspaper on the Net


The First Art Newspaper on the Net
 
Emmanuelle Polack with her research materials at the Louvre Museum’s Centre du Dominique-Vivant Denon in Paris, June 23, 2021. Polack is the face of the French museum’s efforts to return stolen works. But some discoveries have put her employer in an awkward situation. Joann Pai/The New York Times.
by Elaine Sciolino
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- In a frenzied, four-day auction in the grand hall of the Savoy Hotel in Nice in June 1942, buyers bid on paintings, sculptures and drawings from “the cabinet of a Parisian art lover.” Among the 445 pieces for sale were works by Degas, Delacroix, Renoir and Rodin. The administrator monitoring the sale, appointed by the French collaborationist Vichy regime, and René Huyghe, a paintings curator at the Louvre, knew the real identity of the art lover: Armand Isaac Dorville, a successful Parisian lawyer. They also knew that he was Jewish. After Hitler’s armies invaded and occupied Paris in ....

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'Glory of arms and art': Napoleonic plunder and the birth of national museums


‘Glory of arms and art’: Napoleonic plunder and the birth of national museums
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George Crukshank s 1815 cartoon of Napoleon Seizing the Italian Relics . © Wikimedia creative commons
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Napoléon’s military conquests fuelled a vast and unprecedented migration of artworks aimed at establishing a “universal museum” in Paris, the self-proclaimed capital of knowledge and the arts. The rise and fall of the Napoleonic Louvre fundamentally altered the way Europeans perceived art and heritage, inspiring a race to create national museums and presaging the colonial plunder of the rest of the world.
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In October 1800, as Napoléon’s armies approached the gates of Florence, a most unusual convoy slipped out of the Tuscan capital, sailing down the River Arno to the seaport of Livorno. ....

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Napoleon's military defeat in Egypt yielded a victory for history


Napoleon s military defeat in Egypt yielded a victory for history
When Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798, he brought along an army of scholars, whose studies of this ancient culture became the foundation of Egyptology.
By Miguel Ángel Molinero
18 Jan 2021, 15:48 GMT
Jean-Léon Gérôme’s painting “Bonaparte Before the Sphinx” captures Napoleon’s instinct that the glory of ancient Egypt could be harnessed to exalt French power. Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California.
Photograph by AKG/ALBUM
By the end of the 18th century, France wanted to conquer Egypt. At war with Britain, France sought to disrupt its enemy’s dominance of the seas and its trade routes with India; taking control of Egypt would give France a foothold from which to expand in the Mediterranean. An ambitious Corsican general, Napoleon Bonaparte was given command of the mission. Already renowned for his campaigns in Italy, Napoleon led French forces to Egypt in 1798 to fight against ....

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