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


“The return of art after 1815 formed an important precedent for dealing with cultural property – at least among ‘civilised’ nations,” McClellan explains. “They stopped looting each other and turned to mass looting of ‘uncivilised’ lands instead.”



‘Glory of arms and art’: Napoleonic plunder and the birth of national museums
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‘Glory of arms and art’: Napoleonic plunder and the birth of national museums
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 ri…

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