History of Loot and Stolen Art

Ivan Lindsay

Description

The author of this enthralling book aims to present a well-illustrated and documented alternative history of the Western World through graphic accounts of looting and art theft from the time of Sargon, ruler of Syria in 721 BC, to the present day. Almost all the principal players included appear on the stage of World history and many of them are known as conquerors, confiscators (the old-fashioned word for looters) and ruthless administrators of the regions they created as a result of their conquests.Featured here are emperors, kings, queens, popes, adventurers, explorers and those whose energies and expertise supported the greed and acquisitive ambitions of their masters. The different motivation of the greatest looters in history is a recurrent theme which is examined throughout.

Sujets

• The arts

Informations

• Publié par: Andrews UK
• Date de parution: 02 juin 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781906509569
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 8 Mo

Extrait

Title page
The History of Loot and Stolen Art
from Antiquity until the Present Day
Ivan Lindsay





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Publisher information
First published in the United Kingdom in 2014 by
Unicorn Press Ltd, 66 Charlotte Street, London W1T 4QE
2014 digital version by Andrews UK Limited
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Text copyright © 2014 Ivan Lindsay
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Frontispiece: detail from Portrait of Wally 1912 by Egon Schiele (1890-1918)



Acknowledgments
The publisher would like to thank the following individuals, photographic libraries, museums and galleries for permission to reproduce their material. Any errors or omissions are entirely unintentional and the publishers will, if informed, make amendments in future editions of this book:
Key:
AA: The Art Archive,
BAL: The Bridgeman Art Library,
Frontispiece ii: Leopold Museum, Vienna/AA/ DeA Picture Library/E. Lessing; 6 © Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA /BAL; 8 Bymuseum, Oslo/ Index/BAL; 10 Corbis; 13 Unicorn Press Archive; 14 Bettmann/Corbis; 15 Ancient Art and Architecture Collection Ltd. /BAL; 16 Unicorn Press Archive; 17 De Agostini/Getty Images; 18 Stuart Black/Robert Harding World Imagery/Corbis; 20 Museo Archeologico Nazionale,Naples/Giraudon /BAL; 21 Unicorn Press Archive; 22 De Agostini/ Getty Images; 24 Education Images/ UIG; 26 Musée du Louvre, Paris /DEA Picture Library; 27 Hughes Hervé/AGE Fotostock; 28 Tarker /BAL; 29 Antonello Lanzellotto/AGE Fotostock; 33 De Agostini/Getty Images; 34 Bymuseum, Oslo/Index /BAL; 35 AA/ British Library; 36 De Agostini Picture Library/ M. Seemuller/BAL; 40 Valentín Rodríguez/Age Fotostock; 42 AA/ Granger Collection; 44 AA/Granger Collection; 45 Palazzo Ducale, Venice/ Cameraphoto Arte Venezia/BAL; 47 AA/ Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, Paris/ Kharbine-Tapabor/Coll. Jean Vigne; 49 Basilica di San Marco,Venice/ Cameraphoto Arte Venezia/BAL; 53 Guenter Rossenbach/Corbis; 55 UIG via Getty Images; 56 Tewkesbury Abbey/BAL; 59 José Antonio Moreno/Age Fotostock; 60 Galleria dell’ Accademia Carrara, Bergamo/BAL; 61 Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence/ Giraudon/BAL; 63 Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Gemäldegalerie/AA/ DeA Picture Library/G. Nimatallah; 64 Barberini, Rome/BAL; 65 The Trustees of the Weston Park Foundation/BAL; 67 Getty Images; 68 David Hunter/Age Fotostock; 70 Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Florence/ BAL; 73 akg-images/Erich Lessing; 76 De Agostini Picture Library/BAL; 77 De Agostini Picture Library/G. Dagli Orti /BAL; 78 AA /National History Museum Mexico City/Gianni Dagli Orti; 81 AA/ Biblioteca Nacional Madrid/ Gianni Dagli Orti; 82 Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Florence,/BAL; 83 © 2013 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F./DACS/Sean Sprague/Mexicolore /BAL; 84 National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London; 87 National Portrait Gallery, London; 89 National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London; 90 National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London; 92 AA /Museo del Prado Madrid/ Collection Dagli Orti; 93 National Portrait Gallery London; 94 National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London; 95 Calcografia Nacional, Madrid, Spain/Index/BAL; 96 AA/University Library Geneva/Gianni Dagli Orti; 100 © Erik Cornelius/ Nationalmuseum, Stockholm; 102 Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin/BAL; 103 Musee Conde, Chantilly, France/Giraudon /BAL; 106 akg-Images; 107 Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin /BAL; 109 AA/ Museo del Prado Madrid; 110 Dallas John Heaton/ AGE fotostock; 112 Uppsala University Library, Sweden; 114 National Library Sweden; 115 akg-images / Erich Lessing; 117 National Galleries of Scotland; 118 © Erik Cornelius/ Nationalmuseum, Stockholm; 119 AA / Skoklosters Slot Balsta; 120 Massimo Listri/Corbis; 122 akg-images; 124 Burghley House Collection, Lincolnshire/BAL; 126 His Grace The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle/BAL; 128 AA/British Museum/Eileen Tweedy; 129 Kunst Historisches Museum Wien/De Agostini Picture Library/G. Nimatallah/BAL; 130 Musée du Louvre, Paris/Giraudon/BAL; 131 National Gallery, London; 132 The Royal Collection © 2013 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II/BAL; 135 Private Collection/Photo Christie’s Images/BAL; 136 Louvre, Paris/ Giraudon/BAL; 138 National Trust; 139 AA/Galleria degli Uffizi Florence/ Collection Dagli Orti; 141 akg-images; 142 The National Gallery, London; 143 © Burghley House Collection, Lincolnshire/BAL; 145 The Royal Collection © 2013 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II/BAL; 148 Victoria and Albert Museum, London; 150 Musée du Louvre Paris,/ Peter Willi/BAL; 153 Chateau de Versailles, France/Giraudon /BAL; 155 adoc-photos/Corbis; 157 Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne/ Giraudon/BAL; 160 Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna/BAL; 161 AA/DeA Picture Library /V. Pirozzi; 162 Musee Ceramique, Sevres/Unicorn Press Archive; 163 Città Del Vaticano, Vatican Museums, Picture Gallery/AA/DeA Picture Library/G. Nimatallah; 165 Corbis; 166-167 Musée du Louvre, Paris/ Peter Willi /BAL; 169 Biblio theque Nationale de France, Paris/Unicorn Press Archive; 170 Getty Images; 171 National Portrait Gallery, London; 173 Versailles, France/Giraudon/BAL; 174 Universal History Archive/UIG/BAL; 176-177t (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre)/Gérard Blot; 177b English Heritage Photo Library; 178 Musée du Louvre, Paris/Giraudon/BAL; 179 Musée du Louvre, Paris/Giraudon/ BAL; 181 English Heritage Photo Library; 182 English Heritage Photo Library; 184 English Heritage Photo Library; 185 English Heritage Photo Library; 186 The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource/Scala, Florence; 188 Carolyn Clarke/Alamy; 190 Private Collection/BAL; 191 National Portrait Gallery, London; 192 akg-Images; 193 National Portrait Gallery, London; 195 Carolyn Clarke/Alamy;196 Corbis;197 National Portrait Gallery, London; 198 © Trustees of the British Museum; 200 Unicorn Press Archive; 201 Unicorn Press Archive; 202 Mary Evans Picture Library; 203 Mary Evans Picture Library; 204 © Trustees of the British Museum; 205 Private Collection/The Stapleton Collection/BAL; 207 © Towneley Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Burnley, Lancashire/BAL; 208 National Portrait Gallery, London; 209 Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images; 210 Jon Arnold/ JAI/Corbis; 211 B. O’Kane/Alamy; 212 Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin/AA/DeA Picture Library; 213 Getty Images; 214 The Illustrated London News /BAL; 215 Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis; 216 Getty Images; 218 © Trustees of the British Museum; 224 Private Collection /BAL; 227 © Trustees of the British Museum; 229 UIG via Getty Images; 230 © Trustees of the British Museum; 231 National Portrait Gallery, London; 233 © Trustees of the British Museum; 234 Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford/ BAL; 236 © Trustees of the British Museum; 237 © Trustees of the British Museum; 238 © Trustees of the British Museum; 240 Bettmann/Corbis; 243 Bettmann/ Corbis; 244t akg-images/Ullstein bild; 244b Scala, Florence/BPK, Berlin; 245akg-images/Erich Lessing; 246t Getty Images; 246b Städtische Kunstsammlungen/akg-images; 247 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna/ BAL; 249 © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2013/Private Collection /BAL; 250 Lobkowicz Palace, Prague Castle/ BAL; 252 Austrian Archives/Corbis; 253b AA/Czartorysky Museum Cracow; 254 Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany; 255 De Agostini/Getty Images; 256 AA/Musée du Louvre Paris/Collection Dagli Orti; 257 Musee d’Orsay, Paris/Giraudon/BAL; 258 Musée du Louvre Paris /Giraudon /BAL; 259 US Army Signal Corps; 260l National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD; 260r Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images; 261 akg-images/Interfoto; 262 Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais /Angèle Dequier; 265 Gabinetto Fotografico su concessione del Ministero per i beni e le Attiva Culturali (Florence); 266 Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio/ John J. Emery Endowment /BAL; 268 Demetrio Carrasco/JAI/Corbis; 269 akg-images /Ruhrgas AG; 271 Helmuth Kurth/Corbis; 273 Ullstein Bild; 275 Musée du Louvre Paris/Giraudon/BAL; 277 Mary Evans Picture library; 278 Jewish Museum, Berlin; 279 Getty Images; 281 Brian Lawrence/Getty Images; 282 Musée du Louvre Paris/Giraudon /BAL; 283 AA/Museo di Capodimonte Naples/Gianni Dagli Orti; 284 Onze Lieve Vrouwekerk, Bruges/BAL; 286t © DOD Photo /Alamy; 286m Getty Images; 286b Bettmann/Corbis; 287t Corbis; 287ml AP/Press Association Images; 287mr Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images; 287b Bundesarchiv Bild(101I-729-0001-23/Meister/CC-BY-SA); 290 Hermitage, St. Petersburg/BAL; 292 Dmitri Baltermants/The Dmitri Baltermants Collection/Corbis; 293 Bettmann/ Corbis; 294l Popperfoto/Getty Images; 294r akg-images/RIA Nowosti; 297 bpk Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen; 298 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna/BAL; 299 Gemaeldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden/ © Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden/BAL; 301 Bettmann/Corbis; 302 Mary Evans Picture Library; 304 Sovfoto; 306 State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts; 307 State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts; 308 akg-images; 309 akg-images/Cameraphoto; 310 Morton Beebe/Corbis; 313 Muzeum Narodowe, Gdansk/BAL; 316 akg-images; 318 Hermitage, St. Petersburg/ BAL; 319 Hermitage, St. Petersburg/ BAL; 320 Hermitage, St. Petersburg/ BAL; 322 Scala, Florence/ BPK, Bildagentur fuer Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte, Berlin; 324t National Archives/Getty Images; 324b National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD; 325 National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD; 326 Bettmann/Corbis; 327 AP/Pr