Letters to Miranda and Canova on the Abduction of Antiquities from Rome and Athens 2024 Holiday John Soane

John Soane

this fascinating peek into a bygone Parisian era is a treat for the eyes and the intellect alike

In doing so she has planted an important tree in the historiographically evergreen forest of works on Parisian art in the Revolutionary Era

in assessing the risk to art and archival objects of such exposures

—Frank Gehry

Letters to Miranda and Canova on the Abduction of Antiquities from Rome and Athens 2024 Holiday John SoaneAntoine Quatremre de Quincy Introduction by Dominique Poulot Translation by Chris Miller and David Gilks 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 out of the Parthenon and sent to London. These events provoked reactions ranging from