'Smuggling the Renaissance: The Illicit Export of Artworks Out of Italy, 1861-1909' explores the phenomenon of art spoliation in Italy following Unification (1861), when the international demand for Italian Renaissance artworks was at an all-time high but effective art protection legislation had not yet been passed. Making use of rich archival material Joanna Smalcerz narrates the complex and often dramatic struggle between the lawmakers of the new Italian State, and international curators (e.g., Wilhelm Bode), collectors (e.g., Isabella Stewart Gardner) and dealers (e.g., Stefano Bardini) who continuously orchestrated illicit schemes to export abroad Italian masterpieces. At the heart of the intertwinement of the art trade, art scholarsh...
It is a well-known fact that organised crime has developed into an international network including v...
© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. Trafficking natural objects and trafficking cultural objects have been...
The development of Italian Renaissance art heavily relied on the commissions and patronage of wealth...
The edicts relating to the protection of antiquities and works of art published in the Papal States ...
This paper will explore the impact of the revival of interest in Renaissance art in 19th and 20th ce...
In this book, Leah R. Clark examines collecting practices across the Italian Renaissance courts, exp...
The illegal sale of Raphael’s Madonna Colonna to the king of Prussia in 1827, and the subsequent app...
Trafficking in cultural property is a transnational crime that threatens world cultural heritage and...
The essay deals with the material history of the circulation of Italian Renaissance artefacts in maj...
By the late 1800s, Italy had been a stop on the Grand Tour for over a century thanks to the vestiges...
abstract: From inception, the earliest museums in Europe were a haven for artifacts, many of which r...
The Italian Renaissance was a pivotal period in the history of Western culture during which artists ...
Le recenti ricerche sugli aspetti economici hanno rinnovato profondamente gli studi sull'arte, apren...
This dissertation argues that contrary to received wisdom, the Venetian nobility were not the sole, ...
Representations of ‘foreign’ objects frequently appear in Renaissance paintings, particularly in the...
It is a well-known fact that organised crime has developed into an international network including v...
© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. Trafficking natural objects and trafficking cultural objects have been...
The development of Italian Renaissance art heavily relied on the commissions and patronage of wealth...
The edicts relating to the protection of antiquities and works of art published in the Papal States ...
This paper will explore the impact of the revival of interest in Renaissance art in 19th and 20th ce...
In this book, Leah R. Clark examines collecting practices across the Italian Renaissance courts, exp...
The illegal sale of Raphael’s Madonna Colonna to the king of Prussia in 1827, and the subsequent app...
Trafficking in cultural property is a transnational crime that threatens world cultural heritage and...
The essay deals with the material history of the circulation of Italian Renaissance artefacts in maj...
By the late 1800s, Italy had been a stop on the Grand Tour for over a century thanks to the vestiges...
abstract: From inception, the earliest museums in Europe were a haven for artifacts, many of which r...
The Italian Renaissance was a pivotal period in the history of Western culture during which artists ...
Le recenti ricerche sugli aspetti economici hanno rinnovato profondamente gli studi sull'arte, apren...
This dissertation argues that contrary to received wisdom, the Venetian nobility were not the sole, ...
Representations of ‘foreign’ objects frequently appear in Renaissance paintings, particularly in the...
It is a well-known fact that organised crime has developed into an international network including v...
© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. Trafficking natural objects and trafficking cultural objects have been...
The development of Italian Renaissance art heavily relied on the commissions and patronage of wealth...