Letters to Miranda and Canova on the Abduction of Antiquities From Rome and Athens

By: Antoine Quatremere de Quincy, Dominique Poulot (Introduction by), Chris Miller (Translator), David Gilks (Translator)

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Paperback | 19 April 2012 | Edition Number 1

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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 from the Parthenon and sent to London. These events provoked reactions ranging from enthusiastic applause to enraged condemnation.

The French art critic, architectural theoretician, and political conservative Quatremère de Quincy was at the center of the European debates. In his pamphlet Letters to Miranda, he condemns the revolutionary hubris of putting “Rome in Paris” and urges the return of the works. In the Letters to Canova, however, Quatremère celebrates the British Museum for making the Parthenon sculpture accessible.
Quatremère’s writing was highly controversial and vigorously discussed in its time. This book offers the first English translation of the two series of letters, as well as a new critical introduction.

Industry Reviews

"This is the first English translation of Quatremere's response to the military confiscation of masterpieces from Italy and Northern Europe by the French, and Britain's appropriation of the Parthenon marbles."--Apollo
"Thorough notes and indexing make these historically significant essays accessible to a new generation of Anglophone readers. Quatremere's examinations of shifting definitions of cosmopolitanism and nationalism and their impact on the concept of cultural heritage, universal or particular, remain relevant today."--American Journal of Archaeology

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