Art as Plunder The Ancient Origins of Debate about Cultural Property

Name: Art as Plunder The Ancient Origins of Debate about Cultural Property
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ISBN: 9780521172905

ISBN-10: 052117290X

ISBN-13: 9780521172905

Edition: 2009

Authors: Margaret M. Miles

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This text examines the ancient origins of debate about art as cultural property through Cicero's speeches. What happens to art in time of war? Who should own art, and what is its approximate context? Should the victorious ever allow the defeated to keep their art? This book explores these questions and more.

Book details

Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/28/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 440
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction



Art as Roman Plunder


Near Eastern Antecedents


Greek Antecedents


Athens Plundered


Greek Booty


Sacking the City, Dividing the Booty


Triumphal Processions


Greek Art on Display


Grabbing the Incense


Weeping Envoys: Criticism of Roman Plundering


The Image of the Humane General



The Roman Context of Cicerï¿½s Prosecution of Verres


Cicero's Sicily


Sicily's Greek Past


Sicily as a Roman Province


Verres' Trial in Rome: Logistics


Verres' Family oh


The Charges against Verres


The Outcome of the Trial


Verres' Long Exile and Death


The Publication of the Verrines


Roman Audiences of the Verrines



Cicerï¿½s Views on the Social Place of Art


The Legal View


Descriptions of Art


In the Community


Consecrated Cult Images


Dedications


Commemoratives


At Home


Consumers and Traders of Luxury


Art for Cicero



Roman Display of Art: From Lucullus to Lausos


Piscinarii


T. Pomponius Atticus


Public Displays of Art


Verrine Emperors


The Temple of Peace


True Connoisseurs


Constantine and the New Rome



Art as European Plunder


The Survival of the Verrines


Sicily as a Destination


Scholarly Efforts on the Verrines


Legal Thought on International Agreements


Administrators Abroad: The Verrine Model


On Vandalism


Napoleon in Italy


Napoleon in Egypt


Restitution of Plunder and Popular Reactions


The Duke of Wellington's Views


Epilogue: The Continuing Plunder of Art


Appendix: On Art as Plunder


Bibliography


Index