Napoleon's Art Loots that the Louvre DOESN'T Want You to Know

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For Further Reading 📚
Cynthia Salzman, Plunder: Napoleon’s Theft of Veronese’s Feast (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2021)
Cecil Gould, Trophy of Conquest: The Musée Napoléon and the Creation of the Louvre (Faber and Faber, 1965)
Christopher M. S. Johns, Antonio Canova and the Politics of Patronage in Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe, chapter 7 (University of California Press, 1998)
Andrew McClellan, “Musée du Louvre, Paris: Palace of the People, Art for All,” in The First Modern Museums of Art: The birth of an Institution 18th- and Early-19th-Century Europe, edited by Carole Paul (The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2012)
Andrew McClellan, Inventing the Louvre: Art, Politics, and the Origins of the Modern Museum in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Cambridge University Press, 1994)

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National Gallery of Art
Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark
Rijksmuseum
Musée Carnavalet - Histoire de Paris
Library of Congress
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0:00 Introduction
0:45 Royal Art Collection at the Louvre
2:01 Louvre during the French Revolution
5:15 Looting of Rubens's Antwerp Altarpiece
6:23 Napoleon's spoliation
7:51 Disastrous extraction of Veronese's Mural
10:18 Paris as the New Rome
11:37 Partial restitution of Napoleonic spoils
12:25 Conclusion