Smuggling the Renaissance : : the illicit export of artworks out of Italy, 1861-1909 / / by Joanna Smalcerz.

"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...

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Superior document:Studies in the history of collecting & art markets ; Volume 8
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Studies in the history of collecting & art markets ; v. 8.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Notes:Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Universität Bern, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • From Rome to Berlin : the illicit export of the bust of the Princess of Urbino
  • The buying collector : Wilhelm Bode and the demand for Italian Renaissance art
  • The enquiring inspector : Giuseppe Fiorelli and the lacuna in Italian art export law
  • The smuggling dealer : Stefano Bardini and the illicit export of art out of Italy
  • The foreign strawman : Albert Figdor and the role of social networks in art smuggling.