The history of loot and stolen art : from antiquity until the present day /
Lindsay, Ivan,1962-author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 396-401) and index.
1. Ancients, Greeks, Romans, Vikings, Moors and Charlemagne -- 2. The Crusades and the sack of Constantinople -- 3. The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries AD, the Renaissance and the dissolution of the monasteries -- 4. Spanish colonisation of the Americas, Francisco Pizarro and Hernan Cortes -- 5. Sir Francis Drake -- 6.The emergence of Sweden -- 7.Cromwell's disposal of the collections of Charles I -- 8. Napoleon -- 9. Greece and Lord Elgin -- 10. Egypt -- 11. The British Museum and punitive expeditions against Ashanti and Benin -- 12. World War II, Hitler, Goering and the other Nazi leaders -- 13. 1945, the Soviets and Stalin -- 14. 1945, the US army -- 15. 1945 -- 2009.
Art thefts
Pillage
Art treasures in war