Original sentence: Many works confiscated from religious institutions under the French occupation now form the backbone of national museums: "Napoleon's art-loot depots became the foundation of Venice's Accademia, Milan's Brera galleries.Napoleon boasted: "We will now have all that is beautiful in Italy except for a few objects in Turin and Naples".Napoleon's conquests in Europe were followed by a systematic attempt, later more tentatively echoed by Hitler, to take the finest works of art of conquered nations back to the Louvre in Paris for a grand central Museum of all Europe
Edited sentence: Napoleon's conquests in Europe were followed by a systematic attempt, later more tentatively echoed by Hitler and many others, to take the finest works of art of conquered nations back to the Louvre in Paris for a grand central Museum of all Europe.The results of Napoleons organized effort, the notion of art looting to boost ones national heritage, survive until today: "Napoleon's art-loot depots became the foundation of Venice's Accademia, Milan's Brera galleries.Time Magazine is using Napoleon's own words to describe the looting of all Europe by his armies to expose his mindset and the dark history of the Louvre: "We will now have all that is beautiful in Italy except for a few objects in Turin and Naples"