Letters to Miranda on the displacement of Italy's monuments of art
Subtitle: and, Letters to Canova on the Elgin marbles
By: Antoine Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy ; introduction by Dominique Poulot ; translation by Chris Miller and David Gilks
Contributors: Poulot, Dominique
Publisher: Getty Research Institute
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781606060995
Subjects: Correspondence; Art thefts; Cultural property; Protection; Elgin marbles
Work titles: Lettres à Miranda sur le déplacement des monuments de l'art de l'Italie
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The cosmopolitanism of masterpieces / Dominique Poulot; title: Letters on the plan to remove the monuments of Italy / Antoine Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy; title: Letters written from London to Canova in Rome on the Elgin marbles or The sculptures of the temple of  Minerva in Athens / Antoine Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy; title: Petition to the directoire; title: Petition presented by artists to the executive members of the directoire; title: Foreword to the 1836 edition / Antoine Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy; title: Biographical notes on contributors.