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The author of this enthralling book aims to present a well-illustrated and documented alternative history of the Western World through graphic accounts of looting and art theft from the time of Sargon, ruler of Syria in 721 BC, to the present day. Almost all the principal players included appear on the stage of World history and many of them are known as conquerors, confiscators (the old-fashioned word for looters) and ruthless administrators of the regions they created as a result of their ...

Art thefts. --- Art thefts --- Pillage --- Art treasures in war --- Art and war --- Looting --- Plundering --- Sack (Pillage) --- Military offenses --- Robbery --- War crimes --- Art --- Art robberies --- Art stealing --- Plunder of the arts --- Theft --- History. --- Thefts

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Öffentliche Sammlungen bewahren vielfach Dinge, die heute aus ethischen Gründen als sensibel eingestuft werden. Im Fokus stehen seit einigen Jahren die NS-Raubkunst und zunehmend auch Kulturgüter, die im Rahmen der Kolonialisierung nach Europa verbracht wurden. Doch gibt es noch viele weitere Arten sensibler Dinge wie sterbliche Überreste, religiöse Artefakte, illegal gehandelte Antiken oder unter den Artenschutz fallende Naturalia. Der Band wählt eine dezidiert vergleichende Perspektive und geht der Frage nach einem angemessenen Umgang mit diesen Objekten disziplinen- und institutionenübergreifend nach. Durch den Erfahrungsaustausch von Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern aus Museen und Universitäten nimmt er das Thema erstmals auch systematisch für universitäre Sammlungen in den Blick, die aufgrund ihrer Heterogenität ein besonders breites Spektrum potentiell sensibler Objekte abdecken. Public collections often preserve things that are nowadays considered 'sensitive' for ethical reasons. For some years, the focus has been on Nazi looted art and is now increasingly being directed at cultural assets brought to Europe as part of colonisation. There are, however, many other types of sensitive things, such as mortal remains, religious artefacts, illegally traded antiques and wildlife products that fall under the protection of endangered species. This volume chooses to take on a decidedly comparative perspective in investigating how to appropriately deal with these objects across disciplines and institutions. For the first time, through the exchange of experience between scientists from museums and universities, it also systematically examines the topic for university collections, which, due to their heterogeneity, cover a particularly wide range of potentially sensitive objects.

Art thefts. --- Cultural property --- Jewish property. --- Repatriation. --- Property, Jewish --- Property --- Repatriation of cultural property --- Cultural policy --- Art --- Art robberies --- Art stealing --- Plunder of the arts --- Theft --- Repatriation --- Government policy --- Law and legislation --- Thefts

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History of civilization --- Museology --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1700-1799 --- Art thefts --- Museums --- Public institutions --- Cabinets of curiosities --- Art --- Art robberies --- Art stealing --- Plunder of the arts --- Theft --- History --- Thefts --- Musée Napoléon --- Muséum central des arts et de la République (Paris, France) --- Musée du Louvre --- History.

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7.025.7 --- KBC0506-IVB --- 12.03 --- Kunstwerken: verlies, teloorgang door o.a. diefstal of tijdens transport --- Preventie ; Diefstal ; Fraude --- 7.025.7 Kunstwerken: verlies, teloorgang door o.a. diefstal of tijdens transport --- Art thefts --- Art --- Art robberies --- Art stealing --- Plunder of the arts --- Theft --- Investigation --- Thefts --- Breitwieser, Stéphane, --- Europe --- History --- 20th century --- 21st century

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The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based art smuggler. More valuable than the recovery of the vases, however, is the discovery of the smuggler's card index detailing his deals and dealers. It reveals the existence of a web of 'tombaroli' tomb raiders& who steal classical artifacts, and a network of dealers and smugglers who spirit them out of Italy and into the hands of wealthy collectors and museums. Peter Watson, a former investigative journalist for the 'London Sunday Times' and author of two previous expose;s of art world scandals, names the key figures in this network that has depleted Europe's classical artifacts. Among the loot are the irreplaceable and highly collectable vases of Euphronius, the equivalent in their field of the sculpture of Bernini or the painting of Michelangelo. The narrative leads to the doors of some major institutions: Sothebys, the Getty Museum in L.A., the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York among them. Filled with great characters and human drama, 'The Medici Conspiracy' authoritatively exposes another shameful round in one of the oldest games in the world: theft, smuggling and duplicitous dealing, all in the name of art.

Archaeological thefts --- Archaeological thefts. --- Diefstallen van oudheden --- Kunst--Diefstallen --- Kunstdiefstallen --- Kunstroof --- Objets d'art--Vols --- Oudheden--Diefstallen --- Vols d'antiquités --- Vols d'objets d'art --- Art thefts. --- Art thefts --- 620 Kunst --- Art --- Art robberies --- Art stealing --- Plunder of the arts --- Theft --- Antiquities --- Archaeological theft --- Thefts