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Letters to Miranda and Canova on the abduction of antiquities from Rome and Athens

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The cosmopolitanism of masterpieces / Dominique Poulot -- Letters on the plan to remove the monuments of Italy / Antoine Quatremère de Quincy -- Letters written from London to Canova in Rome on the Elgin marbles or the sculptures of the temple of Minerva in Athens / Antoine Quatremère de Quincy -- Petition to the Directoire -- Petition presented by artists to the executive members of the Directoire -- Foreword to the 1836 edition / Antoine Quatremère de Quincy -- Biographical notes on contributors.

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    Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, c2012

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    1796-1836

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    • 9781606060995
    • 1606060996

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    English translation of two different French titles: Lettres sur le projet d'enlever les monumens de l'Italie, originally published as a pamphlet in 1796, and Lettres écrites de Londres à Rome, et adressées à M. Canova, sur les marbres d'Elgin ou les sculptures du temple de Minerve à Athènes, originally published as a section of the 1836 book Lettres sur l'enlèvement des ouvrages de l'art antique à Athènes et à Rome.

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