The term ‘loot’, indicating a category of objects that exists mainly as a function of conquest, describes a relationship of possession, if not more specifically of expropriation. Loot is not a classification of art history, but a primarily legal category, with which the discipline must nevertheless grapple, given its repercussions on what is accessible, where, and under what conditions.<\/p>\n
This volume investigates how conflict and its resolution historically moved, modified, and reclassified art objects in the long period of early modernity. Often obscured by narratives of Napoleonic plunder, the early modern period witnessed for the first time the constant transfer of artistic goods to the European continent, across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. These exports sparked moral, theological, and legal debates on property rights and led to codified rules for the conduct of war, introducing the issue of the return of seized objects as a diplomatic tool, as well as bringing to light laws to protect art from damage or illicit expropriation.<\/p>\n
The volume’s contributions examine the diverse implications of claiming and recovering such assets in both wartime and peacetime, and also reflect on the relevance of these issues, particularly for the institutions that serve as today’s custodians of these controversial stories, museums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Investigates how conflicts historically moved, modified, and reclassified art objects in the early modernity. In particular, it examines the relevance of these issues for museums, the custodians of these controversial stories.
7. The Stuff of War: Toward a Material History of Loot and Repair for Early Modern Art
\nFrancesca Borgo and Julia Vázquez<\/p>\n
I. THE EARLY MODERN BATTLEFIELD
\n57. Paper Pillaging: Letters, Libraries, and Literature after the 1527 Sack of Rome
\nJessica Goethals
\n73. A Severed Head, the Sack of Rome, and the Politics of Fragmentation
\nGuido Rebecchini
\n83. From Saragossa to Jerusalem: Writing the Sack in Italian Renaissance Epic
\nTancredi Artico
\n101. The Sea Gods’ Tribute to the Hunter of Looters: Roman Literary Memories of a Silver Saltcellar for Andrea Doria (1528)
\nDiletta Gamberini
\n129. The Right to Loot and the Duty to Restore: Reconsidering Plunder in the Early Modern Law of War
\nSara Petrilli-Jones
\n147. Looting, Ownership, and Annotations: Early Readers’ Engagement with Hugo Grotius’s De iure belli ac pacis
\nMatthew Cleary and Mark Somos
\n163. Loot\/Tool: Urs Graf, the Juliusbanner, and Inversions of Loot
\nSarah C. Rosenthal
\n181. Monuments of the Realm: Pictorial Conservation of Captured Military Flags in Seventeenth-Century Sweden
\nKarin Tetteris
\n195. The Looting and Reuse of Christian Bells in the Ottoman Empire
\nAlex Rodriguez Suarez
\n209. Cutting Your Losses: Woodcuts of Maritime Looting on the Portuguese India Run
\nElsje van Kessel
\n225. Flotsam, Jetsam, Lagan, and Derelict in Native Waters
\nSara A. Rich<\/p>\n
II. THE MODERN-DAY MUSEUM
\n243. Mind the Gaps: On Developing a Virtual Exhibition Displaying Dislocation and the Transformation of War Booty
\nBeate Fricke, Sasha Rossman, and Jakob Weber
\n255. The Imperative and Pitfalls of Tracing Colonial Objects: The Mobility of Antonio de Torres’s Elevation of the Cross
\nIlona Katzew
\n273. Theft and Colonial Trophies in the Museum of Opacities: Contested Objects between Propaganda, Provenance Research, and Contemporary Reinterpretations
\nGaia Delpino, Rosa Anna Di Lella, and Matteo Lucchetti
\n283. Show Your Teeth: The Façade of Civility
\nJustin Randolph Thompson
\n293. What We Really Know
\nSammy Baloji
\n305. Acknowledgments
\n307. Index
\n315. Photo credits
\n317. Authors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":75537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5523],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75536","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-art","7":"author-edited-by-francesca-borgo","8":"author-edited-by-julia-vasquez","9":"publisher-officina-libraria","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n