Plundering Beauty: A History of Art Crime during War

ISBN-13: 9781848222199 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 192 str.

Arthur Tompkins

Opis

A History of Art Crime during War. From the many wars of Classical Antiquity, through the military turning points and detours of the Fourth Crusade, the Thirty Years War, Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, the First and Second World Wars, and then onwards to the ongoing contemporary conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, the history of art crime in times of war contains myriad fascinating and often little-known stories of the fate of humankinds greatest works of art. Plundering Beauty A History of Art Crime during War charts the crucial milestones of art crimes spanning two thousand years.