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Smuggling the Renaissance: the illicit export of artworks out of Italy, 1861-1909

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9004421483 (hardcover)
ISBN	9789004421486 (hardcover)
Author	Smalcerz, Joanna
Title	Smuggling the Renaissance : the illicit export of artworks out of Italy, 1861-1909 / by Joanna Smalcerz
Publisher	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020
Physical desc.	xiii, 243 pages ; color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series	Studies in the history of collecting & art markets 8
Note	Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Universität Bern, 2017.
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-238) and index.
Contents	Prologue: A dealer's problem with the government -- Introduction -- From Rome to Berlin: the illicit export of the bust of the Princess of Urbino -- The buying collector: Wilhelm Bode and the demand for Italian Renaissance art -- The enquiring inspector: Giuseppe Fiorelli and the lacuna in Italian art export law -- The smuggling dealer: Stefano Bardini and the illicit export of artworks out of Italy -- The foreign strawman: Albert Figdor and the role of social networks in art smuggling -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: A government's problem with dealers.
Subject	Cultural property -- Protection -- Italy -- History -- 19th century
	Cultural property -- Protection -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
	Art -- Economic aspects -- Italy -- History -- 19th century
	Art -- Economic aspects -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
	Smuggling -- Italy -- History -- 19th century
	Smuggling -- Italy -- History -- 20th century

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