A Museum of One's Own: Private Collecting, Public Gift by Anne Higonnet

A Museum of One's Own: Private Collecting, Public Gift

Anne Higonnet

241 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction art informative slow-paced
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When French revolutionaries sacked royal holdings at the end of the 18th century, they began the largest transfer of artistic goods in world history. By 1850 many "repossessed" treasures had come to rest in a new institution, the public museum, wh...

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