Pawnshop and palaces : the fall and rise of the Campana Art Museum

Author

Borowitz, Helen; Borowitz, Albert

Document type

Livre

Language

English

Source

ill.; sel. bibliogr.; index ; xvi, 272 p., ca. 32 p. of pl. ; 1991

ISBN

1560980109

Publisher

Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC (usa)

Publication country

United States

Abstract (en)

History of the vast collection formed by Giampietro Campana, director of the Monte di Pietà in Rome, in the mid-19th c., and expropriated by the papal government in the 1850s following financial misdealings. Focuses on its dispersal, giving details of acquisitions made by the British (Italian Renaissance sculpture and majolica now in the Victoria and Albert Museum); the Russians (mainly ancient art, with a number of fakes); and Napoleon III, who acquired the Italian primitive paintings with the intention to build a new museum. Gives a detailed account of the vicissitudes of the collection in France, including the conflict between the Louvre and the projected Musée Napoléon III, the roles of Nieuwerkerke and Ingres, the eventual dispersal of the paintings among the Louvre and provincial museums, and finally, the partial reclamation of the collection and its installation in the Petit Palais, Avignon, opened 1976.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945
• Campana, Giovanni Pietro, marchese, 1808-1880
• Collections
• Art
• Italy
• 1200-1500
• Ancient [art]
• Renaissance
• Napoléon III, emperor, 1808-1873
• Musée national du Louvre||Paris (FRA)
• Musée du Petit Palais||Avignon (FRA)
• Nieuwerkerke, Alfred Emile O'Hara, comte de, 1811-1892
• Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique, 1780-1867
• Victoria and Albert Museum||London (GBR)
• Sculpture
• Painting
• Majolica
• Collectors
• Monte di Pietà||Roma (ITA)

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945
• Campana, Giovanni Pietro, marchese, 1808-1880
• Collections
• Art
• Italie
• 1200-1500
• Antique (art)
• Renaissance
• Napoléon III, empereur, 1808-1873
• Musée national du Louvre||Paris (FRA)
• Musée du Petit Palais||Avignon (FRA)
• Nieuwerkerke, Alfred Emile O'Hara, comte de, 1811-1892
• Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique, 1780-1867
• Victoria and Albert Museum||London (GBR)
• Sculpture
• Peinture
• Majolique
• Collectionneurs
• Monte di Pietà||Roma (ITA)

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19920101-00420029

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