Artistic Canons and Legal Protection

Chiara Mannoni

doi:10.5771/9783465145479

Summary

The edicts on the antiquities and artworks issued in the Papal States and Greece in the early 19th century were the first comprehensive legislation for the protection of heritage in Europe. In this volume, such laws are analysed from a cultural, juridical and art-historical perspective in order to understand how both legal and artistic scholarship affected the guardianship of artefacts, fluctuations in the art market and the establishment of innovative systems for heritage administration in Rome and Athens. The analysis of the origins of these laws, discussed in comparison to earlier edicts (5th–18th century), and of their cultural consequences also sheds light on the development of new definitions of “art”, “artwork” or “monument” which are fundamental to contemporary approaches to heritage protection in Europe.

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 9783465045472
ISBN-Online: 978-3-465-14547-9
Publisher: Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main
Series: Studien zur europäischen Rechtsgeschichte
Volume: 330
Language: English
Pages: 278
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages I - XIV
1. Why art and law? No access
2. On the contents and the methodologies of a book on art and law No access
3. Historical and historiographic questions No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Early legislation on heritage protection No access
3. Rome, 1802: the Chirografo Chiaramonti No access
4. Rome and its provinces, 1820: the Edict Pacca No access
5. From Rome to Athens No access
6. Greece, after independence: the Gesetz of 1834 No access
7. Observations on the meaning of “art” and “artwork” No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Rome and the provinces of the Papal States, after 1820 No access
3. The general catalogue of artworks in the Papal States No access
4. Athens and the Greek provinces, after 1834 No access
5. Observations: from antiquarianism to archaeology and art history No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Export and the market for antiquities in Greece No access
3. Observations: artistic taste and the art market in Europe No access
1. “Context” and other concepts No access
1. Sources of Appendices No access
2. Appendix 1 – Chronology of laws and edicts No access
3. Appendix 2 – the Chirografo Chiaramonti No access
4. Appendix 3 – the Edict Pacca and the Regolamento per le Commissioni Ausiliarie No access
5. Appendix 4 – the Gesetz, die wissenschaftlichen und artistischen Sammlungen des Staates, ferner die Auffindung und Erhaltung der Alterthümer, sowie deren Benützung betreffend No access
Selected Archival Material No access Pages 253 - 256
Sources No access Pages 257 - 260
Bibliography No access Pages 261 - 270
Recommended Literature No access Pages 271 - 278