Napoleonic booty
WHS that contained structural parts and works of art which were confiscated by the French Army from 1794 onward, until the Congress of Vienna in 1815 ordered the restitution of the works.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_looting_of_art.
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Aachen Cathedral | Marble columns of the Aachen Cathedral (never returned) | |
| El Escurial | "rom El Escorial palace, General Horace Sébastiani and Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult claimed many Spanish paintings, particularly Murillos, while General Jean Barthélemy Darmagnac claimed mostly Dutch works from the collection.[3]: 135 Soult took so many Spanish paintings for himself that his collection eventually made up a significant portion of the Louvre's "Spanish gallery" after his death." | |
| Florence | "From March 1799, after Florence was occupied by the French armies, Jean-Baptiste Wicar chose which paintings would be taken from the Palazzo Pitti and sent to Paris.[19]: 120 In total, 63 paintings and 25 pieces of pietre dure were taken from Florence.[3]: 96 In 1803, the Venus de' Medici was exported to France at the express order of Napoleon" | |
| Venice and its Lagoon | In April 1797, the French removed the Lion of Saint Mark and famous bronze Horses of Saint Mark (among many other pieces of art). | |
| Verona | San Zeno Altarpiece: "While the main, central scene was returned by the French to Verona in 1815, the three predella paintings in Verona today are copies, since the original ones remain in France at the Louvre (Crucifixion) and in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Tours (Resurrection and Agony in the Garden)" |
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