User:JoAnn Bowler

HISTORY Art looting has a long history, the winning party of armed conflicts often plundering the loser, and in the absence of social order, the local population often joining in. After the looting of Europe by Napoleon, others copied the institutionalized model of systemic plunder and looting. During the American Civil War, legal frameworks and guidelines emerged that justified and legalized the plunder and looting of opposing parties and nations.

LOOTERY BY NAPOLEON

Napoleon conquests in Europe were followed by a systematic attempt to take the finest works of art of conquered nations back to the Louvre in Paris for a grand central museum of all Europe. Many works were returned after his fall, but many others were not and remained in France. Napoleon's art-loot depots became the foundation of Venice's accademia, Milan's Brera galleries. Napoleonic commander and Marechal Nicola Jean-de-Dieu Soult stole in 1810 six large pictures painted by Murillo in 1668 for the Hospital de la Caridad in Seville. One painting, The return of the Prodigal Son, is now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

MY OPINION I believe you have to be a special person to have a passion for art. Many look at it and go pass without really seeing the piece for what it is. The artist first, has to have the gift to do the painting, sculpture, or whatever the piece may be. Then He has to spend time planning, seeing it within his mind and then have the expertise to began and finish the work. I have been a musician for many years. Music is art and you must have the desire, the gift, the patience to practice, and then make your presentation to the public. Art of any kind is the same way.

Art that have been confiscated from the owner by others, I definitely think it should be returned to the proper owners. i have three pieces which I commissioned an artist to do. I love my pieces. If someone took them from me, whether through war, thievery, or any other means, I would go to great lengths to get back my property. Art pieces should remain with their owners until their death or until the owner gives it to another person. My will indicates who receives my art pieces. Until then, I want them to remain in my possession.

05:25, 18 October 2019 (JB)

Source: Wikipedia