By Edward P. Alexander
In 1979, Edward P. Alexander's Museums in movement used to be hailed as a much-needed addition to the museum literature. In combining the heritage of museums because the eighteenth century with a close exam of the functionality of museums and museum employees in sleek society, it served as a necessary source for these trying to input to the museum occupation and for confirmed execs trying to find an multiplied figuring out in their personal self-discipline. Now, Mary Alexander has produced a newly revised variation of the vintage textual content, bringing it the twenty-first century with assurance of rising developments, assets, and demanding situations. New fabric additionally contains a dialogue of the kid's museum as a special form of establishment and an exploration of the position pcs play in either outreach and conventional in-person visits.
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The Habsburgs, as Holy Roman Emperors, could draw on the German and Italian states, Spain, and the Low Countries. Rudolph 11, one of the greatest connoisseurs of his day, had a magnificent collection in his Hradcany Castle in Prague. This mentally ill emperor hid his paintings from public view. During the Thirty Years War, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, emulating the Roman conquerors and foreshadowing Napoleon, captured Prague and removed many of Rudolph's treasures to Stockholm. Gustavus's daughter, Queen Christina, in 1654 renounced her throne and took most of the finest Habsburg paintings with her when she embraced Catholicism and settled in Rome.
During the 18th century, the tide of collecting shifted to England. Her commercial empire brought the profits that enabled her nobility to build great country houses and allowed titled young Englishmen to take the Grand Tour to the continent and Italy. The stately homes of England fused the best of architecture, landscape design, paintings and sculpture, and rich furnishings into a unified, artistic style. London outstripped Amsterdam as an art market and threatened the su- The Art Museum / 27 premacy of Paris.
The duke offered to return them, but the Spanish government gave the 165 paintings to him. Today they repose in London as the Wellington Museum at Apsley But those who live by the sword and the requisition shall perish by the sword and the requisition. When Napoleon was finally defeated at Waterloo in 1815, the paintings and art objects he had seized began to flow back to their previous owners. Not all of them returned; Denon's conveniently poor memory of their location saved a few for the Louvre, a ~ l dmost of those taken from churches and monasteries remained in France.