Plundering Beauty from its inspiration through its

from its inspiration through its construction to its impact

illustrated with pertinent examples of best practice

First published by Lund Humphries in 2008

the book stresses the importance of the highly polarized cultural politics that engulfed Vienna and produced much of what is modern in every field of culture and science

along with ephemera such as campaign posters and leaflets

Plundering Beauty from its inspiration through itsThe roll call of wars down the centuries is paralleled by an equally extensive narrative of the theft, destruction, plundering, displacement and concealing of some of the greatest works of art during those conflicts a story that is expertly told in this original publication. From the many wars of Classical Antiquity, through the military turning points and detours of the Fourth Crusade, the Thirty Years War, Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, the