Loot & Repair: Plunder and Restitution between the Early Modern Battlefield and the Modern-Day Museum

Investigates how conflicts historically moved, modified, and reclassified art objects in the early modernity. In particular, it examines the relevance of these issues for museums, the custodians of these controversial stories.

The term 'loot', indicating a category of objects that exists mainly as a function of conquest, describes a relationship of possession, if not more specifically of expropriation. Loot is not a classification of art history, but a primarily legal category, with which th...