ARTH 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Unidroit, Ottoman Empire, Snapple

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Art History
• Course: ARTH 260
• Professor: Cathleen Hoeniger

Document Summary

Lecture: the confiscation of antiquities during the 19th century. Looting: 3rd worst crime problem in the world. Important to recognize that looting of ancient sites during military conflicts is an enormous problem. Increased awareness in the last three decades: baghdad museum lost 15 000 items after us invasion, from ancient times, afghanistan, troops training local forces to fight against the taliban, losses of 140 000 artifacts from museum in kabul. International laws written and revised: haag peace treaties 1889. International laws of war: revised in 1907 and again after wwii, two other sets of laws created in the late 20th century, 1970 convention on the means of prohibiting and preventing the. Illicit import, export and transfer of ownership of cultural. Italian explorer published a description in 16th century: not another description published till 18th century, napoleo(cid:374)(cid:859)s des(cid:272)riptio(cid:374) (cid:448)ery (cid:374)e(cid:449) a(cid:374)d fas(cid:272)i(cid:374)ati(cid:374)g for the rest of.