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Letters to Miranda and Canova on the Abduction of Antiquities from Rome and Athens 2023 Summer Pubs Foreword by David BomfordAntoine Quatremre de Quincy Introduction by Dominique Poulot Translation by Chris Miller and David Gilks In the 1790s and early 1800s, the art world experienced two big events: First came the military confiscation of masterpieces from Italy and northern Europe in order to build a universal museum in Paris's Louvre. Then famous marble sculptures were prised out of the Parthenon and sent to London. These events provoked reactions ranging from