Appel à contribution : « Art in Times of War and Peace: Legacies of Early Modern Loot and Repair », Rome, Bibliotheca Hertziana, 8-10 mai 2024, date limite le 15 décembre 2023
A category of objects that exists entirely as a function of violence, the term ‘loot’ describes a relationship of possession, if not more specifically of dispossession. Neither an historically nor materially specific typology of artifacts, loot is instead primarily a legal category that cuts across place and time. And while it is also not an art-historical classification, it is one with which the discipline of art history must constantly contend, given its repercussions for what...