Template:Did you know nominations/Napoleonic looting of art 2
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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 23:56, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
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Napoleonic looting of art
- ... that during the Napoleonic looting of art, French soldiers destroyed the Venetian state ship, the Bucentaur, and melted down its gold decorations for loot? Source: Source: "on January 9th 1798, French soldiers reduced all the beautiful carved wood and all the gold trappings to small pieces, then took them to the island of San Giorgio Maggiore and set fire to them to retrieve the gold." [1]
- ALT1: ... that many of the Louvre's acquisitions during Napoleon's reign was art plundered by the Napoleonic armies, selected under the supervision of curator Vivant Denon and paraded through Paris' streets? Source: Source: "The main purpose of Napoleon was to bring to Paris as many of the art treasures of Europe as he could." "[French officials] were horrified at the idea of an unceremonious arrival in the capital ... Instead it was decided to bring them 'quietly and modestly and as economically as possible' as far as the outskirts of Paris, then in a procession across the city from the Jardin des Plantes to the Champ de Mars, and only after the celebration there would they be deposited in the new National Museum in the Louvre." [2]
- Comment: This is a second DYK nomination after last was rejected, now that article has GA status
Created by Wingedserif (talk). Self-nominated at 15:57, 15 March 2022 (UTC).
