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Quatremere de Quincy's Moral Considerations on the Place and Purpose of

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Antoine Chrysostome Quatremere de Quincy (1755-1849) was the most important Neoclassical art historian in the generation after Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768). It is difficult now to appreciate his importance, due in part to the lack of translations of his 21 published books: three were rendered into English in the 19th century, and one in the 21st. The Moral Considerations has long been considered the most shattering polemic against public museums ever written. But I will show that Quatremere's polemic was aimed, not against museums per se, but rather against the imperialist and secularist curatorial purposes of Parisian museums in the age of Revolution. His Neoclassical commitments maintained the centrality of religion, and of incarnation, to any proper understanding of the place and purpose of the fine arts.
Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. is the William M. Suttles Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Georgia State University.
Translator's Introduction The Text of Quatremere de Quincy's Moral Considerations on the Place and Purpose of Works of Art and Their Proper Use (1815) INTRODUCTION: MORAL CONSIDERATIONS On the Place and Purpose (Destination) of Works of Art FIRST PART: On the Purpose and Place (Destination) of the Arts (Arts) and of Works of Art (ouvrages d'Art), Considered in Terms of Their Influence on the Talent of Artists and the Good Taste (Gout) of Amateurs. SECOND PART: On the Place and Purpose (Destination) of Works of Art (Ouvrages d'Art), Considered as an Influence on the Effect of These Artworks (Ouvrages) and the Impressions One Receives From Them APPENDIX ONE: Translation of the Preface to Quatremere de Quincy Lettres sur l'Enlevement des Ouvrages de l'art antique a Athenes et a Rome, Ecrites les unes au Celebres Canova les autres au General Miranda (Paris: Adrien le Clere et C.ie, Quai des Augustins, No. 35, 1836), Avant Propos, v-xvj APPENDIX TWO: The Major Published Works of Quatremere de Quincy, in Chronological Order APPENDIX THREE: Works by Quatremere de Quincy Translated into English, in Chronological Order
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