Historical Survey about Transport of Artworks in Pre-modern Europe

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24652023
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Aesthetics/Art history
• Research Institution: Kyoto Notre Dame University
• Principal Investigator: YOSHIDA Tomoko 京都ノートルダム女子大学, 人間文化学部, 講師 (80609082)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 王立絵画彫刻アカデミー / コレクション / 画商 / フランス革命 / 美術館 / 輸送 / 梱包

Outline of Final Research Achievements

To investigate the development of techniques of transport of artworks in Europe before the modern museum system, archival research was conducted. The main target of the survey is France between the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century. Documents and visual resources concerning mainly the French Academy in Rome and the transport of artworks to Paris by French Revolutionary Army give fragmentary but precious information about how people packed and transported artworks.

Free Research Field

美術史