Artl@s Bulletin Volume 4 Article 6 Issue 2 Art Traceability 2015 Tracing Paintings in Napoleonic Italy: Archival Records and the Spatial and Contextual Displacement of Artworks Nora Gietz independent scholar,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/artlas Part of the Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture Commons, Cultural History Commons, European History Commons, and the History of Christianity Commons Recommended Citation Gietz, Nora. "Tracing Paintings in Napoleonic Italy: Archival Records and the Spatial and Contextual Displacement of Artworks." Artl@s Bulletin 4, no. 2 (2016): Article 6. This document has been made available through Purdue e-Pubs, a service of the Purdue University Libraries. Please contact
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