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‘Glory of arms and art’: Napoleonic plunder and the birth of national museums Issued on: George Crukshank s 1815 cartoon of Napoleon Seizing the Italian Relics . © Wikimedia creative commons 12 min Napoléon’s military conquests fuelled a vast and unprecedented migration of artworks aimed at establishing a “universal museum” in Paris, the self-proclaimed capital of knowledge and the arts. The rise and fall of the Napoleonic Louvre fundamentally altered the way Europeans perceived art and heritage, inspiring a race to create national museums and presaging the colonial plunder of the rest of the world. Advertising Read more In October 1800, as Napoléon’s armies approached the gates of Florence, a most unusual convoy slipped out of the Tuscan capital, sailing down the River Arno to the seaport of Livorno.

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