Quatremère de Quincy: the founding father of museophobia?

Gilks, David (2025) Quatremère de Quincy: the founding father of museophobia? Oxford University Press.

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Abstract

Antoine-Chrysostôme Quatremère de Quincy (1755-1849) was celebrated during his lifetime as the greatest European writer on the arts. The architect Sir John Soane admired his essay on Egyptian architecture while Hegel considered his research on ancient Greek polychromatic sculpture a masterpiece. Despite the breadth of Quatremère’s writings, today he is famous for inventing an idea that he never embraced: namely, that art should remain in its original context because displacing it in museums changed its meaning and neutered its power.

Item Type:	Other
Uncontrolled Keywords:	quatremère de quincy,museums,cultural heritage
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of History
Related URLs:	https://blog.oup.com/2025/10/quatremere-...
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	10 Oct 2025 15:30
Last Modified:	10 Oct 2025 15:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/100697
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