50. Marcellus quote: Marcellus 1840, 198.
The island girl Maritza
51. Marcellus tells this story himself in Souvenirs (1840).
52. prostitution on Melos: Stanford and Finopoulos.
53. anecdote about pilot and Maritza: Marcellus 1851.
Venus by moonlight
54. voyage after purchase: Alaux (Voutier singing, 67, 179).
55. showing Fauvel: ibid., 76.
56. arrival in Smyrna: ibid., 80.
57. Brest in Smyrna, outrage of dragoman, and Morousi’s death: Marcellus 1840, 200.
58. “In Smyrna I left”: Alaux, 81.
The troublesome inscriptions
59. biography of Rivière: Hoeffer, Michon 1906. The letter quoted is in Michon 1906, 7.
II. Winckelmann
1. “Good taste,”: Wohlleben, 172.
2. fifty copies: Winckelmann 1987, xv.
3. “Summoned a submerged continent”: Butler, 11.
4. Winckelmann in Enlightenment France: Pommier, 10.
5. superficial descriptions: Winckelmann 1987, xiv.
6. “One learns nothing”: Honour 1987, 58.
7. antiquity all of a piece: Honour 1987, 59.
A Greek reincarnated
8. Winckelmann’s biography: Butler, 10, 14ff.
9. “I shall bury myself”: ibid., 13.
10. “mangy-headed little boys”: ibid., 14.
11. “The only way”: Winckelmann 1987, 5.
12. “imitation of the Greeks”: ibid., 19.
13. Winckelmann on Bernini: ibid., 21.
14. “noble simplicity and quiet grandeur”: ibid., 33.
15. September 1755: Butler, 18.
16. Catholic court: ibid., 16.
Signor Giovanni
17. Vernon Lee: quoted in Butler, 18.
18. Casanova: quoted in Potts 1994, 212.
19. “The independence of Greece”: Winckelmann 1968, 289.
20. “One can distinguish”: Wohlleben, 174.
21. Winckelmann on the Apollo Belvedere: quoted in Honour 1987, 60.
22. “the only precedent”: ibid., 60.
23. murder story: Butler, 40ff; Leppmann, 6.
24. Pasolini: Potts 1994, 17.
Perfection by imitation
25. art academies, economic growth: Pevsner, 151, 152.
26. Pompeii: Constantine, 111.
27. insects: Bracken, 87.
28. guards’ extortion: Eisner, 75.
29. Antiquities of Athens: Bracken, 10.
30. Barthélemy: Augustinos, 137ff.
31. Flaxman prints: Honour 1987, 88.
III. In the Hallways of the Louvre
1. shops, restaurants, etc.: Mansel 2001, 42–3.
2. “No other capital”: Willms, 183.
3. boulevards: Mansel 2001, 50; Willms, 164.
4. English guidebook: quoted in Mansel 2001, 47.
5. toast: ibid., 43.
6. descriptions of Paris: Much of this is from Barzun, 519.
7. population 800,000: Willms, 158.
8. sludge in streets: ibid., 179.
9. diseases: Barzun, 536.
10. family economy: Willms, 162.
11. Louis XVIII: Mansel 2001, 191.
The looted masterpieces
12. “These houses … lie wrapped”: Balzac, 60–61.
13. on the Louvre: Gould, 3ff.
14. official looting of art, books, plants: ibid., 32.
15. “to send secretly after the armies”: Chatelain, 163.
16. “These immortal works”: ibid.
17. “There is only we”: Pommier, 14.
18. new edition of Winckelmann: ibid., 15.
19. Greek influence on revolutionary society: Badolle, 385ff.
20. song lyric: ibid., 386.
21. Napoleon assumes command in Italy: Gould, 44.
22. Convoy of arts from Italy: Chatelain, 165–6.
23. Denon rushing into battles: ibid., 172.
24. De Non: ibid., 21.
25. debauches in remote châteaux: Chatelain, 76.
26. people Denon knew: ibid., 12.
27. Denon-Napoleon meeting: ibid., 78.
28. Denon taking the best: ibid., 168.
29. Musée Napoléon visitor quotes: ibid., 214.
30. soldiers and workers: ibid., 211.
The masterpieces reclaimed
31. Napoleon and art and motivations: Gould, 42–3.
32. “removal of the Apollo”: Gould, 41.
33. “this celestial mixture”: Haskell and Penny, 148.
34. “Can one find anywhere”: ibid., 91.
35. Napoleon and plaque: ibid., 112.
36. quote on plaque: Chatelain, 210–11.
37. Van Dyck, Rembrandt …: Chatelain, 302.
38. Respect for museum: Chatelain, 218.
39. numbers of works reclaimed: Chaudonneret, 12; Chatelain, 250.
40. woodcut: reproduced in Chatelain, third group of pictures.
Artist, lover
Unless otherwise noted, the details of Forbin’s personal life are from his letters published in Neto 1995.
41. Louis XVIII quote: Chatelain, 223.
42. description of Forbin: from Ingres portrait and various memoirs.
43. Forbin’s birth and family: in Hoeffer.
44. Granet meeting: in Hoeffer; Granet’s memoirs, 5.
45. “I am a little surprised”: Neto 1995, 60.
46. “cemented the affection”: Marcellus 1843.
47. David’s school and his quote: Delecluze 1883.
48. “Forbin carried”: Neto 1995, 301.
The unhappy husband
49. slave market: Carre, 195.
50. Casts of Elgin marble, etc.: casts Angrand, 62; Moses, 63, (Ingres and chapel) 76, (Forbin quote) 63.
51. “It is unfortunate”: Neto 1995, 300.
52. “like a rabid dog”: Neto 1995, 65.
53. “I believe”: Neto 1995, 70.
54. Rumors that Forbin’s painting was really by Granet: Neto 1995, 72.
D’Urville returns
The politics inside the Louvre and the letters it produced are from Michon 1900 and 1902 unless otherwise indicated.
55. d’Urville arrives in October: Besnier, 222.
56. d’Urville reads paper: ibid., also 223, (paper he read) 231.
57. “Thus the obscure ensign”: ibid., 218.
58. “I owe to a lucky happenstance”: ibid., 206.
An embarrassment appears and disappears
59. “Experts are busy”: Michon 1900, 307.
60. reasoning of scholars about the slab’s inauthenticity: extrapolated from Quatremère de Quincy’s footnote in his “Dissertation” and from later rationales as in Michon 1900.
The right scholar
61. Emeric-David and Winckelmann: Potts 1978, 203.
62. Emeric’s opinion on the statue: Emeric-David, 234.
63. Quatremère on women: Quatremère 1980, xxxvi.
64. Quatremère dispute with Forbin: Angrand, 199.
65. Forbin knew what was in the paper: Neto, 65.
66. Quotes from “Dissertation”: ibid., 240.
Clarac’s anger
67. “There are antiquaries”: Maury, 756.
68. “I don’t really see why you address yourself”: Ravaisson 1871b.
69. “pure forgetfulness”: Michon 1900, 351.
70. “represent an epoch” and further quotes: Clarac 1821.
The statue comes to the king
71. “I find your ideas”: Michon 1900, 353.
72. Fontaine’s buildings: Fontaine, liv.
73. Fontaine’s personal life: Fouche, 72.
74. anecdote about Fontaine and money: Hoeffer, 323.
75. “The continual buzzing”: Fontaine, 537.
76. museum as place of instruction, “a place consecrated”: Chaudonneret, 41.
77. “uselessness” and “fantasies”: Fontaine, 617.
78. coming to bl
ows: ibid., 617.
79. plaster cast: ibid., 618.
80. jury to decide: ibid., 617–18.
81. “I have the honor”: Michon 1900, 358.
82. “I am truly displeased”: ibid., 358.
83. “It was only the personal interest”: Fontaine, 627.
A cavalier in a corset
84. corset and Spanish fly: Neto 1995, 303.
85. Forbin carried into Récamier salon: Goncourt and Goncourt, 65.
IV. Broken Marble
1. opening anecdote: Delacroix’s Journals.
The sealed room
2. details of Ravaisson’s life: Dulière, Borgson.
3. hiding the statue during the Franco-Prussian War: Gautier.
4. problems exposed by missing sides: Ravaisson 1871b.
The protruding edge
5. “Venus appears”: Gautier, 357.
Habitual passivity
6. “Never did a man”: Bergson, 278.
The story of the fight on the shore
7. biographical details about Aicard: Guirand, Burnett. Rest of situation: Aicard.
8. “I would have”: Aicard, 43.
9. Brest’s letter: Runciok 1930, 255.
10. d’Urville’s paper: ibid., 253.
The drawings reappear
11. Marcellus, Voutier, and the drawings: Aicard, de Lorris.
12. “a scuffle”: Beard, 120.
13. “Years later, Marcellus’s account”: Augustinos, 233.
14. “Though Marcellus never admits”: Arscott and Scott, 3.
The Venus of the Gardens
15. “image expressing divine grace”: Ravaisson 1985, 84.
16. Reinach’s review of Ravaisson’s paper: Reinach 1893.
17. Furtwängler’s review: Furtwängler 1893.
V. Two Geniuses
1. Prince Ludwig: Haskell 1981, 116.
2. Heine crying: Galard, 106. He also thought she looked at him with pity as if she wanted to say, “Can’t you see I don’t have arms and am not able to help you?”
3. Furtwängler’s life before work in Athens: Briggs and Calder, 84ff.
4. “all fire”: Briggs and Calder, 85.
5. Furtwängler and pottery from Mycenae: Marchand 2000a.
6. Curtius at Olympia: Briggs and Calder.
7. philology and the desirability of finds: Marchand 2000b, 196.
8. Hermes copy: Michaelis, 131.
9. Furtwängler at Olympia, “rubbish of ancient times”: Briggs and Calder, Marchand 2000a.
10. “I feel quite satisfied”: Marchand, 2000a.
11. Furtwängler after Olympia: Briggs and Calder, Bazant.
12. “I am already”: Bazant, 91.
13. “One of my fundamental failings”: Briggs and Calder, 88.
14. Furtwängler marriage and family life: Schonzeler, Schuchhardt.
15. appearance and lecturing style: Church.
16. Wilhelm Furtwängler: Schonzeler.
The island
Unless otherwise noted, Reinach’s life, bibliography, marriage, beliefs are from introduction to Reinach 1996 or Pottier.
17. Reinach: The final ch is hard and is pronounced like k.
18. back of a woman’s neck: Samuels, 123.
19. Liane de Pougy anecdote and quote: Pougy, 142.
20. “Tell me then”: Morra, 269.
21. “Much more romance”: Wickes, 158.
22. “She reads nothing”: ibid., 8.
23. “Surely the wild girl”: Samuels, 207.
24. “physical radiance”: ibid.
25. “I was madly in love”: Biocca, 150.
26. Liane de Pougy biography: Chalon.
27. “We were passionate”: Pougy, 253.
28. Pougy’s quotes about Reinach: Pougy, 107, 135, 125, 117, 51.
29. “I blame myself”: Reinach, 181.
30. Reinach’s letters to Pougy: ibid., 169, 190.
A mystical crisis
31. Joseph Reinach and anti-Semitism: Birnbaum.
32. travels to Athens and the Aegean: Reinach 1996.
A tiara for 200,000 francs
33. walking with Furtwängler: Reinach 1996.
34. story of the tiara: Pasquier 1994.
35. Reinach’s refusal to defend himself: Metzger, 39.
A goddess in a limekiln
36. “I repeat today”: Reinach 1930, 251. The narrative of the debate between Reinach and Fürtwangler is drawn from Reinach 1930, 250–356.
37. “the style of the Venus” and following quotes: ibid., 259.
Meisterforschung
38. “have preserved … the masterpieces”: Furtwängler 1964, viii.
39. attacks on Furtwängler’s reconstruction of Lemnian Athena: Hartswick, Palagia.
40. “still a center of eager controversy”: Furtwängler 1964, 367.
41. “When the statue”: ibid., 368.
42. “disappearance of the inscription”: ibid., 369.
43. “Not even the most ignorant”: ibid., 375.
44. “Therefore he too”: ibid., 368.
45. “not altogether happy”: ibid., 384.
46. “at least a man”: ibid., 401.
47. “lines of the composition”: ibid., 386.
An inscription reappears
48. “if the Venus is contemporary”: Reinach 1930, 288.
49. “question of the date”: ibid., 290.
50. “as if she wanted”: ibid., 312.
The patience of a saint
51. “I admit”: Reinach 1930, 337.
52. “previously content”: ibid., 338.
53. “What a shame”: ibid., 340.
Lilacs and tulips
54. Furtwängler’s later work: Briggs and Calder.
55. Furtwängler’s death: Church.
56. Glozel affair: Renfrew, Pottier.
57. “looked like a dying eagle”: Samuels, 397.
58. “saw him lying on a sofa”: Pougy, 242.
59. “life itself is a burden”: Reinach 1980, 301. 162 “that rather chill giantess”: Grigson, 156.
VI. A Goddess with Golden Hair
Much of the discussion of Greek sculpture in this chapter draws on Bruneau.
Foam-born
1. nature of Greek gods: Thornton 1997, 2000.
2. “Nature is primal power”: Paglia, 57.
3. sexuality and women in Greece: Blundell; Thornton 1997, 2000.
The nude goddess
4. history of statues of Aphrodite: Brinkerhoff; Havelock 1981 and 1995.
5. “Woman, thus fashioned, is reduced”: Salomon, 204.
6. “I question”: Havelock 1985, 37.
Roman taste
7. Romans and their conservative taste: Brinkerhoff.
Contrary to the general opinion
8. “Beginning in 1893”: Charbonneaux 1951, 8.
A poet and sculptor from Antioch
9. role of the gymnasium: Walbank.
10. Venus in gymnasiums: Corso.
11. Thespiae inscription mentioning Alexandros: ibid.
12. “the alignment”: Clarac 1821.
VII. The Last Chapter
1. Facial research: Gunturkun.
2. Magritte quote, other artists, cartoons, ads: Salmon.
3. “matronly”: Smith, 81.
4. “mild merits hardly justify”: Robertson, 554.
5. “placed beside the original”: Smith, 81.
6. “Authors writing on nude classical sculptures”: Brown, 18.
7. “planes of her body”: Clark, 138.
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