Francesca Borgo is a professor at the University of St Andrews (Scotland) and principal investigator of the five-year Lise Meitner Decay, Loss, and Conservation in Art History group at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Künstgeschichte in Rome. Julia Vázquez is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow for Marcel Duchamp's monographic exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Between 2022 and 2024 she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Lise Meitner Group at the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History.

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• 7. The Stuff of War: Toward a Material History of Loot and Repair for Early Modern ArtFrancesca Borgo and Julia VázquezI. THE EARLY MODERN BATTLEFIELD57. Paper Pillaging: Letters, Libraries, and Literature after the 1527 Sack of RomeJessica Goethals73. A Severed Head, the Sack of Rome, and the Politics of FragmentationGuido Rebecchini83. From Saragossa to Jerusalem: Writing the Sack in Italian Renaissance EpicTancredi Artico101. The Sea Gods’ Tribute to the Hunter of Looters: Roman Literary Memories of a Silver Saltcellar for Andrea Doria (1528)Diletta Gamberini129. The Right to Loot and the Duty to Restore: Reconsidering Plunder in the Early Modern Law of WarSara Petrilli-Jones147. Looting, Ownership, and Annotations: Early Readers’ Engagement with Hugo Grotius’s De iure belli ac pacisMatthew Cleary and Mark Somos163. Loot/Tool: Urs Graf, the Juliusbanner, and Inversions of LootSarah C. Rosenthal181. Monuments of the Realm: Pictorial Conservation of Captured Military Flags in Seventeenth-Century SwedenKarin Tetteris195. The Looting and Reuse of Christian Bells in the Ottoman EmpireAlex Rodriguez Suarez209. Cutting Your Losses: Woodcuts of Maritime Looting on the Portuguese India RunElsje van Kessel225. Flotsam, Jetsam, Lagan, and Derelict in Native WatersSara A. RichII. THE MODERN-DAY MUSEUM243. Mind the Gaps: On Developing a Virtual Exhibition Displaying Dislocation and the Transformation of War BootyBeate Fricke, Sasha Rossman, and Jakob Weber255. The Imperative and Pitfalls of Tracing Colonial Objects: The Mobility of Antonio de Torres’s Elevation of the CrossIlona Katzew273. Theft and Colonial Trophies in the Museum of Opacities: Contested Objects between Propaganda, Provenance Research, and Contemporary ReinterpretationsGaia Delpino, Rosa Anna Di Lella, and Matteo Lucchetti283. Show Your Teeth: The Façade of CivilityJustin Randolph Thompson293. What We Really KnowSammy Baloji305. Acknowledgments307. Index315. Photo credits317. Authors

Francesca Borgo is a professor at the University of St Andrews (Scotland) and principal investigator of the five-year Lise Meitner Decay, Loss, and Conservation in Art History group at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Künstgeschichte in Rome. Julia Vázquez is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow for Marcel Duchamp's monographic exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Between 2022 and 2024 she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Lise Meitner Group at the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History.

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• 7. The Stuff of War: Toward a Material History of Loot and Repair for Early Modern ArtFrancesca Borgo and Julia VázquezI. THE EARLY MODERN BATTLEFIELD57. Paper Pillaging: Letters, Libraries, and Literature after the 1527 Sack of RomeJessica Goethals73. A Severed Head, the Sack of Rome, and the Politics of FragmentationGuido Rebecchini83. From Saragossa to Jerusalem: Writing the Sack in Italian Renaissance EpicTancredi Artico101. The Sea Gods’ Tribute to the Hunter of Looters: Roman Literary Memories of a Silver Saltcellar for Andrea Doria (1528)Diletta Gamberini129. The Right to Loot and the Duty to Restore: Reconsidering Plunder in the Early Modern Law of WarSara Petrilli-Jones147. Looting, Ownership, and Annotations: Early Readers’ Engagement with Hugo Grotius’s De iure belli ac pacisMatthew Cleary and Mark Somos163. Loot/Tool: Urs Graf, the Juliusbanner, and Inversions of LootSarah C. Rosenthal181. Monuments of the Realm: Pictorial Conservation of Captured Military Flags in Seventeenth-Century SwedenKarin Tetteris195. The Looting and Reuse of Christian Bells in the Ottoman EmpireAlex Rodriguez Suarez209. Cutting Your Losses: Woodcuts of Maritime Looting on the Portuguese India RunElsje van Kessel225. Flotsam, Jetsam, Lagan, and Derelict in Native WatersSara A. RichII. THE MODERN-DAY MUSEUM243. Mind the Gaps: On Developing a Virtual Exhibition Displaying Dislocation and the Transformation of War BootyBeate Fricke, Sasha Rossman, and Jakob Weber255. The Imperative and Pitfalls of Tracing Colonial Objects: The Mobility of Antonio de Torres’s Elevation of the CrossIlona Katzew273. Theft and Colonial Trophies in the Museum of Opacities: Contested Objects between Propaganda, Provenance Research, and Contemporary ReinterpretationsGaia Delpino, Rosa Anna Di Lella, and Matteo Lucchetti283. Show Your Teeth: The Façade of CivilityJustin Randolph Thompson293. What We Really KnowSammy Baloji305. Acknowledgments307. Index315. Photo credits317. Authors

Francesca Borgo is a professor at the University of St Andrews (Scotland) and principal investigator of the five-year Lise Meitner Decay, Loss, and Conservation in Art History group at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Künstgeschichte in Rome. Julia Vázquez is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow for Marcel Duchamp's monographic exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Between 2022 and 2024 she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Lise Meitner Group at the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History.

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• 7. The Stuff of War: Toward a Material History of Loot and Repair for Early Modern ArtFrancesca Borgo and Julia VázquezI. THE EARLY MODERN BATTLEFIELD57. Paper Pillaging: Letters, Libraries, and Literature after the 1527 Sack of RomeJessica Goethals73. A Severed Head, the Sack of Rome, and the Politics of FragmentationGuido Rebecchini83. From Saragossa to Jerusalem: Writing the Sack in Italian Renaissance EpicTancredi Artico101. The Sea Gods’ Tribute to the Hunter of Looters: Roman Literary Memories of a Silver Saltcellar for Andrea Doria (1528)Diletta Gamberini129. The Right to Loot and the Duty to Restore: Reconsidering Plunder in the Early Modern Law of WarSara Petrilli-Jones147. Looting, Ownership, and Annotations: Early Readers’ Engagement with Hugo Grotius’s De iure belli ac pacisMatthew Cleary and Mark Somos163. Loot/Tool: Urs Graf, the Juliusbanner, and Inversions of LootSarah C. Rosenthal181. Monuments of the Realm: Pictorial Conservation of Captured Military Flags in Seventeenth-Century SwedenKarin Tetteris195. The Looting and Reuse of Christian Bells in the Ottoman EmpireAlex Rodriguez Suarez209. Cutting Your Losses: Woodcuts of Maritime Looting on the Portuguese India RunElsje van Kessel225. Flotsam, Jetsam, Lagan, and Derelict in Native WatersSara A. RichII. THE MODERN-DAY MUSEUM243. Mind the Gaps: On Developing a Virtual Exhibition Displaying Dislocation and the Transformation of War BootyBeate Fricke, Sasha Rossman, and Jakob Weber255. The Imperative and Pitfalls of Tracing Colonial Objects: The Mobility of Antonio de Torres’s Elevation of the CrossIlona Katzew273. Theft and Colonial Trophies in the Museum of Opacities: Contested Objects between Propaganda, Provenance Research, and Contemporary ReinterpretationsGaia Delpino, Rosa Anna Di Lella, and Matteo Lucchetti283. Show Your Teeth: The Façade of CivilityJustin Randolph Thompson293. What We Really KnowSammy Baloji305. Acknowledgments307. Index315. Photo credits317. Authors