Who Owns Beauty?

Publisher's Note
Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. The bust of Nefertiti
Cairo
Berlin
Restoring an international icon?

Chapter 2. The Pergamon Altar
A translocation in spare parts
To take and to understand
A model of reconstruction with a universalist vocation?

Chapter 3. The Altarpiece of 'The Mystic Lamb' by the Van Eyck brothers
An annexed heritage
From dismantlement to reconstruction
Evacuation, looting, restoration

Chapter 4.  Raphael's 'Sistine Madonna'
The advent of the public museum
The Dresden 'Madonna'
Saving or appropriating a 'treasure of humanity'?

Chapter 5. The bronze heads of the Summer Palace in Beijing
Money, nation, heritage
The price of pillage
Repairing history?
Sharing, giving back or leaving behind
Full circle

Chapter 6. Watteau's 'L'Enseigne de Gersaint'
The diplomacy of exhibitions
Potsdam, the 1740s
Crime, art, and punishment

Chapter 7. The statue of the 'Bangwa Queen' of Cameroon
A massive cultural extraction
Invisible in Berlin
International career

Chapter 8. The 'Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer' by Gustav Klimt
Collectors, donors, patrons
The world of yesterday
Discriminations, dislocations
'Ciao Adele'

Chapter 9. Benin's 'Royal Treasures'
Heritage moved, heritage replaced
Reconnecting through the arts
Intellectual reappropriation

Conclusion

Notes