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Plunder: Napoleon's Theft of Veronese's Feast
by Saltzman, Cynthia
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0374219036
- ISBN 13
- 9780374219031
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One of The Christian Science Monitor's Ten Best Books of May
A highly original work of history . . . [Saltzman] has written a distinctive study that transcends both art and history and forces us to explore the connections between the two." --Roger Lowenstein, The Wall Street Journal
A captivatingstudy of Napoleon's plundering of Europe's art for the Louvre, told through the story of a Renaissance masterpiece seized from Venice
Cynthia Saltzman's Plunder recounts the fate of Paolo Veronese's Wedding Feast at Cana, a vast, sublime canvas that the French, under the command of the young Napoleon Bonaparte, tore from a wall of the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, on an island in Venice, in 1797. Painted in 1563 during the Renaissance, the picture was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. Veronese had filled the scene with some 130 figures, lavishing color on the canvas to build the illusion that the viewers' space opened onto a biblical banquet taking place on a terrace in sixteenth-century Venice. Once pulled from the wall, the Venetian canvas crossed the Mediterranean rolled on a cylinder; soon after, artworks commandeered from Venice and Rome were triumphantly brought into Paris. In 1801, the Veronese went on exhibition at the Louvre, the new public art museum founded during the Revolution in the former palace of the French kings.
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- Title
- Plunder: Napoleon's Theft of Veronese's Feast
- Author
- Saltzman, Cynthia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0374219036
- ISBN 13
- 9780374219031
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Date Published
- 2021
- Keywords
- Peter Paul Rubens, Royal Academy of Painting, war, stealing, art theft, war spoils,
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